Question: When pitching a site, what are the distinctions between the seed and early stages of development? Any information about number of users, progress through product development, and progress developing executive team would be greatly appreciated. A (Brad): Not really. Seed usually refers to the very earliest stages, although it’s hard to define a clear […]
Today’s Great VC Post is from our former colleague Bill Burnham of Inductive Capital. He has a nice summary of 10 considerations for raising venture capital if you aren’t already tied into the the fundraising network. I’d make a few comments regarding what Bill says: 1. I can’t agree with him more about generating a PowerPoint […]
Q: I and a couple of other 40-somethings have a great idea for a new Web 2.0 start-up. Our problem is that none of us can afford to give up our day jobs to bootstrap a start-up. In fact, our Web 2.0 idea would be a direct competitor to our current employers so we cannot, […]
Q: Why don’t VCs invest in real estate? I have a great idea but I can’t get past the sentence where I mention it’s a real estate deal. A: (Jason). We don’t invest in real estate because we don’t know what we are doing in that market. Okay, that was a little glib, but it’s […]
Q: I am looking to raise some money around an early stage business opportunity and have been instructed to raise a convertible note before doing a Series A round. The VCs providing the convertible note would give a handshake deal to continue onto the A round should milestones be met… Is this smart? Or should […]
Q: We are in the midst of raising capital and was trying to “Think outside the box” and come up with innovative ideas. We thought of our website. We decided to put our fundraising efforts on our website. For instance: “We are raising $1.5 Million – if you’re interested “click here.” “Click here” leads you to […]
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