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ForwardMetrics Gets $1M In Seed Funding

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Encinitas-based ForwardMetrics has just taken $1M in a seed funding round, to help companies better conduct their strategic planning. The startup said that the new funding round brings its total raised to $1.75M. Source of the seed funding was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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But it will be patiently deployed, waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to 2021 valuation metrics. Across more than 10 years we have kept the size of our Seed investments between $2–3.5 Of these companies that become well financed we only need 15–25% of THOSE to pan out to return 2–3x the fund.

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Why You Don’t Want to Give Financial Information to All of Your Investors

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We all know that funding markets have changed for startups. The trends are well understood: more angels, more seed funds, more crowdsourcing and so forth. We all can intuit the benefits to founders of these trends so there’s little reason to elaborate. What is less understood are the consequences of these changes.

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Interview with Michael Wong, MergeLocal

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Can you talk about how your company is funded? Michael Wong: We're with StartEngine, and have received a small amount of seed funding from them. We're also funding it out of pocket. You mention you're part of StartEngine. We actually know a lot about this, since we started in 2010 as a QR-code based, loyalty program.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Contrary to some press reporting, the boom in startups, the creation of accelerators and seed funds as well as the deserved popularity of AngelList do not signal doom for our industry. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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How Rolebot Wants To Eliminate The Resume, With Shane Bernstein

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Shane Bernstein: We look at actionable data points and data metrics which are quantifiable across the web, and we qualify them and normalize that data, and sort them based on what they've done. We've just started to go out to look for a seed funding round. Shane Bernstein: We're an evidence-based, recruitment engine.

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Reflections On 2019: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

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Leaseville, the pioneer in the virtual lease-to-own (LTO) space demonstrated strong metrics on its new product this year and is now poised to scale significantly. Two companies stand out: 17Hats, a leader in the freelance CRM space made painful but critical choices and now are very well poised for meaningful 2020 growth.

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