View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Fast forward to today and this is now an 8-figure ARR company, and the founder was successful with his seed round pitches in part by showing a product prototype and early progress on the customer development front. it’s understandable that investors will want to see how your product is doing in the market.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Venture capital is cyclical in nature, meaning that there are ups and downs in the market. In a down market, it can be more difficult to raise venture capital. However, there are still opportunities for startups to raise money in a down market. However, raising venture capital in a down market can be difficult.

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Up and Running

MAY 2, 2014

I learned this lesson when I raised the first round of seed capital for my startup PopInShop , an online platform that connects brands and boutiques to facilitate short-term, cross-promotional shopping events. I was finishing my MBA, and through the university had access to a fund that invested in student-run businesses.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

In my case, I am breaking down “business” to its fundamentals, which begins with a definition of what, exactly, is a “business.” That is, understanding your business model and the different variables that go into it. A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

For many years, NextView has looked at many health-related businesses but invested in relatively few. We wanted to learn more about the nuanced industry market forces before applying the same hands-on investing model we do with tech startups in other verticals. I should make clear that we are not life science investors.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Instead I will make a few observations about how an investor might think about the impact of ICOs / token launches on the venture capital industry, in particular, and some of the downstream ramifications that need to wrestled with. Need for growth capital. But many are.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Instead I will make a few observations about how an investor might think about the impact of ICOs / token launches on the venture capital industry, in particular, and some of the downstream ramifications that need to wrestled with. Need for growth capital. But many are.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

The angel then introduces the entrepreneur to his or her wealthy friends and business connections who, based on the good reputation of the referring angel, also invest. Technical progress and market traction are much slower and cost a lot more than anticipated. There are a lot of dark, hard days.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The New Structure of the Venture Capital industry. The plummeting cost of getting a first product to market (particularly for Internet startups) has shaken up the venture capital industry. Venture capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

If it's not your plan to get venture capital down the road, then you'll probably stop in Stage 2-receiving enough funding to boost your marketing, sales, and infrastructure to grow organically from there to the point where you are satisfied or ready to sell. Series B is the round that follows series A in early stage financing.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The rounds were conducted from 2008 to 2010, starting from seed capital. The product/service did not satisfy any need in the market. It is fundamental that during the market research process, you observe if what you have in mind can solve some substantial problem in it. Having a good product but a wrong business model.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2013

You want your pitch to make sense and should be a maximum of 15 slides including the following topics (at least) in any order that flows for your story: • Market Opportunity. Distribution and Marketing—Do you have traction; how to build traction? Business model and financials investment requirement. The Market.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

1- Bring world-class marketing communications. My BHAG is to bring world-class marketing communications to worthy organizations irrespective of budget. As a SaaS company, we have had pretty good success in acquiring new customers for our business using various techniques: organic traffic, paid ads, email marketing, etc.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Take the market and break it down into smaller chunks. If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. Why do I do it?

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Especially since even Youtube is still struggling to try find a viable business model. Might be kinda large market., It’s a saturated market, with high costs and lack of innovation. Take that venture capital (say $6 mil?) … and give $200,000 to 30 fresh start ups instead. dasein Yeah, I agree.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Note: When I say “seed stage startup,” I’m specifically referring to software/app startups that are eitherpre-product or early product. Startup X launches with XX millions of dollars of seed capital from a star-studded list of investors”. … Traction: The new way of raising seed funding. But probably not how you’d think.

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View from Seed

APRIL 23, 2015

For instance, I’m fairly active in the content marketing industry , where the POTAJ often centers on quality content trumping spammy marketing tactics. Their business models are, in many cases, focused on outlier exits within the portfolio. Note that many were included in our pitch deck templates for raising seed capital.

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