Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. But if the proportion of buyers to subscribers is fairly high and doesn’t drop rapidly, the LTV presumably can sigificantly exceed acquisition costs.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston .Net 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

. “Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator.

Silicon Valley 293

Silicon Valley Technical Review Angel Investor Southern California 293

View from Seed

JANUARY 8, 2015

So the question needs to be asked: Should seed-stage startups even blog in the first place? Think of it this way: Even in the seed stage, before most companies find product-market fit, they understand the problems they’re trying to solve. It’s simply about solving problems.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Startup Audience Leadership 120

Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

On the consumer facing side, the number of companies doing multiple acquisitions of $100M+ was extremely short… Google, eBay/PayPal, Amazon, and Microsoft are at the top of the list. <$100M) acquisitions for several years now, but they’ve mainly been acquihires. IAC and Yahoo! Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized.

Acquisition 162

Acquisition Silicon Valley B2B Seed Stage 162

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

Patents and the threat of patent infringement lawsuits provide maximum leverage against a competitor when they’re in the middle of a strategic inflection point… a major financing, acquisition, or large product launch. property over the years, but certainly frequented not just search but also News, Yahoo! Mail, Sports, etc.

IP 100

IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of our prior investments was an e-commerce company that grew primarily through organic search. Normally I would counsel seed stage companies not to take strategic investment but that wasn’t the case here. It doesn’t mean it can’t be done, but having say Google as an investor can make it tricky to work with say Apple.

Strategic Investors 120

Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments. there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment.

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

As many of you know, NextView is a seed-stage VC fund. We make initial investments of $250-500K in the seed rounds of software and internet startups and reserve capital for follow-on rounds. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Best of luck. PMarchetti. Congratulations!

LP 100

LP Seed Stage Silicon Valley Limited Partner 100

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments. there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

At NextView Ventures, we’re hyper-focused on the seed stage, and since starting the firm, we’ve heard repeatedly and consistently from founders that a primary challenge they face during that stage is hiring. And their feedback isn’t about hiring in general, nor is about hiring senior executives.

Portfolio 100

Portfolio Startup Boston Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

Salesforce is trying to create a platform both through internal efforts on Force.com and acquisitions (e.g. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Google of course has Android. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized.

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Startup Syndicate 113

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

At NextView we’ve intentionally taken an approach which combines both thematic and opportunistic investing for a couple reasons: 1) Our Overall Strategy is Highly Focused - We’re a dedicated seed VC fund, so we invest in startups exclusively at the seed stage. Pingback: watch inception online. Pingback: [link].

Seed Stage 124

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Holocognics would break it down even further and discuss why, for instance, SEO works in one industry and not another – both in the sense of why a certain business has a higher chance of succeeding in showing up higher in a search, but also why SEO in a certain business has a higher “acquisition” rate (to use the Startup Metrics term).

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Southern California Startup Intellectual Property 150

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Every year I teach classrooms full of students who leave class understanding the basics of how to search for product/market fit—and thinking their next goal is to “get funded.”. In a pre-seed round you are focused on building minimal viable products, testing your insights and searching for product/market fit. That’s a mistake.

Cofounder 429

Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 429

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

These companies report gross ad revenue but then subtract out “TAC” (Traffic Acquisition Costs) which is basically accounting-speak for the revenue share they pay to the partner sites where the ads actually appear. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. link] leehower.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

And finally margins matter… a $50-100M software company can go public given it’s 80-90% gross margins, an e-commerce company with 20-30% gross margins and high customer acquisition costs needs to be much bigger (probably 5-10x at least). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

What success you’re searching for is on you to determine. Pre-Seed & Seed stage startup teams who could benefit from capital and engaged, hands-on mentorship from the NextView partnership & extended advisor network. The thing is though…numbers don’t lie and patterns are important. Let’s do this! . Who You Are.

Programming 156

Programming Sacramento San Francisco Founder 156

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search didbefore Google.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Most of this initial period has been focused on the build-out of core infrastructure: ubiquitous broadband (Cisco, Qualcomm), information search (Yahoo, AOL), mobile & cloud computing (Apple, Samsung, AWS), and the social mesh (Facebook) laid on top. Innovation in search, social, broadband, and mobile & cloud hasn’t come to an end.

Seed Stage 273

Seed Stage Portfolio Cofounder B2B 273

www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

New Attitude to Acquisition Another thing I see starting to get standardized is acquisitions. As the volume of startups increases, big companies will start to develop standardized procedures that make acquisitions little more work than hiring someone. One problem theyve solved is how to think about acquisitions.

Web 54

Web Startup Silicon Valley Technical Review 54

Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

I was in a board meeting for a seed stage company recently and a successful GP at a larger fund said “you know it when you see it” which is true. And there are some common precepts seed stage companies can follow. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

Seed Stage 113

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Acquisition 113

allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

In the largest sector, Internet, median deal size increased at every stage of funding for the first time ever, CB Insights said. Venture capitalists were particularly aggressive on early-stage investments in the second quarter. There were more seed deals than Series A fundings for the first time ever. Featured Reviews.

Venture Capital 71

Venture Capital Technical Review RSS Charlotte 71

K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Occipital — makers of the Structure Sensor for 3-D data acquisition. And 2 seed stage companies that haven’t launched yet. And in yet another case, the lithium batteries were being stored in a location which was exposed to moisture (You can search Youtube for what happens when lithium comes in contact with water!).

Software Review 48

Software Review Forecast Portfolio Software 48

Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

CRM) but it’s rarely easy to browse or search all of this contact information from a single interface. And in it’s raw format, just searching for a contact may not provide much value. His co-founder/CMO Alex Cote has run customer acquisition programs that have attracted millions of users via a range of channels.

Cofounder 140

Cofounder Stealth Silicon Valley Mobile 140

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Its thesame with acquisitions. So seed investors usually care lessabout the idea than the people. This is true of all venture funding,but especially so in the seed stage. Like VCs, one of the advantages of seed firms is the advice theyoffer. This stops with VC-scale money.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Vesting 76

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

Here in Boston both Microsoft and Google have made significant expansions in recent years in Cambridge, and PayPal/eBay is poised to do the same in downtown Boston through acquisition and organic growth. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ». Previous Entries.

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

But while it was a little less understood outside the payments world, their acquisition of TxVia theoretically gives them some of the plumbing they’d need to create a store of value or couple a Google mobile payments product to existing financial accounts. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

-based Angel capital with early stage technology companies in Israel, and do so in a way that substantially mitigates the risk of seed stage investing. Essentially, investors are receiving equal shares of 10 Israeli seed stage start-ups for relatively small capital. VCs are investing in later stage companies.

Technical Review 106

Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage 106

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

A new tool that will help the entrepreneur in the trademark issue is Markify – a trademark search that finds all similar trademarks. This kind of search normally costs more than $500… Test your name [link] so you don’t end up with a name that is confusingly similar to an existing trademark.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Â Search for apps tools. Google Custom Search Engine. great web customer acquisition tutorials. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Outlook plugin to search. Ad Promotion. Linkedin Ads.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Lastly, seed-stage entrepreneurs who have pushed for the maximum valuation possible haven’t done themselves any favors. Today, HealthTab announced the acquisition of Q&A site Avvo Health specifically to increase the number of doctors within its network, doubling it to 30,000. Pando Daily. PandoMonthly. PandoDigest.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93