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Funding Fit Tip 5: Know How Much Money You Need
We’re halfway through our 10 week “Funding Fit” blog series. Read the first, second, third, and fourth tips here. When you’re trying to...
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New Year Accounting Resolutions: Checklist for Startups
With the start of the new year, it’s time to reflect on your company’s finances and figure out how best to position your small business...
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Funding Fit Tip 4: Build a Product the Market Wants
Learn how to find your product-market fit and build the right product for the right market. We help you avoid the big reason startups fail.
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Funding Fit Tip 3: Get Ready for a Second Full-Time Job
This is the third post of our 10 week “Funding Fit” blog series. Read the first tip and second tip here! One thing that many...
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How to Record Deferred Revenue for SaaS
If your SaaS Startup is using accrual accounting, you should know how to properly account for deferred revenue.
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Funding Fit Tip 2: An Idea is Not a Product
This is the second post of our 10 week “Funding Fit” blog series. Read the first tip here! If you consider this summer’s success story of...
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Get Funding Fit, Tip 1: If You Can Tweet, You Can Meet
Two weeks from now, millions of people will join a gym in the yearly quest to work off all that holiday weight. We’re all in favor of...
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$500,000 in funding helps software development company Quick Left integrate with Sprintly
In January 2014, Boulder-based Quick Left merged with Sprintly, a Portland- and San Francisco-based company that provides programming...
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Funding breakfast Q&A, featuring BJ Lackland of Lighter Capital and startup lawyer Joe Wallin
Our great friend Joe Wallin, a leading startup lawyer in the Pacific Northwest invited BJ, our CEO to join him for a breakfast Q&A on...
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We Have a Lot to Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving
We are on track to close our 70th deal by the year’s end, and today — the day before Thanksgiving — is our biggest closing day ever!
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What we learned from Concur’s Rajeev Singh at 9Mile Labs Demo Day
Last Thursday, more than 500 people from the start-up community gathered in Washington State Convention Center downtown Seattle. They...
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Boost funding from Lighter Capital paves the way for Full Circle CRM
When’s the right time to bring an equity investor into your business? The answer is simple: when you are in your strongest negotiating...
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Funding Roundtable Q&A: Investors Share What It Takes to Raise Capital
Last week, we co-hosted a webinar with VentureBeat that took a deep dive into funding options for tech companies at different stages of...
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Lighter Capital Invests $500K in Good Done Great
We’re happy to extend $500K growth funding to Good Done Great, a corporate philanthropy platform provider that’s headquartered in...
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6 Questions VCs Ask Themselves Before They Invest
I recently attended a VC panel discussion, along with tech entrepreneurs who had gathered at the Impact HUB in Seattle to hear from three...
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6Qube secures $100k in financing from Lighter Capital
We are very excited to bring on 6Qube, an internet marketing firm based in Austin, Texas. Since 2009, 6Qube has been developing, testing,...
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Lighter Capital Provides Funding to etherFAX
Since 2009, etherFAX has changed how faxes are typically sent and received. Its technology leverages the Internet instead of PSTN...
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Our office warming party brings entrepreneurs, and the Seattle funding community together
Two nights ago, we debut our new home to our friends and family in the Seattle startup community. Everything’s looking good! Drew, one of...
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Lighter Capital provides $300,000 in growth funding to Civic Resource Group
Launched in 2000, Civic Resource Group (CRG) has steadily grown the demand for “smart” government solutions. They were recently selected...
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3 Hard Truths About Getting VC Introductions
Recently Minal Hasan, a startup lawyer, shared some tips with entrepreneurs on how to effectively get introductions to VCs. You can read...
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VC Acknowledges the Startup Funding Gap
This past week, Geekwire interviewed venture capitalist Bill Bryan t of DFJ following his recent return to Seattle from London. On the...
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Cloudbilt Makes Inc. 500 List of America’s Fastest Growing Companies
We are thrilled that Lighter Capital client Cloudbilt has been recognized by Inc. magazine as one of the 500 fastest growing private...
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CoreCommerce fuels their growth with funds from Lighter Capital
According to CoreCommerce, if you can surf the internet, you can build an online store using their services. No doubt the 13,000 online...
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Salesforce: 8 Principles Behind a Successful Enterprise App Company
We wanted to share with you some great insights from the folks at Salesforce on what it takes to build a successful enterprise app...
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