Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They chose the name First Round Capital because they thought capital would be deployed most efficiently at smaller seed stage rounds considering the cost to build an internet business had come down drastically. CEO Summit – Two people are invited from each company to attend an event with big name speaking guests.

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Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Cofounder Cram Down 284

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. Another Area of Concern is in the Seed Investor Class. We’ve also become very adept at partnering with seed funds.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Almost two years ago, in a private/closed meeting with K9 Ventures’ LPs only, I claimed that: What was being referred to in the press as the “Series A Crunch” was not because fewer Series A deals were being done, but because there were too many Seed deals being done. Seed stage was super tough.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. For example, stating “angels” is fine, and even highlighting notable names can be useful, but it’s unnecessary to share an exhaustive list. Here we are, at (one of) the final slides.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

And funds also have investments from the partners of the firm. For example, my firm, GRP Partners, has a $200 million fund that was closed in March 2009 and we have 4 investment partners. A fund size of $100 million – $200 million is likely to either be an A round investor or “stage agnostic&#.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

Our program goes back to basics in the most important, effective, and meaningful ways : weekly one-on-one time with partners, hands-on mentorship from experienced advisors, small and selective cohort sizes, and zero demo days or distracting demo day prep involved. ” – Rob Go, Partner . ~~~. Applications are officially open.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2020

by Ash Rust , founder and managing partner of Sterling Road. Given that mindset, it’s only natural that most entrepreneurs jump at the first chance they get to secure early-stage startup funding. However, strategy — not speed — is often the name of the game. Sterling Road is a venture fund focused on pre-seed B2B companies.

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Early Stage Security Angel Investor Lead Investor 165

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product.

Angel Investor 184

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 184

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 25, 2016

In the spirit of clearing out some half-formed thoughts, I wanted to share my response to venture LPs who ask about the effect of “so much money” flowing into the seed space and how we think about its competitive impact upon our fund Homebrew.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 9, 2023

Monitoring Tools for Brand Mentions Google Alerts: A free tool that allows you to set up alerts for mentions of your name, your partner's name, your brand, and even competitors. If you are the founder of a seed-stage company interested in learning more about Mucker funding, apply to MuckerLab and/or contact us.

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SEO PR Reputation Engineer 78

Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

The company’s familiarity is along what we consider to be the three most important criteria for an investment in a seed-stage startup – team, market, and product: Team – Two of the co-founders were well-known to the NextView partnership years before a line of code was even written.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product.

Angel Investor 232

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

My partners and I wanted to peel back the curtain slightly for those of you who’ve been following our progress, and also acknowledge the help and support numerous folks have provided as we got this new VC firm off the ground. As many of you know, NextView is a seed-stage VC fund. Best of luck. PMarchetti. Congratulations!

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

To name a few: 1. I’ll discuss the latter in a second, but first, the increase in investors… A number of super-angels and angel groups institutionalized in the past year, creating a broader set of seed-stage funds, like Converge Venture Partners. More exciting, industry-leading companies.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A “true” fan (or “superfan”) is defined as one who would buy anything you produce – drive a long distance to see you perform, subscribe to your paid newsletter and set up a Google Alert with your name. ” Eric Feng. As a consumer, I am in awe of the creativity and talent of emerging creators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product.

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Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

One of the earliest things we did at NextView when my partners and I started working together was go away as a team to the New Hampshire mountains. At the time, I think we didn’t even had a name for the fund. It’s commonly said that the biggest risk facing a new VC firm is disharmony among the partners.

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Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

At NextView Ventures, we’re hyper-focused on the seed stage, and since starting the firm, we’ve heard repeatedly and consistently from founders that a primary challenge they face during that stage is hiring. And their feedback isn’t about hiring in general, nor is about hiring senior executives. We could be doing more.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 17, 2011

Last summer, I along with my partners announced that we were forming a new micro venture capital firm. At that point, Rob Go, Lee Hower, and I possessed a shared vision and a newly minted name, but were still in the process of forming our approach.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 14, 2017

Enjoy watching… It took the supercomputer Deep Thought (the name seems oddly fitting with the current buzz around Deep Learning!) The investing strategy for K9 stands in stark contrast to most “early-stage” (incubators, accelerators, pre-seed and seed stage) investing. And yes, I’m presently 42.

