crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Raising Seed Capital – crowdspring.co/MX18CE. don’t return investors’ capital” – crowdspring.co/1dhuwIO. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 42 Mockup And Wireframing Tools For Developers – crowdspring.co/1fdB7Z4.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step. Seed capital is a component of the initial investments made in young businesses.

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Seed Stage Technical Review Early Stage Due Diligence 148

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Accept that many successful companies are going to want to be backed by big-name firms in other cities.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise? Developing Your Product. ” (Lee Hower). ” (David Beisel).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

This is because these days it’s a trendy word, conjuring up images of youthful exuberance, all-night coding parties, and developing revolutionary apps that transform into mind-boggling IPOs. The coolest thing you can say to anyone todat seem to be when you announce that you’re launching a startup.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Think of your seed capital as a way to empower you to reach that important milestone in order to raise the next round immediately after … not leave you just shy of the interim prize. On the flip side, I think it’s important to keep prior interested investors posted on developments with brief updates … without having your hand out.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It may be they offer a so-called, proven method to develop fundraising decks (laughable, when you can get the best advice free from YC), or perhaps an introduction to a prospective investor or customer. SIC members usually ask for cash upfront to perform tasks for start-up companies.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 8, 2015

This notion of founder/market fit is incredibly important for pre-product companies who are out raising seed capital or pre-seed (aka genesis rounds) — both of which we invest in. But there’s also a great deal of importance placed on another, more common idea: Product/Market Fit. (If

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

A few weeks ago, we launched two startup pitch deck templates for raising seed capital — part of NextView’s platform of exclusive startup resources. The “what” and “how” are still being developed, though you will obviously include some of those details in the deck.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 10, 2014

But today, the development is back on track and, given Harvard’s centuries-long history, a five-year delay is barely noticeable anyway. And done well, local seed capital can be the catalyst for the new Harvard engineering campus in Allston. Buildings are important, because buildings are a preview of things to come.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. This post is about the rise of Chinese venture capital and how it helped build the countries entrepreneurial ecosystem. This helped the startups qualify for funding from banks and venture capital firms.

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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. In normal times, when there aren’t dollars to undo mistakes, you use Customer Development to find product-market fit. Why small amounts? No startup ever spends less then it raises.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development. He also sits on the board of the Mozilla Foundation and created Second Life.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

CargoX has developed a decentralized platform based on the Ethereum network, and their Blockchain Document Transaction System (BDTS) technology, and it has a pipeline of future products for the supply chain industry? We will finish developing our blockchain-based Smart Letter of Credit and extend our CargoX platform for air freight logistics.

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Slovenia Technical Review Startup Seed Capital 62

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Once a startup has raised seed capital, plenty of theories and advice exist on how to successfully raise a Series A. Foster product development and marketing which creates organic (or somewhat organic) user traction. They are: 1. Build Audience Momentum.

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Startup 333

David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

By developing innovating technologies and taking a new approach, we believe that we can find alignment across various institutional and individual stakeholders with the means to leverage their networks and effectively push for progress. Once we’ve executed all the steps above, we go to VCs and raise seed capital of $1-2m.

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America Technical Review Advisory Board Due Diligence 60

David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

By developing innovative technologies and taking a new approach, we believe that we can find alignment across various institutional and individual stakeholders with the means to leverage their networks and effectively push for progress. This work is unpaid, as with any other startup at the pre-seed stage. We’re off to the races!

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America Technical Review Advisory Board Due Diligence 60

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

If you get into the best deals it has never been a better time to be a VC or LP, and the best have developed strategies to capture more value Given that the best deals are pushing out their exit dates it means that many firms aren’t seeing as quick of liquidity as they might have 20 years ago. Follow the money.

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Genuine VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

For entrepreneurs, seeking seed capital means meeting with numerous VC firms and sometimes dozens of angels… fun? Telling the same pitch over and over again… taking time away from more immediately impactful endeavors like recruiting and customer development… the endless follow-ups and inevitable radio silence… fun?

