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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” ” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. Seed stage startups are now graded on a curve.”

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Four years at Version One & some thoughts on “Moneyball for VC”

Version One Ventures

Naively thinking that the problem was our own capacity to sift through the large quantity of startups (and not the fact that there is a large noise to signal ratio), I asked myself, what if I just developed a model to find more companies? So, what do we do at the seed stage?

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

It is what Seed used to be from 2009-2013, until the Seed rounds got fat and bloated and the bar for raising a Seed round became a lot higher. Q: What amount of financing is considered Pre-Seed? Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. Q: Is Pre-Seed a Thing?

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Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5x Returns Overall

Gust

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 When you aggregate all of the data, these angel investors (across the U.S. Many other approaches develop all of the time.

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Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5x Returns Overall

techcrunch.com

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 When you aggregate all of the data, these angel investors (across the U.S. Many other approaches develop all of the time.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

All successful media companies had at their heart a series of editors, producers, and agents tasked with discovering and developing new talent. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Look at the stories of the current generation of aging superstars in any industry.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

I based these documents off a recent transaction where a company that had used the Series Seed Documents raised a Series A round. This level of investment in financing documentation made sense when the investments were $3 million to $5 million, but for these smaller seed stage rounds, it’s simply overkill.

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