Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2013

The number of startups getting seed funding in 2012 jumped by 65% over the previous year to a total of 1749, according to a recent report by CB Insights. Seed investments” are early stage financings (typically less than $1.5 Seeded companies will take longer to raise a next round. This is nothing new.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2013

More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. But a depth of knowledge in a specific discipline, like computer science or engineering, allows you to understand that business as well as run it. Pick an idea, any idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. But a depth of knowledge in a specific discipline, like computer science or engineering, allows you to understand that business as well as run it. Pick an idea, any idea.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2014

But he chose to move forward with a positive attitude, raise seed money for his company, and network his way to a profitable future. Advice For The Young At Heart Catherine Hoke criminal history startup startup finance startup funding' How to Position Yourself for Funding. Starting a company can be difficult for anyone.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

At the same time, seed money is still abundant due to the proliferation of micro VC over the past few years. We expect that the financing scene in 2017 will look very similar to 2016. The fundraising environment is certainly tougher for later rounds. Looking ahead to 2017.

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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. But a depth of knowledge in a specific discipline, like computer science or engineering, allows you to understand that business as well as run it. Pick an idea, any idea.

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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.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] Finance Geek » Mistakes that startups make. [.] link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? link] Finance Geek » How To Develop New Startup Ideas. [.] Should startups keep their ideas secret? Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret (cdixon.org) [.]. link] Mark Essel.

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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?

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

While not a bad idea, this is rarely successful because many seed funded startups have way too many investors who are more apt to write off the investment then to bridge more seed money. Smarter entrepreneurs are increasingly doing two things to make sure they don't caught in "No Man's Land."

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

While not a bad idea, this is rarely successful because many seed funded startups have way too many investors who are more apt to write off the investment then to bridge more seed money. Smarter entrepreneurs are increasingly doing two things to make sure they don't caught in "No Man's Land."

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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. But a depth of knowledge in a specific discipline, like computer science or engineering, allows you to understand that business as well as run it. Pick an idea, any idea.

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Board Effect

JUNE 9, 2021

They simply don’t have the seed money to get a business or organization off the ground. Other Ways to Finance Your Business or Organization. Thousands of great ideas never come to fruition because business owners and founders of nonprofit organizations aren’t familiar with the startup business grant process.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

I think the issue was mostly framed initially by Chris Dixon in his article The Problem with Taking Seed Money from Big VC s. In these cases we proactively offer to lead their next round of financing. How this works: I try to set a price that feels like a fair balance between GRP and the company.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 28, 2013

Seed financing grew from 89 fundings in Q1 2009 to more than 500 in Q3 2012. That means there are a lot more seeded startups out there: an excess demand for a limited supply of Series A financings. Traditionally, I’ve advised startups to raise enough money to sustain them for 18 months.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2022

There’s a common expectation among entrepreneurs that seed money from family is great – letting close relatives in at the ground floor. Don’t talk yourself into a high valuation for the first round of financing for any reason…. The problem, of course, comes if the business fails.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Bitcoin investing is the new frontier, the Wild West, a place where the playing field is relatively even and anyone can make some money. Armed with this knowledge, some seed money, and a little bit of luck, you can be the next bitcoin success story.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 23, 2012

There’s been plenty of chatter over the past few years about the potential pitfalls for entrepreneurs taking seed money from VCs.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Unless you have a healthy bank account or investors to fall back on you’re likely going to use your personal money to finance portions of your business expenses at some point. This could come in very handy when you need seed money or need to make several large purchases at once.

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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. . Crowd Funding: The Internet is at work here, especially for obtaining early stager seed money.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 28, 2015

My answer was simple – I would have given the early seed investors some percentage of the company as part of the financing. Given the amount raised, the new financing, and the cap, I would have asked the seed investors to waive the terms and instead accept a smaller percentage of the company than they would have otherwise gotten.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2015

A company raises $1m of seed money from angels in a convertible note with a $6m cap. Assuming equity is raised at or above that cap, the total dilution, before the new money, is 16.6% (equivalent to an equity financing of $1m at a $6m post money valuation. Here’s the scenario.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

While not a bad idea, this is rarely successful because many seed funded startups have way too many investors who are more apt to write off the investment then to bridge more seed money. Smarter entrepreneurs are increasingly doing two things to make sure they don’t caught in “No Man’s Land.”

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

That wasn't a bubble bursting issue--that was a poor financing strategy issue of people getting caught with their pants down, hands in the cookie jar, and all the metaphors you can think of at once. In the late 90's, it wasn't surprising that companies with no revenue that were funded at 100 million dollar valuations didn't survive.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 23, 2012

There’s been plenty of chatter over the past few years about the potential pitfalls for entrepreneurs taking seed money from VCs.

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Rob Go

MARCH 20, 2013

Find good financing partners. You want to find financing partners who help you in the situations described above, don’t become yet another impediment. Is it possible to take seed money and not go for the Series A, etc, and just earn revenue? On the accelerator question, it depends on the accellerator.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 15, 2015

There’s a common expectation among entrepreneurs that seed money from family is great – letting close relatives in at the ground floor. Don’t talk yourself into a high valuation for the first round of financing for any reason , even if your hair is on fire and the idea is worth billions.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

million in its series A financing and kept the burn rate at less than $100k per month to make he money last. Dennis wrote a great post at the time of the financing that showed just how product obsessed he was, even after taking the seed money. Modest burn : the company only raised $1.35

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

You’ll want to get cozy with the numbers all over again based on some history and make decisions on operating spend and on financing strategies. You want your valuation to keep marching upward; if you took in some seed money with the promised 10X venture return, you’ll hopefully be able to prove that you are proceeding on that trajectory.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 20, 2015

There were a number of interesting articles published over the last week in response to Mattermark and CB Insight’s data around early stage financing activity. As a team, we’ve been thinking about what has been going on in the seed market in recent years. There is plenty of appetite for good seed-stage investment opportunities.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2017

Success as an entrepreneur takes a lot more than an idea, a dab of seed money and, as they say, a wing and a prayer. And it doesn’t matter if its finance, IT, procurement, whoever – we have these group discussions in structured meetings with minutes and expectations that are set out. The end result?

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Your Money. Parse, one of the most-anticipated startups in Silicon Valley these days , went through Y Combinator last year and raised seed money from Google Ventures , for example. The whole point is to provide a fast, easy form of financing that avoids wrestling over valuation. Finance Jobs. Clusterstock.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature. The Burlington, Massachusetts-based startup provides Drupal-based content management systems.

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