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View from Seed
DECEMBER 8, 2015
It’s often a good idea for founders to find a way to build something and get some early market validation before raising outside capital. But doing that is sometimes not practical given your personal runway or because the product you want to build requires additional capital very early on. Is there founder/market fit?
View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Pre-launch customer development data is another way, sometimes in the form of user surveys for consumer companies or interviews with potential beta customers for B2B businesses. One of our portfolio investments, a B2B SaaS company, was a pre-product startup at the time of the seed round. B) Post-Product Companies.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
That’s a reason why some are quick to portend “a new bubble” but this post sets out to show that would be a misunderstanding of the market and in fact by historic levels this may be amongst the best times to invest in seed and early-stage funds. More on that later. trillion in value.
View from Seed
MARCH 29, 2018
We wanted to learn more about the nuanced industry market forces before applying the same hands-on investing model we do with tech startups in other verticals. We don’t seed companies that are developing drugs or medical devices that will require FDA approval. I should make clear that we are not life science investors.
View from Seed
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
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. in our portfolio. The mean Series A size was $5.2M.
Hunter Walker
JANUARY 11, 2021
Venture capital is a great instrument for high growth companies, or those who are very early in their development but intend to pursue a high growth strategy. This post is an open question, not a conclusion, because there are plenty of startups which are trying to grow this market using technology and new approaches.
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. This post is about the rise of Chinese venture capital and how it helped build the countries entrepreneurial ecosystem. This helped the startups qualify for funding from banks and venture capital firms.
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