Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

Thus your startup maturity and growth stage is the primary key to success with potential funding sources. Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

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. Here’s my take: 1.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

My partner Erik Rannala has had a similar experience, having worked as a VC at Harrison Metal before moving down to LA to co-found our seed stage venture firm. I regularly come across companies who happen to have the #1 paid app in the App Store fly under the radar for years before raising venture capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

Thus your startup maturity and growth stage is the primary key to success with potential funding sources. Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. He then went on to teach Computer Science at Cornell, Caltech, and University of Pennsylvania.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. billion under management.&# I don’t really understand why VCs do this since it’s mostly a meaningless number. A fund size of $100 million – $200 million is likely to either be an A round investor or “stage agnostic&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

. “Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator. So what are you waiting for?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. China Venture Capital. venture capitalists invested $26.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

Thus your startup maturity and growth stage is the primary key to success with potential funding sources. Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

According to all of the blogosphere chatter over the past month, seed-funded internet startups are entering this year gearing up for the now-near-infamous Series A Crunch. The nuance which isn’t being recognized is that most of the companies of this latter profile, while viable businesses, aren’t venture-scale businesses.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. China Venture Capital. venture capitalists invested $26.5

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Mucker Lab

JANUARY 1, 2014

VC’s start investing in technology-enabled “offline” businesses (distribution, services etc) – most of whom would never have gotten venture money 3 years ago. Apple finally decides to spend its cash hoard on buying internet companies instead of just on building cool campuses (RIP Cupertino Village and Fantasia? ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

Thus your startup maturity and growth stage is the primary key to success with potential funding sources. Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

This two-year role is a unique opportunity to work full-time within a venture capital firm, setting and executing on a outward-facing strategy to interface with both its portfolio and the broader entrepreneurial community. Exceptionally high attention to detail. Experience involving business operations and/or project management a plus.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Meanwhile, the bubble for “seed stage&# startups began when Ron Conway’s Silicon Valley Angels and DST guaranteed every startup out of a YCombinator $150,000. Some precursors to the bubble happened when Chinese Internet companies listed on United States stock exchanges. Filed under: Venture Capital.

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Mucker Lab

JANUARY 1, 2014

VC’s accelerate investments in “internet of things” except sometime in Q4, wake up and realize it’s no different than “consumer electronics” – and that we still need to innovate around the manufacturing infrastructure, distribution economics, and consumer liability of the consumer goods business to really make this a venture fundable category.

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Genuine VC

JULY 8, 2010

With the support and encouragement of my Venrock colleagues, I am pleased to share that I am moving on to co-found a new Micro VC firm focused on seed internet investments. My new partners, Rob Go and Lee Hower , and I are very enthusiastic about starting our new firm, NextView Ventures.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Since 2002, the law form of Fenwick & West has conducted a venture capital survey, a response to "the burst of the 'dot-come bubble' and a desire to provide the entrepreneurial community with objective information about the status of the venture environment."

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

Thus your startup maturity and growth stage is the primary key to success with potential funding sources. Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 17, 2011

Last summer, I along with my partners announced that we were forming a new micro venture capital firm. ” First and foremost, we are dedicated seed-stage investors focused on investments in internet-enabled startups.

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Rob Go

JUNE 3, 2014

Raising venture capital is not an end to itself. Capital is an enabler. Not every great company needs to raise outside capital to be successful, but some do, and that’s the world that we participate in as venture capitalists. But beyond the seed stage, capital is primarily about winning and winning big.

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Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

NextView Ventures II is $40M, twice the size of our first fund, and we continue to be exclusively focused on seed-stage companies pursuing internet-enabled innovation. We’ve often explained to entrepreneurs that the second fund of a venture firm is very much like the series A for an early stage company.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 23, 2015

” Second, I went through the scale up of the organizational VC firm in the late 1990s at Mobius Venture Capital. Or that it would have worked great if only the Internet bubble hadn’t collapsed. Venture Capital baremetalvc deeply held beliefs openview scott maxwell Techstars value-add VC'

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Much of the slack at seed stage funding is taken up by the Russian state. In sharp contrast to the US and UK governments, in 2013, the Russian Government provided around 38 percent of seed deals and 24 percent of startup stage funding. The role of the Russian Government. billion in the UK and $5.5 billion in the US.

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Genuine VC

JUNE 22, 2011

We intentionally have room for one or two seed-stage entrepreneurs to hang their hat in our offices temporarily while they’re at the earliest stages of forming a company, but we don’t have room to house whole companies. It fits in with my blog post last year about our approach to venture capital.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

And from my perspective as an engaged seed stage venture investor, this makes them unfundable. And from my perspective as an engaged seed stage venture investor, this makes them unfundable. Click to email him.

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

Venture Capital Has Its Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com Days. venture capitalists put $8.1 It’s clear that factors like the greater American economy and the bumpy tech IPO market don’t necessarily have a direct and/or timely correlation with venture capital spending. Liz Gannes. Follow @LizGannes.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 30, 2013

Just as the Internet infused everything from a technology perspective for the past 10 years, the next five or 10 years is all going to be about mobility,” Cummings said. The number of Internet-connected mobile devices (smartphone or tablet) has grown an average of nearly 60 percent annually in the past five years, according to IBISWorld.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And thanks to the radical transparency enabled by the internet, the quality of these proposals is actually constantly rising, to the point that it’s almost impossible to judge the quality of the final product – because all the proposals look polished and professional, even the terrible ones.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

We’ll look at the model stage-by-stage. Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

But in my experience as an entrepreneur and now spending my time amongst investors I can generalize that almost all VC investments in early stage technology & Internet investments come down to just four key factors. Mostly by early stage investors talking about getting smaller exits. They might want you to start lean.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 22, 2012

One of the biggest tensions I find in the venture capital business is the need to go big. The Tension of Selection: One salient challenge of the go-big strategy is that evaluating whether an opportunity is “big enough” is quite hard at the seed stage. This is motivated by a bunch of things.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

We focus on investing in seed stage companies. We almost always invest in the first round of institutional capital for these companies, in rounds that range from approximately $500K – $2M. Sectorwise, we focus on internet-driven innovation and believe that we are currently straddling two converging technology waves.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Pin It Listen to this episode if you want to learn what a VC investor thinks about “Internet scale” and how you can usually simplify your idea by charging a fair price for your product. Dan: The question is really directed towards the definition of Internet scale. It’s a fraction of the overall Internet market.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

I happen to be fascinated by the history of the VC industry, and one of the things we discussed at a recent offsite are the common threads behind the rise and fall of great venture capital firms. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Can’t wait for the next part.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2012

In 2011, Israeli venture capital funds invested $525 million in Israeli companies, an increase of 42% from 2010, and a rise of 28% from 2009 levels. Mid and later stage companies attracted $1.48 Israeli funds now account represent only 25% of the amount raised by the Israeli high-tech companies, down from 40% a few years ago.

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