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JANUARY 13, 2021

It turns out capital is not a weapon, especially in the early stages of building a business, and even experienced founders who can raise huge sums often realize this and right-size their asks. But what has also happened over the last 10 years is the massive expansion of the series A and lifecycle fund market.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have an edge in the highly competitive world of early stage investing that comes from some combination of your experience, industry knowledge, and personal network. You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. You act as an “ invited guest.”. consumer, etc.).

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JULY 5, 2022

RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? RH: Please introduce yourself. I’m Connor Cash, the founder of Caesar and I grew up outside of Boston but currently live in DC! And your least? CC: Being a founder is a rollercoaster ride. . My favorite part is how many different hats I wear.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Hopefully, by bringing on strong partners early, you will get great advice and support to minimize your overall dilution down the road. They find weak pre-seed investors or angels who are almost predatory in their early stage pricing and add no value. Experienced founders: Consumer.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. Internally to our portfolio, platform means developing “products” to help our portfolio companies get from zero to one on their most critical seed stage priorities.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. Internally to our portfolio, platform means developing “products” to help our portfolio companies get from zero to one on their most critical seed stage priorities.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

. $100M is a meaningful increase from our $50M third fund, though it’s still quite small in the grand scheme of venture, especially amid the recent wave of late stage financings and SPACs. We believe that this fund is the perfect size for us to be the best possible partners to early-stage entrepreneurs today.

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JULY 13, 2022

RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? CN: I generally enjoy all parts of being an early-stage founder, you’re all kinds of free and perhaps really naive, which is just a really great mindset for innovation. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder?

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APRIL 27, 2020

Trying to be transparent has always been a core value of NextView, and we hope that this will help founders and our co-investors better understand how we intend to operate in the early stage ecosystem in the next several years. . Number of Investments.

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MAY 11, 2016

This mentality is good for keeping the raw, early-stage muscles in shape, and sometimes these side projects actually lead to something much more substantial. They assemble what looks like a dream team — but one that ends up moving surprisingly slowly in the early stages.

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MARCH 11, 2020

If you are an early stage company, this is particularly sensitive, so good investors tend to do this late in a process. Calling on-list references, or asking for intros to very senior people that you have a relationship with. Talking to your customers.

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MARCH 4, 2020

In a few months, we are likely to see the annual Forbes Midas list of top performing early stage VC investors. There is always some debate about the methodology and accuracy of the list, but I think it’s a pretty interesting data set that reflects some of the things that have been happening in tech and VC over time.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

For early stage VC ‘s, Syndication is the process of sharing investments with other potential co-investors. These forces result in most early stage rounds being composed of investors that are already hanging around the hoop. The post The End of Syndication appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

She and her co-founder, Tim Officer, launched the company in 2020, and even at this very early stage, Dispense has already helped a number of customers process more than $200M in GMV through their platform. We were excited to get to know Dispense’s co-founder & CEO Kyla Moore earlier this year.

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JULY 21, 2022

RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? EP: Getting to live in the mindset that everything is “figure-outable” has by far been my favorite part of being an early-stage founder. IH: Day-to-day life in this early stage can be incredibly stressful- filled with fires to put out and uncharted waters.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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JULY 19, 2022

RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? SK: In the early stages of a company’s life, there are two things that really matter and that you have to get right. And your least? Looking Ahead . RH: What are you hoping to learn/get out of your time in the NextView Everyday Economy Accelerator? .

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

She and her co-founder, Tim Officer, launched the company in 2020, and even at this very early stage, Dispense has already helped a number of customers process more than $200M in GMV through their platform. We were excited to get to know Dispense’s co-founder & CEO Kyla Moore earlier this year.

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JULY 22, 2020

Early stage companies often debate what they ought to be prioritizing in the early days. Early stage investors ask themselves a similar question. We were talking about this today and realized that I’ve never written a blog post on the topic, although I’ve said it countless times over the years. So here we go.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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MAY 24, 2019

Probably the weakest strategy as an early stage company is to try to be a “swiss army knife”. I find that the most successful early stage products tend to win by doing a narrow set of things really really well. More important than what you say is what you actually do, and how your prioritization manifests itself.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

She and her co-founder, Tim Officer, launched the company in 2020, and even at this very early stage, Dispense has already helped a number of customers process more than $200M in GMV through their platform. We were excited to get to know Dispense’s co-founder & CEO Kyla Moore earlier this year.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

Almost seven years ago, I wrote a post about the difference between a “no” answer and a “no yet” when pitching early-stage VCs. Parsing Seed & Early-Stage VCs. Increasingly some seed VCs are specializing in a particular segment of the “spectrum” of seed stage. [ No, this is not some waxing nostalgic post.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

This sounds tangential but is perhaps THE deciding factor for many early-stage employees or execs when joining you — perhaps alongside their insight into your talents as entrepreneurs.). Early Growth (Founding Team to ~20). What did we like/not like about past companies’ approach to hiring and team development?

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JANUARY 11, 2021

billion across 2,288 deals in Q3, with deal count exceeding Q2’s at nearly every stage. . Early stage deal activity showed real resilience coming off of a slow Q2, with deal count at angel and seed stage in 2020 now about at par with the same period in 2019. Familiar loops offered invaluable, pre-seeded confidence.

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

We have a bias towards very early stage investing for a bunch of reasons, but it’s not easy. 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. I think this stage, more than others, is very dependent on the individual investor.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

My excitement as an early stage venture investor about what’s happening – so quickly – is that these tools put more power into the hands of creators rather than take away from them. Certainly, it’s important to acknowledge that there are real risks with the power of these tools in terms of their ethical use.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

For those of you who don’t know Leah, her career has spanned across journalism, operating at early-stage startups, venture investing, and hedge fund management. Leah joins us from Chief, the private network for executive women, where she joined as an early employee and led editorial and brand voice.

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JUNE 30, 2022

RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? Before starting Balletic Foods, Anita was the Director of Outreach at a California-based startup building software for scientists and lab optimization. Anita grew up on a farm in the south of Germany and is now living in Northern California, where Balletic is located.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Early-stage valuations are up 70%, and late-stage valuations are up 103% (source Pitchbook ). Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less.

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MARCH 29, 2016

A founder will likely be leading these outreach efforts during the early stages of a company, and should always be tracking the percentage of people responding to the notes. Some of the best candidate leads come from startups proactively reaching out to people through LinkedIn or email.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Early-stage valuations are up 70%, and late-stage valuations are up 103% (source Pitchbook ). Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less.

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APRIL 30, 2015

Especially in the early stages, so much about the company may change in how they think about product or go-to-market — and change multiple times — before raising an institutional round. So it makes it a lot more challenging when you have debt on the books that isn’t as longer term as equity.

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APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. It can help you be a strong athlete, which makes you an attractive early-stage player.

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MARCH 3, 2015

EM: When you’re at an early stage, you don’t know what that buyer path looks like yet, so you should be trying all different strategies to get data and figure out the playbook. Is there a certain set of traits or even an ideal profile of a great early-stage startup marketer? . Where do you land on that spectrum?

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MARCH 16, 2016

This is true when it comes to early-stage funding, but also as it relates to support platforms being built by local firms to help Boston-based startups. We also saw the emergence of new early-stage and growth-stage VC firms created by veterans of other Series A and B firms looking to disrupt the traditional venture model.

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