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How to Find and Close Angel Investors from a Standing Start

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Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. First and foremost, angels can provide capital.

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Understanding Different Types of Angel Investors

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We at NextView Ventures invest exclusively in a startup’s seed-stage round , meaning that many if not most of our deals are made alongside individual angel investors. These angels, however, come in many different shapes and sizes. It can also help founders better approach angels in the first place. The Super Angel.

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Announcing NextView’s Entrepreneur Advisors: Part 1

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As the holiday season is behind us and 2015 is firmly underway, we wanted to take a moment to both announce and celebrate the collection of top entrepreneurs who have agreed to return as our Entrepreneur Advisors. The Purpose of Entrepreneur Advisors. Thus, we can all work in concert within the broader startup ecosystem.

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

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7 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in VC Pitches and How to Fix Them “Different partners in a VC firm are different. Entrepreneurs should know their audience, and most importantly, how savvy it is about the company’s particular market segment.” ” (Lee Hower). ” (David Beisel). This is not always easy to do.

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Second Startups: Why Founders Often Struggle to Find Their Second Act

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However, I find that none of this is really the case, and entrepreneurs face especially tough challenges in the very beginning of their process of finding that second company to start. But some of the most successful serial entrepreneurs realize they have unfair advantages in markets they know and just keep coming back (e.g.,

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When Should Startup Founders Discuss Valuation with Seed VCs?

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In short, more and more entrepreneurs are signaling their price expectations earlier in their seed fundraise process. In theory, there are three levels of pricing for an entrepreneur to potentially signal to a prospective investor: 1. Lower-Than-Market Value. This approach is almost never a good idea. Above-Market Value.

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How to Vet & Work With Your Cofounder [Traction #43: Wayne Chang & Jeff Seibert]

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Today, as angel investors, they see dozens of entrepreneurs every quarter, and they’ve joined the show today to help us answer some tough questions: How should you structure communication with your cofounder? Wayne Chang and Jeff Seibert are the cofounders of Crashlytics, which Twitter acquired in 2013.

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