Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Their business model was to help young companies accelerate their launch by helping assemble a team, do initial marketing, provide seed capital and help them raise financing.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 21, 2015

million in seed capital to issue loans to students in coding programing bootcamps. Million in Seed Capital appeared first on SiliconHills. Million in Seed Capital appeared first on SiliconHills. Skills Fund announced Wednesday it has raised $11.5 “The only […] The post Skills Fund Raises $11.5

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View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

Similarly, FOLD has always held seed investors back from doing second seed or late seed investments for fear that they are being suckered into something that others have already passed on.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

After 9 months it was time to raise seed capital and go test drive our new software and processes. Sam moved back to NY and we announced our seed round of capital, which we led.

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View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

How to Approach Your First Board Meeting After Raising Seed Capital. Critical Tasks to Complete After Raising Seed Capital [Founder Checklist]. More Reading on Board Meetings and Management: How to Avoid a Cluttered Board Room. Not Everyone Is “Killing It” – How to Communicate Tough Times.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

Of course, a certain amount of initial capital without financial performance is absolutely necessary to get a business off the ground, especially in regulated industries. Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Rule Number One: the best help for start-ups comes from proven leaders who don’t need cash from your seed capital and genuinely want to help ideas they believe in. Regardless, the first warning sign that you’re among the SIC is when they ask for cash upfront to “help” you.

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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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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Seed capital is more readily available, including of course through NextView Ventures. In the mid-2000’s, there weren’t a lot of options to do so, as the ecosystem vibe still hadn’t recovered from the dot-com bubble burst. Fast-forward to today and the landscape is different.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. Seed capital is a component of the initial investments made in young businesses. Some return value must be offered to the investors for startup seed funding to be considered acceptable.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

And Mark Suster of Upfront Capital has a great post that summarizes these changes. The first big idea is that unlike in the 20 th century when there were two phases of funding startups– Seed capital and Venture capital–today there is a new, third phase. It’s called Growth capital.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

If people are funding the business, they should get a premium because at the end of the day, cash funding founders are acting no different than a seed stage investor. So, let’s say that one founder puts in $100,000 in seed capital, that could be worth 20 percent of a seed stage company’s valuation.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It’s no surprise to me that fast-forward a few months later, along with some seed capital from NextView and our syndicate partner Underscore to accelerate their efforts, the team has grown the service to reach dozens of companies and employees of all stripes, as featured in today’s Scott Kirsner Globe article.

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YFS Magazine

JUNE 29, 2015

These three steps will help you start fundraising and act as an initial foundation.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 6, 2019

Regardless of the scale or the diversity of a business — budding entrepreneurs running from pillar to post in search of seed capital or […]. The fact that business enterprises rely on business loans from time to time is an obvious statement. The post Business Loan?

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So I recently re-shared a 2019 blog post where I’d basically advised founders who’ve raised seed capital to worry less about “how will I raise the next round” and more about “how will I execute my plan?”

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

First up: The Road to Raising Seed Capital: Crucial Steps to Know. If you have any topics you’d like to see covered, or any questions you want answered, please reach out to us. You can comment below or tweet any of us ( @robgo , @davidbeisel , @leehower , @melodykoh , @nextviewvc ).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Paul Graham, the co-founding of the Y Combinator seed capital firm that invests in startups, offers this piece of advice: “You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible.”.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise? “At some point, an entrepreneur begins to exhaust her network, and her network’s network, and the incremental hours devoted to fundraising will begin to yield less capital raised than the previous.” ” (Lee Hower). ” (David Beisel).

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. VC Cafe: There has been a drastic rise in the number of funds offering seed (or super seed) capital in recent months, especially in the valley.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Below are some tips for aligning the startup team with the capitalization strategy. With little to no revenue, many early stage entrepreneurs turn to the Co-Founder model to build credibility for their startup when raising seed capital. Early Stage. This is not a bad strategy when done correctly.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

So these startups should look to raise seed capital either before launch or once they can show early revenue for proof points. For consumer companies with transactional business models like marketplaces, brands, or e-commerce companies there usually isn’t a large window of time where you’ll be post-product but pre-revenue.

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

Once we’ve executed all the steps above, we go to VCs and raise seed capital of $1-2m. My role will depend on how the team is coming together, but most likely, your team has the great majority of equity and I’m a non-employee, non-salaried cofounder. . We build a basic deck together and ideally a simple demo. This work is unpaid.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

But, we jumped that hurdle successfully last year, when we presented our idea to the world through an ICO platform, where we raised our seed capital to make it happen. It did not matter whether we were doing it from Ljubljana, Hong Kong, or any place in the world. How and when did your team come together?

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Many failed entrepreneurs believed that as long as they had a large amount of seed capital, they could begin their startup and before long make it big. This simply isn’t true and is why they were doomed to fail for not following one of the basic startup tips.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

This work is unpaid, as with any other startup at the pre-seed stage. Once we’ve executed all the steps above, we go to VCs and raise seed capital of $1-2m. We build a basic deck together and ideally a simple demo. We’re off to the races! Sounds great! What’s next??

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Up and Running

JUNE 5, 2017

I am definitely not recommending you raise seed capital this way—but you wouldn’t be the only person to have done it.). Now, the FedEx Corporation employs four hundred thousand people across the world and brings in fifty billion dollars every year. So, why am I talking about FedEx?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

This program provides the seed capital to do so. In addition, ATI-CEI organized or co-organized over 20 clean energy focused events to help build the Central Texas clean energy community. Those events drew more than 5,000 people. ATI and SECO believe that this success can be replicated in other regions in Texas.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 8, 2015

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. But there’s also a great deal of importance placed on another, more common idea: Product/Market Fit.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 6, 2019

million in seed capital led by Lavrock Ventures with participation from Scout Ventures and Advantage Ventures. As adoption continues to increase, we’ll see computer visions being applied to several industries, including entertainment, gaming, manufacturing, supply chain, retail, hospitality, healthcare, and financial services.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 7, 2024

Lastly, note that using free crowdfunding sites provides an excellent cost-effective solution compared to seed capital or personal loans with high-interest rates. The social proof and validation received from having numerous tangible backers can also be priceless.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Swipely can even append transaction data with relevant information such as menus or store catalogs.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Raising seed capital. (In We compare and contrast software to hardware in this episode, examining three core aspects of building any company: Building early products (customer dev, prototypes, etc.). Acquiring initial customers (including one “magic” number Ben proposes for a hardware startup to reach). to learn more.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

A business plan, some seed capital and a can-do attitude could well see you running your own empire before the rest of your mates have even graduated university. You have not yet set about building a career for yourself, you probably have no dependents and your financial obligations will be limited.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Raising Seed Capital – crowdspring.co/MX18CE. don’t return investors’ capital” – crowdspring.co/1dhuwIO. Amazon is surprisingly quiet/inactive when it comes to acquisitions | Re/code – crowdspring.co/1dhwOrm. What’s up with the Series A? – crowdspring.co/1fkwYB1. 1dhuwIO.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The seeds planted by those who came in the 90′s have begun to blossom 15 years later literally into seed capital, blossoming new entrepreneurs and an ecosystem of experienced operators that powered LA 1.0 Many of the early winners sold for north of a half a billion dollars. Success begets success. and are guiding LA 2.0.

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