Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

I wrote about Jonathan’s visit (but never named him by name until now) because it was so memorable. I have a very public seed stage investment policy and awe.sm ” We had inbound M&A requests from some of the biggest names in tech. I first met Jonathan nearly 4 years ago. I saw it first hand.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Almost two years ago, in a private/closed meeting with K9 Ventures’ LPs only, I claimed that: What was being referred to in the press as the “Series A Crunch” was not because fewer Series A deals were being done, but because there were too many Seed deals being done. Seed stage was super tough.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

My partner Erik Rannala has had a similar experience, having worked as a VC at Harrison Metal before moving down to LA to co-found our seed stage venture firm. It’s probably not too controversial to say that the median level of sophistication of early stage entrepreneurs in Los Angeles is lower than that of Bay Area.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

This is for the early-stage companies — the entrepreneurs with great ideas and tireless work ethics who feel like they’ve emailed half of the country’s news outlets with nothing but the rare “thanks, but not interested” reply to show for it. You have a new, big name advisor (unless it’s a big , big name this rarely works).

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Hippoland

AUGUST 17, 2016

A reader named Turner Dean recently asked me whether it’s better to raise seed money on convertible notes or straight-up equity. In general, I’m a big fan of convertible notes or convertible securities for seed stage founders. So early stage investors tend to be more wary of convertible notes / convertible securities.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

In just over a decade, new firms like USV, Foundry, Spark, True Ventures, First Round, Greycroft (I might add Upfront) have made names for themselves from a non-traditional Silicon Valley stance. Another Area of Concern is in the Seed Investor Class. LPs See The Over-Valuations and Don’t Like It.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

A fund size of $25 – $100 million in normally an “early stage&# fund that is likely to do seed investments and/or smaller A round investments. A fund size of $100 million – $200 million is likely to either be an A round investor or “stage agnostic&#.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Haystack’s Semil Shah wrote up his POV on what this has all meant for the seed market and one point in particular caught my eye. Semil asserts, Seed-stage valuations have generally been left-unchanged, and I could argue even they’ve gone up since the beginning of 2022. Why are the Top 10% less impacted?

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 9, 2016

If you’re still in the early stages of your entrepreneur-education/journey, you may even think you need to protect your idea and not share it with anyone. revenue / traction / setting up infrastructure / etc) This can set you apart, because the vast majority of businesses I see at the seed stage are just ideas with no action.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 10, 2014

He is currently a second year student at Harvard Business School and will be focused on supporting the early-stage startup community in Boston and its schools. This is his first post to The View From Seed. NextView Ventures is excited to welcome Dimitri Dadiomov to the team as an MBA Associate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. Congratulations!

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andrewchen.co

AUGUST 20, 2012

How long will the “seed stage bubble” last? It’s never been easier to raise seed funding, and there’s warnings that we’re in the midst of a “seed stage bubble.” We @Mokriya (mokriya.com) have been helping these early stage startups innovate on Mobile platforms.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2016

Valuation is a nebulous topic amongst early stage startups, so I thought I’d really spell it out in detail. In short: Valuations for seed stage companies are fairly arbitrary and driven solely by supply and demand. Supply - amount of your round and Demand - investor demand. You’re not unique.)

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

I thought of a name and settled on Kilimanjaro, after the highest mountain in Africa. So I have embraced it fully, and though we are still in the early stages (seed stage), it’s the hardest thing I have ever done yet it’s the most fulfilling thing to me. legal fees in the early stages.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

In the next post, I’ll talk about how we think about pre-seeds at NextView. It’s become increasingly common for startups to raise several seed rounds, and this has led to a bifurcation in the seed stage between what are known as “pre-seed” (or “genesis”) and institutional seed rounds.

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View from Seed

JULY 17, 2019

Your company is likely both one step removed from many brand name B2B customers and a step removed from reporters and press that are excited to tell your story. Second, embrace that early stage fundraising is always a search for true believers. The post Raising a Series A Away From Home appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

To name a few: 1. 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. On the early-stage side, this includes groups like Assemble , founded by Michael Skok, John Pearce, and C.A.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. CB Insights , Preqin and Mattermark were also named as platforms that are regularly updated by GPs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. Congratulations!