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Technology LP San Francisco Portfolio 96

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

All five of them (Authentic, Blank Canvas, Golazo, Invited Guest, & Tribe) we’ve listed on our website since it went live a little more than a year ago, and my partners in recent blog posts have discussed in more detail two qualities of our Ethos, Invited Guest and Golazo. At NextView, we aim to be on the far end of the latter side.

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Portfolio Seed Stage Venture Capital Partner 114

Agile VC

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Objective Logistics is taking a pretty sexy approach to a less than sexy, yet massive problem… namely how do you optimize the scheduling of service industry workforces. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

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Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 100

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 23, 2015

Scott Maxwell of OpenView Partners had an awesome post up this morning titled The Truth About VC Value-Add. You may recognize Scott’s name – I wrote about him in my post When VCs Don’t B t You. The next person on the list of supporters is Scott Maxwell at OpenView Venture Partners. Or probably 83 other arguments.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

All five of them (Authentic, Blank Canvas, Golazo, Invited Guest, & Tribe) we’ve listed on our website since it went live a little more than a year ago, and my partners in recent blog posts have discussed in more detail two qualities of our Ethos, Invited Guest and Golazo. At NextView, we aim to be on the far end of the latter side.

Portfolio 100

Portfolio Seed Stage Venture Capital Partner 100

Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

NextView Ventures II is $40M, twice the size of our first fund, and we continue to be exclusively focused on seed-stage companies pursuing internet-enabled innovation. We’ve often explained to entrepreneurs that the second fund of a venture firm is very much like the series A for an early stage company.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2019

Bionic was born six years ago to partner with large enterprises and help them install a new way of working—something we call the Growth Operating System—based on the mindsets, mechanics, and tools of entrepreneurship and venture capital. How did you come up with your business name? Who doesn’t want to be bionic? We’re unbiased.

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Cofounder Founder Entrepreneur Venture Capital 66

View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We only make a small number of investments each year per partner so that we can be hands-on. We take board seats and want to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with founders at the seed stage to try to make the biggest possible impact. – We are seed investors. The least was on the firm’s brochure-ware.

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Seed Stage Startup Portfolio Institutional Investors 120

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

which will help with recruiting employees, finding the best partners, fast-tracking distribution in key countries, and landing marquee customers. Some of the names you want to get in front of include GGV Capital , Sequoia China , IDG-Accel , GSR Ventures , and Qiming Venture Parters.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 21, 2015

Satya and I strongly believe in the value of Boards at the seed stage because they help founders build cadence heading into the A round. When Homebrew lead Shyp’s seed in 2013, I joined their Board. When Sherpa lead the A in 2014, Scott Stanford was added and has been a huge asset.

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Seed Stage Finance Portfolio Leadership 48

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

I was actually somewhat surprised that the following investors have agreed to use the Series Seed documents in certain of the their deals: Baseline, Charles River Ventures, SV Angel (Ron Conway), First Round Capital, Harrison Metal Capital, Mike Maples, Polaris Venture Partners, SoftTech VC and True Ventures. Series Seed.

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Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US.

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

I''m all for transparency, but won''t be naming names in this post as I don''t want to put some entrepreneurs in a difficult position. A year or so later, the entrepreneur did raise a round from a seed stage fund that wanted to have most of the round, but the guy I introduced was able to invest, while I got left on the outside.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 46

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Out of hundreds of applications, we selected six pre-seed stage teams building companies shaping a brighter collective future by combining software and creativity to drive change in the lives of everyday people — their businesses include everything from empowering local main street businesses to making automobile insurance more accessible.

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Seed Stage Programming Finance B2B 285

www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

All of those cost us as much if not more in legal time than the seed round. Ted - I think if you simply remove the spaces in the file names, that should solve the download problems, e.g. the term sheet doc should be renamed to "SeriesSeedTermSheet.doc" Same with the others. :). Posted by: Peter Leahy | 03/02/2010 at 07:33 AM.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

With plenty of resources available for entrepreneurs about how to craft an effective pitch deck for raising seed-stage capital from VCs, often what’s left out are some of the tactical components of an initial meeting. Different partners in a VC firm are different. Mistake #3: Not knowing who you are talking to ahead of time.

Technical Review 308

Technical Review Entrepreneur Due Diligence Seed Stage 308

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

We wholeheartedly believe in the potential of each company we select; the smaller batch size allows the NextView partners, who possess deep operating and founding experiences at companies like LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, and Blue Apron, the space to spend meaningful one-on-one time with each founder every single week. This is true.

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