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A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seedfunding just wasn’t available anymore. Fundraising is indeed brutally tough at all stages, and the seedfunding is the hardest to find.
A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seedfunding just wasn’t available anymore. Fundraising is indeed brutally tough at all stages, and seedfunding is the hardest to find.
A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seedfunding just wasn’t available anymore. Fundraising is indeed brutally tough at all stages, and the seedfunding is the hardest to find.
A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seedfunding just wasn’t available anymore. Fundraising is indeed brutally tough at all stages, and the seedfunding is the hardest to find.
Yesterday I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seedfunding just wasn’t available anymore. Fundraising is indeed brutally tough at all stages, and the seedfunding is the hardest to find.
No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 They come in the form of personal references.
There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. For investors life is no different. One needs to be in during bull markets and bear markets.
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.
This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seedfunding.
I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%. Profitability.
I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seedfunds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh?
5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. 10 Blogging Tips. Though this was 2000 , and all startup & VC blogs we've grown to love didn't exist yet, I did have mentors available. Not that I blame you!
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