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From first timer to funded - valuing validation
- DenisM 18y agothe whole article is just one very long advertising for seedcamp
- morland 18y agoSure, it promotes Seedcamp, in the same way it promotes YC or TechStars. These programs are increasingly the smartest way for first-time founders to get off the ground with their ideas. Plus, at least here in Europe, there's still a huge group of talented hackers who don't know about them, so spreading the word is no less important today than a couple years ago. Full disclosure: I work for Seedcamp.
- DenisM 18y agoIt's cool, I wasn't jumping on you :-) I was just summarizing the content.
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- sanj 18y agoI think that looking to 'validation' from investors demonstrates some level of insecurity about your idea. And it leaves power in the hands of investors. Don't believe for a moment that all investments were good idea (obligatory pets.com reference here). There's power in looking for validation elsewhere: users, competition, press. If you get it from there, the investment will follow.
- pedalpete 18y agoI commented on the blog, but really my comment probably belongs here. This is a great advertisement for SeedCamp, but I find it strange that SeedCamp/Y-Combinator/TechStars focus on people with ideas, pre-launch. Is there anything like this availble to first time bootstrappers who have just gone and gotten it done? Build/Launch/Revise - but it would be great to have access to these kinds of resources - lots of knowledge and a bit of money. Seems to me that once you've got a product out there, it's difficult to get small amounts of money to keep things going, and the publicity that YC etc. provide is unbeatable.