Pitching Your Startup | YC and Stripe
Stripe Atlas’ guide to pitching your early-stage startup to investors, customers, and employees. “We’ve worked with Y Combinator to update this ...
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Seed Fundraising
The initial capital raised by a company is typically called “seed” capital. This brief guide is a summary of what startup founders need to know about raising the seed funds critical to getting their company off the ground.
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How to Raise a Seed Round - Justin Kan - Atrium - VoxSnap
Seed rounds and Series A are both part of the path for a startup’s success. However, even though these two types of fundraising are different, I se...
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A Guide to Seed Fundraising
YCombinator, Introduction Startup companies need to purchase equipment, rent offices, and hire staff. More importantly, they need to grow. In almo...
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Kirsty Nathoo - Startup Finance Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - YC Startup School
YC Partner and CFO Kirsty Nathoo shares the most common mistakes startups make with their finances and how they can prevent them. You can find the ...
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How to Fund a Startup | YCombinator, Paul Graham essay
YCombinator, Paul Graham essay "Venture funding works like gears. A typical startup goes through several rounds of funding, and at each round yo...
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How Investors Think About Ideas - Kevin Hale - Y Combinator
Y Combinator Published on Feb 27, 2019 Kevin Hale on how investors think about ideas. Kevin is Visiting Partner at YC. Prior YC Kevin was the ...
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How Much Money To Raise | AVC, Fred Wilson
AVC, Fred Wilson, 2011: "I spent some time yesterday talking to an entrepreneur about this topic and I thought I'd share what I told him with every...
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Benchmarks in SaaS for Seed and Series A Rounds in 2017
I’m often asked by founders what milestones they need to get to in order to raise an institutional Seed round or Series A and what size do those ro...
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TED talk: David S. Rose, 10 things to know before you pitch a VC for
Thinking startup? David S. Rose's rapid-fire TED U talk on pitching to a venture capitalist tells you the 10 things you need to know about yourself...
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Writing a Business Plan | Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital guide: You can find our guide to pitching below (with a few refinements from years of use).
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Don’t Tax Options And RSUs Upon Vesting! | AVC, Fred Wilson
AVC, Fred Wilson blog, 2017: “And that would be the end of equity compensation in startups as we know it. If this provision becomes law, startu...
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Hometown Heroes: Where And Why Venture Capitalists Invest Close To Home | Crunchbase
Crunchbase News, 2017: “Public market investors have the luxury of being able to make, invest, and move their money anywhere they’d like. But the ...
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A handy guide to financial support for open source
GitHub lemonade-stand - A handy guide to financial support for open source "I do open source work, how do I find funding?" Below I've lis...
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Here’s How Likely Your Startup Is To Get Acquired At Any Stage | Crunchbase
Crunchbase: "Let’s say you randomly selected 1000 seed-stage startups based in the United States. How many of those would go on to raise a Series A...
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I Slept With 65 VCs and Learned These Things | | Observer
This startup stuff is an emotional roller coaster. “I’ve learned. I say “no” to associates. They—along with most VCs—waste founder time. And it’...
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Rejected 148 times before raising $30 million made 2 small changes to get investors excited
Kathryn Minshew, the cofounder and CEO of The Muse, kept getting rejected by investors until she figured out how to make her pitch more appealing.
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How raising a $2+M Seed Round really, actually went
A couple of days ago, I closed a little over $2M in a seed funding round for Seed&Spark. I’m supposed to send a press release to, like, Techcrunch ...
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So you just raised your seed round, now what? - Version One
At V1, we have had the privilege to sit on many of our portfolio companies’ boards from (pre-)seed to Series B (and beyond). We have seen these com...
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How to fundraise like a BOSS – Fred Destin – Medium
100% of founders agree: raising money is a frustrating, tedious, unpredictable process. The only upside are the memories made in comically bad VC m...
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Why would an investor invest in a pre-revenue company? | SaaStr
Q: Why would an investor invest in a pre-revenue company? This is an important question to understand. If you don’t understand it, it’s hard to und...
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