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Haystack

APRIL 27, 2018

Looking back on this, in a way, it’s silly; yet, for seed-stage investors and the founders we back, getting companies from seed to Series A is a really important milestone, a milestone I’ve likened to getting into the graduate school of one’s choice. And who specifically did those Series A rounds?

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VC Adventure

MAY 5, 2022

Gone was the J-curve (named because often early fund returns are negative – mostly due to fees that drag down NAV prior to initial company write-ups). How many of those valuations will hold remains to be seen, but that kind of market clearly advantaged funds that deployed capital very quickly. Many will not. But not now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. Congratulations!

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

In addition, I think that a “peace treaty&# between early-stage investors and startup companies on standard terms (at least at a term sheet level) is a step in the right direction. I suspect that this seems reasonable if there is basically no due diligence due to the early stage of the companies. (By Series Seed.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 8, 2014

Now you might think it’s strange that a VC who runs a seed stage fund is telling new grads to join larger startups. And those who want to join an early stage company for the wrong reasons should realize it’s an uphill battle.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. This tech bubble is unfolding just like all the other bubbles before it.

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Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

NextView Ventures II is $40M, twice the size of our first fund, and we continue to be exclusively focused on seed-stage companies pursuing internet-enabled innovation. We’ve often explained to entrepreneurs that the second fund of a venture firm is very much like the series A for an early stage company.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 17, 2011

At that point, Rob Go, Lee Hower, and I possessed a shared vision and a newly minted name, but were still in the process of forming our approach. ” First and foremost, we are dedicated seed-stage investors focused on investments in internet-enabled startups.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

At the time, I think we didn’t even had a name for the fund. Early Progress: Performance is a difficult thing to measure as a seed stage fund given the time horizons and the fickleness of private company valuations. But we feel pretty good about the progress of the portfolio so far.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 26, 2010

He’s looking for the local Boulder angels to add their names to the list. There’s been an enormous about of blog and news chatter about angel investors, especially seed investors and the emergence of super angel / micro VCs, in the past few months. Tags: Angel Investing angel investments seed.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 14, 2017

Enjoy watching… It took the supercomputer Deep Thought (the name seems oddly fitting with the current buzz around Deep Learning!) The investing strategy for K9 stands in stark contrast to most “early-stage” (incubators, accelerators, pre-seed and seed stage) investing. And yes, I’m presently 42.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We take board seats and want to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with founders at the seed stage to try to make the biggest possible impact. – We are seed investors. Platform is a catalog of all the resources for founders that we are working on to make your lives easier, all in the name of initial traction.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

The gist of the story is that there has been a significant increase in seed stage investments activity over the last 2 years, and many companies are now coming back into to the market for their next round of financing. Investors who have been in the early-stage investing game for some time know that markets come and go.

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Rob Go

JULY 18, 2019

Your company is likely both one step removed from many brand name B2B customers and a step removed from reporters and press that are excited to tell your story. Second, embrace that early stage fundraising is always a search for true believers. The post Raising a Series A Away From Home appeared first on ROBGO.ORG.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2019

How did you come up with your business name? And Bionic Ventures is a vehicle for our partners to make early-stage investments into strategic portfolios when they don’t have their own corporate venture capital arm (or they want to invest in earlier stages than their CVC is set up to do). Bionic is that exoskeleton.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Some of the names you want to get in front of include GGV Capital , Sequoia China , IDG-Accel , GSR Ventures , and Qiming Venture Parters. Thus, there is going to be a bit of tightening within the early stage VC space in India over the next couple of years. There are a ton of seed-stage financing options available here.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

At seed-stage startups, especially companies with well-networked founders and investors, finding applicants who can do a job on paper is not overly difficult. In short, you need to dig for softer things than past employer brand names or letter-of-the-law skills. Built in Boston.). Built in Boston.). Think Ocean’s 11.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

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. they generate $400M in proceeds from that $100M).

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