Your company, in Seedstage Notes
Seedstage Notes publishes sponsored and authored articles from companies with something useful to tell its readers. Every piece is reviewed by our editors before it runs, and advertising is declined.
Placements are booked through Dayside Media at dayside.media.
01What we cover
From idea to first cheque: testing a business without building it, landing customers before the product is finished, and getting the paperwork — entity, equity split, first term sheet — right the first time.
The desk covers the part with no milestones and no vocabulary — the stretch where there is no round to announce, no team to introduce and nothing to demo, and where most of what gets written about startups simply does not apply yet.
These readers are making their first decisions about everything — banking, incorporation, tooling, accounting — and they keep those choices for years out of pure inertia. Being the recommendation at that moment is the cheapest customer acquisition there is.
Almost everything this readership buys, it is buying for the first time, and it will keep using most of it for years without revisiting the decision. A placement that explains one of those choices clearly is not competing with a rival's advertising, it is competing with nothing — and it keeps working, because the next cohort arrives at the same questions in the same order and finds the same page waiting for them. It is early enough that nothing has been decided yet, which is the whole opportunity and the reason the cost of reaching them is so low.
02Questions that bring readers here
- how to get your first customers for a B2B product
- which accelerator is worth it at pre-seed
- how much should a seed round actually raise
- when to make the first sales hire
- best way to find a technical co-founder
- how do founders price a first product
03Sections of Seedstage Notes
- First Customers
- Incorporation
- Startups
- Seed-stage companies and how they find their first customers
- Validation
04The two ways to publish here
Both are written for Seedstage Notes's readers, reviewed by its editors before they run, and stay on seedstagenotes.com permanently. The difference is how the page is labelled.
| Sponsored | Authored | |
|---|---|---|
| How it is labelled | Carries a sponsored label, at the top of the page | No paid label: it runs as editorial, in the section that fits |
| What it has to clear | Declined and refunded if it reads as advertising | Held to the same bar as the desk’s own work, or it does not run |
05What a placement gets you
A page that stays
2 indexed pages on seedstagenotes.com — one per language, each a permanent URL in the archive and the feed.
In the section that fits
Your article runs in First Customers, Incorporation, Startups or Validation, beside the newsroom’s own work on the same subject and in the same format.
Reviewed before it runs
The Seedstage Notes editors check the claims and decline anything that reads as advertising — refunded in full. That review is what makes a placement here worth citing.
Get your company into Seedstage Notes
Placements are booked through Dayside Media at dayside.media.