View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

The NextView Accelerator Doesn’t Operate in Strict Cohorts. . Most accelerators operate in class cohort “batches.” The dynamics for participation in the next round’s fundraise syndicate is complex, and many accelerators (and VCs) obfuscate their intentions for self-serving interests.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

This is a segment that is well beyond traditional micro-finance, but also somewhat below the scope of the regular financial institutions. Hardika intends to build a financial institution focused on this segment with financing from social entrepreneurship oriented venture funds like Unitus. million financing round for.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. Startups with large, lifecycle VCs included in the seed round syndicate did not reach Series A faster than those who did not. 4 Operating Philosophies Affecting Series A Raises.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

John Berger, Director Operations & Impact Solutions, Toniic , observed that this has clear investor benefits: “ The grace period became a feature because it benefits investors in regions like the US where there can be tax differences between short and long term gains. “A Payments are commonly delayed for a grace period of 12-36 months.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

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 Domain Angel. CONS: May be more proactive in “offering” advice that is uninvited.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 19, 2020

Software has been eating venture funds by simplifying syndicates, managing SPVs, and even traditional fund management. The idea of a streaming venture fund matches the fluidity of entrepreneurship and the operator>investor>operator paradigm that seems to be growing. How much capital are you reserving for follow on financings?”

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Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

We’ve spoken of financing a young company through friends and family, known as “inside angels.” And even though angel groups syndicate their best deals within their respective associated networks, it is always best to apply to the angel groups nearest your physical location. Raising money'

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

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 Domain Angel. CONS: May be more proactive in “offering” advice that is uninvited.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

I really liked Jason Lemkin’s “ Do You Have a Weak Investor Syndicate ” blog post from earlier in the summer. As a venture fund I might have a strategy which says “for every dollar I invest into companies, I will hold one dollar in reserve for additional financings.” Go read it and then come back here….

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

million in Series A financing. Austin-based S3 Ventures led the oversubscribed round, which also included Capital Factory, HealthFundr, and a syndicate of strategic clients. This new financing enables the company to expand its R&D, sales, marketing, and operations teams, supporting the company’s rapid growth.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

Patents and the threat of patent infringement lawsuits provide maximum leverage against a competitor when they’re in the middle of a strategic inflection point… a major financing, acquisition, or large product launch. It is more remarkable for a large, well-known company that’s an actual operating business like Yahoo!

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Haystack

JANUARY 16, 2019

A savvy operator at a breakout technology company may parlay his/her early pick (in the form of stock, cash, or reputation) to an executive title in the next role, or a plush investment job; a daring creator may parlay a government grant into a product that works magically, and then parlay that into a company. There are other parlays.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Explore content syndication opportunities to expand the reach of your blog posts. As your business takes on new opportunities, hires people, expands operations, faces new competitors, and confronts new industry challenges, you might experience some back and forth in how well it’s doing. Expect to encounter ebb and flow.

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

On the heels of the announcement we made last month about our Series B financing , we are now announcing the launch of a new program called Bolster Prime and a new venture capital fund called Bolster Ventures. This is another big week for us at Bolster. Any entrepreneur would be lucky to have one of these mentors in their corner.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

million in venture financing. No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

If you’ve been operating as a Corp, LLC, or Partnership, all business associates need to vote on closing the business. If you’ve been operating as an LLC, review the dissolution requirements in your state’s LLCA (Limited Liability Company Act). Money and Finance Lists. Global Syndication Partners. Holiday Lists.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re a startup entrepreneur, you risk facing a competitive disadvantage if you wait too long to expand your operations. Managing employees and tasks remotely can be a recipe for disaster when you’re building a nascent operation. On the other hand, it’s important to consider the realities of today’s business environment.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. .

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Massimo Sgrelli, Entrepreneur, angel investor, computer programmer, agrees with Eyal’s suggestion: The best way to attract Silicon Valley investors to your non-US startup is to split your operations keeping R&D in your own country, while moving business and marketing heads in the Valley (and potentially the founders too).

