Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

The company’s familiarity is along what we consider to be the three most important criteria for an investment in a seed-stage startup – team, market, and product: Team – Two of the co-founders were well-known to the NextView partnership years before a line of code was even written.

Seed Stage 199

Seed Stage Cofounder Portfolio Curation 199

Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

Note: This post also published at NextView’s blog for seed stage companies The View From Seed. But during the year 2000, we went through three different CEOs, fraud nearly killed the company, our revenue was negligible and unproven, and at our worst point, the company was burning well over $10 million a month — A MONTH!

Cofounder 188

Cofounder Seed Stage Employee PR 188

Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

What we refer to as the PC era (the ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000′s) was not just the desktop phase era but more accurately a desktop corporate computing era. It was only in 2000 that a majority of of US homes had a computer. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

Silicon Valley 133

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 133

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Angel investors often act differently than VCs, and the fact that VCs abandoned seed-stage investing doesn’t necessarily mean they did so because seed investments are inherently less compelling. (A It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry.

Angel Investor 152

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia. Normally I would counsel seed stage companies not to take strategic investment but that wasn’t the case here.

Strategic Investors 120

Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package.

Startup 188

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 188

The Equity Kicker

JULY 1, 2015

When I joined the VC industry in 1999 there was too much money in the market, and then over the course of 2000 that flipped to too little money a position from which we are only just recovering now. Whilst the odd deal is getting done that looks a little bubbly there isn’t much of that at idea and seed stage here.

Valuation 60

Valuation Seed Stage Partner Marketing 60

Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

These presentations resulted in more than 3,000 introductions between portfolio companies and prospective Fortune 500/Global 2000 senior executives. Interestingly, the demand from entrepreneurs has come in all stages and sizes.

Venture Capital 78

Venture Capital Portfolio Cofounder Partner 78

Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

Note: This post also published at NextView’s blog for seed stage companies The View From Seed. But during the year 2000, we went through three different CEOs, fraud nearly killed the company, our revenue was negligible and unproven, and at our worst point, the company was burning well over $10 million a month — A MONTH!

Cofounder 100

Cofounder Seed Stage Employee PR 100

View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package.

Startup 120

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 120

Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

E-commerce accounts for the vast majority of LL Bean’s revenue today ( it crossed 50% in 2010 though was as low as 15% in 2000 ), but because LL Bean is over a hundred years old and started as catalog & physical store retailer we typically don’t refer to it as an internet company. link] leehower. Your welcome. . Read More ».

Internet 182

Internet Silicon Valley IPO Seed Stage 182

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Angel investors often act differently than VCs, and the fact that VCs abandoned seed-stage investing doesn’t necessarily mean they did so because seed investments are inherently less compelling. (A It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry.

Angel Investor 103

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package.

Startup 100

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. “Reality is, at the seed stage, most rocketships look more like the cardboard variety you’d make as a kid than something NASA developed. Ameet said, “Don’t worry, we’ll be fine, just wait for the next downturn.&#.

Turkey 302

Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

And while the internet created both tremendous reward and tremendous investment carnage leading up to and after the 2000 tech bubble, it’s created long run disruption of broad sectors of media, advertising, business software & computing, and retail commerce and VCs that missed this shift have faced real struggles. Read More ».

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

222 firms held initial public offerings last year, raising $55 Billion, the most since 406 companies went public for $97 million in 2000. Across all investment stages, median pre-money valuations last year rose dramatically. Seed-stage deals now require $5.1 Now the cost of entry to the Party is rising. million.

Venture Capital 155

Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation IPO 155

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Stewart is the founder of Urgent Group, a venture development firm and the founder and managing director of Geometric Group, LLC and Urgent Ventures, LLC, both focused on seed-stage investments. Mr. Stewart is also a co-founder of Belgrave Trust; a carbon offset service tailored to the needs of high-net-worth individuals.

Darfur 122

Darfur Sudan Cofounder United Kingdom 122