article thumbnail

The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

VC Cafe

Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. The number of enabling platforms for creators has grown to all media types including music, social, gaming, education, publishing, adult video and so on. Gen Z and the 1% rule. Creators Platform Dependency. Source: Graphtreon.

article thumbnail

The 5 Key Parts to Startup Landing Pages That Convert

View from Seed

This is a credible photo or video of a solution. These images or videos should support your claims, educate your customers, and persuade them to proceed. Of course, it’d be nice to list some big numbers, but at the seed stage, that’s just not possible. Hero shot (main image). Social proof.

Startup 136
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

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. If our goal is just to create a blog or a YouTube video as a hobby, there’s no need for this kind of rigorous process. Expo SF (May.

article thumbnail

What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

645 Ventures , a New York City based VC firm, is one of the pioneers of a data-driven investment model to the seed stage. If the reviewed company is marked as interesting, they’ll use Google Meet , Google Calendar and Calendly trio to schedule a video call with the founding team.

article thumbnail

NextView Investment Themes: A Search for Authenticity

View from Seed

At NextView, we’ve long had a set of ethos or guiding principles behind all we do, which includes internal work as a team, external work as investors, and the lens through which we view seed-stage startups and their founding teams. Sector #2: Mobile Video Consumption.

Search 120
article thumbnail

NextView Investment Themes: A Search for Authenticity

View from Seed

At NextView, we’ve long had a set of ethos or guiding principles behind all we do, which includes internal work as a team, external work as investors, and the lens through which we view seed-stage startups and their founding teams. Sector #2: Mobile Video Consumption.

Search 120
article thumbnail

Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter 2010 Unveils Promising Growth Companies Ahead of Conference

VC Adventure

Green Garage aggregates proven, sustainable, energy saving automotive maintenance/repair related products and delivers them through convenient consumer valet and corporate mobile on-site services. Green Garage is a new kind of garage that makes car s gentler on the planet and easier on the wallet.