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Updating Your Seed Investors – Board Deck & Update Email Templates

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Today I’m excited to announce the relaunch of our most popular resource ever: board meeting deck templates for seed-stage startups, now in conjunction with an investor update email template. Yet the landscape for the seed stage has evolved over that period. Download Board Deck Template .

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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why the hell has seed financing declined so much in the past 3 years?? In this post I set out to explain why the seed market emerged as its own category in the first place and why it’s declined as of late. ( if you want to download the deck it’s here on SlideShare ) Why Did The Seed Market Emerge in the First Place?

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Who Should be on Your Startup Board?

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As per the chart above, I highly recommend keeping a founder dominated board at the seed stage. Whether the seed investor gets a permanent seat or a temporary seat will largely depend on: The size check they wrote (If it’s a $1.5m —?just having a sparring partner with a vested interest in your success can be useful.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more Public-company tech investors creates competition in late-stage financings and these investors can afford to be less price sensitive if they choose. On the surface the narratives have been.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

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But my conversations in the private corridors on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley is that many fund sizes will be smaller going forward. So angel and seed stage investors’ returns will be dependent on good times continuing or on the ability of their portfolio companies to get financed. Others will, too.

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An Alternative to Board Decks Some Seed VCs Actually Prefer

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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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Pitch Deck Month: The “Ask” Slide

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*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. To provide relevant perspective, listing past convertible note(s) and/or equity financing(s) including total round size and valuation (caps) is helpful. Here we are, at (one of) the final slides.

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