View from Seed
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
Do you have the experience, reputation, and network that make it relatively easy to raise seed capital? Given a mix of background and sales skills, some entrepreneurs are able to raise more easily than others – a decision about seed timing shouldn’t be in a vacuum ignoring this fact.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 11, 2023
The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. Seed capital is a component of the initial investments made in young businesses. Some return value must be offered to the investors for startup seed funding to be considered acceptable.
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Austin Startup
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Rule Number One: the best help for start-ups comes from proven leaders who don’t need cash from your seed capital and genuinely want to help ideas they believe in. Rule Number Two: when giving equity, it should always vest over time for performance tied to measurable goals such as sales or results that move your KPIs.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
A unicorn is a startup with a market capitalization north of a billion dollars. What this means is that the emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. The response was inevitably “great pipeline.” (Great pipeline means no real sales.). We now understand that’s wrong.
Steve Blank
APRIL 10, 2019
And Mark Suster of Upfront Capital has a great post that summarizes these changes. The first big idea is that unlike in the 20 th century when there were two phases of funding startups– Seed capital and Venture capital–today there is a new, third phase. It’s called Growth capital.
Business Plan Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2013
If you have a technical background and you are focused on product development, consider a co-founder with a sales and marketing background that can focus on selling your world class product. Rather, give titles such as VP of Engineering, Product/Technology, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc. Hire a diversified base of sales reps.
David Teten
MAY 7, 2019
Briefly, we think there’s a substantial market for a business which helps enterprises to execute initiatives which require coordination across diverse stakeholders, e.g., make a large sale to a critical client, or lobby for a change in regulation. Once we’ve executed all the steps above, we go to VCs and raise seed capital of $1-2m.
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