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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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MAY 24, 2021

You have a deep desire to learn the venture capital business and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. We lead or co-lead most of our investments and we develop our individual conviction vs. trying to hang around the hoop for market signals. You act as an “ invited guest.”. You are hungry.

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MARCH 24, 2021

At NextView Ventures we have written many pieces about venture capital — how to raise it, build your business, engage with investors, iterate your product, navigate expanding industries, etc. Entrepreneurs should know their audience, and most importantly, how savvy it is about the company’s particular market segment.”

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JANUARY 13, 2021

But in the grand scheme of things, 10 years is a blip, and one that had a continuous bull market in tech. It turns out capital is not a weapon, especially in the early stages of building a business, and even experienced founders who can raise huge sums often realize this and right-size their asks. There are a few reasons.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

This means being really conservative with your cash burn early on until you have clearly found product/market fit. As a first time founder, having a few million dollars in the bank after a successful seed raise may seem like a huge amount of capital, and it’s easy to lose discipline around your burn rate. Experienced founders: B2B.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Although we had a busy summer, I was fortunate enough to take a bit of time off as well, and to step back for a moment and reflect on Nextview’s strategy and market position going forward. . It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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APRIL 2, 2020

Last week we held a virtual “Lunch and Learn” with Melody and Lee where they had a discussion about what they’re seeing in the market in a covid-19 world, made some predictions about where we are headed in the next couple of weeks to months, and took some questions about the state of VC funding. The Future of Venture Capital.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

I’ve been writing checks for 8 years, and was lucky to get my start in the industry with the team at Spark Capital where I was able to witness some amazing early investments as part of that team. As I start my second 10 years in venture capital, I want to both reflect on some recent learnings that have changed the way I approach the business.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

What hasn’t changed is that our heart lies in working with founders to find product/market fit and to begin to grow. But we also recognize that venture capital is a tough bet as an LP -with long time horizons, lack of liquidity, and uncertain outcomes. Because of this, we are always grateful to all of our LPs for their trust.

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

Part of startups, and subsequently venture capital, is thinking through the scenarios of what could happen on the upside as well as the downside, and what to do in all of those cases. When we use this phrase internally, we’re deliberately creating a culture at NextView of acting “as if” a positive outcome will result.

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JULY 12, 2017

We talk about tough early beginnings, clever market validation tests, and what Shan-Lyn believes about the future of startups and venture capital. The post Inside the Fast-Growing Startup Rethinking Weddings [Traction #44: Shan-Lyn Ma] appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Medium – Venture Capital
. For more resources on growing an audience for your startup, explore the Marketing and Growth section of the NextView platform. The post Inside Mattermark’s Ubiquitous Newsletter: Principles and Process appeared first on NextView Ventures. Nuzzel.com
. Venturenews.co
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Will Quist did a great job of explaining this market rhetoric in this thread. The three-question framework goes as such: Q: How much tech-related market cap will be created in the next 10-20 years? Q: What is going to happen to the cost of capital? So, on one hand, the market see ms like a total frenzy these days.

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JULY 12, 2017

We talk about tough early beginnings, clever market validation tests, and what Shan-Lyn believes about the future of startups and venture capital. The post Inside the Fast-Growing Startup Rethinking Weddings [Traction #44: Shan-Lyn Ma] appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

That trend has been coupled with a proliferation of institutional seed venture capital firms. The first reason is that seed round sizes have gotten larger, doubling over the past ten years with the average growing from $1.1 to $2.4M , now the upper bounds of seed round size we’ve seen as large as $5M+!

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Will Quist did a great job of explaining this market rhetoric in this thread. The three-question framework goes as such: Q: How much tech-related market cap will be created in the next 10-20 years? Q: What is going to happen to the cost of capital? So, on one hand, the market see ms like a total frenzy these days.

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JULY 17, 2019

There may be many fewer series A investors in your home market than elsewhere. The quality, network, or experience of your local investors is likely fairly different from those in other markets. The risk tolerance or expected pricing of investors in your home market may be markedly different from investors in other markets.

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JUNE 16, 2020

However, some of the new ventures crossing our desks… consumer subscription cleaning wipes, UV ray based pathogen killers, air testing for commercial buildings… are almost too reactive to the situation. Sure, there is certainly opportunity for those offerings in the market right now.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Will Quist did a great job of explaining this market rhetoric in this thread. The three-question framework goes as such: Q: How much tech-related market cap will be created in the next 10-20 years? Q: What is going to happen to the cost of capital? So, on one hand, the market see ms like a total frenzy these days.

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MARCH 29, 2018

We wanted to learn more about the nuanced industry market forces before applying the same hands-on investing model we do with tech startups in other verticals. The venture capital market in this category is fairly concentrated among series A and expansion-stage funds that prefer to invest in companies with substantial revenue.

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MARCH 26, 2015

This amount was enough to bring entrepreneurs’ companies to the point where they’d gained enough signs of product-market fit with enough future promise to go out and raise a Series A. When my partners and I started NextView five years ago, the most prevalent Seed round size was $750K-$1M.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Time to set real goals, iterate through real product pushes, craft real go-to-market strategies, make real introductions to downstream investors, the list goes on and on. Our wrap-up day will be hosted in San Francisco and will focus on exposing our geographically diverse teams to the epicenter of venture capital within Silicon Valley.

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APRIL 18, 2018

Also, anyone who might be interested in bringing on an early marketing leader should definitely do whatever they can to try to hire her. . The silver lining is that we are actively recruiting for a new role for the NextView team: Venture Associate – Platform and Network. Please reach out to her to wish her luck!

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

I planned on launching, taking in the feedback, iterating based on the data, and then working hard to get to product-market fit. Just taking any outside capital comes with a lot of responsibilities, including having a fiduciary responsibility to other parties involved in the business. I was just trying to solve this problem.

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