View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have a strong network in the NYC startup ecosystem that is additive to our team. You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. You have an edge in the highly competitive world of early stage investing that comes from some combination of your experience, industry knowledge, and personal network.

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Technical Review North America Seed Stage Bandwidth 156

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

He set up Blackbox.vc, a seed accelerator for technology startups (and one of the tour stops for entrepreneurs from around the world.) They went to work gathering deep knowledege of what makes successful Internet startups. Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups.

Technical Cofounder 333

Technical Cofounder Early Stage Startup Silicon Valley 333

OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I divided my response into “early stage” and “later stage” founders. Here’s a summary of what I said about early stage founders. Have you run your idea or wireframes by different segments, different buyers, different sizes of company (if B2B) or lots of different demographics (if B2C)?

Early Stage 62

Early Stage Founder Later Stage B2C 62

YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2020

You envision your business as the next Uber or Spotify, yourself as the next Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, reaching that prestigious ‘unicorn’ startup status in record time. For a B2B product, this means figuring out what kinds of businesses are suited for your product. “It’s genius! It’s the next thing!” How is it done?

Product 264

Product Cofounder Audience Product Development 264

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

North America 120

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

View from Seed

APRIL 8, 2020

Stevens has held roles across verticals such as head of sales, marketing, product, and professional services at five startups over twenty years. He has experience in B2B, supply chain, robotics, SaaS, and IoT spaces. He helps early-stage startups with sales, marketing, and general “go to market” topics.

B2B 156

B2B Angel Investor Vertical Early Stage 156

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

It affects even B2B companies because ultimately most must sell to companies who sell to consumers and if they suffer they cut back on suppliers. So I believe that now is the perfect time to build a company and the perfect time for early-stage investors to bet on innovation. Consumer spending is where I’m dubious.

Technical Review 269

Technical Review Stock Hawaii Early Stage 269

Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

Background Reading: Why startups need signals. See: Startup Accelerator Anti-Dilution Provisions; The Fine Print. However, for the most in-demand startups, over-committing on future participation rights can become a problem because it can require you to raise more money than you really need to. Anti-Dilution.

Dilution 48

Dilution Startup Technical Review Equity 48

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2019

To refresh your memory, angel investors are typically high net worth individuals, accredited by the SEC and willing to invest their own money in a high-potential startup for a share of the ownership. They don’t get excited by early stage research, development, or marketing hype. Crowdfunding is not the best platform here.

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Non-disclosure Agreement Angel Investor Bootstrapping SEC 299

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The experience of participating in these programs can vary depending on factors such as your work experience and career background, the stage of your company, as well as the industry you are attempting to disrupt. Pitch it to someone with a startup or business related background, but who doesn’t have experience in your industry.

Programming 124

Programming Chile B2B B2C 124

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

Chicago 177

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 177

View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Below, she shares lessons learned from the earliest days of marketing the company and how this has translated to her second startup role as VP of Marketing at Toast. Where do you land on that spectrum?

Marketing 120

Marketing Sales Cycle Startup CTO Hire 120

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

Chicago 156

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. Oh, and I forget to mention in my introduction about B2B. Maybe ten years. Foreign Service.

Early Stage 150

Early Stage Southern California Los Angeles Marketing 150

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

Chicago 136

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 136

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

See best practices in building financial models , a template financial model , and valuing startup employee options. 10) Time, market, and exit investment. See my overview of sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . 6) Due diligence.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

See best practices in building financial models , a template financial model , and valuing startup employee options. 10) Time, market, and exit investment. See my overview of sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . 6) Due diligence.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

Genuine VC

DECEMBER 3, 2014

This entrepreneurial HubSpot spirit has — and will continue to have — a ripple effect throughout the Boston early stage startup ecosystem. I can’t tell you how many pitch decks from local startups I’ve received over the past decade that barely even touch upon the key subject of distribution.

Boston 279

Boston IPO B2B Cofounder 279

ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2021

It is too early to tell how the impact of these features will move the needle for us, but based on anecdotal feedback we’ve received, users are following their trophy growth. Building a beloved product without email marketing might sound impossible to many startup founders. Gamification isn’t the domain of B2C or gaming sites alone.

Email 151

Email Product Marketing Cofounder 151

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. The only problem that faces startup investors now is how to mine this new data layer efficiently to increase returns.”. 1) Market fund.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 10, 2020

For a startup in the B2B market, that means there’s a reasonably steep hill to climb right from the beginning. Here is a startup guide to creating an ideal customer profile. There’s no way that a startup can acquire the same volume of data that more established competitors already have collected.

