Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

For us, the investment is certainly fresh and newest in our portfolio, but it also feels familiar. CEO Anne Raimondi and my partner Rob were colleagues together at eBay in the early 2000’s before she went on the lead product and/or marketing at many household internet names like Zazzle, InsiderPages, and SurveyMonkey.

Seed Stage 199

Seed Stage Cofounder Portfolio Curation 199

Genuine VC

JULY 8, 2010

With the support and encouragement of my Venrock colleagues, I am pleased to share that I am moving on to co-found a new Micro VC firm focused on seed internet investments. I am excited to remain on the Board of Directors for Venrock’s portfolio company BlogHer.

Silicon Valley 154

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Cofounder Venture Capital 154

Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

As a founder, it feels like a long time, but it’s really a blip on the radar in the scheme of things. This is why I’ve made a habit of profiling our portfolio quantitatively and why we write summaries announcing pretty much all of our new investments. So, here is our annual quantitative summary of our portfolio.

Portfolio 49

Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49

The Equity Kicker

JUNE 26, 2014

Our model of backing entrepreneurs and then also investing heavily in a team and co-working space to support them is new. We invest in 1-2 companies per quarter that join us for a year long programme, and we invest in late-seed stage companies too. I like that about us. We definitely don’t do that.

eCommerce 98

eCommerce Partner Incubator Early Stage 98

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

At NextView we’ve intentionally taken an approach which combines both thematic and opportunistic investing for a couple reasons: 1) Our Overall Strategy is Highly Focused - We’re a dedicated seed VC fund, so we invest in startups exclusively at the seed stage. Pingback: watch toy story 3 free online. Read More ».

Seed Stage 124

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 23, 2015

Scott’s post is a great history lesson about the evolution of “value-added VC” behavior, especially around organization building by VC firms to “add more value” to their portfolio companies. When we started Mobius, we were four founders and two EAs. Before I dig in, I need to express two biases.

Advisory Board 70

Advisory Board Venture Capital LP Seed Stage 70

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds.

Valuation 98

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Rob Go

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Many venture capitalists have been founders or investors in very big companies and have made lots of money themselves. Personally, one of the main reasons I co-founded a seed focused fund like NextView is because I saw it as the way I’d have the highest chance of being impactful to truly extraordinary companies.

Seed Stage 52

Seed Stage Cofounder Venture Capital Valuation 52

Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2012

One practice that we instituted early on was to create a co-working culture, much like what you see in the startups we invest in or the shared workspaces where startups are birthed. Earlier in the week, I wrote a post sharing some data about our early portfolio. But it goes much much deeper than that.

Due Diligence 46

Due Diligence Seed Stage Cofounder Deal Flow 46

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

But in my experience as an entrepreneur and now spending my time amongst investors I can generalize that almost all VC investments in early stage technology & Internet investments come down to just four key factors. Almost every deal I’ve ever funded I’ve gotten to know the founders over time. million round.

Early Stage 360

Early Stage Startup Venture Capital Seed Stage 360

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

For this reason, we’re excited to announce that we have closed on NextView’s $50M third fund, with a mission to champion founders who are redesigning the Everyday Economy. . Internet-connected computing is an innovation wave on par with a few historical developments of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Seed Stage 273

Seed Stage Portfolio Cofounder B2B 273

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You may know him as the founder of Soylent, the nutrition company he started in his kitchen and scaled nationwide. Many of you will know Robert as the founder of Soylent, which he started out of his kitchen and then grew into a nationwide phenomenon. Portfolio theory construction, alpha and beta into the science process.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was hanging out the other day with my buddy Jody Sherman, founder & CEO of EcoMom. I think how hard it is for me to be hands-on with a handful of portfolio companies. He was talking profusely about their portfolio company email lists and the knowledge that is shared. Through this process he raised $2 million.

Valuation 292

Valuation Deal Flow Lead Investor Cofounder 292

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. Technical founders .

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Fenwick & West Seed Investment Standard Forms, used by most angels. TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents â?? Seed Stage Valuation Guide.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53