ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

I have often been asked about Startup Funding by entrepreneurs. Here is Startup Funding, a Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs. So, I would suggest that you bootstrap during the inception stage. ? Seed stage. Often entrepreneurs pitch from the viewpoint of market shares. Pre-Requisites of Funding.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 27, 2021

From the beginnings of NextView, we have had a commitment to being high-conviction, hands-on, seed stage focused investors. Activities will include but not limit to: Planning and producing small- and large-scale events with entrepreneurs and high-level technology executives. About NextView. A Final Note.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

A Startup Lab invests guidance, strategy, and takes equity in a carefully selected collection of early and seed stage startups. The seed stage startups also save time and money while increasing efficiency because Startup Labs have the knowledge and tools for real success. What is a Startup Lab? Why choose a Startup Lab?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. A seed-stage “super angel.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

According to most definitions, an entrepreneur is one who envisions a new and different business, meaning one that is not a copy of an existing business model. Many entrepreneurs have a passion and an idea, or even invent a new product, but are never able to execute to the point of creating a startup. Startup and development stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

After many years of working with angel investors seriously trying to find new ventures worthy of their hard-earned money, I find their frustration often exceeds that of entrepreneurs sincerely looking for financial help. They are not interested in research and development, or funding at the idea stage. Lack of intellectual property.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

With plenty of resources available for entrepreneurs about how to craft an effective pitch deck for raising seed-stage capital from VCs, often what’s left out are some of the tactical components of an initial meeting. It can also help the entrepreneur better decide when and how to address mid-stream questions.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Due Diligence Seed Stage 308

Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I’ve recently taken a look at seed stage funding by venture capitalists (VCs) and angel investors over the past five years. For VCs, I chose to look at all seed stage VC deals (from MoneyTree©) as well as those in five of the most active regions in the country. All Seed-VC. million in seed stage deals in 2010.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

A critical stage for most first-time entrepreneurs is getting their idea developed into at least a prototype to validate their technology. Acquiring seed-stage funding is admittedly tough, but a source that I find often overlooked is government grant funding, accessible in the U.S.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

How to Sell Your Startup’s “Secret” Master Plan at the Seed Stage “Articulating and selling your long run vision is important, but trying to convince those that are deeply skeptical about it is simply a mutual waste of time.” Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise? ” (Rob Go).

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

As a seed stage VC, I have a unique privilege of confidentially spending time with a number of entrepreneurs throughout their company formation and initial product development process. competing entrepreneurs, VCs, and tech journalists others sometimes privately/publicly accuse and dismiss other groups of copycat tactics.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Let’s face it, the rules for getting a startup funded at the seed stage aren’t very clear. Note: When I say “seed stage startup,” I’m specifically referring to software/app startups that are eitherpre-product or early product. TVR: The traditional way of raising seed funding. The New Way , called Traction.

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View from Seed

MAY 19, 2015

To me, the most exciting (and most perilous) times in a company’s lifecycle are the early first stages when it is just getting off the ground. At the seed stage, the founder’s or co-founders’ role in the company is essential and therefore carries a great deal of risk for missteps. Inauthenticity. And then some.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

*. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. Some quick highlights include: The Role of a Seed Stage VC.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 23, 2013

There aren’t a tonne of funds focused on seed-stage funding worldwide, but we can add a new one to the list today. SparkLabs , the company behind the accelerator program in Korea , is expanding its scope with its first seed-stage fund that will “help great startups go global.”. Asia Entrepreneur Insider News sparklabs'

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Shameless plug, at Remagine Ventures we back entrepreneurs in Israel and Europe at the pre-seed stage. The next version is likely to try to correct a lot of the issues that are being reported, and perhaps this release is the kickoff for a new wave of spatial computing to come.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 12, 2015

I wondered if it could potentially be a “platform” for something else (the most meaningless and overused phrase that entrepreneurs and investors try to use to make companies seem more important than they are). It’s maddening feedback for entrepreneurs, because no one likes to think they are not working on a “big enough” opportunity.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 12, 2015

I wondered if it could potentially be a “platform” for something else (the most meaningless and overused phrase that entrepreneurs and investors try to use to make companies seem more important than they are). It’s maddening feedback for entrepreneurs, because no one likes to think they are not working on a “big enough” opportunity.

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View from Seed

APRIL 16, 2015

What an investor (and I think an entrepreneur) really wants to know is: Is this something people want? The post Value Inflection Points for Seed-Stage Startups appeared first on The View From Seed.' These are not bad things to shoot for. How hard is this going to be to sell (or get traction)? Can this team do it?

