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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 2005–2010 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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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

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In about 2005, I started looking at the local market, and realized that there are not lots of enterprise IT companies here, which is Palomar's focus. in initial seed funding for an early stage company. How tough was it to start up a new fund? Can you talk about your experience? READ MORE>>.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. So far at the company I have raised seed funds of $500,000 of which $470,000 is still in the bank so I’m in pretty good shape. Folksonomy.