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7 Seed-Stage Funding Sources To Finance Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

A new VC seed market has been emerging, especially over the past five years: It usually appears in the form of a prototypical seed round of $1 million to $1.5 million and is normally syndicated from one to three institutional seed investors or larger VC funds. Business accelerator funding.

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Biotech Roundup: Deals Gone Wrong, Ethical Red Flags & Bay Goodbyes

Xconomy

A company official told Xconomy the drug would be priced in line with standard of care enzyme replacement therapy, which costs around $300,000 per patient, per year. The drug has a list price of $69,350 per patient, per year. —Jazz Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: JAZZ ) agreed to pay $1.5

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Accelerators: a recent and positive trend

Berkonomics

Accelerators are organizations that selectively accept entrepreneurs into a program of intense coaching in a physical environment sponsored by the accelerator that also provides seed funds for the startup to begin its business.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. Zara is a Spanish senstation retailer that does “fast follow&# knock off popular clothing at affordable prices. Index Seed : Index Ventures carves out seed fund from existing $400mm fund. Wildfire Interactive. We had a nice debate.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Contrary to some press reporting, the boom in startups, the creation of accelerators and seed funds as well as the deserved popularity of AngelList do not signal doom for our industry. They compete on features, price and execution.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish. The spending contraction is inevitable in a period of declining real prices of housing, high unemployment and tightening credit. We took $2.3