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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

View from Seed

This led to a number of repercussions that most VC’s have lamented during this time, including higher prices, larger rounds, shoddy due diligence, and many companies raising large sums of venture capital that probably aren’t suited to VC funding. Firms will start to torture founders with endless diligence requests.

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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

When expanding their businesses, most tech startups and the subindustries that comprise the tech industry typically follow this model. One needs to evaluate their go-to-market strategy, distribution channels, scalability, execution team, and so on at this time. They like to spread their bets among several different companies.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

What tech stack should a microinfluencer use? Many investors including me spend most of our day doing the same things people have always done in our job: in my case, due diligence, deal execution, etc. Tech stack. I record here the books I’ve read, not as diligently as I should. Goodreads. I’m not active there.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . We see innovation becoming more broadly distributed over time, and outlier companies being built in more and more places.

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3 Tips To Help Small Businesses Get More Customers In A Post-Google Search World

YoungUpstarts

By Trevor Sumner, Chief Technology Officer of LocalVox. Services such as Moz Local, Localeze, Infogroup, Factual and more distribute lists of small business info to major directories and can help correct the issues in a matter of weeks or months. 88% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations 2.

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How to Create a Marketing Playbook for Consistent Campaigns

ConversionXL

Zendesk offers tech industry people a concise description of how Zendesk can benefit their company. Users should easily understand which assets are promoted on which channels and the distribution schedule. Your primary audience is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) who has the spending power to buy your product.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Our categorization is not a technical one. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Technology-centric businesses. Technology-centric businesses.