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A Choir of Angel Investors Sing Different Parts

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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.

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On Personal Networking: Ask For and Be Specific

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For VCs (including myself), instead of saying “I’m looking for innovative early-stage startup investment opportunities,” rather these days I am saying “I’m proactively seeking seed-stage investments in both ad tech and those which leverage the trend towards ubiquitous computing through device proliferation.”.

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Early Seed Financing Terms Endure… Whether We Like It or Not

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When you compromise on terms in the early stages, you will have to pay the price in the later stages. As a seed stage investor here at NextView seeing our companies progress down fundraising paths, I think it’s extremely important to highlight that terms in early rounds do set precedent for terms going forward.

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Officially Launching NextView Ventures

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” First and foremost, we are dedicated seed-stage investors focused on investments in internet-enabled startups. And given dynamics in the digital media space, we think that (especially along the Boston to New York corridor) there is a market need for a funding source like ours for early stage entrepreneurs.

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A Choir of Angel Investors Sing Different Parts

Genuine VC

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.

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Unusual Rounds of Early-Stage Funding & What to Know

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The standard seed round will buy the company 12 to 18 months of runway as it looks to prove out early-stage milestones to raise a Series A before running out of cash. However, also occurring are a set of “seed” rounds which don’t look like the above, despite involving most of the same players.