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The Series A Crunch:  One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital

The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital

By Bob Warfield on November 28, 2012

I’ve talked a lot about bootstrapping on this blog–I am a total convert, and I’m enjoying every minute of bootstrapping my own company.  There are many reasons for my enthusiasm.  Investors these days are going to make you take most of the bootstrap journey before giving you a dime being one of the biggest.  You’ve […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged bootstrapping, Entrepreneurship, Liquidity Event, Seed money, startups, vc funding, venture, Venture Capital | 1 Response

Greylock + Angelgate Signal the Seed Funding Pendulum Has Reversed

Greylock + Angelgate Signal the Seed Funding Pendulum Has Reversed

By Bob Warfield on October 5, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Seed money. In many ways, the first investment in your company is the most important.  Once you have investors, it becomes exponentially easier to get more investors, at least if you don’t screw it up. Once upon a time, a slideshow and a team could raise quite a lot of seed money.  […]

Posted in Business | Tagged angelgate, Facebook, linkedin, PayPal, Seed money, startups, strategy, superangels, venture

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