Seed-stage investors don’t like top-heavy companies: CEO, COO, CXO, CYO, VP of X, Y, and Z. No sophisticated investor is impressed by titles in an early stage startup. It’s almost an immediate pass. One of the founders should be the CEO so you can make decisions quickly.). MORE >>

Brad Feld: @bfeld Feld, the Boulder-based managing director of Foundry Group, is a start-up scene veteran who invests in software and Internet companies. Dave McClure: @davemcclure McClure is the founder of 500 Startups, which provides early-stage companies with funding ranging from $10,000 to $250,000 seed investments. MORE >>

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet  bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Some seed angles and seed funds clearly get it. MORE >>

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. The awareness phase is where other later-stage investors start to notice the momentum, bringing additional money in and pushing prices higher. No, no!?. MORE >>

We at NextView Ventures often invest in a startup’s first round alongside other funds; either seed stage focused ones like ourselves or larger traditional firms.  Addressing both of those issues can stem from the motivations as to why someone would want to put their hard-earned cash into a risky early-stage startup in the first place.   MORE >>