View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.) Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., Google tries to cover a variety of topics, from the bare minimum, “Can you code?” This interview covers a wide range of topics also covered in our workshops.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 5, 2013

About half our investments are in companies at true startup stage – i.e. founder + idea, nothing built – and half are in slightly more mature companies, up to late seed stage when there are maybe 5-10 people in the company. Driftrock - a platform for marketing apps for SMEs (including ecommerce companies).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

You’ll notice that Harvard lost 30% of the entire value of its portfolio. You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything. He acknowledged the importance of the growing seed fund movement in creating a new wave of cost-effective innovation.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

645 Ventures 645 Ventures makes deeply-researched investments in institutional Seed to Series A rounds for exceptional companies who demonstrate stellar early results in the areas of market validation, product differentiation, team strength, and brand narrative. These sectors generally leverage the Internet or software in a fundamental way.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

In the software an internet space a number of companies obviously had strong public offerings (LinkedIn, Yandex, Pandora, RenRen, et al). What does seem to be true is that the current aversion for new IPOs is mostly due to general lack of appetite for risk at present, rather than something intrinsic to growing tech companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. We’ll invest $500k in a seed stage deal, $2 million in an A round or $8-10 million in a B round investment or later.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital doesn’t publish frequently, but his essays on market trends and Benchmark portfolio companies are a window into how VCs view the world and the kinds of business models that they find most interesting.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2014

We think of Homebrew as our startup, just one which writes checks instead of code. Eager new VCs often want to look at every deal they can see and can overtax entrepreneurs asking for more time, data, diligence without ever pulling the trigger. For a seed stage fund like Homebrew, chasing hot markets seemed like madness.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Late last week, I wanted to take a step back and review what has transpired the last two years. OUR PORTFOLIO. I’ve done little portfolio overviews from time to time. Probably our biggest “missed-opportunity” was a seed extension. In over half of our portfolio companies, we have invested pre-product.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Computing and software came a few years later for me as access to computers wasn’t as easy or affordable. Software is awesome as it gives you instant gratification. It requires a higher level of discipline than software does. And 2 seed stage companies that haven’t launched yet. Hardware is different.

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View from Seed

JUNE 11, 2015

At NextView, some of the companies we invest in at the seed stage already have a meaningful public presence, while others choose to remain in stealth mode. And specifically when completing a seed round of financing, what are the implications? So what are the pros and cons of either approach? The two main benefits are: 1.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I did study computer science, and I love software, especially open source software, but I just like the challenge of hardware. I liked dealing with the bomb, and I wanted to find this intersection of software and hardware that would lead to a really great product. I really believed in selling hardware.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

Disclose intentions early It’s not a big deal if you’re doing diligence on a competitor. If you are doing diligence on a competitor, or even if you’re just talking to a competitor, disclose it early in the conversation so that the founder understands the reason for your interest. On the commitment front, speed matters as well.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Sometimes it literally is software, like. When founders can do lots of startups, they can start to look at the world in the same portfolio-optimizing way as investors. In essense, let the market design the product.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

At the seed stage, we have backed very non-obvious, non-pedigreed entrepreneurs, in spaces that weren’t obvious, who ended up being amazing. HOW DOES GREYLOCK EVALUATE COMPANIES AT THE SEED-STAGE? ONCE A COMPANY HAS YOUR ATTENTION, WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS IN THE DILIGENCE PROCESS?

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. and Path Intelligence.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

-based Angel capital with early stage technology companies in Israel, and do so in a way that substantially mitigates the risk of seed stage investing. Secondly, we are selling a fixed investment product – a fixed number of investors, a fixed buy-in and a fixed number of portfolio companies.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. Foundry Group, investing primarily in “ Software and Internet ”, follows six major themes, e.g., Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or Distribution. Software is by far the most sought-after class, with 94% of VCs investing in it.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all!

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