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JULY 8, 2020
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 .
VC Cafe
APRIL 4, 2024
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. As pre-seed investors, it’s never too early to have a conversation.
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View from Seed
MARCH 11, 2020
Seed stage companies will mostly face questions around the team and market. They tend to have some sort of framework in their mind with a hierarchy of conviction and hierarchy of pain they are willing to put founders through. Having conversations with your existing investors. Meeting with other members of your team.
View from Seed
OCTOBER 22, 2015
With that in the back of our minds, let’s dive into a few of those crucial first-step nuances as you look to gain traction and hold successful customer development conversations. 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.
View from Seed
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
I’m often surprised by how much effort seed stage teams put into building an early product and how little credit that receives from investors. Conversely, I’m also often surprised how little can be built that still gets investors excited about an opportunity. But the way the market values this early work can vary greatly.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Less established regulatory framework. .
View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. The three-question framework goes as such: Q: How much tech-related market cap will be created in the next 10-20 years? Both early- and late-stage startup valuations are currently elevated.
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