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Updating Your Seed Investors – Board Deck & Update Email Templates

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Today I’m excited to announce the relaunch of our most popular resource ever: board meeting deck templates for seed-stage startups, now in conjunction with an investor update email template. Download Investor Update Email Template. Investor Update Email Template and How & When to Use It.

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How to Find and Close Angel Investors from a Standing Start

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Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved.

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Exploring the NextView Platform? Start Here

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Instead, if you’re a seed-stage startup taking that first step in anything (and at the seed stage, you’re going from zero to one in everything), it’d be great to have a place to go for support, inspiration, and practical resources to make the process easier and clearer. Thanks in advance for your support and feedback!

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. My layman’s reading is that Yahoo!’s ’s claims are pretty lame. Regarding social networking, Yahoo! Read More ». What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

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How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. Also the proportion of email subscribers who’ve bought a Groupon has held up reasonably well. Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. Founding Date: 2009.

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Too Many Seed Investment Choices

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Yesterday I sent emails out passing on participating in two seed rounds for companies I really like. They had lots of investors trying to invest and each company was competitive with two other seed stage companies we’ve seen in the past 30 days. Finally, we believe strongly in active engagement as a seed investor.

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Accidental VC: When Should Startups Announce Seed Funding?

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This particular company, as a B2B SaaS business, would definitely benefit from driving traffic to convert into subscribers or leads on their email list. So, when should they — or any seed-stage startup — think about drumming up some PR and making noise around funding? They aren’t great demand-gen channels.

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