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What Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech Struggles [#BostonB2C Recap]

View from Seed

Half our portfolio is consumer. Here’s Mike’s comment: Boston’s B2C problem is one of values. To become a truly special consumer tech community, Boston needs more pillar B2C companies. Some say it’s a marketing and story-telling problem. Regardless of the reason, we were just plain fed up. We had a plan.

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How To Get Ready To Participate In An Acceleration Program

YoungUpstarts

If this happens, the risk of having an unpleasant experience is much higher, as an early stage startup cannot afford 7 months off the correct path. However, it is important to check the portfolio of the program and see how many companies from your industry have participated. Contact accelerator staff. It was all hypothetical.

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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. The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews.

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Pitch Deck Month: “Is It Working?” (aka the “Traction” Slide)

View from Seed

At NextView we invest across the spectrum of seed stage companies so roughly 1/3rd of the companies we invest in are pre-product, roughly 1/3rd are post-product but pre-revenue, and perhaps 1/3rd have some very early revenue. You’re obviously not showing charts of user growth, number of customers, or revenue.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. TruthFinder and Intelius provide basic background vetting.

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Denouement

View from Seed

Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages. Late stage rounds help keep companies private longer and eventually Facebook proves to be a blockbuster company… public equity investors hope to find the next Facebook pre-IPO. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. 2020 and Beyond?

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Denouement

Agile VC

Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages. Late stage rounds help keep companies private longer and eventually Facebook proves to be a blockbuster company… public equity investors hope to find the next Facebook pre-IPO. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. 2020 and Beyond?

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