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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. However, our overall goal is to invest in the full spectrum of seed. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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Our Investing Manifesto at NextView

Rob Go

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. However, our overall goal is to invest in the full spectrum of seed. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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Opportunity is everywhere: we’re now investing worldwide

Version One Ventures

From the start, we have limited ourselves primarily to startups within North America, with a handful of exceptions: Nexus Mutual and Drover (UK), Guesser.com (Spain), and Headout (India). We still look for pre-seed & seed stage opportunities, as we believe this is the stage where we can add the most value.

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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 The distribution of returns from the different U.S. Let’s take a look at the actual data. and the U.K.,

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2012 Valuation Survey of Angel Groups

Gust

This summer I conducted our third annual survey of the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies recently funded by angel groups in North America. The distribution of groups in the survey includes a relatively representative sampling of angel groups across the US and Canada. Number: 30. Three Canadian groups filed reports.

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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 The distribution of returns from the different U.S. Let’s take a look at the actual data. and the U.K.,

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Introducing my next chapter: Dragon Army

Jeff Hilimire

Here is the article from today’s Atlanta Business Chronicle by Urvaksh Karkaria : Atlanta has historically been a business-to-business software town — famous for building the computer programs that keep corporate America humming. Backed by his $5 million Atlanta Ventures fund, Cummings hopes to “de-risk” such investments.

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