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Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

The strategy here is to foster product development and marketing which creates overall (semi-)organic user momentum. Even if those customers are acquired unprofitably or the margins are thin/non-existent, this revenue figure begins to connect the dots about the potential for a real business developed over time.

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Seed Capital Metrics Cofounder Revenue 212

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. In normal times, when there aren’t dollars to undo mistakes, you use Customer Development to find product-market fit. Why small amounts? No startup ever spends less then it raises.

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Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 227

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. This post is about the rise of Chinese venture capital and how it helped build the countries entrepreneurial ecosystem. This helped the startups qualify for funding from banks and venture capital firms.

Venture Capital 171

Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 171

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. It’s a continual process.

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PR Venture Capital Hiring Seed Capital 319

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Pre-launch customer development data is another way, sometimes in the form of user surveys for consumer companies or interviews with potential beta customers for B2B businesses. One of our portfolio investments, a B2B SaaS company, was a pre-product startup at the time of the seed round. B) Post-Product Companies.

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Seed Stage B2B Seed Capital Revenue 149

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2013

. “It became clear that although many of these low-income entrepreneurs have quality business ideas and a lot of motivation, they often lack the business knowledge and seed capital they to get the most out of their enterprises,” they add. Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Procuring venture capital funding or business angels who put up with seed capital or expansion capital can be helpful and exciting. As an entrepreneur, you should have a handle on how much resource (in terms of money, people and time) you can expend on developing the product and how it would impact profitability.

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Vietnam Venture Capital Seed Capital Exit Strategy 171

The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Pretty expensive seed capital. Furthermore, the $20k is more like a living stipend than something the mobile startup deploys for development, etc. (b) Tags: Startup Issues dallas incubator mobile applications seed capital. (a) That’s $20,000 per startup for a 15%-20% equity stake.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Before you even consider opening your business, you first need to sit down and develop a sound budget plan. Many failed entrepreneurs believed that as long as they had a large amount of seed capital, they could begin their startup and before long make it big. A Sound Budget and the Money to Go With It.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Venture capital is a great instrument for high growth companies, or those who are very early in their development but intend to pursue a high growth strategy. And for venture-backed startups this tends to be “get them customers.”.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2011

Anytime the financial model indicates that SayAhh will run out of cash, determine how you will raise capital to ensure liquidity and be sure to properly account for the debt or equity transaction on the balance sheet and Cap Table. Tie each round of funding to a set of key milestones in the development of your product/business.

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Balance Sheet Forecast Cap Table Early Stage 137

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

If your business is beyond the seed capital stage, there’s still good news for you. This increase in seed/startup stage and first sequence investing is promising, and this renewed interest in seed and startup financing is an encouraging development for our nation’s entrepreneurs,” he says.

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New Hampshire Early Stage Seed Capital Angel Investor 120

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

US-based seed VCs rarely invest outside of the country (500 Startups is one exception) leaving a potential gap in the market for folks with international expertise. With seed capital requirements which fall somewhere between a bank small business loan and venture. 2) The Bundled Expertise Syndicate.

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Syndicate Syndication South America Cap Table 121

YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2015

muru - D will be hosting a roadshow in six Southeast Asian cities, including Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Singapore, and selected startups will receive S$40,000 in seed capital, space in muru - D Singapore’s central business district office and as well as introductions to world-class mentors, coaches and investors.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

In that presentation, I said that Seed is not the first round of financing any more and that K9’s investments were mostly “pre-seed”. As it happens almost every few years there was a new normal developing. Over the next few months, I could see more and more signals that this shift was really happening.

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Seed Stage Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation 48

View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

We don’t seed companies that are developing drugs or medical devices that will require FDA approval. It’s a world that doesn’t fit our seed-focused model and fund strategy. I should make clear that we are not life science investors.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Not only do our business clients turn to us for lawsuits, but they also ask us to create efficient processes and develop their brands. Sometimes we draft business plans and coach the entrepreneurs on their pitch, and sometimes we even help develop a business model. A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

Venture capital and other forms of seed funding have been crucial for the development of the best online colleges. Many third-party educational organizations exist to maintain online schooling ventures, and these organizations typically receive most of their funding from venture capital firms.

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