10 Seed: The first priced round

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  • Have you met all the requirements for seed financing so you don’t waste time needlessly?
  • Can you decipher pre-money and post-money valuations?
  • Wouldn’t you prefer the lower stress of a seed financing instead of jumping right into the high-stakes Series A world?
  • Once you land your seed, what must you keep your eyes firmly on? The Series A prize!

Seed is the first organized, formal, priced round of equity financing for a startup company. It precedes Series A. (Some legal firms call seed Series Seed.) Series Seed comes after a very young startup is formed and may or may not yet have received any sort of financing. Seed used to be the domain of angel investors, but the recent times I have ...

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