Competition Customer Seed Funding Writing 
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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Across more than 10 years we have kept the size of our Seed investments between $2–3.5 million, our Seed Funds mostly between $200–300 million and have delivered median ownerships of ~20% from the first check we write into a startup. By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m How Does the Industry Really Work?
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. It’s just now that we’re Seed Investors. If you’re going to play in the big leagues you need to be writing checks from a $700 million?—?$1
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OCTOBER 26, 2014
Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). I raised a small seed round. I have no money?
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OCTOBER 19, 2009
I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. That changed very quickly.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
You are particularly vulnerable if: You have revenue concentration (few customers each providing a large total of percentage of your revenue). You have a large number of startup customers (because when markets crash they have a funny way of going bankrupt quickly or cutting burn precipitously).
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 18, 2012
Members can also enhance their expert status by writing informative articles and position themselves as a contact person for other professionals to get information from. Competition? How unique are you from the competition? Any funding yet? These articles are sorted into industries and categories.
InfoChachkie
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund.
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