Customer 180

Customer Startup Analytics B2B 180

View from Seed

JANUARY 21, 2022

After graduation, I spent the next 9 years working at a bank, an early-stage b2b fintech startup, and a growth-stage mortgage startup. Hopefully this has laid the groundwork for being able to compartmentalize a fintech startup. B2B vs. D2C, converting eyeballs to a human via a marketing machine.

B2B 120

B2B Germany Stock Engineer 120

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. What are you working on now?

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Management Product Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 150

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Singapore-based technology startup incubator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator – better known locally as JFDI.Asia – today unveiled a lineup of eight technology startups set to participate in its 100-day accelerator program this year. “Early-stage business is becoming less of an art and more of a science,” he adds.

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View from Seed

JULY 19, 2019

All early stage venture firms essentially look at some weighting of team, market, product, and traction. The startup doesn’t just offer a product that people truly want and can’t get elsewhere, but that the business model itself provides an undisputable reason why the company can and will win.

Boston 149

Boston B2B Early Stage Portfolio 149

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

View from Seed

JULY 28, 2015

While the startup environment in Boston has vastly improved over the last several years , I continue to hear the sentiment that it’s really tough to build a great consumer startup in Boston. In other words, some of the best marketers in modern consumer internet startups are exactly the type of people that Boston has in spades.

Boston 120

Boston Marketing Early Stage Startup 120

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Pre-launch customer development data is another way, sometimes in the form of user surveys for consumer companies or interviews with potential beta customers for B2B businesses. One of our portfolio investments, a B2B SaaS company, was a pre-product startup at the time of the seed round.

Seed Stage 149

Seed Stage B2B Seed Capital Revenue 149

View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

I became a venture capitalist, specifically a seed investor, to provide early support to the dreamers and builders working to positively change how we live, work, learn, play, and care for our planet and each other.

North America 156

North America San Francisco Cap Table Cofounder 156

Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. Hila Qu has been the Head of Growth or VP of Growth at a number of different companies and startups, most notably Acorns and GitLab. That's the foundation.

Product 78

Product CTO Hire Startup Fractional CTO 78

View from Seed

JULY 17, 2019

Your company is likely both one step removed from many brand name B2B customers and a step removed from reporters and press that are excited to tell your story. One approach that we’ve seen work with a number of B2B businesses is to spend a disproportionate amount of effort in telling a momentum story about your company.

San Francisco 243

San Francisco Cofounder B2B Seed Stage 243

OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 31, 2013

If you’re fortunate enough to have built a really strong early stage company, you will find yourself in the position of being able to pick from a number of potential venture investors. Look for VC portfolios that have a lot of “like” companies (B2B, B2C, media, tech, etc.). Visited 1 times, 1 visits today).

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Valuation Term Sheet B2C Security 133

Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

My father eventually decided on Santa Clara (Saratoga, more specifically), and so I grew up in the shadows of the orchards of Cupertino and the nondescript concrete startup boxes of Santa Clara. Encyclopedic knowledge of term sheets and startup buzzwords can be quickly learned, trained, and packaged.

Los Angeles 138

Los Angeles Southern California Silicon Valley Technical Review 138

Rob Go

JANUARY 12, 2015

As an early stage investor, should you pay up for team or traction? Prices in the startup world are relatively high. When you are thinking about joining an early stage company, how should you be evaluating the risk of the overall company? Traction for Consumer, Team for B2B. The Founders Perspective.

B2B 28

B2B Early Stage Distribution Software Review 28

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2018, after two short years and $3 million raised in startup funds, recruitment AI company Ansaro shut down due to bad market fit. This is particularly true for complex verticals such as B2B SaaS products, where product marketing’s ability to pinpoint users with the most need and educate them on product features and benefits proves useful.

Marketing 110

Marketing Product Audience Equity 110

View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

of teams’ online pitch decks and recorded videos, as well as loved the dozens of second-round video conversations which we had with Founders working on quite compelling startups. But the emphasis of our program is the direct one-on-one interaction with NextView partners to help push the company forward.

Cofounder 177

Cofounder Syndicate Syndication Alabama 177

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I was excited to see that GLG (formerly Gerson Lehrman Group), the industry leader, is now offering a professional network service geared to the needs of the startup community: GLG Share. Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy.

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114