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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. Despite that fact, however, in these cases the company can definitely benefit from a consistent cadence of structured email updates.

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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

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What has happened is that over the last 10 years, the vast majority of successful startups have raised some sort of a seed round prior to a series A. This expanded the definition of seed to include $5M+ rounds, and you often hear of seed firms now passing on deals because they are “too early”.

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The Market Is Hot for Code Climate, NextView’s Newest Investment

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Chad is the CEO of thoughtbot, a consulting firm that makes web + mobile apps for early-stage startups. I can definitely see it being pretty big.” “I Today Code Climate is announcing that they’ve raised a $2M round of financing , led by us at NextView Ventures. I’m quite bullish.” “I It’s indispensable.”

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7 Seed-Stage Funding Sources To Finance Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Crowdfunding is rapidly becoming the major source of funding for seed-stage startups. million and is normally syndicated from one to three institutional seed investors or larger VC funds.

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Startup Data: 4 Strategies Changing the Speed & Size of Your Series A

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Once a startup has raised seed capital, plenty of theories and advice exist on how to successfully raise a Series A. Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. More on these below.). There was no meaningful difference.

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9 Keys To Finding The Perfect Angel Investor For You

Startup Professionals Musings

As a long-time advisor to entrepreneurs, and a former angel myself, I still find startups confused about the definition of an angel investor, and how and when to attract one. You need to know why and how they invest, and then focus on the ones who are the best match for your startup. Thus they don’t live or fly above the clouds.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

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I have seen this criticism at various places where this recap is syndicated on a weekly basis, as well as in certain random forums on the internet. As you may know, 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing, get rejected. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do.