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Accidental VC: How Much Does Design Matter for Seed-Stage Startups?

View from Seed

.” So it’s no wonder that one aspect of an early-stage startup’s existence can be perpetually up for debate: their graphic design. Now, I recognize that every founder wants their pitch deck and website design to be quality. Just how good should a young company’s various assets look? Does it matter?

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What’s new with NextView? The story behind our NextView.vc website refresh

View from Seed

We are high-conviction, hands-on seed stage investors. We’ve come a long way these last ten years, and we wanted our new website design to honor that time; retracing our steps, while also walking forward in the direction of digital trends on the horizon. What story are you looking to tell with the new design? .

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Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Bootstrapping inculcates the entrepreneurial discipline and financial responsibility to run a lean business. ? So, I would suggest that you bootstrap during the inception stage. ? Seed stage. At the seed stage, the investors would be expecting at a return of 15 to 20 times their investment over 5 to 7 years.

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What’s new with NextView? The story behind our NextView.vc website refresh

View from Seed

We are high-conviction, hands-on seed stage investors. We’ve come a long way these last ten years, and we wanted our new website design to honor that time; retracing our steps, while also walking forward in the direction of digital trends on the horizon. What story are you looking to tell with the new design? .

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We’re looking for entrepreneurs to join us at Forward Partners

The Equity Kicker

About half our investments are in companies at true startup stage – i.e. founder + idea, nothing built – and half are in slightly more mature companies, up to late seed stage when there are maybe 5-10 people in the company. Driftrock - a platform for marketing apps for SMEs (including ecommerce companies).

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Is This Ex-Googler’s Pre-Product Approach the Fast Track to Product-Market Fit?

View from Seed

He’s dubbed the approach “ pretotyping ,” and it shares many of the same principles as both its similar-sounding (if later-stage) cousin, prototyping, as well as the more well-known lean startup movement. NextView Ventures: For those who might be unfamiliar, what is this concept of pretotyping?

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Minimum Viable Team

This is going to be BIG.

Let’s start out with the basic functions of a tech company: 1) Engineering 2) Marketing 3) Sales 4) Business development 5) PR 6) Design 7) Product Management 8) HR 9) Operations 10) Finance Ok, that's just overwhelming. Many startups outsource visual design work, and instead of hiring that designer, hire a second developer.

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