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How We are Investing Through The Covid Correction

View from Seed

Similarly, FOLD has always held seed investors back from doing second seed or late seed investments for fear that they are being suckered into something that others have already passed on. Thematically, we are doubling down on our focus on the Everyday Economy.

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

It has become an established term in the software industry to indicate the short term fixes of quick and dirty coding that can create problems down the road — problems that come knocking at the door to collect with interest. Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue.

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Boston’s WebInno Is Now BIG

Genuine VC

Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors. Seed capital is more readily available, including of course through NextView Ventures.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion dollars of regional GDP.

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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

A startup is more like Typo Keyboards, which recently engaged ISBX as its software engineering team to help it grow rapidly enough to fill an urgent market demand for Apple’s iPhone 6 buyers. Although a plumbing company may be new but it can’t be considered a startup because it is not designed to grow fast. Startups play in a bigger field.

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How a Seed VC Approaches Pre-Product Startups

View from Seed

This notion of founder/market fit is incredibly important for pre-product companies who are out raising seed capital or pre-seed (aka genesis rounds) — both of which we invest in. For many software products, this can happen relatively quickly.

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Why I Worry About Venture-Backed Mental Health & Addiction Startups

Hunter Walker

Which leads us to the fundamental difference between, say, a small self-funded online therapy practice and one that has taken millions of dollars in seed capital: the latter can acquire a larger number of patients much faster using investment dollars for both customer acquisition and to subsidize the economics of serving those clients.

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