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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

pexels You need to have enough resources by having a seed-stage investor who will financially support your company in the long run. I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. How does the funding for the seed stage work?

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How to Up Your Board Meeting Game as a Founder [Deck Templates 2.0]

View from Seed

Today we’re thrilled to re-launch our most popular resource ever: board deck templates for seed-stage startups. Said another way, seed-stage companies can be led by a founder; scaling companies require a CEO. At the seed stage, where NextView invests, a highly structured board often isn’t a requirement.

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[Checklist for Entrepreneurs] Critical Tasks to Complete After Raising Seed Capital

View from Seed

Note that this list was created specifically with seed-stage startups in mind. While it may be somewhat useful for later-stage companies, seed is our entire focus here at NextView Ventures and, predictably, on The View From Seed. We hope this helps you stay on-task and efficient!

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Janvest Wants to Fill the Seed Investment Gap in Israel (Interview)

VC Cafe

A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. Essentially, investors are receiving equal shares of 10 Israeli seed stage start-ups for relatively small capital. Do you see a crash coming?

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Nobody Announces Their Seed Round Anymore and That’s a Mistake

View from Seed

And seed VCs, especially as new firms were being established, were eager to encourage their portfolio startups to plant that flag in the ground publicly. It seemed like every other TechCrunch post was announcing a startups’s new seed financing round. Seed stage companies just aren’t announcing their rounds anymore.

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The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

Almost two years ago, in a private/closed meeting with K9 Ventures’ LPs only, I claimed that: What was being referred to in the press as the “Series A Crunch” was not because fewer Series A deals were being done, but because there were too many Seed deals being done. The risk here is what I refer to as the curse of over-capitalization.

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Reading the Tea Leaves: Where Am I in My Seed Fundraise, Really?

View from Seed

One of the things we frequently discuss with founders is how to interpret and manage their dialogue with VCs when raising capital. We’ve written before on how to research partners , how to pitch the right investor at a given firm, and how to raise seed capital , generally speaking. can be slightly different.