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Seed Stage Firms are Dead, Long Live Micro VCs

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Micro VCs will continue to come in many flavors with slightly different strategies, but there are a few distinctive defining characteristics: On a per partner basis, each investor is investing less than $25M in any given fund. The capital deployment velocity is notably higher than a traditional 1-2 investment per partner per year.

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Director of Platform & Community

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My partner Rob wrote bit more on his blog about our motivations for adding our first new team member at NextView Ventures — a Director of Platform and Community. Establish firm contact and communication system for managing and coordinating business development interactions. Effective writing skills with established body of work.

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Micro VCs Are all BFFs. Forever?

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While traditional VCs sometimes have a love/hate relationship with their syndicate partners (often depending on how well their mutual portfolio companies are performing), it seems as though in the Micro VC arena all of the players speak and act like best friends. What’s the reasoning for all of this chummy behavior?

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A Choir of Angel Investors Sing Different Parts

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Rather than investing in a fund manager to do the work for them, they are instead doing it themselves for the purposes of disbursing their personal capital into a portfolio purely aimed at financial return. PROS: Validation for other financially-savvy syndicate investors, lack of intrusion to let the entrepreneur run his own business.

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A Choir of Angel Investors Sing Different Parts

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Rather than investing in a fund manager to do the work for them, they are instead doing it themselves for the purposes of disbursing their personal capital into a portfolio purely aimed at financial return. PROS: Validation for other financially-savvy syndicate investors, lack of intrusion to let the entrepreneur run his own business.

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How to Find the Perfect Startup Job: Part III "Selecting the Right Venture"

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Employee count is the strongest (but not a perfect) proxy for management’s and investors’ outlook on the business. If a brand-name VC is an investor, it means that at one time one single partner at the firm saw enough promise in the venture to make a bet on it – it doesn’t mean that a company is doing well now.

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