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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

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And since we will continue to look proactively at new seed-stage tech startups over the next few years, the question becomes: What, then, will these companies look like? As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. Empowering Content Creators.

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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

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many if not most of these startups are unlikely to get to significant scale. Much like the early 2000’s, the market environment is fairly tepid given a prolonged period of weakness in startup financing activity and exits. one could argue that the best companies built on mobile, social, and the cloud emerged when the concept of Web2.0

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Announcing NextView’s Entrepreneur Advisors: Part 1

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These individuals have all graciously agreed to continue their prior commitments to NextView-backed startups and entrepreneurs. . Their expertise is focused across the range of software and internet sectors that we focus on here at NextView — from SaaS to e-commerce, ad-tech to mobile.

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How Location-Based Startups Gain Traction City-by-City [Traction #16]

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Despite heroic efforts that pay off in one city, a location-based startup practically hits the reset button when they enter new markets. You can also subscribe to receive every episode plus weekly insights and resources about gaining startup traction.

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Back to The Future: Power of SMS-Native

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Couple that noise with the flurry of AI/messaging startups from a few years back (set off by Facebook’s WhatsApp acquisition), in conjunction with app developers’ notification euphoria… all of which have resulted in a state on our mobile phones where “ our brains being overloaded with push notifications about nothing.”.

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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

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All of these stories are useful for recruiting, internal alignment, and business development—they really serve as analogies for different types of startups. If you can tell these stories well, it will be a huge weapon in your startup’s arsenal. Ultimately, your startup is a hypothesis you’ll build into a theory. then go do X.

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An Alternative to Board Decks Some Seed VCs Actually Prefer

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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. A seed-stage mobile startup’s housekeeping section might look something like this: Section 3: Core Metrics.