Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. The bar for protocols is basically a solid idea with some development and a really reputable team. This has become a common way for pre-seed blockchain companies to raise money.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. The bar for protocols is basically a solid idea with some development and a really reputable team. This has become a common way for pre-seed blockchain companies to raise money.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication Convertible Security 48

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Investing in startups is a lot more than just buying “stock” in a company. For investors who have come to the table with a history investing in publicly listed companies or the property market, it’s easy to think that backing startups is largely a “set and forget” strategy. Ask yourself, where is your startup currently struggling?

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 8, 2014

If you’re graduating this spring and starting a career in tech, I’ve got one piece of advice: go work at a midstage startup (I’ll define that as B/C rounds of financing – eg Twilio, Stripe, Airbnb, Warby). Growth Creates Opportunity : Midstage startups are still very much under-resourced and expanding.

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David Cohen

MARCH 18, 2019

Many rounds close with no clear lead investor, especially at seed stage. The person you’re asking doesn’t want the extra responsibility, the extra work, nor the extra risk to their reputation. Asking everyone to be a lead investor before they commit just creates unnecessary friction.

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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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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. VCs who understood the ubiquity, pervasiveness and ultimate profitability of these startups doubled-down on their investments.

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David Cohen

AUGUST 29, 2013

However, I can tell you that I checked this person out and they are completely legitimate and have a strong reputation in their own community. – David, I guess I should preface this by saying we haven’t publicly addressed this and we’re not sure if we want to but this story starts like most in the startup world.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 20, 2018

Like we do at the seed stage, USV almost always plays the role of “ lead investor.” We’re not a “stay on the Board until the end” firm but we are atypical for seed stage funds who more typically don’t take Board responsibilities and step off at the A.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Starting out we really wanted to ensure we got our offering correct – could we effectively deploy capital + sweat + reputation to work with great seed stage founders for the first 3-5 years of their company. ” Phase 1 Bay Area + NYC (2013-14). Could we ensure to support them as people, not just as executives.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 11, 2014

The question I get asked most often is “would Homebrew like to invest in my startup” (and we do our fair share of chasing too -> “please let us invest in your startup!”). And in this business, reputation is very important. ” (b) “Hi Hunter. We exchanged some Twitter messages.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 24, 2017

Folks outside of seed stage venture often think “winning” deals is the most important part of being a great investor, but I’d argue it’s “seeing” the best opportunities that’s actually the strongest indicator of future fund success.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 16, 2014

Rather than using my investors as an excuse to be short-sighted and screw over the first entrepreneur that works in the door, I need to balance their need for return with the long term viability and reputation of the fund and the firm. It also means I need to be really careful about how I''m spending my time.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

So the answer to “Do you guys invest in hardware startups?” So here at NextView we will be investing in them along with all the other forms of internet-enabled seed stage companies. ” is indeed yes. The post Hardware, IoT, and the Long Arc of the Internet appeared first on AGILEVC.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

So the answer to “Do you guys invest in hardware startups?” So here at NextView we will be investing in them along with all the other forms of internet-enabled seed stage companies. ” is indeed yes. The post Hardware, IoT, and the Long Arc of the Internet appeared first on AGILEVC.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 11, 2015

This week, we present Ben Parr , Co-founder and Managing Partner of DominateFund , a seed-stage venture capital fund, and author of the book “ Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention ” (which I highly recommend). My favorite quote: “We pay attention to reputable sources.” I hope you enjoy it. Cheers, Scott.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

When convertible debt first started being introduced as a “faster, cheaper way to get startups funded” they didn’t have pricing built into them. ” And some seed stage investors told me, “I prefer not to fight over price now. You rarely find full ratchets in early-stage deals any more.

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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. As former operators and product-oriented entrepreneurs, Dave, Lee, and I tend to think of our firm as a startup company and our approach to investing as our product.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Seed investors trip over themselves to get a look at the latest YCombinator deals and the entreprenuers in the hottest companies are in the drivers seat on terms. Unfortunately, that’s really not the case for most startups. The investor water cooler occasionally falls victim to reputation racketeering. It’s a bit like dating.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 6, 2015

Hunter: Two main priorities – refine my own playbook and iterate/learn with the urgency of a startup, not a typical VC fund. We raised our first fund on reputation and history. He’s an investor in Uber, Pinterest, Warby, Shyp and many other successful startups. Seed – Manu Kumar/K9. Brad Feld 2.0

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View from Seed

JUNE 11, 2015

Startups and their founders who claim to be in “stealth mode” prior to launch are such a commonplace part of the startup ecosystem that it might seem odd to question its merits. But it’s important to address this head on and ask: What are the benefits of stealth mode for startups, really? .

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Thomas Clayton is the CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. . They have a notorious reputation for copying ideas of others and creating their own versions, and this even applies to companies they have invested in. There are a ton of seed-stage financing options available here.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Startups in NextView’s portfolio frequently receive inbound interest from other VC investors who are intrigued about what they’re doing, and I often talk with other early-stage entrepreneurs how to approach similar situations.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Want to start a startup? A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. Few startups get it quite right. 1 ] A startups life will be more complicated, legally, if any of theinvestors arent accredited.

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ithacaVC

APRIL 5, 2011

Additionally, at the seed stage, investors and the company might want to issue the investors convertible debt to avoid the question of valuation. I stress that the offer is from a real investor with a good reputation. For clarity, it is impossible to issue stock without putting a value on the company. Seems like a win-win.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 6, 2012

Eric’s thoughtful analysis – aimed at startups (and the entrepreneurs at startups) follows. One of the natural consequences that comes with being in an “up” part of the tech boom/bust cycle is that there are an almost overwhelming amount of tech conferences, trade shows, and events that a startup could attend.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

If the goal of the startup is that you know you want to go as big as possible from the beginning — “unicorn or bust,” so to speak — then raise as much capital as soon as you are able to successfully do so. Do you have the experience, reputation, and network that make it relatively easy to raise seed capital?

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

In the largest sector, Internet, median deal size increased at every stage of funding for the first time ever, CB Insights said. Venture capitalists were particularly aggressive on early-stage investments in the second quarter. There were more seed deals than Series A fundings for the first time ever. ATDstartups (Startups).

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 13, 2019

And if your reputation’s present value was the sum total of all future startups brought to you, well, putting that dealflow at risk was an expensive proposition. We invest at the seed stage so companies are still very embryonic. To me, it seemed sensible, even from just a strategic framework, let alone ethical.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

At first I was cynical about his ability to have 500 startups (or some fraction of that which is still larger than any VC has). He stresses the importance of his initial legwork getting his “champions” on board before going to AngelList and feels this is a crucial first step for any startup. I am impressed with his approach.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Despite the seemingly not so humble tagline (“VC Done Right”), I found him to be a ‘grow the pie’ guy who excitedly looks for opportunities to help entrepreneurs and collaborate at the seed stage. I went out west and started knocking down the doors of the most reputable investors that I had been reading about.

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Venture Chronicles

MARCH 23, 2010

Presumably the Startup Visa Act would create a new EB-6 visa that mimics the EB-5 (even takes the allocation) and reduces the required initial investment to $250k and number of full time jobs to 5. Reading the text of the bill it is clear that this bill: takes existing visa and allocates them for the startup visa program.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

“Trade in an asset at a price that strongly deviates from an asset’s intrinsic value” The arguments against that, “This time the startups have real revenues!” In the meantime, the arc of technical progress will continue whatever the interim valuation scorecards of startups show. ” ring hollow.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

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