Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

I thought of a name and settled on Kilimanjaro, after the highest mountain in Africa. So I have embraced it fully, and though we are still in the early stages (seed stage), it’s the hardest thing I have ever done yet it’s the most fulfilling thing to me. “At a minimum, I should be able to use this myself,” I thought.

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View from Seed

JULY 17, 2019

Your company is likely both one step removed from many brand name B2B customers and a step removed from reporters and press that are excited to tell your story. I was reminded of this recently during a Twitter conversation I had recently with my friend Mike Volpe at Lola Travel , who executed this playbook masterfully several times.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

A fund size of $100 million – $200 million is likely to either be an A round investor or “stage agnostic&#. A round investor implies they are the “first institutional money in the deal.&# GRP Partners is stage agnostic. And know that raising new VC funds right now is incredibly hard.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 9, 2023

A recap of the conversation is listed below, as well as the full webinar recording. Monitoring Tools for Brand Mentions Google Alerts: A free tool that allows you to set up alerts for mentions of your name, your partner's name, your brand, and even competitors. It's excellent for tracking mentions and opportunities for links.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 8, 2015

Instead, it’s why it usually exists and why it gets lumped together with all those other basic navigation links — namely, because many startups launch blogs simply because they’re “supposed to.” So the question needs to be asked: Should seed-stage startups even blog in the first place?

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Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

At NextView Ventures, we’re hyper-focused on the seed stage, and since starting the firm, we’ve heard repeatedly and consistently from founders that a primary challenge they face during that stage is hiring. And their feedback isn’t about hiring in general, nor is about hiring senior executives.

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Hippoland

MARCH 13, 2016

When I was raising money for LaunchBit, sometimes my conversations with investors would go something like this: Investor: So how much are you raising? This kind of conversation happens a lot, though. For nearly all seed stage companies, the answer is no. me: We’re raising $750k. Investor: Really? Why so little?

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 11, 2014

Funds 123, 456, and 789 all seem to invest in seed stage social gaming startups. It’s never been easier to get a sense of what industries and stages are preferred by various investor segments. (b) I checked AngelList and Crunchbase. Do you think any of these three would be particularly good for me to approach?”

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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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Feld Thoughts

JULY 26, 2010

He’s looking for the local Boulder angels to add their names to the list. There’s been an enormous about of blog and news chatter about angel investors, especially seed investors and the emergence of super angel / micro VCs, in the past few months. So I thought I’d take some of this on over the next few weeks.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

With plenty of resources available for entrepreneurs about how to craft an effective pitch deck for raising seed-stage capital from VCs, often what’s left out are some of the tactical components of an initial meeting. A VC’s mind will wander, but it’s the entrepreneur’s job to refocus the conversation when it drifts.

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Rob Go

JULY 18, 2019

Your company is likely both one step removed from many brand name B2B customers and a step removed from reporters and press that are excited to tell your story. I was reminded of this recently during a Twitter conversation I had recently with my friend Mike Volpe at Lola Travel , who executed this playbook masterfully several times.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2019

Conversely, the integrated mindsets, mechanics, and methodologies of entrepreneurship and venture capital are designed and calibrated to discover new customer needs and devise innovative and new-to-the-world solutions. How did you come up with your business name? Who doesn’t want to be bionic? Fully you, but better, stronger, faster?

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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. All of those cost us as much if not more in legal time than the seed round. My quest is to simplify financing for seed stage investments.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US. Really insightful stuff. Read More ».

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. Among her early investments are Lyft, TaskRabbit and Modcloth, which, as our recent conversation shows, are only part of the reason Forbes called her “the most powerful woman in startups.” Let’s move to Floodgate now.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 8, 2017

Lost My Name, Appear Here and Thread are three of the better known examples, but overall there are 37 companies in that portfolio. natural language processing enables conversational interfaces). conversational interfaces to FAQ databases can improve customer service). We chose to be focused for three reasons.

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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. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. In addition, a complete transcript of our conversation follows the show resources below.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The popularity of convertible notes is increasing in the world of startup financing, especially in seed-stage companies. It is attractive for seed-stage companies that have not had time to show much traction in terms of their product or revenue. the total amount their note would be divided by in case of conversion.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Conversely, not everything in these verticals as an automatic fit either. How Can Seed-Stage Startups Become Ubiquitous or Habitual? But this is difficult even for mature companies to accomplish, and most early-stage companies are just trying to succeed in one dimension.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 15, 2015

Seed-stage startups lack a history of proof but offer plenty of promise. After all, there’s a long list of shortcomings that we’ve all experienced in these types of meetings: Talkative teammates monopolize the conversation. And it’s all in the name of pushing the company forward. Conclusion.

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Austin Startup

MAY 17, 2017

Giving someone a seat on your Board of Directors is 100x more consequential to the company than naming them an advisor. It also can just be logistically cumbersome for a seed stage company to keep track of who gets to attend meetings, who has to be notified of what, etc. Giving seed stage investors Board seats is not the norm.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Almost immediately, people started to dig what we were doing: Digital Trends named Localeur one of their favorite new apps of SXSW 2013 and other press followed.

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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. If you can name drop big customers, do that too — you want your profile to look impressive. Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share. Include numbers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I still think it’s best to take money from Dave when you’re also partnered with a more focused, hands-on seed-stage VC who brings different things to the table – like more ability to write larger checks in a downturn (for one) or solving a deep crisis that involves super hands-on involvement. So I thought, WTF?

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

No technology in the immediate future will replace walking down University Ave and running into a friend who tells you how to fix a bug thats been bothering you all weekend, or visiting a friends startup down the street and ending up in a conversation with one of their investors. Ask anyone whos done it.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. and Path Intelligence.

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View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2020

Starting today, we will begin accepting our first cohort of startups into the program: WHO : Pre-Seed & Seed stage startups located anywhere focused on the U.S. Instead, the sole goal with of the program is RESULTS, namely: Demonstrably advancing a startup towards true product-market fit.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

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. Ressi, Wilson Sonsini and a top-tier accounting firm (which preferred not to be named) have been working on developing this set of documents for some time now, says Ressi.

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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. Keep up the great work!

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. Eventbrite. Women Focus. Girls in Tech. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. and they will instantly look pretty. Zendesk â??

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Firms like Accel and Greylock and Menlo Ventures announced discovery or seed funds, while other firms like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz pioneered stealthy scout programs to give entrepreneurs their money, whether they knew it or not. A name like 500 Startups says it all. “That’s just keeping the plates spinning.”

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