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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

If you’re a scalable startup, you want to spend small amounts of money (seed capital) as you run experiments testing your hypotheses. How much do they need to own at a liquidity event? You invest the dollars to create end-user demand and drive those customers into your sales channel. Why small amounts?

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

If you’re a scalable startup, you want to spend small amounts of money (seed capital) as you run experiments testing your hypotheses. How much do they need to own at a liquidity event? You invest the dollars to create end-user demand and drive those customers into your sales channel. Why small amounts?

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Three New Types of AngelList Syndicates I Hope to See

Hunter Walker

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 ). 3) The Alternate Liquidity Syndicate.

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