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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

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many if not most of these startups are unlikely to get to significant scale. Can these businesses be built more efficiently than ever before, and what does that mean for how they will be financed? And both founders and investors are grappling with similar questions that were top of mind during early Web 2.0: have to do with timing.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

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Georgiades (Zumper): I started working on Zumper seriously in the summer between my first and second years at HBS (2011), supported by generous HBS startup grants. Startups are all about just going out there and doing it. Our class was at least a third finance and a third consultants. Prince: Business History.

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Pitch Deck Month: The “Where Are You Going?” Slide

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Not that we are entirely focused on raising future equity rounds, but for a startup that requires additional venture financing, it’s helpful to hit milestones that allow the team and prior investors to get compensated for their risk and effort. The post Pitch Deck Month: The “Where Are You Going?

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Second Startups: Why Founders Often Struggle to Find Their Second Act

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The reasons are fairly obvious: It’s easy to reference them and understand their track record; they’ve made a ton of mistakes already that they have hopefully learned from and are unlikely to make again; they are probably more adept at raising and managing capital, which reduces financing risk down the road, etc.

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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

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What has happened is that over the last 10 years, the vast majority of successful startups have raised some sort of a seed round prior to a series A. Even the “oh s**t” moment of Covid lasted 1-2 quarters for most tech startups not servicing the travel or hospitality industries. This is because the market actually has changed.

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Updating Your Seed Investors – Board Deck & Update Email Templates

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Today I’m excited to announce the relaunch of our most popular resource ever: board meeting deck templates for seed-stage startups, now in conjunction with an investor update email template. We designed our board deck template as a framework which you can directly copy & modify for your own startup.

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How a Seed VC Approaches Pre-Product Startups

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Editor’s note: At a recent team meeting at NextView, we looked at the high number of startups we invested in which were pre-product at the time. None of these are inherently bad, but I want to think about these dynamics and what this means for future financing of the business before making an investment decision.

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