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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. Who Are We Looking For. You are a native of NYC tech with a strong network. You are hungry.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

The objection goes something like this: “yes, I can see rookie founders turning to you for a seed round. But won’t all good founders go to established firms that raise series A’s out of the gate?”. If there are venture capital history books, NextView will be a minor mention in the chapter about the 2011-2021 era.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

As seed rounds have atomized, it’s not uncommon for founders to raise 3 or even 4 rounds prior to a series A. The reality is that if a founder raised every one of these rounds, and lead investors always got their “target” ownership, the level of dilution would be ridiculous. Founders with limited experience. should be avoided.

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MARCH 24, 2021

At NextView Ventures we have written many pieces about venture capital — how to raise it, build your business, engage with investors, iterate your product, navigate expanding industries, etc. Doing Reference Checks on VCs “Try to speak to at least one founder that the investor has worked with in a failed investment.

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APRIL 2, 2024

At the time, this metaphor really rang true and resonated with both founders and LPs. While this comparison within the craft beer industry and early-stage venture has been fun, I’m somewhat surprised as how closely the two industries have tracked over the past 12 years.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

For example, a $10B endowment might be looking to have 10% ($1B) allocated to venture capital at any one time. So, if the venture asset class performs well in terms of unrealized mark-ups, the % of VC relative to the total portfolio actually increases. appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

I’ve been writing checks for 8 years, and was lucky to get my start in the industry with the team at Spark Capital where I was able to witness some amazing early investments as part of that team. As I start my second 10 years in venture capital, I want to both reflect on some recent learnings that have changed the way I approach the business.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early. And by early, we mean pre-traction. Lead investors are few.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

What hasn’t changed is that our heart lies in working with founders to find product/market fit and to begin to grow. We are also pleased that we have been one of the few firms that have had zero turnover among the founders, have been able to expand and level-up our partnership, and have enjoyed almost no organizational drama.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The Mattermark Daily consists of both original content from the company’s blog and a hand-curated list of featured posts from various investors, founders, and media members covering the startup ecosystem. Investors of all types and stages, startup founders and employees, and tech media are all counted among them.). Nuzzel.com
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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

That trend has been coupled with a proliferation of institutional seed venture capital firms. This bifurcation of seed syndicate roles affects how Founders should approach fundraising strategy. But a Founder’s best source of fundraising information is peer Founder/CEOs who have recently gone through a similar process.

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

Part of startups, and subsequently venture capital, is thinking through the scenarios of what could happen on the upside as well as the downside, and what to do in all of those cases. We’ve blogged before about valuing founders who have determinist thinking (particularly with respect to product designers & managers ).

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JUNE 16, 2020

The simple truth is that all venture capitalists have told their portfolio Founder/CEOs that if they don’t absolutely need to raise capital now that they shouldn’t be out there attempting to do so. If founders must raise now, or soon, then there are three approaches to addressing the current situation. Wait until fall.

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JULY 17, 2019

And finally, the best place to build your business may not also be the place where the most venture capital is readily available. I’d argue that apart from the Bay Area, every other market has a shortage of strong series A capital, and most founders would benefit from generating some investor interest outside of their home geography.

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JULY 12, 2019

This is the person who ends up being the primary point of contact for a founder and is the one that drives the majority of the due diligence and day to day management of the investment. The handoff concept is actually fairly unusual in venture capital because firms are typically very structured around individual performance and track records.

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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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JANUARY 5, 2015

Raising venture capital at any stage of company growth requires tremendous effort from entrepreneurs. That drive to focus on helping customers and growing their companies is even more commendable than the ability to raise capital. Laying the groundwork for a good relationship with your new investors.

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MARCH 29, 2018

Outside of life-sciences, we’ve noticed something interesting emerging: There is a huge dearth of seed capital for health care services and software-driven health-tech companies. Many of these founders are creating businesses that are an ambitious blend of data, software, and services.

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MARCH 26, 2015

So it’s natural now for founders to raise a smaller “pre-seed” round prior to the full seed to get the company going and to attract seed venture capital beyond angels. .” Those trends increased the typical “institutional seed” round sizes from the previous levels I mentioned to $1.5M-$2M or even more.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Though, this article is not a reflection on the fundamentals of unicorns—rather, I am using them as a proxy for situations in which founders have executed on big ideas. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns. Key Insights. Shazam (GSB, Haas).

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JANUARY 11, 2023

We wholeheartedly believe in the potential of each company we select; the smaller batch size allows the NextView partners, who possess deep operating and founding experiences at companies like LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, and Blue Apron, the space to spend meaningful one-on-one time with each founder every single week.

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APRIL 18, 2018

In this role, you will manage several of our current founder-focused initiatives (e.g. as well as developing new ways for us to proactively engage with the founder community. Deeply curious about tech, startups, and in helping to champion founders that are redesigning the everyday economy. Collaborative, humble, and hungry.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The following is a real (but anonymized) email to us at NextView where a founder debates the timing of his seed raise: I met with someone today who said I should push to close a seed round before I launch the product. However, to push the right type of thinking about the issue, I typically ask founders three questions: 1.

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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. There’s a wide range of intermediaries for venture capital and private equity investment, each with its own structure and business model. Lee’s posts also appear regularly on View From Seed.

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