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 18, 2023

They also offer to fund marketing and other operations. Often, they syndicate their investments with other venture capitalists, spreading the risk and giving the entrepreneurs multiple contacts and sources of advice. VCs typically invest in startups at the seed or early growth stage.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2015

” These deeply held beliefs tangibly define our values and give us a frame of reference to operate. ”) But at the end of 2013, when the JOBS Act became official and AngelList created Syndicates, we decided to understand the phenomenon better by participating in it.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

There are a number of factors that have contributed to the rise of pre-seed rounds, but the strongest have been the frothy late-stage financing market, coupled with both the scaling-up of some of the early winners in the institutional seed ecosystem and the scaling-down of some larger funds that retrenched after the financial crisis.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 20, 2015

Today, Pillow announced their seed financing which we led in 2014 along with a great syndicate including our friends at Sherpa Ventures and Homebrew advisor Lee Linden. Your average busy person may not want to take on the operational burden of cleaning, managing and essentially becoming a sole proprietorship,” he said.

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mashable.com

JUNE 30, 2012

Network Operators: AT&T, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, and others are getting in the game with APIs exposing network resources, including SMS and carrier-billing for in-app purchase. Money and Finance Lists. Global Syndication Partners. Health and Environment Related Lists. Holiday Lists. Identity Lists. iPhone Resource Lists.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Thanks to Kenny Jahng of Big Click Syndicate LLC. Filing and data entry is part of the necessary day to day operations that some business owner’s don’t keep track of and worst leave it for months at a time. The more you procrastinate on small and big decisions, the bigger the monster you will have to face eventually.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

When we talk about seeds, we mean your first outside round of financing at the earliest stages of your business. In my prior post, I talked about the rise of the pre-seed and a more nuanced definition of a pre-seed based on milestones, not financing labels. This staged approach is often much better for the founders as well.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Twitter search operators can help you filter out links (search “ -filter:links “) and find tweeted questions (search “ ? Try using a few search Google operators, for example: ["brand name" -intitle:"brand name"] to find in-text brand mentions you are most likely to have missed. Money and Finance Lists.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 10, 2010

They started with the idea that we wanted to work together on another company and some concepts about the operating philosophy of our relationship, the kind of company culture we wanted to build and the ideal pattern of communication that the two of us would have around the business. Of course coming up with the idea is the easy part.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

A de facto requirement for any modern mobile operating system is the inclusion of a modern HTML5-compliant web browser. Supporting one platform can be difficult enough, but now developers not only have multiple operating systems to consider, but multiple device types as well. This is particularly true for mobile devices. startupcto

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mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

First name was a re-branding of our Australian Aboriginal Art Gallery business with a large online presence as well as a “bricks and Mortar” operation. So far we are very happy with the branding of the operation. Money and Finance Lists. Global Syndication Partners. Ended up buying cheaply [link]. Jobs Lists.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. who derive a meaningful chunk of their revenue from operating ad networks. Facebook, Inc.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

TOP or Total Operational Performance, is a cost cutting approach, where your objective is to cut 40% of all the "not-strictly-necessary costs" by doing things differently. Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), Yahoo Finance. I was super excited!

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

The ratings agency noted that the improvement in public finances reflects both revenue growth as a result of buoyant output, as well as expenditure control, resulting from the adoption of new fiscal rules. Given that, the central government deficit fell to 3.8% of GDP in 2010 from 5.2% in 2009 and debt moderated to 76.6% of GDP from 79.3%

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This is very different from the way most of us think about investing; in our personal lives and in most operating businesses, investors try to spend as little as possible for the maximum results. We are extremely fortunate to finance the growth side of the creative destruction we are witnessing all around us.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 28, 2016

When we talk about seeds, we mean your first outside round of financing at the earliest stages of your business. In my prior post, I talked about the rise of the pre-seed and a more nuanced definition of a pre-seed based on milestones, not financing labels. This staged approach is often much better for the founders as well.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Because there are no tests for new features (or operational alerts for the production code), the code that supports those new features could go bad at any moment. Cost and time are effectively absolutes (The Caretaker's high finance schenanigans and 20th century Physics aside). Our profession is in trouble.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Other companies, like Blue Origin, Firefly Space and Space X are all conducting operations in Texas, both together with NASA and for their own unique space ventures. At the same time, early-stage companies are thinking beyond the high prices of Silicon Valley to put down roots and find financing and growth partners.

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