View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The obvious answer we all give (and receive) in the startup community is to talk to people. It’s become ubiquitous in our community, but that doesn’t make it any less critical. But for a true seed-stage company or for folks just thinking about companies to start or products to build, I think surveys are generally terrible.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

His vision for social analytics and tracking the conversion funnel was better than any I had heard at the time (or since). I have a very public seed stage investment policy and awe.sm ” Somebody who had lived with the marketing consequences of trying to track online conversion from websites, google, mobile and social.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Almost 5 years ago we released a resource for founders looking for guidance on their seed stage pitch decks. Today, it’s been viewed over 300,000 times on Slideshare , and is still one of the resources we hear positive feedback about from the greater founder community.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. As Rob Go wrote , board decks and board meetings can waste loads of time at the seed stage.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

As high-conviction, seed stage investors, we are inherently relationship-driven, and we value meeting exceptional founders face-to-face. billion across 2,288 deals in Q3, with deal count exceeding Q2’s at nearly every stage. . Familiar loops offered invaluable, pre-seeded confidence.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Lower level of community familiarity. (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Of the Inc. raised from angels.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

This developed into another question: Even more, since there’s so much that goes on within the community, how can I know in one place, on my phone, what’s going on?—?in in the African communities around me? No class, no community project, and certainly no job straight of college can teach you all this?—?or in one undertaking!

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

He provided our initial seed funding to launch the website publicly on May 5, 2003. Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. . And a third firm “pressure tested” (i.e. quite encouraging.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

With many seed investments locally already, everyone on the team has had a window into how entrepreneurship in the city has evolved over this current cycle. But our conversations at NextView have always ended in excited chatter about the New York opportunity. The State of NYC Seed: We recommend viewing in full screen mode.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

It’s amazing how often people don’t get to that in the conversation. How do you position yourself as the latter if you’re a seed-stage startup founder? How could they fit into your team? How do they view the world? Across any of these things, you want a concrete answer in the room.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

We at NextView Ventures invest exclusively in a startup’s seed-stage round , meaning that many if not most of our deals are made alongside individual angel investors. They’re typically focused on financial returns and little else when it comes to the entrepreneurial community. The “Sport Fisherman” Angel.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 9, 2023

A recap of the conversation is listed below, as well as the full webinar recording. By strategically choosing where and how to build links, businesses can create connections with different communities, tap into new markets, and extend their reach in meaningful ways.

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Austin Startup

JULY 29, 2018

It doesn’t make any sense to pitch a later stage, “growth” investor with your seed stage idea just like it doesn’t make much sense to pitch a new tech startup to an investor who only does oil & gas. Some will invest in a great person with a big idea and others need to see customer traction and revenue first.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. There has been no shortage of controversy and criticism around the convertible note, a popular investing vehicle that’s used by seed stage and angel investors. → Learn More.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. In December, AngelList , a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, debuted the ability to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 12, 2012

When a startup doesn’t match the stage where a particular investor focuses, founders may get a response along the lines of “This is interesting to us, but come back once you get from X phase to Y phase” That could be from seed stage to a larger Series A financing need, or to progress from pre-product to post-revenue.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Since 2002, the law form of Fenwick & West has conducted a venture capital survey, a response to "the burst of the 'dot-come bubble' and a desire to provide the entrepreneurial community with objective information about the status of the venture environment." The median amount raised in preferred stock financings was $1.1

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The 2013 Joah didn’t realize he was about to run into the buzzsaw that was being black while fundraising in 2014 and 2015, two of the best years for a seed-stage startup to raise funds in Silicon Valley. Those were teachers, accountants, consultants, entrepreneurs, and community leaders. Those were friends and families.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Heck, Satya and I could talk each other out of *any* investment at the seed stage – there’s always something “wrong” with an opportunity – but our job is to invest, not to *not* invest.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 22, 2014

A year into my career as a seed stage investor , I’m starting to get the hang of some standard conversations. We’ve invested in a collection of founders who are working hard every day to inspire their teams, build their products, grow their community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

"I really like that resilience word," Robert Rhinehart told me in our conversation about his new organization, The Corona Initiative. Robert believes in "the powerful idea of self-reliance and this idea that you should know how to take care of yourself, and your family, and your community." Robert Rhinehart : Hi.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Passion was certainly a recurring topic of conversation amongst the investors we interviewed.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. AngelList is an online community that matches startups with investors to streamline the fundraising process. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer.

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Hippoland

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

In order to attend, entrepreneurs will need to fill out a quick application form, and I’ll pick entrepreneurs who are a good fit to join me in a conversation with my guests. About Pocket (from the SoGal website): Pocket Sun founded SoGal, one of world’s largest communities of diverse entrepreneurs with 10 chapters worldwide.

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Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

NextView Ventures II is $40M, twice the size of our first fund, and we continue to be exclusively focused on seed-stage companies pursuing internet-enabled innovation. We’ve often explained to entrepreneurs that the second fund of a venture firm is very much like the series A for an early stage company.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Series Seed Financing Documents : 1 Reblog. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. Ted: Great service to the startup community! My quest is to simplify financing for seed stage investments. I echo Peter's request.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Join the conversation by adding Mashables Pete Cashmore to your Circles on Google+ Close Welcome to Mashable! In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings. Early-stage seed and angel investors all realize that a business will encounter a huge range of flux very rapidly.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 7, 2015

They all became quite familiar with Homebrew during their diligence process but post-close is when we actually start to work together and bring them into our community. Comparing Notes About Market Trends: Although Homebrew is still young we’ve definitely seen some changes in the seed stage ecosystem since we started in early 2013.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. They are seeking to build companies so that they are attractive to late-stage funds.” And the late-stage global funds are swarming in, from Accel to KKR to Li Kai-Shing’s Horizon Ventures.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” In off the record conversations, many angels have expressed the urgency of self-discipline. Lastly, seed-stage entrepreneurs who have pushed for the maximum valuation possible haven’t done themselves any favors. Become a PandoMonthly member and support your startup community today. Be clear with readers.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. Seed-stage investors are learning the metrics of traction, and are getting better at identifying those companies that are really achieving validated learning about customers. In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

As an active member of the telecommunications and Internet community, Caruso will address the attendees about the virtues of starting a company in the Rocky Mountains. Along with company presentations and ample networking opportunities, Dan Caruso, CEO of Zayo Group, will give this winter’s keynote address.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

The other argument I made to LPs at the time was that if we combined $650 million or more into a single fund it would mean that writing a $3–4 million would feel too small to each individual investor to be important and yet that’s the amount of capital we believed many seed-stage companies needed. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Twenty Companies Ranging From Seed Stage to Mezzanine Will Showcase Next Generation Technologies from Various Industries at the 27 th Annual VCIR Winter 2010 Conference. As an active member of the telecommunications and Internet community, Caruso will address the attendees about the virtues of starting a company in the Rocky Mountains.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2012

One is the idea of being a participant and a contributor to the community that we are involved in. First, even though we have a fairly tight focus as a fund (internet enabled innovation, seed stage, select core geographies) we all have different areas that we are particularly excited about.

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