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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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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. In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal. By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. Meredith Perry came up with the idea for uBeam while still in college at University of Pennsylvania and like many great inventors won her school’s business plan competition. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers. Would they build a world class team.

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How Catalog Is Helping SMBs Compete Against Big Brands

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in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch. We caught up with Catalog's co-founder and CEO Patrick Ip , along with co-founder Jacobo Lumbreras , to learn more about the startup. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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But the biggest thing to know is this: Companies who are scaling quickly in revenue and with a high gross margin often should invest as much capital in growth as they can manage responsibly because when you find a product / market fit and your company is growing at a very fast scale you want to capture market share before competition sets in.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. Don’t obsess over your competition because most times competition will implode on their own, pivot in a different direction, or you’ll learn to coexist. Terms for less technical people.

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