K9 Ventures

APRIL 28, 2010

– a seed-stage fund. is a $6.25M fund that is designed to do concept and seed-stage investments in technology companies. No advertising, content or media businesses which may have a three-way business model, but rather companies which deliver direct value to paying customers. K9 Ventures, L.P.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Make Money: Majority of Kayak’s revenue actually comes from advertising on their site (55%), not lead generation or referral fees to travel suppliers as you might think (more on this below). lead gen) and advertising revenue from both of these companies. AdSense and other Google advertising accounted for 7.7%

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. I certainly bear no ill will to the various firms that ultimately passed on our fundraise… as a seed stage VC myself now I can appreciate how hard it is evaluating companies at the earliest stages of development.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. Try to be intellectually honest about what the true addressable market is, vs. using something broad and meaningless like “The total online advertising market” or “The total ecommerce market”.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Pitch 1: I had an awesome young entrepreneur come in this week to talk about his seed stage business. He wasn’t really ready to raise VC but wanted to meet me early in his process and wanted some help thinking through potential angel or seed stage investors. It was a 1-on-1 meeting between the two of us.

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Mucker Lab

JANUARY 1, 2014

Native advertising goes “RTB” and thus becomes an oxymoron (hold on, its already an oxymoron). Huge funding gap appears for seed stage companies as seed stage VC firms look for series A traction and accelerators look for seed stage traction.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

I avoid the entertainment industry, and anything where the revenue stream is based on advertising. If your seed-stage company fits the criteria above, please contact me. Notice that this is a very subjective statement. Someone might think Facebook or Twitter are improving the world; I don’t.

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Mucker Lab

JANUARY 1, 2014

Native advertising goes “RTB” and thus becomes an oxymoron (hold on, its already an oxymoron). Huge funding gap appears for seed stage companies as seed stage VC firms look for series A traction and accelerators look for seed stage traction.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

which was a $6.25M fund designed to be deployed over 3-4 years, making initial investments between $100K – $250K in concept and seed stage technology companies located in the San Francisco Bay Area. No three-way business models and no content, media, advertising-based companies.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

which was a $6.25M fund designed to be deployed over 3-4 years, making initial investments between $100K – $250K in concept and seed stage technology companies located in the San Francisco Bay Area. No three-way business models and no content, media, advertising-based companies.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

This is just the next phase of AngelList’s evolution into a one-stop shop for seed-stage companies and their backers. And what AngelList is doing differs from the crowdfunding market, with the criteria for startup participation and the requirement to be an accredited investor. Textual celebrates three years and version 3.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

According to Urban Dictionary , hype is “a clever marketing strategy where a product is advertised as the thing everyone must have, to the point where people begin to feel they need to consume it.” This phase more specifically applies to technologies that have evolved through multiple generations and are widely accepted.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 4, 2013

With all of our seed stage investments here at NextView, we both look at the market opportunity as well as the team behind the startup.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

One of the things I didn’t realize as an entrepreneur was that at the seed stage, *anyone* could potentially be an investor. But most people who save $10k+ for their retirement per year don’t advertise that they are angel investors. The old adage of “Always be selling” definitely applies to fundraising.

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Rob Go

JUNE 3, 2014

As seed stage investors, we find that we tend to prefer modest sized rounds early on to focus a team and establish discipline around being excellent at one thing and proving things out efficiently. But beyond the seed stage, capital is primarily about winning and winning big.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Here’s why: Virtually all of Twitter’s revenue comes from advertising. And Twitter CRO Adam Bain is focused primarily on growing this advertising base. Twitter’s data is valuable primarily for advertising. The most valuable users for advertisers are the people that use the service the most as a utility.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

At the seed stage, no matter how much you know about an industry or a founder, you’re still taking a real bet. The best parts of venture capital are pretty well advertised, and I can say now that they really do live up to the hype. In one day, you’ll have to develop a strong opinion about a dozen different industries.

