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Early Seed Financing Terms Endure… Whether We Like It or Not

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Dharmesh Shah had a great post up last week about the lessons learned from raising a mezzanine round of financing. But the more meaningful reason that early financing terms endure into future rounds is that negotiation away from terms already in place are just that – negotiation. In contrast, valuation always has room to move up.

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The Market Is Hot for Code Climate, NextView’s Newest Investment

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Today Code Climate is announcing that they’ve raised a $2M round of financing , led by us at NextView Ventures. “I can definitely see it being pretty big.” “I I really like CC, and we’ve integrated it nicely into our workflow.” It’s indispensable.” Joining us in the syndicate are Lerer Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Fuel Capital.

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Seed Round Signaling Revisited: Myths, Truths, & Half-Lies

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The other is valuation of the next round of Series A financing. As soon as the “insider” VC realizes that the company has crossed the threshold for a Series A financing, s/he’ll understandably push for the round to happen sooner rather than later and lead it.

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Four Winning Strategies from Series Seed to Series A

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A couple years ago, my partner Lee penned a blog post about the milestone benchmarks for startups raising a Series A round of financing. The four winning strategies for startups to go from Seed to A are: Build Scale/Momentum.

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A Choir of Angel Investors Sing Different Parts

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PROs of taking his angel money are the feeder system to venture financing of the next round and the vast network of portfolio CEOs which can be tapped into for connections and help. CONS: Potentially not much value-add beyond initial financing round. The Friends & Family Angel. These are the proverbial first-commit investors.

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Super Pro-Rata Rights Aren't Super

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I recently received a email from an entrepreneur who I know with a genuine question about terms of his financing: " How do you guys at NextView feel about one of our investors holding super pro - rata rights for the next round?"

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Seed Stage Firms are Dead, Long Live Micro VCs

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Startups are now able to produce real meaningful early business traction which yields genuine valuation increases, not just a prototype or proof-of-concept which yields merely a ticket to another round of dilutive financing. During an initial seed round, companies are able to test and validate live product/market theses.