Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Even if you work every day in the world of new-venture funding, as I do, the options are confusing, and their meanings seem to change on a regular basis. I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. A seed-stage “super angel.”

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction. The challenge of any AI platform, is to understand that. The company has raised $1.9M What is Halla?

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Some of the big milestones we did, include a seed round of financing in the fall of 2015, which was led by Upfront Ventures. We feel pretty good on the growth of our locations, and we're now focused on getting all of our retailers live on the platform ahead of the busy holiday season. David Sobie: That's a great question.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. Boom in Number of Startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Or the influx of massive new amounts of entrepreneurs and wantrepreneurs seeking fortune and fame? ” In just two years the median round sizes for deals with mutual funds has more than tripled and the same phenomenon holds for hedge funds. This must be a boon for entrepreneurs of fast-growing tech firms – right?

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