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Business Plan Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In September of this year, the SEC voted to overturn the ban on “general solicitation” that made it illegal for companies to publicly advertise that they are raising capital. As this funding vehicle develops, experts anticipate that many of the best crowdfunding rounds of investment will be “led” by angel groups or seed stage funds.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

My colleague Rob recently wrote about sprinting at the brick wall as a strong pace and at times necessary strategy for a startup at founding or seed stage. Your company is an idea that exists in your head and nowhere else unless you’re willing to do anything possible to make it pervade a consciousness beyond your own.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

My colleague Rob recently wrote about sprinting at the brick wall as a strong pace and at times necessary strategy for a startup at founding or seed stage. Your company is an idea that exists in your head and nowhere else unless you’re willing to do anything possible to make it pervade a consciousness beyond your own.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Much of the slack at seed stage funding is taken up by the Russian state. In sharp contrast to the US and UK governments, in 2013, the Russian Government provided around 38 percent of seed deals and 24 percent of startup stage funding. The role of the Russian Government. Russian tech: Sectors to watch.

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Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

Turns out commerce and advertising are kinda different businesses actually. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Silly stuff like this. “We capitalize “Internet” a lot less these days” wonderful phrase, thank you. link] leehower. Your welcome. . Read More ».

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Most importantly from my frame of reference, the amount of activity at the early and seed stage seems to be extremely robust. M&A activity on one hand seems very lively, although it’s less in everyone’s face. How many deals do you expect to make in 2016? Are you a bull or bear? We make around ten new investments every year.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

At seed-stage startups, especially companies with well-networked founders and investors, finding applicants who can do a job on paper is not overly difficult. TripleLift is native programmatic advertising simple, scalable, and effective on the visual web. If it’s a seed-stage hire, you should already know the person.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

We’ll look at the model stage-by-stage. Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. The Advertising business is growing slower (69% YoY in 2011) than the whole company and if you dive in to the quarterly growth rates, you can see that it’s fairly lumpy.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. Adamac Attack!

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

These documents have been prepared for informational purposes and is not intended to (a) constitute legal advice (b) create an attorney-client relationship (c) be advertising or a solicitation of any type.  My quest is to simplify financing for seed stage investments. Posted by: TC | 03/04/2010 at 07:47 PM.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 30, 2013

By providing very early — or seed-stage — capital, Cummings hopes to give the B2C startups the breathing room to achieve financial milestones that would make them more palatable to investors higher up the food chain. 14, Paris-based advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe announced plans to acquire Engauge for a reported $62 million.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Seed-stage investors are learning the metrics of traction, and are getting better at identifying those companies that are really achieving validated learning about customers. Just as Erin mentions above -- replace content with games -- the same dynamics are at work in the advertising world. Eric, First of all, great post.

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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 ».

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

These documents have been prepared for informational purposes and is not intended to (a) constitute legal advice (b) create an attorney-client relationship (c) be advertising or a solicitation of any type.  The Series Seed Documents have been created to address these issues.

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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.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels." the seed stage, investors dont expect you to have an elaboratebusiness plan. As if to emphasize the point, Google never did any advertising. Paraphrased for the Web, this becomes "getall the users, and the advertisers will follow."

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

And 2 seed stage companies that haven’t launched yet. advertising) on Facebook, Twitter, Google, and be preceded by a press and PR campaign to try and get coverage in the relevant press outlets and blogs. Coin — a programmable payment device in a credit card form factor. What channels work best for you product?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2021

Mobile advertising is at the forefront of Marketing, so I think you’ll appreciate Ran’s perspective. VC Cafe: What’s the best advice or practical tips you have for founders with regards to marketing and branding at seed stage? Stay focused and block out the noise.

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Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

Several years ago I wrote a post about the three business models of the consumer web : commerce, advertising, and user-paid premium services. At the end of the day, the actionable insights that come from various forms of data are capitalized through existing business models like commerce, advertising, and to a lesser extent premium services.

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