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A Year in Review: 2016

Version One Ventures

At the same time, seed money is still abundant due to the proliferation of micro VC over the past few years. In short, Perez believes that we are currently in the deployment period for web and mobile. The fundraising environment is certainly tougher for later rounds.

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Will there be a lecture on getting seed money in a post crisis world? link] a few seconds ago from web [.] Reply Michael Durwin , on June 12, 2009 at 10:11 am Said: As I embark on my first start-up I’m continuously bolstered by posts like these. Thanks Steve! If I fail—at least I will own the failure.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?

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Why Kickstarter and crowdfunding can’t replace traditional investors

The Next Web

He quit his job to fulfill his orders and imagined starting a great new business from the seed money. Sure you can raise your seed money on Kickstarter or another crowdfunding platform… then what? What actually happened, however, was a much sadder story. Investors provide guidance.

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Want $50k in Seed Funding? Apply now.

ReadWriteStart

Louis has a different kind of transportation exchange: most of the major cross-country Internet pipelines have points of presence in various office buildings, so Web startups have access to a variety of connectivity. The $50k seed money isn't a grant, but an equity investment by Capital Innovators. Today, downtown St.

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Fundraising pitches are not actually pitches.

Hippoland

And, you can find all kinds of information on the web about what makes a good pitch. Although you do not need a deck to raise seed money, this is why I like to use a deck in my conversations with seed investors. An investor meeting is much more akin to a power struggle.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

bruce – i’m not saying you should publish your idea on the web (which is what my describing them on my site would amount to). I blogged about, commented about, and eventually bumped into a fellow web programming who loved the idea and ran with it (Tyler Gillies). link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?

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