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Doing Due Diligence on Potential Investors

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One of the often neglected parts of fundraising is the process of doing due diligence on potential investors. Partnering with an investor and/or board member is very long term commitment, and I’m always surprised by how little diligence founders do prior to signing up for what could be a 10+ year collaboration. When to do what?

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Announcing NextView’s Entrepreneur Advisors: Part 1

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As the holiday season is behind us and 2015 is firmly underway, we wanted to take a moment to both announce and celebrate the collection of top entrepreneurs who have agreed to return as our Entrepreneur Advisors. The Purpose of Entrepreneur Advisors. Thus, we can all work in concert within the broader startup ecosystem.

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VC’s Doing the Work to Build Investment Conviction

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Diligence validates your gut to invest or (hopefully quickly) kills an opportunity that sounded reasonable but you just didn’t like. I’ve come to believe a much less cynical view of investment due diligence, that, especially at the seed stage, it’s is best when followed the 80–20 rule.

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7 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in VC Pitches & How to Fix Them

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With plenty of resources available for entrepreneurs about how to craft an effective pitch deck for raising seed-stage capital from VCs, often what’s left out are some of the tactical components of an initial meeting. Entrepreneurs should know their audience, and most importantly, how savvy it is about the company’s particular market segment.

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The Investment Memo

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Due diligence as a process deserves its own version of a book like Venture Deals and there are a bunch of great posts on the process available today. From going with your gut to diligence-ing an idea to death , many tactics with varying degrees of literal rigor exist to bring an investor to a yes or a no.

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Reading the Tea Leaves: Where Am I in My Seed Fundraise, Really?

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Good VCs try to pass as quickly as possible once they decide on that outcome, in order to be respectful of an entrepreneur’s time. A commitment typically only comes after a full partnership pitch and meaningful business diligence completed. At NextView, we also do our best to provide feedback on why we’re passing, where possible.