Cofounder Seed Money Software Review 
Up and Running
APRIL 18, 2014
In the early 1990s, my brother was working for a company that was going through the roof selling shareware software via catalog. David sold his recording equipment for $50,000 and they borrowed the rest of their seed money from a bank. says HourlyNerd co-founder and co-CEO, Rob Biederman. “So David’s advice.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
Did I mention it only took the founder a month? More and more of our best and brightest are learning to code and/or joining the ranks of innovative startup companies instead of working for banks and consulting firms. Most founders that get funded know their backers or have close connections to them well before they officially "pitch.".
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Up and Running
MAY 12, 2015
Drawing on advice from our own Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and Josh Cochrane, our VP of Product Development, I’ve broken down a few of the different options for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their pitch. The three who agreed to do it had some semblance of a relationship with the founders beforehand.
www.paulgraham.com
AUGUST 1, 2008
In the last batch of startups we funded, we had several founders who said theyd thought of applying before, but werent sure and got jobs instead. We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Sometimes it literally is software, like. Now the only threshold is courage.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 17, 2009
A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. What gives? Am I a hypocrite? The contra is also true.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money.
pandodaily.com
NOVEMBER 29, 2012
“I wouldn’t expect anyone except seed investors to complain about it,” Graham says. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily.
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