Babbling VC

JUNE 10, 2010

Anyway, they passed on that, if I remember correctly turning their nose up at venture capital. :-) Yet, when Nils had launched Cellity, they came back to us to pitch this idea (together with Mangrove who had already injected seed money) and we eventually ended up investing shortly thereafter. Emporis This one is a bit of an outlier.

Software Review 64

Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Germany 64

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. These days, every student has his social network of peers. Plug yourself into a new network of business people.

Seed Money 225

Seed Money Social Network Networking Business Plan 225

Gust

JANUARY 13, 2013

More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. These days, every student has his social network of peers. Plug yourself into a new network of business people.

Entrepreneur 180

Entrepreneur Seed Money Social Network Business Plan 180

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

By John Williams Fast Company magazine recently reported that PayPal founder Paul Thiel is giving away $100,000 to twenty-four young men and women to finance startup businesses. For most of us, though, the idea of investors or even securing financing may as well go the way of the corporate ladder. You can keep overhead low.

Sweat Equity 231

Sweat Equity Startup Angel Investor Seed Money 231

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?

San Francisco 230

San Francisco Los Angeles Cofounder SMS 230

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

Sara focuses upon another side of small business financing not typically considered in the angel and venture world, financing from sources for companies that will probably never be attractive to those niches. . You want to establish a relationship here to gain access to their network at a later date.

Intellectual Property 76

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Small Business Administration SBA 76

cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] Finance Geek » Mistakes that startups make. [.] link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? I’ve designed a pattern to extract a user’s preference from posts in my social networking site, then I shall share this to others. link] Finance Geek » How To Develop New Startup Ideas. [.]

Stealth 68

Stealth Startup NDA Cofounder 68

Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

The students concluded that the context around a venture matters tremendously - that smart phones, the explosion of apps and social networking all were important enablers that allowed foursquare to succeed at this particular moment in time. Modest burn : the company only raised $1.35 Advertising isn't cool.").

API 44

API Valuation Lean Burn Rate 44

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The numbers I’ve heard from most everyone is that only about 20 percent of companies that have gotten a seed round in the last year will be able to raise a Series A. I recently went to a networking event for one of the seed funds that invested in PandoDaily, and I’ve never seen such worry on the faces of the entrepreneurs.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93