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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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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

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Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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How and Why the NextView Everyday Economy Accelerator is Different

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This initial wave of applicants resulted in the selection of six initial Accelerator participants – female & male founders at startups hailing from the Bay Area to Miami to Alabama to Boston, ranging from b2b SaaS offerings to consumer services… all transforming people’s everyday lives.

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Startup Data: 4 Strategies Changing the Speed & Size of Your Series A

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Startups with large, lifecycle VCs included in the seed round syndicate did not reach Series A faster than those who did not. If a lifecycle VC was involved in the seed investor syndicate, the Series A was noticeably larger, at a $5.9M 4 Operating Philosophies Affecting Series A Raises. More on these below.). in our portfolio.

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Our Investing Manifesto at NextView

Rob Go

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

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. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 1) Market fund. 3) Originate investments.

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Accidental VC: When Should Startups Announce Seed Funding?

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As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. These things are surprisingly indicative of how a founder operates. Accidental VC is a series of short posts written by me, Jay Acunzo.

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