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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 20052010 they went down a further 90%. million and my A Round in 2005 was only $500,000 (and that’s all I ever raised). As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014. thus the rise of “pre seed” investing).

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today’s Normalization.