Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2014

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. You see, investors invest in people, before they invest in ideas or products. If they won’t do it, they why would I as stranger invest in you?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. You see, investors invest in people, before they invest in ideas or products. If they won’t do it, they why would I as stranger invest in you?

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Even thought money for entrepreneurial ventures is tougher to find than it was in the boom times, there still is money out there. Even seed stage ventures can find backing if they are patient, determined, and have a strong enough business model.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2013

Our employees faced the typical impediments to corporate entrepreneurship – lack of employee time, skills, connections, pre-seed money, and official sources to discuss and manage the risk/rewards tradeoffs of sticking your neck-out.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2013

Our employees faced the typical impediments to corporate entrepreneurship – lack of employee time, skills, connections, pre-seed money, and official sources to discuss and manage the risk/rewards tradeoffs of sticking your neck-out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. You see, investors invest in people, before they invest in ideas or products. If they won’t do it, they why would I as stranger invest in you?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

.&# And I think this line of thinking has started to become conventional wisdom as outlined in Chris Dixon’s excellent blog post saying that you need to be careful raising seed money from a large VC fund. I do think you need to be careful with funds that have done 20-30 seeds deals in fairly rapid succession.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 30, 2013

In addition to gathering seed money, hardware startups are also finding success in raising working capital to buy parts via online fundraisers on Tindie (another portfolio company). However, there’s a challenge when your investors are also your customers. The making of a hardware revolution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. You see, investors invest in people, before they invest in ideas or products. If they won’t do it, they why would I as stranger invest in you?

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Version One Ventures

JULY 22, 2014

There’s a lot of “easy” early-stage money floating around right now, but don’t get fooled into taking seed money if you don’t have a viable path for later rounds. News Angel investor AngelList Bootstrapping funding Seed money Series A round Startup company venture capital'

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 23, 2018

But perhaps the best part of CRI is that it allows participants to focus full-time on innovation by giving innovators enough seed money — including $220,000 to spend on R&D at the laboratory and about $120,000 in salary, benefits and travel — to focus full-time on developing their technology for two years.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In return, you may be able to get your hands on some seed money for your college startup. College campuses are rife with financial opportunities. You just need to go out and look for them. . For instance, many colleges will hold business plan competitions. These include: Young Entrepreneur Council.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Accelerators are mainly focused on helping companies achieve business growth in a short period of time, typically a few months, hence the term “accelerator” They support young companies by providing mentorship and seed money.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

People with money are trying to help the low man on the totem pole so they called angel investors. This is what you’ll need to get yourself started up with your own business, and if you need extra seed money, you can always put out-of-pocket costs after. Where to Start. First, you want to have experience in interior design.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs. Law firms that focus on emerging technology companies understand their legal issues from multiple perspectives and offer excellent advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

VCs don’t have the same net worth litmus test and great entrepreneurs have a ton of sources for seed money to get financed very early. Servers, databases, bandwidth – they’re all virtual now. You have kids, a mortgage, MBA debt? Not my problem.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 20, 2014

With no team and no technical expertise Matt was planning to find a team and build out some product before starting to raise some seed money. His hypothesis was that consumers were moving towards last minute bookings and there was a gap in the market. Our unique model allowed him to get started straight away. USER RESEARCH.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2020

Contributing seed money to an employee’s HSA or 401K, or instituting a match program for contributions, can encourage employees to save. Of course, you want to make sure that your employees are also feeling financially secure.

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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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The Next Web

JANUARY 21, 2014

You can then use the $1,200 as seed money to work on a new idea. If you’re going to let money be your primary reason for selling you need to be emotionally detached from the app. It’s simply an asset, which you are exchanging for money. Don’t think of it as your baby.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Accelerators business david cohen entrepreneur global accelerator network Seed money TechStars United States Venture Capital' The post A Quality Benchmark for Accelerators: The Global Accelerator Network appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The industry has made it very easy for companies to raise seed money through online marketplaces like Angel List, accelorators. They're just not very good at raising venture capital--which, in the later stage, has more to do with your own ability to run a sales process.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 Let’s consider the following two software companies, both of which have 66% gross margins. Both companies look the exact same after one year. million to fund operations in their first year of operations. Both companies lost $1 million in their first year.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

For example, a recent phone call I had with a young entrepreneur straight out of one of the most prestigious engineering schools in America he asked, “I have an offer for $400,000 in seed money but the VC wants me to agree now to bring in a new CEO.&# This company is doing its SEED round and they already want to bring someone new in.

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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. The fundraising environment is certainly tougher for later rounds. From Series A and onwards, fundraising takes longer and valuations are typically below the expectations and benchmarks of 2015.

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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. 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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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

You Have Access to Seed Money. You’ll have to buy your own truck, purchase your own commercial insurance and may need money to tide you over as you seek your first clients. The more loads you pull for other people, the more connections you’ll make which could turn into leads for your company.

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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. Also, if things go south, they are more likely to remember that you weren’t pushy and that you gave them three or more separate opportunities to say no.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

Let’s assume $2 million in seed money. If the money comes from professional investors it usually has a “liquidation preference” meaning that their money comes out before the founders or common stock. It says if you want to make “real” money - quit. Get some famous angel or seed money.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2018

Did the seed money really come from tips you made as a waiter, or did it have something to do with that gift your parents gave you? The quickest way to lose an audience and potential customers is with a self-congratulatory tribute. You should be a central figure in your story but don’t be obnoxious about it. Share the glory.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I raised $500k in seed money to start the company. I had just moved back to the US from living in Europe for 11 years. We had never purchased a house in Europe because we always knew we’d move home at some point. When we moved to Palo Alto we rented a place. year old boy and another one due in 1 months.

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Gust

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Assuming the company is able to make effective use of the seed money to greatly increase the value of the enterprise, all of that value therefore accrues to the founder, rather than the investor. That is a swing of 15x from the investor’s point of view!

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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. His history with drugs and violence could have easily led to a cycle of crime, poverty, and incarceration, as it does for many people with criminal records. How to Position Yourself for Funding.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2018

While some contests only offer exposure to the winner, others will provide seed money to help business owners get their project off and running. You can sometimes find organizations that offer contests to help entrepreneurs start their businesses.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The world is so saturated with seed money right now that it’s easy to lose sight of what running a business is all about. If plans for expansion and new products go completely awry, you can always be sure that there is at least one pathway for your business to remain viable into the future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2013

Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Pick an idea, any idea. There is nothing like writing and pitching a business plan that makes you realize what you don’t know. Once you graduate, you can’t take that course you need, and even the advisors are gone. Business networking is key.

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