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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. At the time almost nobody had heard of the following funds: FirstRound Capital, TrueVentures, Floodgate and SoftTech. Neither did Y Combinator, 500 Startups, TechStars, Amplify, Mucker and countless others. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.