YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Building out your own network of other Angel or Seed investors increases the quality of your deal flow. Chances are if things are going good (or even not so good) those early stage startups you were so passionate about 12 or 18 months ago will be coming to the market again asking for more money.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

Earlier today, the folks from Afore Capital hosted their inaugural “Pre-Seed Summit” in San Francisco. About 150 people showed up, a healthy mix of founders, seed-stage investors and big fund VCs, and a bunch of LPs of various sizes. Some press showed up, too.

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Hippoland

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

I want to try to connect relevant entrepreneurs with new investors and help new investors get more qualified deal flow and exposure. All of these investors have done at least one seed investment in the last 6 months but most have done many investments. And, she’ll be looking at relevant deals for that fund as well.

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Genuine VC

JULY 26, 2010

One or two players decide (sometimes rather quickly) to make a seed-stage investment in a new startup, and as a round comes together they invite in a number of their Micro VC and angel cohorts. This reliance on outsider syndicates for deal flow does present risks for Micro VCs.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

This is what has led to the current frothiness at the seed stage, because these angels pay up for access to deals. So the institutional investors will have enough deal flow in the near future to keep them busy (in fact, we’ve already been seeing some of this in Q2 of 2011). Convertible Note or Preferred Stock.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Separately, in the morning I called a seed-stage investor in NY and talked to him about investing in one of my companies. Marketing = deal flow = share of mind = start of future relationships. He turned me down for a job in 2005. Yesterday I offered him a term sheet. Fund raising. Yes, we have to do it to.

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Business Plan Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

As this funding vehicle develops, experts anticipate that many of the best crowdfunding rounds of investment will be “led” by angel groups or seed stage funds. First and foremost, the screening and due diligence needed to decide which startups warrant investment is best suited for the professionals.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 1, 2017

Newer VCs, who don’t yet have a lot of deal flow, then eventually fill this void and the cycle repeats itself. But, because these investors don’t yet have a brand, entrepreneurs often don’t know they exist, and funding at this “pre-seed” level is very difficult to come-by.

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Rob Go

MARCH 10, 2012

I think that over time, this is the best way to handle market swings as a seed stage investor who is a) playing in a highly unpredictable part of the market and b) has a very long time horizon. We have a pretty strong sense of what realistic valuation ranges are and aren’t for seed stage companies.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

I've not studied them yet, but at first glance I can see some really slick technologies being transferred into a Newco with these basic terms, and funding a lot more deal flow. My quest is to simplify financing for seed stage investments. This is great.simplified funding/founders docs out of the box. This is great!

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Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2012

In some cases, a fund may have one partner with disproportionate deal flow because of their high visibility or “celebrity status” But that’s not the case in our fund. I think this is important for a couple reasons.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

645 Ventures , a New York City based VC firm, is one of the pioneers of a data-driven investment model to the seed stage. What tools to VCs use to manage their deal flow and internal processes? VCs more than anyone else are fully aware of the risk of putting critical infrastructure onto the back of an early-stage startup.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

The bottom line is that being a seed stage founder is mostly a very thankless job. Just as you look at deal flow as a funnel, a good CEO disqualifies and moves on. If you’re an associate then most of your work is on deal flow and analysis. A good CEO is likely a sales person by nature.

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View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

Many of us in the seed stage ecosystem have noticed a shift in the way seed rounds are coming together. Historically, seed rounds were syndicated among several different firms. Today, we are seeing less syndication of seed rounds and sharper elbows among many of the funds in the market.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

They have raised a fund to provide seed funding of $50-$250K to 100-200 start-ups. Rather than going through their networks or targeting specific sectors for deal flow, they are going to rely on an algorithm to select companies. Seed stage investing is all about the team, so there may be something to this idea.

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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.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I was surprised to find that it has been more than two years since my post summarizing the state of the seed stage market, and trying to bring a balanced view on the rise of Super Angels and Micro-VC’s. The venture capital market continues to be in transition, and a lot of changes have occurred in the early stages of the market.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Despite the seemingly not so humble tagline (“VC Done Right”), I found him to be a ‘grow the pie’ guy who excitedly looks for opportunities to help entrepreneurs and collaborate at the seed stage. Our inbound deal flow looks like this in order of priority: 1) Companies we read/hear about and hunt down.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

For example, Point Nine Capital focuses on B2B SaaS and marketplaces at the seed stage, across many industries. They exist as heuristics, but at the end of the day, deal flow trumps everything. In the battle for deal flow, the thesis is at the core of a fund’s value proposition. We think not. .

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This dynamic births serial entrepreneurs and motivates angels and venture capitalists to pull their friends into investment deals. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. What follows is the best advice and tips from these interviews.

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