Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

If you’re a scalable startup, you want to spend small amounts of money (seed capital) as you run experiments testing your hypotheses. And at this early stage you’ll be giving up a larger percentage of your firm to investors. A seed round can come from friends, family, Kickstarter, angels – and most importantly, early customers.

Venture Capital 335

Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 335

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

If you’re a scalable startup, you want to spend small amounts of money (seed capital) as you run experiments testing your hypotheses. And at this early stage you’ll be giving up a larger percentage of your firm to investors. A seed round can come from friends, family, Kickstarter, angels – and most importantly, early customers.

Venture Capital 227

Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 227

View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Seed stage companies just aren’t announcing their rounds anymore. Case in point, according to CrunchBase, NextView has made only two new seed investments this year in 2018 … the actual number is: eleven. With the atomization of seed and an increasing number of rounds prior to Series A (pre-seed, seed, super-seed, etc.),

Seed Stage 201

Seed Stage Stealth Seed Capital Later Stage 201

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

I’m an individual investor in AngelList (pre-Homebrew) and remain excited about opening up supply and demand within early stage investing. As part of my seed fund Homebrew , we were also one of the first VCs to co-lead an investment alongside an AngelList syndicate (see Shyp ). 2) The Bundled Expertise Syndicate.

Syndicate 121

Syndicate Syndication South America Cap Table 121

Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

Hundreds and hundreds of tweets, re-tweets, likes, Hacker News upvotes, email responses…it was immediately obvious that there is pent up demand for this kind of alternative early-stage startup funding. On that note, there is another fund with a similar mission to TinySeed’s, but it’s later stage: Indie.vc.

Early Stage 46

Early Stage Valuation Seed Capital Revenue 46

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Yeah, you should get out more Just Because Google Exists Doesn’t Mean You Should Stop Asking People Things Skype Demands Mobile App Nimbuzz Remove Support, Effective October 31st Shunned By Apple, Adobe Embraces Android With AIR 2.5 Translation?

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62