View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

How to Sell Your Startup’s “Secret” Master Plan at the Seed Stage “Articulating and selling your long run vision is important, but trying to convince those that are deeply skeptical about it is simply a mutual waste of time.” Seed stage startups are now graded on a curve.”

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

A Startup Lab invests guidance, strategy, and takes equity in a carefully selected collection of early and seed stage startups. A talented group of specialists including engineers, designers, financial analysts, and lawyers are assigned to develop various facets of the company’s framework. What is a Startup Lab?

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View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

Today we’re thrilled to re-launch our most popular resource ever: board deck templates for seed-stage startups. Based on that reaction, we wanted to continue improving the product through both additional revs/design and continuing to evolve how we think about board meetings in the first place.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2017

For the last eight quarters, the number of angel and seed stage deals has declined, according to an Eisner Amper VC report. Excel wasn’t originally designed as an accounting platform, yet most rookie entrepreneurs turn to Excel or Google Sheets to keep track of their expenses.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

So, I would suggest that you bootstrap during the inception stage. ? Seed stage. Once you have established the feasibility of the business concept and created considerable traction for your business, it is now suitable for the seed stage.

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View from Seed

MAY 3, 2016

Listen in these places or wherever you get your podcasts: The post Make a Living, Not a Life: Inside WeWork’s Seed Stage with Jesse Middleton [Traction #23] appeared first on NextView Ventures. You can also subscribe to the NextView weekly newsletter about startup traction at bit.ly/nvsubscribe. nvsubscribe.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

Specifically, there are five challenges that emerging business typically put on the backburner between funding rounds: Seed to Series A: Customer Testing. Hypotheses should be tested extensively and disproven, which is where customer testing plays a central role for seed-stage startups.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

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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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

But for a true seed-stage company or for folks just thinking about companies to start or products to build, I think surveys are generally terrible. Surveys kind of lull you into a false sense of security. They are pretty easy to create, give you what seems like quantitative data, and are very familiar to most people.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

If people are funding the business, they should get a premium because at the end of the day, cash funding founders are acting no different than a seed stage investor. So, let’s say that one founder puts in $100,000 in seed capital, that could be worth 20 percent of a seed stage company’s valuation.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 27, 2021

Investors take chances when they invest in seed stage companies, but founders take a profoundly larger chance when selecting a lead investor or board member for their company. We look forward to the new adventures ahead, and hope that we are able to partner with many of you to help design the future that we want to live in!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Here is a summary of the key stages along the way: Idea and seed stage. In this first stage, a specific idea or passion is solidified into an executable plan. Market research and a business plan should be the focus at this stage. Startup and development stage.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Traction is a biweekly podcast where founders share the creative or unusual things they did during the seed stage to make early progress. Everyone knows startups should do scrappy things that “don’t scale” — this show explores what those things actually are.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

” to the more complex, “Can you design Google?” ” (We’re testing for whether you can design a really large system.). I learned they were good at high-level architecture design but had clearly been doing only that for a really long time.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

From those founders, we are aware that FC takes their mission “to be the most aligned fund to founders at the seed stage” very seriously. The team at FC has structurally designed their firm around alignment to founders. FC’s portfolio is made up exclusively of seed stage investments at seed valuations.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

In other words, for a company looking to compete across the entire marketplace in a specific industry, it must either develop a unique product offering (along the lines of brand, design, features) or more-efficiently produce the product to outcompete on price. And many of those offering them this product will be profitable doing it.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2012

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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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 5, 2013

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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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Specialists are great when you have a playbook, but very few start-ups have a playbook at the seed stage. This means you need to design a hiring process to find generalists. During the seed stage, it’s important to watch your burn so that you can give yourself enough time to reach the necessary milestones for the next round.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

Here is a summary of the key stages along the way: Idea and seed stage. In this first stage, a specific idea or passion is solidified into an executable plan. Market research and a business plan should be the focus at this stage. Startup and development stage.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 28, 2010

– a seed-stage fund. is a $6.25M fund that is designed to do concept and seed-stage investments in technology companies. Personally, I prefer just saying a seed stage fund, but as some folks have pointed out a super-angel sounds a lot better than a micro-VC ! ) K9 Ventures, L.P.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. You’ve seen this with companies like StackOverflow and Github in software engineering or Behance in visual design. It’s really been a pleasure for me to work with these guys.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I’m often surprised by how much effort seed stage teams put into building an early product and how little credit that receives from investors. And the ultimate uncertainties for a seed stage company are around talent and customer demand. But the way the market values this early work can vary greatly.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

To be fair Apple designs products in a holistic fashion… iStuff is remarkable not just for the physical product design but for the software user interface. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. At the end of the day, Apple isn’t really a software platform company.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

just a bare-bones minimum design that made sense to me. The first paper design But in the library that day I began to see something coming together. Photo of the first online design in the library I shared my first design with my developer friend Eyesodike, who was then working for VISA as a developer. So one day?—?I

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 28, 2019

To some degree the best way to describe a pre-seed round is that you know it when you see it, as the definition is squishy… but most pre-seed rounds are characterized as relatively small ($750K or less), early in company formation (pre-product), and typically followed by a larger “seed” round ($1M-$3M) within 12 months.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Subscribe to the NextView blog for future episodes and more resources for seed-stage startups: nextviewvc.com/blog. Today, we discuss how Chad built an Internet of Things-like product before that phrase existed, before the hype helps your marketing or fundraising, and before anyone was thinking about the connected home.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

This will be a boon to startups as this encompasses finding PII, securing data, and incorporating privacy by design. Designing software with a privacy-first mentality becomes a core theme in 2019. On the seed side, we are seeing more firms focus on smaller and more concentrated portfolios instead of a spray and pray mentality.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

Ideally we’re looking for the Magical Founding Team Mix For Web Startups : Developer; Designer / UI / UX person; Inbound Marketer; Sales Person; and in addition, ideally a data analytics person. This work is unpaid, as with any other startup at the pre-seed stage. Q: What are you looking for in the team? . Sounds great!

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. That’s why this template is designed to hit the high points of the pitch early, with the latter portions of the deck adding additional layers of evidence to get investors excited about your company.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

I certainly bear no ill will to the various firms that ultimately passed on our fundraise… as a seed stage VC myself now I can appreciate how hard it is evaluating companies at the earliest stages of development. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. link] Graham.

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Rob Go

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Usually, I’d hope that the head of product is actually the CEO or CTO, at least at the seed stage. You just can’t punt on product decisions at the earliest stages of the company – the founders need to be able to make the calls.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

For example, assume you are a seed-stage company that needs $500,000 but you go out looking for $1 million. Be careful not to go out asking for an amount that is larger than you need. One of the worst positions you can be in during a financing is to have investors interested, but be too far short of your goal. Most VCs love demos.

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

The need for this arrangement is partially for the synchronized culmination of the program towards a Demo Day (see next point) and the coordination of an operational machine designed to scale with more & more companies with each class. all designed to scale, it requires a logistical effort with a rigid timeline.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 20, 2015

DESIGNER CONTRIBUTORS (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE). To get all episodes of Traction as soon as they’re live, plus other resources and advice for seed-stage startups, subscribe to the View From Seed and follow @NextViewVC. Listen and subscribe on iTunes. Or listen via SoundCloud here: LINKS FROM THE EPISODE.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 20, 2015

DESIGNER CONTRIBUTORS (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE). To get all episodes of Traction as soon as they’re live, plus other resources and advice for seed-stage startups, subscribe to the View From Seed and follow @NextViewVC. Listen and subscribe on iTunes. Or listen via SoundCloud here: LINKS FROM THE EPISODE.

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