View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

I’ve spent over a decade investing in consumer and B2B companies that do things like expand access to reproductive care and childcare , support the circular economy , enable more seamless payments for small businesses and individuals, rethink mindfulness for the modern world , and champion learners from the classroom to the metaverse.

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North America San Francisco Cap Table Cofounder 156

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

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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North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

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. should you be focusing on first?

Product 78

Product CTO Hire Startup Fractional CTO 78

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

This seed-stage fund is named 50/50 since Frank + Oak plans to grant 50 percent of the fund to female entrepreneurs and 50 percent of the fund to male entrepreneurs. Growing your B2B marketplace. As CEO Thomas Smyth told VentureBeat, “Basically we want to see how many people we can help before Comcast shuts us down.”.

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Seattle Portfolio Seed Stage Canada 130

YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

But they’ll sit up and pay attention when you talk about the customers and revenues of the business. Specialists” have deep experience in some area of startup practice, like law, bookkeeping, growth hacking, or platform strategy. In the US, seed accelerators offer more than $100,000 to startups. Fundraising isn’t easy.

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Asia Singapore Cofounder Incubator 207

Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

As a result, for these kinds of businesses, investors often don’t expect that companies can earn revenue right out of the gate, because they may not legally be able to. These are some of the most important criteria to investing in seed-stage teams. Is the company already in the middle of overcoming regulatory hurdles?

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Startup Vertical Early Stage Bootstrapping 48

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

BOLDstart helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round. helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round”. As they say, the rest is history.

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Seed Stage Agile Viral API 110

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). trailing revenue.

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IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

Actually, growth equity firms I find are best at this, because they have very specific financial criteria that they look for, such as ranges for revenue, ebitda, growth, etc. We don’t have such a section on our website (yet) and in some ways, the seed/early stage is more amorphous. Stage: Pre Product: 12.

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Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I’ll give you an example with my own startup LaunchBit and how our understanding of the problem and the customer became more refined over time: V1: Helping online marketers get customers profitably. V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably.

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Seed Stage Business Model B2B Email 48

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I’ll give you an example with my own startup LaunchBit and how our understanding of the problem and the customer became more refined over time: V1: Helping online marketers get customers profitably. V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably.

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Seed Stage Business Model B2B Email 48

Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The simple answer is “be able to convince a partnership of smart investors that your startup has a good probability of being a $100M+ revenue company within 5ish years.” How To Think About The Future. August 12, 2011.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Acquisition 113

VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2021

Israeli startups raised over $2 billion in March 2021 alone. As the startup ecosystem in Israel scales, so must the teams leading the growing number of Israeli unicorns. How should Israeli startups think about marketing? And running fast as an early stage start-up is so important. Is there a marketing crunch in Israel?

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Marketing Early Stage Seed Stage 179

Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Some believe that there are “new” revenue models being created by consumer web companies, like virtual goods or “freemium” services. How To Think About The Future. Is “Data” a Business Model? March 30, 2012.

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Business Model Silicon Valley Advertising B2B 113

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. and Path Intelligence.

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . “Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. For example, Point Nine Capital focuses on B2B SaaS and marketplaces at the seed stage, across many industries.

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

As the Greylock team has learned after decades of partnering with early-stage founders, the best approach is establishing a core set of fundamental questions that can be tailored to each individual company, rather than looking at a rigid set of metrics. HOW DOES GREYLOCK EVALUATE COMPANIES AT THE SEED-STAGE?

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Technical Review Seed Stage Software Review Early Stage 69