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28 Articles match "Seed Funding"
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Monday, March 1, 2010
It’s a weekly email we send to AngelList, with 3 high-quality startups who want intros. Death By Revenue Plan - Steve Blank , February 16, 2010 Steve talks about the problem created when you start to manage according to your Revenue Plan. How Unique Is A Unique Visitor? - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , February 18, 2010 Great post from Fred Wilson that questions a common metric – unique visitors. Why Venture Capitalists Avoid Innovation: They Like Making Money - OnStartups , February 18, 2010 Andy Singleton, the founder of
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Some companies go on to produce revenue or get seed funding, but every time people leave with more experience, insight, knowledge, friends, and resources than they came with." Weekly updates! Please let me know if know of other items to add, or if you have any feedback on events. Sorry for the delay, but this Update is BIG!! Follow these links to find the updates, and follow further for the full listings.
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Los Angeles-based Ranker , an online web site which allows users to create their own lists, and share them with friends, said Thursday evening that the firm has raised $750,000 in a seed investment round, part of a planned $1M funding effort. The new funding brings the company's total raised to $1.75M. Tags: ranker According to the firm, the round was led by Siemer Venture Capital, along with un-named angel investors. Ranker said that those angels include investors in founder Clark Benson's former startup, eCrush, which was sold to Hearst Corporation in 2006.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. So they set up seed programs that allowed for rapid decisions for $500k or less, often done as convertible debt for both speed and cost reasons. Because as a potential A round investor I’m thinking to myself, “if the large VC seed investor has been in the company for 9 months and isn’t leading the round then something must be wrong. This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital . This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Los Angeles-based SightCine , a developer of digital overlay projection technology, told socalTECH today that the firm has raised an initial round of seed funding. Amount of the funding and source was not disclosed. Tags: funding seed capital venture subtitle theater content movie sightcin According to the firm, its initial product allows movie theaters to display subtitles in multiple languages on a single screen. The firm's product allows deaf, hearing-impaired, and non-native speakers to use special glasses to see subtitles on movies, which aren't visible to other
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Los Angeles- and New York-based PlaceVine , which operates a web-based service to connect brands and agencies to product placement opportunities in film, television, and new media, said Wednesday that it has scored a round of seed financing from a New York-based angel fund, NYCSeed. Amount of the investment was not disclosed. According to PlaceVine, financing will be used to expand its web service.
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Los Angeles-based Ranker , an online web site which allows users to create their own lists, and share them with friends, said Thursday evening that the firm has raised $750,000 in a seed investment round, part of a planned $1M funding effort. The new funding brings the company's total raised to $1.75M. Tags: ranker According to the firm, the round was led by Siemer Venture Capital, along with un-named angel investors. Ranker said that those angels include investors in founder Clark Benson's former startup, eCrush, which was sold to Hearst Corporation in 2006.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The Tech Coast Angels is stressing its mixer program, seed investment efforts, and a new website, as it kicks off a 2010 program, according to the angel investing group. The group also said it is focusing on its SeedTrack program, which is specifically focused on seed stage funding and extensive mentoring. Tags: tech coast angels funding venture capital seed fun According to the Tech Coast Angels' Richard Sudek, Chairman of the TCA, the group is looking to hold bi-monthly mixers which will help entrepreneurs connect with its angel investors, after a successful mixer in late 2009.
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Friday, October 16, 2009
Los Angeles-based Ad.ly , which is developing an in-stream, advertising platform for Twitter, has raised $500,000 in a funding round. has performed very well," Suster told socalTECH, saying that the round was a seed round. Suster said that the seed investment for Ad.ly The round came from GRP Partners. GRP's Mark Suster sits on the firm's board. "Ad.ly
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Monday, March 1, 2010
It’s a weekly email we send to AngelList, with 3 high-quality startups who want intros. Death By Revenue Plan - Steve Blank , February 16, 2010 Steve talks about the problem created when you start to manage according to your Revenue Plan. How Unique Is A Unique Visitor? - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , February 18, 2010 Great post from Fred Wilson that questions a common metric – unique visitors. Why Venture Capitalists Avoid Innovation: They Like Making Money - OnStartups , February 18, 2010 Andy Singleton, the founder of
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
8230; my last start-up was seed funded by a mega-successful angel … [but] they would not be investing in the third tranche … I had already burned the little savings I had to get the business going and with the story of this investor pulling out hanging around us, it was going to be very difficult to raise from somewhere else. He … said that his fund would actively help in getting us the next round.
… This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful . I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs.
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Last night I attended a DealMaker Media (whom I love because they always host such great discussions) panel on raising angel money moderated by Dan Gould and with panelists Rob Hayes (First Round Capital, more seed or A round than angel), Scot Sangster (with OrganicStartup and the best spokesperson for Tech Coast Angels that I have met to date), Tom McInerney (TGM) and Jarl Mohn (who invests on his own “account” and whose track record is truly humbling).
Very few people fund individuals. I This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC .
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Los Angeles-based Bccthis , a startup developing software which connects Microsoft Outlook, Twitter, and BlackBerry smart phones, announced this morning that it has raised $500,000 in seed funding and launched a beta of its service. Source of the seed funding was not disclosed. Tags: bccthis venture capital seed mobile According to the firm, it has created a service which allows users to use either Microsoft Outlook or Twitter to send secure private messages to recipients, along with their original emails or tweets. The firm said it will add BlackBerry support
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