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(First Annual?) List of Go-To Early-Stage Service Providers in the NextView Ventures Boston Portfolio

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Andrew Goloboy KLR PAYROLL & BENEFITS Most popular: ADP TriNet EMSI Bruce Crohn OTHER COMPLETELY UNPROMPTED MULTIPLE PROACTIVE SHOUT-OUTS Silicon Valley Bank for banking was most popular by far Bruce McDougall at WGA and EBS Capstone for insurance Scalar Analytics and SVB for 409a valuations HUGE DISCLAIMER.

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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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Unusual Rounds of Early-Stage Funding & What to Know

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raised, the first non-friends-and-family capital, comprised of one to three institutional seed investors or larger VC funds, on a priced equity structure (though sometimes convertible note), with a valuation mechanism in place priced in the single digit millions.