View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

Jambb: Boston, Massachusetts . Pre-seed & seed-stage startup teams who could benefit from capital and engaged, hands-on mentorship from the NextView partnership & extended advisor network. Instead, the sole goal of the program is results , namely: Demonstrably advancing a startup towards true product-market fit.

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San Diego San Francisco Alabama Valuation 156

Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

I thought of a name and settled on Kilimanjaro, after the highest mountain in Africa. Having just moved to Austin from Boston, she thought adding African car sales could help, maybe thinking Africans looking for used cars can use it to find car deals. “At a minimum, I should be able to use this myself,” I thought. Okay,” I thought.

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Delaware SEC New York City New York 62

Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

At the time, I think we didn’t even had a name for the fund. Geography: 18 of the 23 are in Boston or New York. Early Progress: Performance is a difficult thing to measure as a seed stage fund given the time horizons and the fickleness of private company valuations.

New Hampshire 50

New Hampshire Croatia Omaha Portfolio 50

Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

Today, I’m thrilled to publicly announce NextView’s Talent Exchange, a program helping both top talent and NextView-backed startups connect with each other more easily, beginning with Boston companies (which make up just over half our portfolio). Below, I’ll quickly explain the genesis of this initiative and share a few more key details.

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Portfolio Startup Boston Seed Stage 100

Genuine VC

JANUARY 17, 2011

At that point, Rob Go, Lee Hower, and I possessed a shared vision and a newly minted name, but were still in the process of forming our approach. ” First and foremost, we are dedicated seed-stage investors focused on investments in internet-enabled startups.

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Seed Stage Boston Early Stage New York 125

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

As many of you know, NextView is a seed-stage VC fund. We make initial investments of $250-500K in the seed rounds of software and internet startups and reserve capital for follow-on rounds. It’s great to have an innovative and thoughtful group of investors here in Boston. Best of luck. PMarchetti. Read More ».

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LP Seed Stage Silicon Valley Limited Partner 100

Genuine VC

JUNE 22, 2011

This week we’re moving into offices at 186 South Street in the Leather District near South Station in Boston, and the choice is a reflection of who we are and the traits of the message we’d like to convey: Location near Entrepreneurs. And that list (somewhat suprisingly) goes on and on. Room for entrepreneurs.

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Seed Stage Boston Incubator Portfolio 123

Agile VC

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Objective Logistics is taking a pretty sexy approach to a less than sexy, yet massive problem… namely how do you optimize the scheduling of service industry workforces. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. We’re psyched to help in whatever small ways we can.

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Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 100

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

At seed-stage startups, especially companies with well-networked founders and investors, finding applicants who can do a job on paper is not overly difficult. In short, you need to dig for softer things than past employer brand names or letter-of-the-law skills. Built in Boston.). Built in Boston.).

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Founder Seed Stage Cofounder Boston 120

View from Seed

APRIL 14, 2015

To name a few, we’re investors in thredUP , which is one of the best-funded players in its nice, RentJuice which was acquired by Zillow, and InsightSquared , one of the top companies today in Boston which launched in 2010. billion in our study] aren’t coming at the seed stage.

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Entrepreneur Boston Seed Stage Founder 120

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

I think that there are certain situations where the Series Seed and other stripped down equity financing documents might be appropriate, but I know that there are lots of situations where early-stage investors probably wouldn’t agree to the Series Seed terms. Series Seed. Name of security. Series Seed.

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Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

Rob Go

JULY 18, 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. Unless you are in the Bay Area, and to a lesser degree New York, your company is at an initial disadvantage in terms of awareness and mass market credibility.

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San Francisco Cofounder B2B Seed Stage 48

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US. Can’t wait for the next part. Read More ».

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

5 Surprising Mistakes Found in Seed-Stage Startup Pitch Decks. #1: ” You can make the case that the “what we do” slide is the most important, but in the seed stage, the exact details of the product and even the target customer is a moving target. 1: Founders Often Miss the Most Important Slide.

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Technical Review Seed Stage Boston Startup 120

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent? Of the 23 funds listed here, 13 are in the Bay Area, 3 in NYC, 3 in Boston, 2 in LA, and one each in Detroit, Seattle, Toronto, Waterloo, Indianapolis, and Fargo, North Dakota.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Seattle Venture Capital 116

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. I was in Boston, working for the first time in venture capital as an analyst for this guy who was incredible and an amazing mentor. There were none in the firm, so I remember asking him if he knew of any general partners who were women in the Boston area.

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Founder Lean Venture Capital Cofounder 68

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

In Boston thebiggest is the CommonAngels. A big-name VC firm will not screwyou too outrageously, because other founders would avoid them ifword got out. When we got into such a scrape, our investorstook advantage of it in a way that a name-brand VC probably wouldnthave. Thats where the name"incubator" comes from.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

View from Seed

MAY 27, 2015

We don’t try to share a playbook because, at the seed stage, there IS no playbook. Instead, the point of sharing these stories is to stretch the imagination of listeners and to get us all to think differently and creatively about how to approach the challenges of building a very early stage business. Thanks for listening!

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Cofounder Non-Compete Early Stage Silicon Valley 120

Genuine VC

OCTOBER 11, 2011

But these are indeed multi sector, multi-geo, and multi-stage firms with long-standing LPs who are confident in their abilities as an enduring franchise to sustain elite performance. Just as some people here in Boston prefer drinking Cambridge Brewing Company ale; others could care less it was brewed locally. So what’s going on?

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Venture Capital Seed Stage Entrepreneur LP 150

Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

Anneke Jong: I’ve talked to and advised many seed stage startups, and I find they often have an awesome high-level pitch, but if you start asking questions just one layer deeper, most of the answers are, “Errrr, um….we The real key to articulating Reserve’s values was to give them names that everyone could connect with.

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New York City New York Los Angeles Startup 48

Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

Anneke Jong: I’ve talked to and advised many seed stage startups, and I find they often have an awesome high-level pitch, but if you start asking questions just one layer deeper, most of the answers are, “Errrr, um….we The real key to articulating Reserve’s values was to give them names that everyone could connect with.

New York City 48

New York City New York Los Angeles Startup 48

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Swipely is focused on payment marketing, namely unifying loyalty programs and payments for main street merchants. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

We don’t try to share a playbook because, at the seed stage, there IS no playbook. Instead, the point of sharing these stories is to stretch the imagination of listeners and to get us all to think differently and creatively about how to approach the challenges of building a very early stage business. Thanks for listening!

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Cofounder Non-Compete Early Stage Silicon Valley 28

Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

We don’t try to share a playbook because, at the seed stage, there IS no playbook. Instead, the point of sharing these stories is to stretch the imagination of listeners and to get us all to think differently and creatively about how to approach the challenges of building a very early stage business. Thanks for listening!

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Cofounder Non-Compete Early Stage Silicon Valley 28