Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). Summary: Cheap, mobile, social, global, always-on, one-click-purchase =. There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. Where are we today?

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

There is an industry changing shift going on in the internet and mobile-based IT space for sure. Dan believed that consumer internet entrepreneurs have a choice now: traditional VC vs. super seed investors. Is there a bubble going on in seed investing? A recent study said seed stage valuations have been quite static recently.

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Seed Stage Valuation Private Equity Venture Capital 232

View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. As Rob Go wrote , board decks and board meetings can waste loads of time at the seed stage.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Sure there were underlying technology changes driving the success of these companies (mobile app penetration for example), but many of the successor startups relied upon applying a business model innovation to a seemingly new vertical. Labor marketplaces for a variety of professions.

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Technical Review Business Model Technology Software Review 48

View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Even if you’re in the pre-revenue, pre-seed or seed stage, there are still ways to get on a reporter’s radar. No, but a publication that gets into the nitty gritty of mobile development will want those details and then some. Every publication is different, so there’s no single blueprint.

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Seed Stage San Francisco Startup CTO Hire 120

Genuine VC

MARCH 14, 2012

We at NextView have been thinking about and looking for investments in seed-stage startups which leverage the megatrend of transitioning computing away from a standard fixed-web PC world. Of course that includes “mobile-first” applications and companies which ride the adoption of tablet devices (more on those in upcoming posts).

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andrewchen.co

AUGUST 20, 2012

How long will the “seed stage bubble” last? It’s never been easier to raise seed funding, and there’s warnings that we’re in the midst of a “seed stage bubble.” Mobile as the driver. « Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999. -->.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

Windows Mobile has been a disappointment to date but Azure (an outgrowth of the.NET framework) is growing as a force on the cloud/server side. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. FWIW, how do Apple and Facebook stack up in historical context of other widespread software platforms?

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

A New Kind of Venture Firm AutoChrome Autochrome is an inception and seed stage venture capital fund. We invest at the earliest stages in transformative companies that are leveraging technology to move our species forward. Bryant Stibel - Value Growth Cowboy Ventures Cowboy Ventures helps seed-stage technology companies grow.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage 48

Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

My partner Erik Rannala has had a similar experience, having worked as a VC at Harrison Metal before moving down to LA to co-found our seed stage venture firm. LA is the home of Snapchat, Tinder, and Whisper – social mobile apps swinging for the fences.

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Los Angeles Southern California Silicon Valley Technical Review 138

Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

I have a very public seed stage investment policy and awe.sm ” Somebody who had lived with the marketing consequences of trying to track online conversion from websites, google, mobile and social. The decisions were endless, the choices not obvious and the VC involved a pain in the ass. I saw it first hand.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

I certainly bear no ill will to the various firms that ultimately passed on our fundraise… as a seed stage VC myself now I can appreciate how hard it is evaluating companies at the earliest stages of development. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

But in the next 5 years the web and mobile app stores will increasingly be a force in selling and customer acquisition for busines software. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

I think that later stage valuations are frothy (for reasons I explain below) while earlier stage valuations are starting to stabilize from previous highs (with the exception of the superstar serial entrepreneur) - turns out scaling in a sea of competition (both startup and entrenched) is not so easy. Or so it seems.

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Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Investment Bankers 63

Genuine VC

MARCH 14, 2012

We at NextView have been thinking about and looking for investments in seed-stage startups which leverage the megatrend of transitioning computing away from a standard fixed-web PC world. Of course that includes “mobile-first” applications and companies which ride the adoption of tablet devices (more on those in upcoming posts).

Search 100

Search Boston Seed Stage Seattle 100

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Gross Margin: 94% –> i.e. for every $1 of revenue Kayak only spends $0.06 2010 Net Income: $8 million. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Read More ».

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

And, there’s a good reason why; it includes back-to-back essays on mobile, high-growth startups and technology. As president of Y Combinator, the hugely successful seed-stage investor/accelerator, Sam Altman has a lot of knowledge to share. It’s one of my favorites on this list. Follow Andrew on Twitter @andrewchen. Sam Altman.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Silicon Valley Cofounder 60

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Most consumer web/mobile companies focus on user growth and usage early in the company’s lifecycle before shifting to monetization. You will be benchmarked on revenue and paying customers when you seek Series A funding… conceivably even at seed stage.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

According to all of the blogosphere chatter over the past month, seed-funded internet startups are entering this year gearing up for the now-near-infamous Series A Crunch. Not to say that there aren’t plenty in the category of photo-sharing apps or mobile games which required mass audience which never materialized.

