Genuine VC
AUGUST 27, 2015
Tales become legends about founders of exceptionally transformative companies who truly struggled to get any investors’ attention early on. These rejection emails to the founder of Airbnb represent just one of the most recent example of this familiar theme. A long-standing relationship with a founder and her ability to execute.
Genuine VC
JULY 19, 2010
Micro VCs will continue to come in many flavors with slightly different strategies, but there are a few distinctive defining characteristics: On a per partner basis, each investor is investing less than $25M in any given fund. The capital deployment velocity is notably higher than a traditional 1-2 investment per partner per year.
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Genuine VC
JULY 9, 2013
Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. Plus, my partners and I saw entrepreneurs repeatedly starting from square-one each time, which just didn’t seem efficient if we could help in some small way.
Genuine VC
AUGUST 3, 2012
The company’s familiarity is along what we consider to be the three most important criteria for an investment in a seed-stage startup – team, market, and product: Team – Two of the co-founders were well-known to the NextView partnership years before a line of code was even written.
Genuine VC
APRIL 4, 2013
I think that the reason founders are attracted to entrepreneurial endeavors often stems from the same intrinsic motivations. But this isn’t an analogizing blog post about having “co-founders.” Startup founders similarly look to bring in outside help with both formal and informal advisors into the orbit of their companies.
Genuine VC
JANUARY 15, 2015
In other words, as much as feasible, to gate all of the VC discussions so that they’re progressing along essentially the same pace – with the goal to receive multiple terms sheets near simultaneously in order to best select the best offer and best partner, with full information. But reality doesn’t always play out as neatly.
Genuine VC
MARCH 16, 2015
A couple weeks ago my colleague Dimitri Dadiomov published a post on NextView’s “View From Seed” blog which answered the question “Should we take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders?” From the group, over 260 founders have launched around 90 startups, raising more than $2.5B in capital. Quite the contrary.
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