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15 Articles match "Seed Funding","Venture Capital"
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Monday, March 1, 2010
This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. My experiments in lean pricing - Venture Hacks , February 16, 2010 Ash Maurya, a lean entrepreneur who runs a bootstrapped startup called CloudFire, discusses pricing issues for first versions (Minimum Viable Product – MVP). Good stuff from Jason. Do I Need a Co-Founder: The 90/50 Rule of Startup Founders - FairSoftware's Blog , February 1, 2010 Another post that relates to my recent post on CTO Founders and Cofounders . StartupList — a new way to reach angels - Venture
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Instead, you get to mingle up close and personal with technocrats, entrepreneurs, VC funders, web programmers, marketers and other social networking geeks like you. 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. 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. The new funding brings the company's total raised to $1.75M.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital . 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. If the This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill. My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop
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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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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. 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. The new funding brings the company's total raised to $1.75M.
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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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Thursday, September 17, 2009
I came across an interesting article that reports on the trends in venture capital Series A funding , as investment stands at the end of August, 2009. think there are positive signs for those of us looking to the capital markets for resources (cash to build our grand visions, that is).
The article does report that seed funding activity was low, but those numbers are difficult to come across at I Here are the numbers that the article reports for 2009:
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Monday, March 1, 2010
This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. My experiments in lean pricing - Venture Hacks , February 16, 2010 Ash Maurya, a lean entrepreneur who runs a bootstrapped startup called CloudFire, discusses pricing issues for first versions (Minimum Viable Product – MVP). Good stuff from Jason. Do I Need a Co-Founder: The 90/50 Rule of Startup Founders - FairSoftware's Blog , February 1, 2010 Another post that relates to my recent post on CTO Founders and Cofounders . StartupList — a new way to reach angels - Venture
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Friday, August 14, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC .
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).
I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering
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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
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Friday, July 31, 2009
San Diego-based Qualcomm reports today that it is extending the deadline for the firm's wireless business plan competition, its Qualcomm Ventures QPrize Business Plan Competition, to August 21st. The firm said it is extending the deadline for the prize to allow additional entrepreneurs to enter the prize, which will provide $550,000 in seed funding to entrepreneurs developing wireless technology in North America, Europe, China, and India. The deadline for the business plan competition was originally today, July 31st. Qualcom also said it will now award its grand prize winner
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