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The Startup Copycat Fallacy

View from Seed

As a seed stage VC, I have a unique privilege of confidentially spending time with a number of entrepreneurs throughout their company formation and initial product development process. Rather than just a harmless, misplaced attitude, this copycat fallacy can be a detriment to seed stage founders for two reasons.

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Twitter Link Roundup #74 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice – [link]. Seed Stage Valuation Guide – [link]. Difficult is good (about working with “difficult&# entrepreneurs) – [link]. Avoid Decision by Indecision – [link]. Good summary of #EntUngpluggd event (by @yongshuling) – [link].

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. congrats to Fortress IQ on its $12mm Series A led by Lightspeed and a stealth co on their $13.5mm Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners. congrats to Blockdaemon on their seed round led by Comcast Ventures and Wallaroo Labs on its seed led by RRE Ventures.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. First check to Series Acongrats to Fortress IQ on its $12mm Series A led by Lightspeed and a stealth co on their $13.5mm Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners. In each of these cases, we led much smaller rounds before they raised proper seed funding.

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Bitesize Monday: Indian Summer in Israeli VC funding (Takadu, Celeno, Superfish, Headway, Real Match)

VC Cafe

Superfish’s first prototype, Window Shopper , launched in April, after several years of being in stealth. Superfish , an Israeli startup developing image-based search engine, has annouced a third round of $3.4 venturebeat ]. Headway is using the funding to develop robotic physiotherapy equipment. Calcalist Hebrew ].

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Bitesize Monday: Indian Summer in Israeli VC funding (Takadu, Celeno, Superfish, Headway, Real Match)

VC Cafe

Superfish’s first prototype, Window Shopper , launched in April, after several years of being in stealth. Superfish , an Israeli startup developing image-based search engine, has annouced a third round of $3.4 venturebeat ]. Headway is using the funding to develop robotic physiotherapy equipment. Calcalist Hebrew ].

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Bitesize Monday: Indian Summer in Israeli VC funding (Takadu, Celeno, Superfish, Headway, Real Match)

VC Cafe

Superfish’s first prototype, Window Shopper , launched in April, after several years of being in stealth. Superfish , an Israeli startup developing image-based search engine, has annouced a third round of $3.4 venturebeat ]. Headway is using the funding to develop robotic physiotherapy equipment. Calcalist Hebrew ].