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

One of the hardest things for me as a VC remains telling entrepreneurs I like and respect that we’re passing on their investment round. I often tell these entrepreneurs that I genuinely hope they prove us wrong, and are wildly successful with their startup. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

Obsidian is another one of these where we knew the entrepreneurs deeply, and we had a high level of conviction in what they were going to do. At the seed stage, we have backed very non-obvious, non-pedigreed entrepreneurs, in spaces that weren’t obvious, who ended up being amazing. There should be one to three, at most.

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View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2015

And since I’m an operator, not investor, I recognize just how valuable all the casual, daily discussions inside a VC’s office can be to fellow operators and entrepreneurs. Few projects in an entrepreneur’s life can lead to more scope creep and more agony over little details than the company pitch deck.

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View from Seed

MARCH 31, 2015

Editor’s note: Unlike the Ubers and Airbnbs of the tech startup world, seed-stage companies don’t typically have the valuations, awareness, or traction typically associated with press coverage. That said, coverage is important, and early-stage companies would be wise to work with local press in addition to national.

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View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

Today we’re thrilled to re-launch our most popular resource ever: board deck templates for seed-stage startups. Said another way, seed-stage companies can be led by a founder; scaling companies require a CEO. At the seed stage, where NextView invests, a highly structured board often isn’t a requirement.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. However, our overall goal is to invest in the full spectrum of seed. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2015

“As a seed-stage investor, should you pay up for team or traction?” So, if you are going to pay up as a seed-stage investor, pay up for team. The observation here is that founders of great B2B companies more often than not have some demonstrable track record as operators or entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Entrepreneur : A successful CIA case officer must be able to operate amid ambiguity and make judgment calls that require strong second- and third-order thinking. Most people believe case officers and entrepreneurs are big risk takers, when, in fact, they’re risk mitigators. Both are possible on the outside. Know your appetite for risk.

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View from Seed

JUNE 11, 2015

At NextView, some of the companies we invest in at the seed stage already have a meaningful public presence, while others choose to remain in stealth mode. And specifically when completing a seed round of financing, what are the implications? So what are the pros and cons of either approach? The two main benefits are: 1.

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Stealth Seed Stage Startup Software Review 120

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

At seed-stage startups, especially companies with well-networked founders and investors, finding applicants who can do a job on paper is not overly difficult. Another told me about his father’s work ethic and the trials and tribulations of being raised by an entrepreneur. Built in Boston.). Think Ocean’s 11. In The End….

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

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. Affinity by personal background.

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View from Seed

MARCH 8, 2016

Jesse recently sat down with NextView (I assume he was sitting anyway — we spoke on the phone) to talk seed-stage company branding, building a startup identity, and some of the most common mistakes founders make when establishing a name for their companies. Unfortunately, too many startups come to us way too late.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 5, 2013

As I’ve written before here at Forward Partners we work with entrepreneurs to help them launch and scale their companies in two different ways. Right now we’re looking to invest in up to two amazing new entrepreneurs or founding teams at that true startup stage.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The fundraising stage is vital for any entrepreneur, but you can’t wing it through your meetings and expect to be taken seriously. As an entrepreneur, your goal when raising financing is to get several term sheets — the documents describing the terms and conditions of financing. Do or do not — there is no “try.”

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2017

For the last eight quarters, the number of angel and seed stage deals has declined, according to an Eisner Amper VC report. Excel wasn’t originally designed as an accounting platform, yet most rookie entrepreneurs turn to Excel or Google Sheets to keep track of their expenses. Startups don’t have data on their competitors.

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Software Review Technical Review Due Diligence Startup 109

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

Specifically, there are five challenges that emerging business typically put on the backburner between funding rounds: Seed to Series A: Customer Testing. Hypotheses should be tested extensively and disproven, which is where customer testing plays a central role for seed-stage startups.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

In addition to these data points Ali identifies seven key traits that these “super founders” possess, and I believe that these traits are essential for any entrepreneur who wants to build a successful startup. “extreme resilience” – Successful entrepreneurs are able to persevere through challenges and setbacks.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Any entrepreneur, especially if it’s my criteria, should be able to reach me. I believe that VCs are in the ‘service’ business and capital is commoditised. Therefore, while I appreciate a warm intro, I don’t think it’s necessary to have one to reach me.

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