{"id":56224,"date":"2014-06-17T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=56224"},"modified":"2014-06-16T12:06:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T08:06:47","slug":"think-twice-before-skipping-the-seed-round","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/think-twice-before-skipping-the-seed-round","title":{"rendered":"Why Your Startup Should Think Twice Before Skipping the Seed Round and Going Straight for Series A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 11px 33px;\" src=\"http:\/\/oldmillroad.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/marlin-beets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"164\" \/>Jumping straight to a Series A raise may seem like a good idea, but you are giving up a few valuable things, according to Rob Go of NextView Ventures.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rationale for [skipping the seed round] is obvious,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/robgo.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Go writes on his blog<\/a>. &#8220;You get a large capital partner involved early who is fully committed to your company. You also get more money earlier that you can use as a weapon. After all, if only a minority of seed rounds (on average) result in a series A investment, why not take that risk out of the equation early and jump straight to A?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Go (whose VC firm deals exclusively in seed rounds, it should be noted) <a href=\"http:\/\/robgo.org\/2014\/06\/08\/why-raise-a-seed-round-instead-of-jumping-straight-to-a\/\" target=\"_blank\">offers four compelling reasons<\/a> to raise a seed round, even if you have the opportunity to bypass it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jumping straight to a Series A raise may seem like a good idea, but you are giving up a few valuable things, according to Rob Go of NextView Ventures. &#8220;The rationale for [skipping the seed round] is obvious,&#8221; Go writes on his blog. &#8220;You get a large capital partner involved early who is fully committed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66255,"featured_media":56226,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-56224","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/56224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/66255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/56224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/56226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56224"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=56224"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=56224"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=56224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}