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AUGUST 1, 2010

There has been much discussion about VCs doing seed funding in the past year. I’ve written about it myself (Is VC Seed Funding Dead?) and (Is There Really a Signaling Problem with VC Seed Funding?). Knowing What the Seed Funding Policy of your VC is. Short summary of my posts: 1.

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Seed Funding Funding Venture Capital GRP Partners 298

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AUGUST 12, 2010

We led off with a discussion about Slide being acquired by Google, which was breaking news in the time slot where we filmed this episode. Specifically we talked about Slide having gotten a $550 million valuation before being sold to Google for $182 million. This could happen if every VC fund continues to launch a seed fund.

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Venture Capital Slides Seed Funding Google 232

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JULY 23, 2014

[Note the full presentation deck with additional slides can be found on SlideShare here or you can simply scroll through it at the bottom of this post.]. ” The new narrative is “will my seed funds be able to fund the prorata of their winners? .”

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

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JULY 21, 2014

An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. For what ever reason we’re wired to have amnesia during the run up and prescient memories of how we ‘knew it all along’ as soon as the slide begins. And importantly we’ve had revenue.

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Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

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. I started by trying to think I could explain my concept without having to patronize everybody with artificial PowerPoint slides. Slides, please.” Don’t be frazzled … this is just the way it is.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

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DECEMBER 19, 2009

Often entrepreneurs show me their management team slides with the names of the people who are going to join him once they’re funded. All traits of an entrepreneur must be exercised in concert. In fact, tenacity with no inspiration is often annoying yet with a little ‘inspiration’ and charm it can be motivating.

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Entrepreneur Startup Slides Seed Funding 288

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JUNE 5, 2016

Rise of Seed. Prior to then the concept of “seed funds” barely existed and as I’ve argued before the seed fund phenomenon was largely driven by: Open source + horizontal computing + Amazon AWS. Explosion in Seed Funds. Now seed funding is conventional wisdom.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Seed Funding 150