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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

Who are the partners? If you’re a scalable startup, you want to spend small amounts of money (seed capital) as you run experiments testing your hypotheses. How do the fund and the partners make money? How much do they need to own at a liquidity event? How do we attract, keep and grow customers?

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

Who are the partners? If you’re a scalable startup, you want to spend small amounts of money (seed capital) as you run experiments testing your hypotheses. How do the fund and the partners make money? How much do they need to own at a liquidity event? How do we attract, keep and grow customers?

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Three New Types of AngelList Syndicates I Hope to See

Hunter Walker

Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates. 3) The Alternate Liquidity Syndicate. Would Syndicates be a solution?

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Convertible Debt: Worst Form Of Seed Financing — Except For All The Others

Gust

” Yet in my little corner of Wonksville, Founder Institute CEO Adeo Ressi and Yoichiro “Yokum” Taku , a partner at my “alma mater” law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati , created quite a stir this past week by announcing a new set of template deal documents dubbed “ Convertible Equity.”

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