Last night I taught a class via Skillshare (disclosure: Founder Collective is an investor) about how to raise a seed round. After a long day I wasn't particularly looking forward to it, but it turned out to be a lot of fun and I stayed well past the scheduled end time. I think it worked well because the audience was full of people actually starting companies, and they came well prepared (they were all avid readers of tech blogs and had seemed to have done a lot of research).
I sketched some notes for the class which I'm posting below. I've written ad nausea about venture financing so hadn't planned to blog more on the topic. But since I wrote up these notes already, here they are:
1. Best thing is to either never need to raise money or to raise money after you have a product, users, or customers. Also helps a lot if you've started a successful business before or came from a senior position at a successful company.
To read the full, original article click on this link: So you want to raise seed capital... - Term Sheet
Author: Chris Dixon
