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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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Updating Your Seed Investors – Board Deck & Update Email Templates

View from Seed

Today I’m excited to announce the relaunch of our most popular resource ever: board meeting deck templates for seed-stage startups, now in conjunction with an investor update email template. We first released a version of the board meeting deck template template back in 2014 and then a revised version a couple of years later.

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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

View from Seed

In turn, some funds have a more friendly posture towards us and try to structure deals that incentive syndicate investors in a way that doesn’t massively disadvantage the seed investors. That said, we definitely don’t bank on this as a firm, even though we do see ourselves playing a multi-turn game with all of our later stage coinvestors.

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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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The Authoritative Guide to Prorata Rights

Both Sides of the Table

They often create the biggest tensions between investors who are investing at different stages in the business. These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. I have seen bad behavior from later-stage VCs, believe me.

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How a Seed-Stage Startup Should Think About Brand: A Conversation With Jesse Derris

View from Seed

Jesse recently sat down with NextView (I assume he was sitting anyway — we spoke on the phone) to talk seed-stage company branding, building a startup identity, and some of the most common mistakes founders make when establishing a name for their companies. Is that the wrong mentality?

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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.