View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

Similarly, FOLD has always held seed investors back from doing second seed or late seed investments for fear that they are being suckered into something that others have already passed on.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

At NextView Ventures we have written many pieces about venture capital — how to raise it, build your business, engage with investors, iterate your product, navigate expanding industries, etc. Rethinking the Standard Fundraising Deck “I’d make it crystal clear what your product actually does. VCs sure do love writing.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

Of course, a certain amount of initial capital without financial performance is absolutely necessary to get a business off the ground, especially in regulated industries. Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue.

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Cofounder Burn Rate Technical Cofounder Seed Capital 127

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step. Seed capital is a component of the initial investments made in young businesses.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Over the past five years, we’ve witnessed an Atomization of the Seed Stage. Early fundraising is no longer a one-and-done fundraise of a single round of Seed capital subsequently followed by a Series A 12–18 months later. Crisply define when the “real” business started.

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View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

Based on that reaction, we wanted to continue improving the product through both additional revs/design and continuing to evolve how we think about board meetings in the first place. How to Approach Your First Board Meeting After Raising Seed Capital. Critical Tasks to Complete After Raising Seed Capital [Founder Checklist].

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Each gathering showcases early stage startups in their infancy, not as a capital-raising pitch, but rather as a way to show off their product to peers for both exposure and feedback. Seed capital is more readily available, including of course through NextView Ventures. The origins of WebInno are humble.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

And to today, when its major product is simply innovation. the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. Today startups build products differently.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Note: When I say “seed stage startup,” I’m specifically referring to software/app startups that are eitherpre-product or early product. Startup X launches with XX millions of dollars of seed capital from a star-studded list of investors”. … Traction: The new way of raising seed funding.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Startup Venture Capital 100

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Wave after wave of hardware, software, biotech and cleantech products have emerged from what has become “ground zero” of entrepreneurial and startup culture. Compressing the Product Development Cycle. This meant building every possible feature the founding team envisioned into a monolithic “release” of the product.

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Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review 335

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

We slept under the tables, and pulled all-nighters to get to first customer ship, man the booths at trade shows or ship products to make quarterly revenue – all because it was “our” company. And Mark Suster of Upfront Capital has a great post that summarizes these changes. It’s called Growth capital.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Stuck in a meeting which wasn’t productive. The service trends these Net Meeting Scores over time, benchmarking meetings to other people’s, teams’, and companies’, while also providing actionable recommendations that can result in real change & improvement in productivity. Meetings can suck. I know that you’ve been there.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

If you have a technical background and you are focused on product development, consider a co-founder with a sales and marketing background that can focus on selling your world class product. Rather, give titles such as VP of Engineering, Product/Technology, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc. Early Stage.

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Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Cofounder CTO Hire 79

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Facts: Many popular startup companies are tech companies because they can create highly specific products quickly and distribute it to a large audience fast, but a startup does not necessarily have to be a technology company. Create a specific product that satisfies the needs of your target market. Start on your good idea.

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Cofounder Montana Startup Seed Capital 100

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So I recently re-shared a 2019 blog post where I’d basically advised founders who’ve raised seed capital to worry less about “how will I raise the next round” and more about “how will I execute my plan?” They’re hiring remote roles in engineering and product design.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Seed stage VCs are realistic about how much traction a very raw company might have. At NextView we invest across the spectrum of seed stage companies so roughly 1/3rd of the companies we invest in are pre-product, roughly 1/3rd are post-product but pre-revenue, and perhaps 1/3rd have some very early revenue.

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

Do you have a great team at your seed startup, but your product just isn’t working? Do you wish there was a product to help companies “Get things done” by leveraging your own employees, your employees’ networks, and more broadly other influencers around you? You must have a strong product management pedigree.

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America Technical Review Advisory Board Due Diligence 60

David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

Looking 4 entrepreneurial product mgr/biz-dev killer 4 a network-based service. Do you have a great team at your seed startup, but your product just isn’t working? I am only interested in talking with people who want to work full-time on this, once we have raised capital (or ideally before). We’re off to the races!

