Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

These funders often offer convertible notes, rather than the traditional priced equity. Business accelerator funding. Business accelerators like YCombinator and TechStars are sometimes able to help startups looking for seed-stage funding. Startup incubator seed funding. Corporate seed funds for startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As evidence that it does work, VentureBeat calculated in 2015 that YCombinator startups had raised over $7 billion, with a $65 billion total valuation. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes. Every angel looks to scale the business after you have funded product design, perhaps with friends and family. Look to grants and strategic partners for seed funding.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

AstraZeneca got the drug when it bought ZS Pharma in late 2015 for $2.7 Contravir will pay $17 million in cash and 10 percent of its equity to Ciclofilin shareholders, but only if the company’s lead drug, CPI-431-32, hits certain milestones. Xconomy Deputy Biotech Editor Ben Fidler contributed to this week’s roundup.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

In 2015 in the US there were $77 billion written into startup tech companies. I’ll spare you the math and point out that this means we funded 0.104% of the market. Of course a group of 10 seed funds can’t fix the prices of a market. The Case for Reduced Funding Levels. What hogwash. The result?

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