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. And at this early stage you’ll be giving up a larger percentage of your firm to investors. A seed round can come from friends, family, Kickstarter, angels – and most importantly, early customers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. The second wave of technology investors were Chinese banks, who provided the majority of the later stage investments in the Torch Program. Like the U.S.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

With the atomization of seed and an increasing number of rounds prior to Series A (pre-seed, seed, super-seed, etc.), there often isn’t one seminal round to announce. But for the most part, if you’re generally public about what you’re doing, you’re not in stealth mode, you’re in outbound mode.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Another thing I noticed was that I was now referring companies that I had invested in at a “pre-seed” (capitalization intentional) stage over to folks who would previously be considered my peer venture funds doing Seed-stage investments.

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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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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the things we frequently discuss with founders is how to interpret and manage their dialogue with VCs when raising capital. We’ve written before on how to research partners , how to pitch the right investor at a given firm, and how to raise seed capital , generally speaking. can be slightly different.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

You see, equity capital is raised in stages or rounds. The five main stages include the following: 1. Pre-Seed Funding 2. Seed Funding 3. Early Stage Investment (Series A & B) 4. Later Stage Investment (Series C, D, and so on) 5. Stage #4: Later Stage Investment (Series C, D, etc.)

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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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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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Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Structuring this kind of seed investment as a loan only makes sense because, as it turns out, a convertible note is a convenient “hack” to make it quicker, easier and cheaper to inject seed capital into an early stage startup while giving investors some protection (debt is ahead of equity in line in the event the company is liquidated).

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

While the seed capital gap has closed, there are still only a handful of venture capital firms here in NYC investing in the crucial Series A/B rounds. In contrast, many Silicon Valley funds are large with much capital to put to work (which is why we are seeing them lead NYC deals at these stages).

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 24, 2018

If you follow the writings regarding the Austin ecosystem you’ve probably read debates about the absence of capital. Some founders argue that Austin lacks seed capital, most participants agree that there is a lack of later stage capital.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

We are happy to speak with you at any revenue level, but somewhere in the $150k-range is when founders may start to look for seed capital. On that note, there is another fund with a similar mission to TinySeed’s, but it’s later stage: Indie.vc. 3: We Provide World-Class Mentorship.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Giving a start up less money makes them aim to waste less and not rely on funding to run the company in the hope that one day ‘we’ll turn profit positive’ [link] Bob Butler Another bit of bad news is that VC funds are now on average in their later stages, meaning most of the money is already invested. Translation?

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Fourth, in the last decade, corporate investors and hedge funds have jumped into later stage investing with a passion. Their need to get into high-profile deals has driven late-stage valuations into unicorn territory. A unicorn is a startup with a market capitalization north of a billion dollars.

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