View from Seed

MAY 14, 2015

But since almost every founder goes through this, I feel it’s a necessary one. So, when should a seed-stage founder — who, let’s face it, isn’t launching a business because they’re pumped to find corporate real estate — actually start looking for a legitimate office? Who has a good reputation? You’re growing.

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David Cohen

AUGUST 29, 2013

However, I can tell you that I checked this person out and they are completely legitimate and have a strong reputation in their own community. We arrived at the address only to find that it is a co-working space. It is coming from a seed stage VC and suddenly the amount of that investment has a range. None of it happened.

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View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

Many of us in the seed stage ecosystem have noticed a shift in the way seed rounds are coming together. Historically, seed rounds were syndicated among several different firms. Today, we are seeing less syndication of seed rounds and sharper elbows among many of the funds in the market.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 19, 2014

Anecdotally, over the last 3-6 months we’re definitely seeing more examples of larger early stage or multistage funds offer to do 80-100% of a company’s seed round. And it hasn’t been a special situation such as the founder as an EIR at said fund, or having been previously backed by that fund at earlier company.

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Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication Founder 100

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 25, 2016

So, we actually don’t think most new funds or seed investors are competitive with Homebrew in the traditional sense of “we’re all looking at the same deals and need to ‘win’ deals away from new funds.” And it’s probably one of the biggest differences in seed investing when you compare 2006 vs 2016.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

That excitement took a sharp downhill turn when one of the top partners said to me, in front of my co-founders, “When are you going to get a real CEO?”. As we set out to design a venture capital firm that would enable founders to run their own companies, we began by asking: In what ways are professional CEOs superior to founder CEOs?

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

So here at NextView we will be investing in them along with all the other forms of internet-enabled seed stage companies. I described our existing investments in Whoop and Konekt and our thinking more broadly on businesses that have a hardware component.

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