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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. However, our overall goal is to invest in the full spectrum of seed. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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Should Seed-Stage VCs Pay Up for Great Teams or Great Traction?

View from Seed

“As a seed-stage investor, should you pay up for team or traction?” Barriers to entry are so low in software that new entrants can always steal your thunder and sometimes draft off your early learnings. So, if you are going to pay up as a seed-stage investor, pay up for team. The Case for Traction.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

No matter what economic cycle we go through, Fortune 500 companies need to invest in software.”. While developers can now spin up applications faster than ever before, one of the downsides is the complexity of managing these distributed applications and technologies. Fortune December 2019 Investor Roundtable. Enterprise Tech in 2019.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Kayak Software Corporation. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. Author howerl.

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Our Investing Manifesto at NextView

Rob Go

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. However, our overall goal is to invest in the full spectrum of seed. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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The Essential Nature of In-Person Work For Early-Stage Startups

Hunter Walker

tldr: instead of choosing between in-person or remote, your seed stage company (or team) should be more hybrid, tied to the type/phase of project going on. While we all agree that ‘apart’ is best right now for reasons of safety, the discussion around what a post-COVID world seems to be largely bifurcated into Office vs WFH/Distributed.

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Are We Entering 2013 in Crunch-Mode?

Genuine VC

According to all of the blogosphere chatter over the past month, seed-funded internet startups are entering this year gearing up for the now-near-infamous Series A Crunch. to become not just ramen-profitable, but sustainably profitable. In the end, just as always: startups are risky and a majority of them do not survive.