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How Much Seed Capital Should You Actually Raise?

View from Seed

Yet the next round of capital is going to be based on what was accomplished, certainly not by how much time elapsed. My partner Rob has a great piece on understanding and optimizing towards value inflection points at a seed-stage startup here.) The post How Much Seed Capital Should You Actually Raise?

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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

Both Sides of the Table

Their business model was to help young companies accelerate their launch by helping assemble a team, do initial marketing, provide seed capital and help them raise financing. Supply and demand. I suppose he probably has both a day job and a passion for photography. Like oDesk.

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Nobody Announces Their Seed Round Anymore and That’s a Mistake

View from Seed

Seed stage companies just aren’t announcing their rounds anymore. Case in point, according to CrunchBase, NextView has made only two new seed investments this year in 2018 … the actual number is: eleven. With the atomization of seed and an increasing number of rounds prior to Series A (pre-seed, seed, super-seed, etc.),

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When Should Startup Founders Discuss Valuation with Seed VCs?

View from Seed

As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging. Market Value.

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Four Winning Strategies from Series Seed to Series A

Genuine VC

A couple years ago, my partner Lee penned a blog post about the milestone benchmarks for startups raising a Series A round of financing. Showing eye-opening demand, even if it’s just a proxy for the eventual business, helps alleviate those concerns. Generate Real Revenue.

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Three New Types of AngelList Syndicates I Hope to See

Hunter Walker

Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates. While these are all credible let’s be honest – it’s a little boring.

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I Stared at Startup Pitch Decks for 3 Straight Weeks – Here’s What I Learned

View from Seed

A few weeks ago, we launched two startup pitch deck templates for raising seed capital — part of NextView’s platform of exclusive startup resources. It’s a common knock that Boston entrepreneurs think about tech and tech alone and fail to articulate how they’ll generate demand. (I