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We’re Hiring a Platform and Operations Associate at NextView

View from Seed

From the beginnings of NextView, we have had a commitment to being high-conviction, hands-on, seed stage focused investors. You will be supporting the firm’s external outreach efforts to build the brand and presence of NextView within the broader entrepreneurial community. About NextView. A Final Note.

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Cutting Through the AI Noise: How Startups Can Stand Out in a Crowded Market

VC Cafe

By the way, this not just about marketing or PR. As Andrew Chen points out in this tweet: WHY INVESTORS DON'T FUND AI STARTUPS you might know A16Z is running a seed-stage startup accelerator called SPEEDRUN where we're funding 40+ companies in the next 2 months with $750k per company.

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Why Reporters Ignore Your Seed-Stage Startup Pitches, And How to Fix That

View from Seed

Even if you’re in the pre-revenue, pre-seed or seed stage, there are still ways to get on a reporter’s radar. Even if your own company isn’t newsworthy, you are on the ground in the startup community, and that is valuable. Every publication is different, so there’s no single blueprint.

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Link Building: A Mission-Critical Component of SEO with Eric Carrell at DoFollow.io

Mucker Lab

These strategies lay the groundwork for an effective backlink foundation and extend beyond mere SEO; they can also serve a valuable PR purpose. 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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My Role as a VC: What I am and what I am not.

This is going to be BIG.

Fourth , I am highly incentivized to provide assistance to my portfolio companies in any way that I can--whether it means connections to talent, PR, other capital, customers, etc. Fifth , as I intend to be a long term participant in the innovation ecosystem, I have a role to support and champion the community at large.

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The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product.

Steve Blank

We’ll look at the model stage-by-stage. Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

645 Ventures , a New York City based VC firm, is one of the pioneers of a data-driven investment model to the seed stage. While the historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship, some GPs actively participate in LP/GP communities to find and build relationships with potential LPs.