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Mucker Lab

JANUARY 1, 2014

Google finally fixes the problem with mobile (discovery, search, distribution, tracking, monetization, a/b testing) and races ahead while Apple waxes nostalgically for 2010. Huge funding gap appears for seed stage companies as seed stage VC firms look for series A traction and accelerators look for seed stage traction.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. Meanwhile, the bubble for “seed stage&# startups began when Ron Conway’s Silicon Valley Angels and DST guaranteed every startup out of a YCombinator $150,000. We are seeing this bubble unfold by the book.

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Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

Mucker Lab

JANUARY 1, 2014

Google finally fixes the problem with mobile (discovery, search, distribution, tracking, monetization, a/b testing) and races ahead while Apple waxes nostalgically for 2010. Huge funding gap appears for seed stage companies as seed stage VC firms look for series A traction and accelerators look for seed stage traction.

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Seed Stage Early Stage Distribution Bootstrapping 60

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

This seed-stage fund is named 50/50 since Frank + Oak plans to grant 50 percent of the fund to female entrepreneurs and 50 percent of the fund to male entrepreneurs. As CEO Thomas Smyth told VentureBeat, “Basically we want to see how many people we can help before Comcast shuts us down.”. You can read more about the Fund here.

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Seattle Portfolio Seed Stage Canada 130

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

To date our messaging has been clear, but we also could not ignore the fact that companies like Plain Vanilla Games took off quickly and became known as the fastest growing mobile game in history. BOLDstart helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round.

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Genuine VC

JULY 17, 2012

Even though it narrows the scope of possibilities, an extra level of specificity jogs the thinking for things that are current, as well as plants the seed for recognition recall in the future.

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Networking Seed Stage Early Stage Mobile 136

techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

This is just the next phase of AngelList’s evolution into a one-stop shop for seed-stage companies and their backers. Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Disrupt NY. After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 4, 2014

Ones which bring the efficiency of software into traditionally unsexy verticals via a new mobile app. There are other good blog posts about the economics of a venture fund, why we fetishize billion dollar “ unicorns ” (even if I think that’s a silly question to ask at seed stage ).

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 2, 2015

San Diego-based everyStory, a cloud-based story sharing mobile app and platform, announced it has acquired StoryPress of Austin. Mike Davis, CEO of StoryPress, launched the website in 2013 and a year later completed a successful Kickstarter campaign and raised $500,000 in seed stage capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

Examples include mobile health monitoring, NFC (near field communication) and virtual-reality systems. Multiple startups can now spawn solutions from the technology, and position themselves for rapid customer growth and early seed-stage support from investors. Slope of enlightenment.

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Management Startup Stealth Seed Stage 120

Agile VC

JANUARY 12, 2012

When a startup doesn’t match the stage where a particular investor focuses, founders may get a response along the lines of “This is interesting to us, but come back once you get from X phase to Y phase” That could be from seed stage to a larger Series A financing need, or to progress from pre-product to post-revenue.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 100

SiliconHills

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Boxer, an inbox management app, has landed $3 million seed stage funding led by Sutter Hill Ventures. “As mobile devices have become our primary means of receiving and reading […] The post Boxer Snags $3 Million in Seed Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Seed Stage Austin Mobile Technology 65

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

I like to break-out startup growth into four stages, not too dissimilar to four years of high school education: freshman, sophomores, juniors and seniors. Sophomores are beta site to full production site with initial users (seed stage angels—raise $500K to $1MM). But, that is, by far, the exception to the rule.

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Valuation Forecast Seed Stage .Net 167

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm. Read More ».

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

We are looking for a passionate, outgoing, and talented individual embedded within the local Boston entrepreneurial community to facilitate information sharing between NextView portfolio companies, spearhead community-building & outreach efforts, and help promote our firm.

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Community Boston Seed Stage Venture Capital 113

View from Seed

DECEMBER 7, 2017

But private ownership of cars is likely to exist even in this bold new future at some level, and mobility will be a significant household expenditure, regardless of what form it takes. As we’ve said before, as seed-stage investors, we think broadly about these opportunities and the interconnectedness of many of them.

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