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MAY 24, 2021

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You have a deep desire to learn the venture capital business and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. Who Are We Looking For.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Depending on the composition of the founding team, you might or might not have near-term holes in certain functions at the exec level – e.g. you’ll most likely need to bring on a CTO/VP of Engineering shortly after the seed round if you don’t have a technical co-founder.

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MAY 19, 2015

Over the past few years, I have been involved with and close to a number of both successful and unsuccessful startups. 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. A startup is just that – a startup.

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DECEMBER 10, 2015

But just because the campaigns on Kickstarter and Indiegogo seem to be getting more absurd and less beneficial to both backers and startups doesn’t mean that crowdfunding — as a fundraising and market gauging mechanism — has become less effective. We also wanted to be able to use the JOBS Act and give equity to backers.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

In fact, there’s a glow among the Twitterati that alignment between founders and investors is getting back to normal. Startup salaries — especially on the engineering side — are at near record highs. The post Seed-Stage Startups: Beware the “Stickiness Squeeze” appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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APRIL 2, 2020

Their focus is on talking to founders to understand what their specific business needs are in the immediate future and the coming months. Those companies are the ones that we don’t really worry about and are in the best position that you can be in as a founder right now. Company B wanted to raise capital in 2020.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the best and most positive movements proliferating around the tech community is what Product Hunt founder and CEO Ryan Hoover calls “building in public.” Because of both lean startup principles and a thriving community of pay-it-forward individuals, we can all now build a little, learn a little, and then repeat.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

In the startup community, it’s easy to claim that everyone just jumps in, but it’s not always the case and is much easier said then done. So to the question of but what will happen which is either voiced or in the back of the head of many early startup employees, founders, and operators: There’s simply no way to know.

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JANUARY 26, 2016

It’s become increasingly common for startups to raise several seed rounds, and this has led to a bifurcation in the seed stage between what are known as “pre-seed” (or “genesis”) and institutional seed rounds. The entire funding progression of startups pushed out to the right. technical co-founder).

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MAY 12, 2015

Start with the firms of whatever city you’re in that have a history of investing in the stage and sector of your startup, then augment with additional firms outside your home geography which may have a strong particular fit with your company. Are you a founder of an ecommerce startup? Always think about fit. It matters.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

What’s interesting about these sorts of businesses is that they behave very differently from most other businesses that startup founders tend to build. Insurance companies have decades if not centuries of brand equity to draw upon. The Lifelock founder established credibility by sharing his social security number with the world.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

I suspect that the 18-month rule originated because that’s the approximate average time it takes for startups to reach an important value-inflection milestone. My partner Rob has a great piece on understanding and optimizing towards value inflection points at a seed-stage startup here.) Startups are hard. Don’t raise as much.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Like many things in life, the VC/startup ecosystem is one of cycles. But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. 2009-2011: Retrenchment. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. However, many folks probably don’t think about exactly where those VC dollars that help fund startups actually come from. So I wanted to dive a little deeper into what I call the startup capital supply chain.

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