Links from our book Oversubscribed: A Founder’s Guide to Seed Fundraising.
Introduction
Acknowledgments
- Chaac Ventures
- Venture for America
- Y Combinator
- Upfront Ventures
- Both Sides of the Table
- NextView Ventures
- The Startup Playbook
- Foresight
Chapter 1: Seed Fundraising 101
- ConvertKit
- ConvertKit’s revenue dashboard
- Tuft and Needle
- Entrepreneur article about the 2012 JOBS Act
- “Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk—they come from families with money” on Quartz
- Y Combinator
- Techstars
- gener8tor
- Amplify.LA
- Chiobani Food Incubator
- NextFab Hardware Accelerator
- Slope
- Joanne Wilson
- New York Angels
- Baltimore Angels
- Mid-Atlantic Bio Angels
- Precursor Ventures
- Village Global
- Uncork Capital
- Forerunner Ventures
- M25 Ventures
- Collaborative Fund
- First Round Capital
- Sequoia Capital
- Tribeca Venture Partners
- Khosla Ventures
- Indie.VC
- RevUp Capital
- Dwight Funding
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
- First Round Capital
- Ludlow Ventures
- Matchstick Ventures
- NextView Ventures
- Zetta Venture Partners
- Kairos Ventures
- Version One Ventures
- LivWell Ventures
- Reach Capital
- Chaac Ventures
- The House Fund
- The Engine
- Evertrue Ventures
- Backstage Capital
- Female Founders Fund
- XFactor Ventures
- Designer Fund
- Engineering Capital
- Precursor Ventures
- M25
- Mercury Fund
- Hyde Park Venture Partners
- Arthur Ventures
- Revolution Ventures
- Village Global
- Founder Collective
- Cultivation Capital
Chapter 6
- Venture Deals
- Mark Suster on convertible debt
- Fred Wilson on convertible notes and Safes
- Y Combinator’s Safe documents
- UpCounsel’s template convertible notes
- Mark Suster on how VCs talk about valuation
- Albert Wenger on the post-money trap
- Sequoia’s 2005 investment memo for YouTube
- Mark Suster on what you should send a VC before your pitch meeting
- Charles Yu on liquidation preferences
- Paul Graham on high resolution fundraising