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NextView’s Greatest Hits

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7 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in VC Pitches and How to Fix Them “Different partners in a VC firm are different. Entrepreneurs should know their audience, and most importantly, how savvy it is about the company’s particular market segment.” Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise?

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4 Things Every Startup Needs As Soon as Possible 

The Startup Magazine

Many failed entrepreneurs believed that as long as they had a large amount of seed capital, they could begin their startup and before long make it big. Remember this and you’ll have a leg up on the rest before you even open your doors. A Target Audience and a Saleable Product.

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Nobody Announces Their Seed Round Anymore and That’s a Mistake

View from Seed

With the atomization of seed and an increasing number of rounds prior to Series A (pre-seed, seed, super-seed, etc.), Announcing the round will (hopefully) generate a round of attention and land you in CrunchBase, CBInsights, and rest of the industry catalog. there often isn’t one seminal round to announce.

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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. This will almost always be the best approach to an investor.

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Repeat Founders and the Risk of a False Positive

View from Seed

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. This may seem great at first, but may lead you to start building the rest of the business on a pretty weak foundation.

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Four Winning Strategies from Series Seed to Series A

Genuine VC

We live in a demand-constrained world and if, with your Seed capital, you can show overwhelming top-level pull (whether consumer or businesses adoption), Series A investors can convince themselves that the rest will fall into place over time.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. How important is education when I know I want to be an entrepreneur? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. If you’re a young entrepreneur, than congrats! Ask [link] – you don’t need to be in the valley.