David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. Short track record.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). You can sometimes attract capital from farther away but typically harder to do at early stage.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Hunter Walker

MAY 19, 2014

It was easier to just discuss privately with other investors, but Jason Calacanis tweeted this morning about VCs trying to take entire seed rounds , and so, here it goes. This theory is the most structural one suggested here and I tend to believe is influencing some early stage investment behaviors. (d)

Seed Stage 99

Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication Founder 99

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

We at NextView Ventures often invest in a startup’s first round alongside other funds; either seed stage focused ones like ourselves or larger traditional firms. Addressing both of those issues can stem from the motivations as to why someone would want to put their hard-earned cash into a risky early-stage startup in the first place.

Angel Investor 257

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 257

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

A local network of angels is critical to achieving a diversified portfolio. Working within a network of angel investors also expands the pool of expert resources and helps divide the work of screening companies and investment due diligence. Average annual pre-money valuations have been just over $2 million during this period.

Valuation 146

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

It’s likely that the investors don’t know you, so try and find warm intros from people in your network. If you are in the very early stages with your company and there are no major reasons (e.g. Some startups are more interested in mentorship and network than they are in money. Network and talk to people.

Silicon Valley 104

Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 20, 2017

Our global network now consists of over 5,000 mentors, including many successful Techstars alumni. The AngelList funds will give mentors and alumni early investment access while providing companies with additional early stage capital. At Foundry Group, we learned a lot by running our own FG Angels syndicate.

Syndicate 70

Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Vertical 70

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

We at NextView Ventures often invest in a startup’s first round alongside other funds; either seed stage focused ones like ourselves or larger traditional firms. Addressing both of those issues can stem from the motivations as to why someone would want to put their hard-earned cash into a risky early-stage startup in the first place.

Angel Investor 128

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 128

View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

So you should be looking for this level signal and, if you’re getting it, know that it’s in the early stages but progressing in the right way. This is particularly true at the seed stage where NextView invests. Back-channel through mutual connections and talk to quality references in the firm’s network.

Term Sheet 120

Term Sheet Due Diligence Seed Stage Seed Capital 120

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

Startup 79

Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal. I spoke last week at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference. The platforms often get free carry.

IPO 150

IPO Venture Capital LP SEC 150

VC Adventure

MARCH 17, 2016

Clearly access to capital at this stage has been, and continues to be, critical to the success of the Colorado (and national) startup ecosystem. While there’s a lot of seed stage investing going on in Colorado and other markets, there are some clear challenges to how many angel investors are approaching the market.

Syndicate 48

Syndicate Syndication Angel Investor Colorado 48

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

What are the implications for other late-stage private companies thinking of making the transition to public markets in the near to midterm future? What’s the impact for early-stage startups? Active Network – 2.4x I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Rob Go

OCTOBER 12, 2016

In almost all of these cases, these smaller investors were included into a syndicate because they “added value” either through domain or functional expertise or through their network. I find that almost all seed stage companies start out sending updates to investors. Second, send updates.

Angel Investor 28

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage 28