View from Seed

MAY 5, 2015

During the preceding pitch process, even founders who are highly transparent, honest folks try to put their startup in the best possible light for a new investor, so it’s only natural that a more complete picture of a company’s situation (warts and all) sometimes comes into focus after the round is closed and board meeting scheduled.

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

Do you wish there was a product to help companies “Get things done” by leveraging your own employees, your employees’ networks, and more broadly other influencers around you? . We agree that upon raising capital, each team member will earn $X, perhaps with an automatic bump to $Y upon achieving agreed-upon milestones.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

Do you wish there was a product to help advocacy organizations and companies “Get things done” by leveraging their own employees, their employees’ networks, and more broadly other influencers around them? . See Should you co-found a company with your friend? This work is unpaid, as with any other startup at the pre-seed stage.

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America Technical Review Advisory Board Due Diligence 60

Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

The company only raised a bit over $1M as seed capital. Compare that with $3-4M seed rounds today, you could say PlanGrid raised a pre-seed round, but then quickly found their market to target, and were able to finance operations with revenue until Sequoia knocked on their door.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

BHAG is one day be able to truly focus on what is ahead and its achievability and aim to change my goals always to stay relevant to my customers, employees, market, partners, investors and the society. 12- Raising $500,000 in pre-seed capital. It is their GOALS, expectation and desires that will drive success.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. He wrote: When startups die, the official cause of death is always either running out of money or a critical founder bailing. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andrew Montalenti.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. As founders invest massive amounts of time into their start-up, how critical is it for them to come out of their “hermit caves” and network?

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

Raising seed capital is a tricky business. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. In their quest for sustainable growth, the elusive dream for most first time founders is that first funding. High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders. A little piece of advice for future founders: find something that turns revenue quick, profitable and cash flow positive quick and forget about fantasy businesses that take a decade to turn profitable like twitter!

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