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America Technical Review Advisory Board Due Diligence 60

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Many failed entrepreneurs believed that as long as they had a large amount of seed capital, they could begin their startup and before long make it big. A Target Audience and a Saleable Product. This simply isn’t true and is why they were doomed to fail for not following one of the basic startup tips.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Raising Seed Capital – crowdspring.co/MX18CE. don’t return investors’ capital” – crowdspring.co/1dhuwIO. How about one of these strange products? Amazon is surprisingly quiet/inactive when it comes to acquisitions | Re/code – crowdspring.co/1dhwOrm. What’s up with the Series A?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I have heard many founders — even in the first few months of product development — expect to raise seed rounds, pay themselves salaries, etc. Your first three years you will get the startup off the ground, establish your core team culture, and fully validate your main product/market through rapid iteration.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. 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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Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage 106

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

CargoX has developed a decentralized platform based on the Ethereum network, and their Blockchain Document Transaction System (BDTS) technology, and it has a pipeline of future products for the supply chain industry?—?among among them the Smart L/C and other trade finance solutions, and Smart Air Waybills for the air freight industry.

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Slovenia Technical Review Startup Seed Capital 62

View from Seed

DECEMBER 1, 2015

We compare and contrast software to hardware in this episode, examining three core aspects of building any company: Building early products (customer dev, prototypes, etc.). Raising seed capital. (In Acquiring initial customers (including one “magic” number Ben proposes for a hardware startup to reach).

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Seed Capital Early Stage Startup Channel 120

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In general, raising seed capital in a down market requires creative thinking and perseverance. In a down market, it’s easier for tech companies to focus on their product and mission. But with the right approach, it is still possible to get the funding you need to start your business or project.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

A few weeks ago, we launched two startup pitch deck templates for raising seed capital — part of NextView’s platform of exclusive startup resources. Again, like the above mentioned “why” slide, this clarity and focus is also great practice for selling your product to customers. #3:

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Technical Review Seed Stage Boston Startup 120

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Good interview with @jasonfried about meetings, spam, productivity & culture – [link]. If your product is Great, it doesn’t need to be Good. Fun contest for young entrepreneurs looking for seed capital (w/ cash prize & mentoring) – [link]. Cognitive Fluency, easy = true – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 88

Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

The notion of “founder fit” seems to have its roots in what entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen calls “product/market fit”the idea that you should be in a good market and be in possession of a product that can satisfy that market. Really, its a precursor to product/market fit.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. You needed to find the most scrappy and cost efficient way to get a product out, and in the process learned tons about the market and customer you are trying to serve.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. Does our product or service solve a customer problem (product-market fit)? But to achieve scale, startups need risk capital.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

With the atomization of seed and an increasing number of rounds prior to Series A (pre-seed, seed, super-seed, etc.), by tying it to a strategic event: a product launch, and partnership announcement, or some other key milestone which the industry landscape should care about. and hopefully media coverage?—?by

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In reality the “private capital market” now really consists of three distinct markets: Seed capital (the start), Venture capital (scale or bust) and Growth Capital (private IPOs). That is why you’ve seen so many VC firms that only 20 years ago have $150 million funds raise $ billion growth vehicle.

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Venture Capital IPO Mezzanine Early Stage 292

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Venture capital is a great instrument for high growth companies, or those who are very early in their development but intend to pursue a high growth strategy. They’re hiring lots of folks across engineering, product, design, marketing, sales and such! And for venture-backed startups this tends to be “get them customers.”.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

It’s a world that doesn’t fit our seed-focused model and fund strategy. Outside of life-sciences, we’ve noticed something interesting emerging: There is a huge dearth of seed capital for health care services and software-driven health-tech companies. 2) Direct-to-Consumer Health Products.

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Vertical Stealth Portfolio Seed Capital 120

Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

Raising seed capital is a tricky business. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. When launching your company there are 2 times to raise your outside seed funding, and one time window to avoid. when you are just starting, probably no product or service yet.

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Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Early Stage Cofounder 20

Genuine VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

For entrepreneurs, seeking seed capital means meeting with numerous VC firms and sometimes dozens of angels… fun? But that doesn’t mean it can’t be productive beyond obtaining the capital itself : Running a great fundraising process involves crafting real story and not just a pitch. Those three letters.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Once a startup has raised seed capital, plenty of theories and advice exist on how to successfully raise a Series A. Foster product development and marketing which creates organic (or somewhat organic) user traction. They may not raise Series A quicker, but they’re more likely to raise more dollars. They are: 1.

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