What the Seed Funding Boom Means for Raising a Series A

Re:What the Seed Funding Boom Means for Raising a Series A by patio11 on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @02:41AM (#9182877)

Now, I rarely hear anything about bootstrapping, as if getting funding won the day, and now bootstrapping is laughed at.

This is a filter-bubble sort of problem. If you get your news from TechCrunch/etc, yes, that makes a lot of sense; TechCrunch long-ago decided that bootstrapped businesses do not maximize page views. If you hang out in the bootstrapping world, it is a very exciting time to be alive.

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Re:What the Seed Funding Boom Means for Raising a Series A by adventured on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @03:05AM (#9182938)

Very exciting indeed. Systems and scale that used to cost me $500 / month per unit six years ago, now cost me $50 to achieve the same thing. And the quality of the software available for free now, versus ten years ago, is beyond astounding.

Most start-ups simply no longer need large amounts of capital to get rolling. This gap will become even more dramatic in the next five years - I'm looking forward to it.

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Re:What the Seed Funding Boom Means for Raising a Series A by christiangenco on Sunday March 22, 2015 @03:38PM (#9247947)

#microconf2015

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