Cofounder Finance Seed Money 
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 11, 2023
I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. What exactly is the seed funding? The initial official fundraising round is called seed funding, and it comes immediately after the pre-seed investment stage.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
Did I mention it only took the founder a month? David's firm most recently participated in the $77 million second round financing of SoFi, a one year old startup focusing on student loans. I suppose, more specifically, the bubble ended in the last two weeks of September--right after this financing. There is no fork.
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Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2019
The reality today is that capital is more available than ever and entrepreneurs have become more sophisticated, so founders are looking for more than just cash from their venture backers. I’ve seen many founders not fully grasp how the venture capital business works and what incentives investors have.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2010
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?
Feld Thoughts
JULY 14, 2015
A company raises $1m of seed money from angels in a convertible note with a $6m cap. Assuming equity is raised at or above that cap, the total dilution, before the new money, is 16.6% (equivalent to an equity financing of $1m at a $6m post money valuation. But in this cycle, I hadn’t seen it in a seed round.
cdixon.org
SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
link] Finance Geek » Mistakes that startups make. [.] Finding cofounders is a biggy, and because 99.9% link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? link] Finance Geek » How To Develop New Startup Ideas. [.] Dividing equity between founders » Home. Should startups keep their ideas secret?
Seeing Both Sides
MARCH 2, 2011
I had the pleasure of teaching a new case at HBS yesterday on foursquare that I co-authored with Professors Tom Eisenmann and Mikolaj Piskorski as part of Tom's new course "Launching Technology Ventures". million in its series A financing and kept the burn rate at less than $100k per month to make he money last.
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