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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, I don’t need to name companies for you to come up with your own examples. And we live in public so many people are able just to reach out. Web Summit.

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How NextView Thinks About Pre-Seed Rounds as VC Investors

View from Seed

On Wednesday, my partner David wrote about how we’ve been using our office space (and network and other resources) to support pre-seed companies. This is the best time to fundraise because that’s when you are able to command a meaningfully higher valuation for your next round to minimize your own dilution.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. Joe Lonsdale.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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How We Think About Pre-Seeds at NextView

Rob Go

On Wednesday, my partner David wrote about how we’ve been using our office space (and network and other resources) to support pre-seed companies. This is the best time to fundraise because that’s when you are able to command a meaningfully higher valuation for your next round to minimize your own dilution. You can find that here.