View from Seed
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved.
Agile VC
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
And even other strong, but perhaps not standout, companies like Active Network and Demand Media completed their own offerings. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. For a time that meant that other category leaders accelerated their own IPO plans… think Groupon and Zynga.
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Up and Running
JUNE 14, 2010
This was before the great recession, but in the middle of the explosion of web apps and social media. VCs needed to invest hundreds of millions of dollars every couple of years, and liked to go into groups and syndications, which meant they wanted deals for a few millions dollars. About three years ago I attended a Web 2.0
Agile VC
OCTOBER 27, 2011
But as social media continues to pervade businesses large and small, and purchase decisions increasingly happen at the user level (see #2) we will see dramatically more customer acquisition happen via the web. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Pingback: silver philharmonic.
Agile VC
MARCH 18, 2012
Why Twitter is A Media Company. CEO Dick Costolo famously said that Twitter is not a media company about six weeks ago at the AllThingsD conference. To be fair, Costolo said that Twitter isn’t a media company but is “in the media business” To some that may be a distinction without a difference.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Tim O’Reilly, CEO, O’Reilly Media, argues , “Blitzscaling isn’t really a recipe for success but rather survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.”
Genuine VC
MARCH 4, 2013
Using real-time image engagement analytics, the company identifies and amplifies brands’ images through initiating paid media and catalyzing earned media. With all of our seed stage investments here at NextView, we both look at the market opportunity as well as the team behind the startup.
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