View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

Said another way, seed-stage companies can be led by a founder; scaling companies require a CEO. For an entrepreneur to grow from founder to true CEO, it helps to act as if your business is already at the next stage. How to Approach Your First Board Meeting After Raising Seed Capital.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

7 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in VC Pitches and How to Fix Them “Different partners in a VC firm are different. Entrepreneurs should know their audience, and most importantly, how savvy it is about the company’s particular market segment.” Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise?

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. This will almost always be the best approach to an investor.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The most successful serial entrepreneurs in the world may found three or four, perhaps even eight or ten venture-backed startups over the course of their careers. It should therefore come as no surprise that an asymmetry of information exists, mostly gleaned from experience, between founders and investors in a venture financing deal.

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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. That much was clear when reviewing all the various types of decks I used during my research and matching them to my perception of a given entrepreneur. Not so fast.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2015

Raising venture capital at any stage of company growth requires tremendous effort from entrepreneurs. But because every entrepreneur juggles so much every day and feels that tug back towards building a business (which, again, is a good one to heed), completing these tasks can be easier said than done.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

In a world of pre-seeds , seeds, seed extensions, super-seeds , and more, figuring out the right amount to raise for a startup’s seed round can seem like a moving target. Conventional VC wisdom says entrepreneurs should raise 18 months of runway. The post How Much Seed Capital Should You Actually Raise?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Entrepreneurs sometimes assume an initial agreement with an angel is a commitment, so they start spending before any money is received. It’s true that angel investors typically do not present entrepreneurs with overly complicated deal structures, especially when compared to venture capitalists. Anti-dilution protection. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2012

Entrepreneurs sometimes assume an initial agreement with an Angel is a commitment, so they start spending before any money is received. It’s true that Angel investors typically do not present entrepreneurs with overly complicated deal structures, especially when compared to venture capitalists. Anti-dilution protection.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This dynamic births serial entrepreneurs and motivates angels and venture capitalists to pull their friends into investment deals. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate.

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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. Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. Create an Unstoppable Vision of Promise.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 21, 2014

As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging. Lower-Than-Market Value.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2013

Cancer research and treatment may just have gotten a shot up the arm – Singapore-based Clearbridge BioMedics has just announced that it successfully closed a S$9 million Series B financing round led by Vertex Venture Holdings Ltd, the wholly-owned VC arm of Singapore’s Temasek Holdings.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

among them the Smart L/C and other trade finance solutions, and Smart Air Waybills for the air freight industry. But, we jumped that hurdle successfully last year, when we presented our idea to the world through an ICO platform, where we raised our seed capital to make it happen. What is your competitive advantage?

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Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

A couple years ago, my partner Lee penned a blog post about the milestone benchmarks for startups raising a Series A round of financing. The four winning strategies for startups to go from Seed to A are: Build Scale/Momentum. All of these strategies point in similar directions, but are certainly not the same vector.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Raising Seed Capital. Most startup founders do not have enough capital to launch their companies and need to raise money at some point. Convertible Debt Financing. Among the most common methods of funding used by startups when raising seed capital is “Convertible Debt Financing.”

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 10, 2025

One byproduct of this movement, especially during the blitzscaling era , were new startups in areas such as finance, healthcare, housing, education, using venture capital to acquire customers at accelerated rates. What Id ask the investors in these companies is that they share the same values.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

I am only interested in talking with people who want to work full-time on this, once we have raised capital (or ideally before). The CEO is ideally a successful serial entrepreneur who has taken a startup all the way to an exit. This work is unpaid, as with any other startup at the pre-seed stage. We’re off to the races!

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

I am only interested in talking with people who want to work full-time on this, once we have raised capital (or ideally before). The CEO is ideally a successful serial entrepreneur who has taken a startup all the way to an exit. Once we’ve executed all the steps above, we go to VCs and raise seed capital of $1-2m.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) They have raised company profiles and made follow-on financings easier. So we went for it. See point one!

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Entrepreneurs sometimes assume an initial agreement with an angel is a commitment, so they start spending before any money is received. It’s true that angel investors typically do not present entrepreneurs with overly complicated deal structures, especially when compared to venture capitalists. Anti-dilution protection.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 6, 2019

Regardless of the scale or the diversity of a business — budding entrepreneurs running from pillar to post in search of seed capital or […]. Budding Entrepreneurs Raise Their Chances appeared first on ReadWrite. The post Business Loan?

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Many things need to be known by entrepreneurs. Lack Or Low Personal Capital. Entrepreneurs have to start with seed capital. The entrepreneur that is middle-aged or even older tends to have some money available. Younger entrepreneurs do not have the funds that they need. Lack Of Networking.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

And seed VCs, especially as new firms were being established, were eager to encourage their portfolio startups to plant that flag in the ground publicly. It seemed like every other TechCrunch post was announcing a startups’s new seed financing round. Seed stage companies just aren’t announcing their rounds anymore.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This is happening because there are way too many companies raising seed capital but not enough executing their way to a Series A. This can happen for many reasons including not raising enough capital in the seed round to begin with and of course not getting your product out the door.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This is happening because there are way too many companies raising seed capital but not enough executing their way to a Series A. This can happen for many reasons including not raising enough capital in the seed round to begin with and of course not getting your product out the door.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Ta , entrepreneur, author and CEO of Sqeeqee.com. Often times, the people will have you believe that accomplished entrepreneurs had their success purely by dint of the invincibility of their irresistible ideas. I have identified 5 “boring” aspects of entrepreneurism that if focused on will lead to success: 1. By Jenny Q.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2011

When we were last with Dick and Jane on Finance Fridays, our fearless entrepreneurs were figuring out how to split up their founders equity and account for an investment from Jane. In contrast, Josh was an experienced entrepreneur who had started several companies and likely learned his lessons through experience.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2021

For many fledgling entrepreneurs, trying to start up their own business can be an admittedly exhausting and arduous task. Not only are they trying to get their inspired endeavor up and running, but they also are struggling to acquire the much-needed capital to actually successfully fund the startup. Crowdfunding.

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Gust

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Last week , we gave some attention to the “why” behind convertible note financing for early stage startups. As with so many subjects in law and finance, mastering the jargon is half the battle. This may seem like a no-brainer now that you understand the basic structure of a convertible debt financing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs see opportunity where others see obstacles and why hubris is an entrepreneur’s worst enemy, were two topics of discussion on my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. When you’re an entrepreneur, yeah, there’s 100 gaps. Ajay Kshatriya. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs see opportunity where others see obstacles and why hubris is an entrepreneur’s worst enemy, were two topics of discussion on my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. When you’re an entrepreneur, yeah, there’s 100 gaps. Ajay Kshatriya. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

The typical wisdom regarding the appropriate financing course for a new company goes as follows: 1. An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. All live happily ever after. It all sounds wonderful and it is.

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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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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Together this means that Seed stage companies need to run longer and at a higher expense structure, meaning they need to raise a lot more capital. 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”. the Venture Spiral).

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Instead I will make a few observations about how an investor might think about the impact of ICOs / token launches on the venture capital industry, in particular, and some of the downstream ramifications that need to wrestled with. Need for growth capital. Shift of value from equity holders to token holders. Fuzzy Governance.

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