View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Over the past five years, we’ve witnessed an Atomization of the Seed Stage. Early fundraising is no longer a one-and-done fundraise of a single round of Seed capital subsequently followed by a Series A 12–18 months later.

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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. Many of the decks sent to me by the NextView partners were originally shared in PowerPoint. 5: Many Founders Share Decks in Editable Files, Ruining All Design.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

This program provides the seed capital to do so. ATI and SECO encourage applicants to partner with their local utilities and/or local energy industry as part of this program. In addition, ATI-CEI organized or co-organized over 20 clean energy focused events to help build the Central Texas clean energy community.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Yet the next round of capital is going to be based on what was accomplished, certainly not by how much time elapsed. My partner Rob has a great piece on understanding and optimizing towards value inflection points at a seed-stage startup here.) The post How Much Seed Capital Should You Actually Raise?

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View from Seed

MARCH 26, 2015

In the last year or so, the debate over the definitions of seed versus pre-seed capital (sometimes called genesis rounds) has exploded. Much digital ink has been spilled about what dollar amount constitutes a pre-seed and how that might affect a startup’s ability to go raise a “normal” seed round from institutional investors.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 8, 2015

My partner David has also written about this a bunch. This notion of founder/market fit is incredibly important for pre-product companies who are out raising seed capital or pre-seed (aka genesis rounds) — both of which we invest in. I’ll dig into this a bit further… Founder/Market Fit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

As a result, the companies get a lot of exposure to VCs, investors, and partners in larger, more traditional startup hubs. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And they expose the startups to a vast network of mentors, none of whom get paid for their involvement.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

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? Does our product or service solve a customer problem (product-market fit)? How do we attract, keep and grow customers?

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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. Market Value.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Seedups Hi Jeremy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Channel partners come in multiple flavors. If you haven’t already sold enough of your product directly to have enough volume to satisfy your channel partner he/she simply won’t end up pushing it – no matter how excited their MBA adorned biz dev guy was when he inked your deal. Channel partners are no different.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Earlier this year, my partners and I at NextView invested in Boston-based Marlo to help address this work meeting suckiness. The various scenario permutations go on and on, but the consistent theme runs throughout that people don’t like to be stuck in meetings. Meetings take people away from doing real work.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

and we are already building a strong network of partners and customers. At the same time, we are looking for strategic partners and investors to help us maximize our market presence and adoption. We are one of the few blockchain projects in the shipping industry with a working solution?—?and How and when did your team come together?

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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. A few foreign VC firms like IDG Capital Partners entered China in the early 1990s. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

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? Does our product or service solve a customer problem (product-market fit)? How do we attract, keep and grow customers?

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Genuine VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

For entrepreneurs, seeking seed capital means meeting with numerous VC firms and sometimes dozens of angels… fun? Introductions to customers, long-term advisors, business development partners can result from the fundraising process, as those early conversations turn into real relationships. Those three letters.

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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.), Inbound partners. But in my experience, it rarely fails that press coverage attracts the attention of a potential customer or possible new partner.

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Gust

MARCH 11, 2014

By Tomasz Tunguz , Partner at Redpoint Ventures. To get some sense of the patterns, I analyzed 917 companies from seed through Series B over the past 14 years, using Crunchbase data. Tomasz Tunguz is a Partner at Redpoint Ventures where he works with Axial, Looker, Electric Imp, Expensify, ThredUp, Quantifind and Erply. .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. If you want the whole deck you can find it on SlideShare but I’ve written up a short summary with commentary below.

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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.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Whereas a couple weeks ago, nailing down meetings various VC partners was likely going to be tough, everyone is now back in the office and ready to engage. Now, then, is one of the most opportune times of year to fundraise for Seed (and later) rounds of capital.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 21, 2015

million in seed capital to issue loans to students in coding programing bootcamps. The Austin-based startup partners with Dev Bootcamp, Metis, Galvanize, Hackbright Academy, CodeU and Sabio. Million in Seed Capital appeared first on SiliconHills. Million in Seed Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. We’re also seeing a wave of folks who were not founders, but were star players among the first 25 folks at a unicorn company also starting new companies.

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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. There are a now a handful of funds, that claim to be Pre-Seed funds (K9 included).

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In our latest episode, Ben Einstein , Founder/Partner of BOLT , an early-stage VC investing in hardware startups, shares the stories of several connected devices and hardware companies and their tricks and challenges. Raising seed capital. (In Subscribe on iTunes , SoundCloud , or Stitcher. . to learn more.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2013

. “It became clear that although many of these low-income entrepreneurs have quality business ideas and a lot of motivation, they often lack the business knowledge and seed capital they to get the most out of their enterprises,” they add.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2015

In the last six months, we’ve been asked and answered several key questions about seed-stage startups and raising seed capital. All we do is seed — we focus on it, we want to be the best seed partner, and we obsess over helping startups through that first, formative 18-24 month period.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Pretty expensive seed capital. One of the 2 partners plans to provide personal mentorship. Regardless of how well the partner can provide mentorship, it falls way short of the roster of mentors provided by typical accelerators. Tags: Startup Issues dallas incubator mobile applications seed capital.

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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. A few foreign VC firms like IDG Capital Partners entered China in the early 1990s. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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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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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 6, 2019

million in seed capital led by Lavrock Ventures with participation from Scout Ventures and Advantage Ventures. The United States Air Force sees the technology as a market leader as they have recently partnered with Trueface to enhance base security through smarter access control. The company has now raised $3.7

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

Raising seed capital is a tricky business. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. As we prepare for our first funding we are assembling a value chain from partners and vendors to clients. I get approached often by tech startups looking for their first outside funding.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

With this seed capital – more often than not totaling between $100,000 and $1,000,000 - the company accomplishes a number of key technical milestones, gets a beta customer or two, and then goes on a "road show" to venture capitalists around the country for capital to “scale” the business. Venture capitalists Cut Tough Deals.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

– Pitch Decks (two styles + walk-throughs from the partners). – Board Decks (two styles + walk-throughs from the partners). – Flowchart: Seed VC Decision Tree (how one seed investor gets to yes or no). – Checklist: Critical to-do’s immediately after raising seed capital.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last December, Kate Mitchell, former head of the NVCA and currently Managing Director at Scale Venture Partners, stated that EGCs were overdue for relief. Crowdfunding is an efficient way for entrepreneurs to raise seed capital," the editors wrote.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

It’s a world that doesn’t fit our seed-focused model and fund strategy. Outside of life-sciences, we’ve noticed something interesting emerging: There is a huge dearth of seed capital for health care services and software-driven health-tech companies.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

While in law school, my partner, Leigh, and I had a concept for a law firm that did more than just “law.” A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model. Today, there is still seed capital to be found, but you have to show the investors (especially very early stage investors) that you have a viable business.

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