Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. 166M round closed Dec 2007. Series A Preferred. round closed in June 2004.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

In the next post, I’ll talk about how we think about pre-seeds at NextView. It’s become increasingly common for startups to raise several seed rounds, and this has led to a bifurcation in the seed stage between what are known as “pre-seed” (or “genesis”) and institutional seed rounds.

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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

We love meeting entrepreneurs who take this blank canvas approach when thinking about disrupting markets. My partner David recently wrote about how investors tend to bring their own inherent biases (both good and bad) into pitch meetings with entrepreneurs. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 26, 2010

However, in the past few weeks I’ve started to see a rant start to emerge that I’ll simplify as “VCs suck as seed investors – the only path to happiness are angels or super angels or micro VCs.&# This rant bugs me as I think it’s incorrect and isn’t very helpful to entrepreneurs.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 23, 2015

We had a blast together and as we went out to raise our Foundry 2007 fund, Scott made several introductions which resulted in two wonderful, long term LP relationships. When we started Mobius, we were four founders and two EAs. Instead, we wanted to be extremely close to the entrepreneurs and do all the work ourselves.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

The modern form of the venture capital firm — dating to American Research and Development Corporation and JH Whitney & Co. Private capital Seed, or very early-stage startup capital, is inherently local. Simply put, later-stage capital travels easier; seed-stage capital providers are homebodies.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

million and is established by negotiations between the entrepreneur and the angel investors. These anticipated outcomes were validated by “ Returns to Angels in Groups ” by Professor Rob Wiltbank in November 2007. We also have data points for VC investments in seed/startup companies (but not necessarily pre-revenue companies).

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146