View from Seed
APRIL 14, 2020
For the last several years, the early stage investing market was driven largely by the F ear O f M issing O ut, AKA FOMO. VCs are always founder focused no matter the market environment. Business Models and Sectors. Firms will start to torture founders with endless diligence requests.
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JULY 31, 2014
Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there. These two marketing and publishing platforms, respectively, allow for a more intimate relationship between creators and their audience. We opportunistically invest in other geographies across the country as well.
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View from Seed
AUGUST 26, 2015
Maybe you’ll do better as an angel since you are investing smaller dollars which is easier to deploy in this segment of the market, but maybe not. Outside of Silicon Valley, you can usually get into pretty good deals writing pretty small checks ($10K or so) if you are relevant to the sector you are investing in. Preferably both.
View from Seed
AUGUST 26, 2015
Maybe you’ll do better as an angel since you are investing smaller dollars which is easier to deploy in this segment of the market, but maybe not. Outside of Silicon Valley, you can usually get into pretty good deals writing pretty small checks ($10K or so) if you are relevant to the sector you are investing in. Preferably both.
View from Seed
JULY 28, 2015
The narrative I often hear goes something like this: “Consumer companies are all about great marketing, and Boston doesn’t have enough great consumer marketers.”. I asked the former Director of Growth at LivingSocial — who also runs a large startup marketing meetup in New York — to recommend three rising stars in that city.
View from Seed
JULY 26, 2022
Alexandria has unparalleled founder/market fit, and the kind of deep experience and passion for her market that we love to see in all of the founders we work with.” Rachel Hodes (RH): What problem exists in the market that your business is trying to solve? . ” – Rob Go. Get to know the founders.
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APRIL 30, 2015
Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. Especially in the early stages, so much about the company may change in how they think about product or go-to-market — and change multiple times — before raising an institutional round.
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