View from Seed

JULY 17, 2019

Our portfolio company Troops accomplished this very well by being a real thought leader around messaging based startups and companies building on top of the Slack ecosystem, which helped them raise their Series A and Series B from outside their home geography. I know this all sounds like a lot of work, and it is.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

The journey of every startup is so different. Startups pioneering the future of remote work. No startup relocation, temporary or permanent, is necessary or requested for NextView’s 100% virtual accelerator program. Benchmark Labs: San Diego, California. Comet Health: San Francisco, California .

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2014

Once I had a few under my belt, I realized I was a start-up junkie, and founded Five Mill Ventures in San Francisco before I was 30. A great example of the Five Mill strategy at work can be seen in one of our most recent startups, a sock company called Argoz. It’s fun, because we spend very little, and make a lot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups. But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. Just like with startups, this is a hybrid question. So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 28, 2010

– a seed-stage fund. is a $6.25M fund that is designed to do concept and seed-stage investments in technology companies. Capital Efficient : Companies that need a Seed round, probably a Series A, but potentially may not need a Series B or Series C. K9 Ventures, L.P. No retail, no cleantech, no biotech etc.

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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. Implications for Founders.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 1, 2017

In 2015, Filestack moved to San Antonio from San Francisco. The startup, founded in 2012 by four MIT students and a graduate of the Y Combinator program, raised $1.8 million in seed stage capital from Andreessen Horowitz, Highland Capital and SV Angel. It also received additional funding from Xenon Ventures.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 1, 2017

In 2015, Filestack moved to San Antonio from San Francisco. The startup, founded in 2012 by four MIT students and a graduate of the Y Combinator program, raised $1.8 million in seed stage capital from Andreessen Horowitz, Highland Capital and SV Angel. It also received additional funding from Xenon Ventures.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 18, 2015

Here is the video recording of the talk I gave at 500 Startups ‘ PreMoney Conference in San Francisco on 12 June. . Seed Is The New A: What The Seed-Stage Explosion Means For Founders, GPs & LPs. Thanks to 500 Startups #PreMoney. And the deck from my talk.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

which was a $6.25M fund designed to be deployed over 3-4 years, making initial investments between $100K – $250K in concept and seed stage technology companies located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Even if a startup meets all of these criteria that doesn’t mean that K9 will invest.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

which was a $6.25M fund designed to be deployed over 3-4 years, making initial investments between $100K – $250K in concept and seed stage technology companies located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Even if a startup meets all of these criteria that doesn’t mean that K9 will invest.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

Flying back to San Francisco, spending some time in my Pocket since I rarely read anything when it’s actually published. Here are a bunch of posts that I enjoyed, most VC or startup related, so if you don’t care about that stuff, skip this.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

Earlier today, the folks from Afore Capital hosted their inaugural “Pre-Seed Summit” in San Francisco. About 150 people showed up, a healthy mix of founders, seed-stage investors and big fund VCs, and a bunch of LPs of various sizes. 4/ LPs noted that the term “pre-seed” is really a U.S.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 26, 2016

San Francisco playgrounds introduced me to The Crippler. Oh, and something about startups and seed stage investing My daughter has always enjoyed climbing. As a toddler she would scale cabinets, jungle gyms and any other object upon which she could get a foothold.

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Hippoland

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Your MBA is good for negotiating a salary amongst large companies or even possibly for jobs other people’s startups but not with yourself and the company you own. Your cost to get a startup up and running in the Bay Area will probably be about 2-5x higher than say in Las Vegas. The cost of living will influence your salary a lot.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

At the seed stage, no matter how much you know about an industry or a founder, you’re still taking a real bet. On top of all this, I was settling into San Francisco. The other thing that can be a bit of a surprise is that venture capital can be pretty lonely, especially compared to working at a startup or company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so. And the number one destination outside of LA is San Francisco.

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Rob Go

JULY 18, 2019

Our portfolio company Troops accomplished this very well by being a real thought leader around messaging based startups and companies building on top of the Slack ecosystem, which helped them raise their Series A and Series B from outside their home geography. I know this all sounds like a lot of work, and it is.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Supercities, such as the San Francisco Bay Area, have traditionally attracted lots of newcomers into the network because that’s where the jobs, the labor pool, and the prospects for economic growth lie. Private capital Seed, or very early-stage startup capital, is inherently local. Venture capital.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Of course, that was not 100% true, with innovative startups and large outcomes occurring in Europe, in Asia, and other parts of the USA. Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent? People are voting with their feet.).

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Urbanization of Startups. I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). Also all the big anchor companies that a startup might want to partner with at that time (eBay, Google, Oracle, Yahoo!,

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Our kickoff day will be hosted in New York and will focus on establishing inter-cohort relationships while commencing our pre-seed tailored programming. Our wrap-up day will be hosted in San Francisco and will focus on exposing our geographically diverse teams to the epicenter of venture capital within Silicon Valley.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We expanded to Houston, San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles within months, and we were generally doing all the things and seeing all the things that a startup needed to do and see in order to feel good about VC funding prospects. startups with billion-dollar valuations) in recent years.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. 9 Tips for Raising Startup Funds on AngelList. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. Trending Stories. Duqu Virus Tied to Microsoft Windows Bug.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That company was founded on filling a need Robert saw while living in San Francisco and working on a radio startup. "I Afterwards, I was living in the Tenderloin in San Francisco, and my company was basically running out of money. I've been so focused on electronics hardware.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. SEE ALSO: 8 Crucial Elements of Startup Success Many first-time entrepreneurs envision getting in the door with the right venture capitalists (VCs), financial deities who will nurture their ideas and lavish cash upon them.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. I found your suggestions in the article “Startup Mistakes: The Partnership Gone Sour&# especially useful.

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

In coming months, many entrepreneurs are looking for the best sources to help fund the startups they have planned. billion invested in 374 startups in that area. This region is well-known as the home of Silicon Valley, as well as a growing tech hub in the San Francisco Bay Area. That figure was an increase from $2.3

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. The “haves&# possess money, power, influence, or the right friends with those qualities.

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View from Seed

MARCH 10, 2015

We felt that, without the app, you had all these different news sources but no single places to consume them all, whether you’re a New York sports fan living in San Francisco like me who just wants to keep up with your teams, or you’re a diehard in your hometown who follows every single professional and amateur blogger.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . Thirty-four VC firms in OpenVC call themselves “early-stage” Yet, 30% of those don’t actually invest in pre-revenue startups. 7) Stage-defined funds.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

AngelList Launches Docs To Help Startups Sign And Close Seed Rounds Online With Low Legal Fees. The hybrid social network, communication and crowdsourcing platform allows startups to access investors, and has also become a resource for investors looking to boost dealflow and connect with other investors. Enterprise. Smartphones.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

There has been no shortage of controversy and criticism around the convertible note, a popular investing vehicle that’s used by seed stage and angel investors. Ressi estimates that the debt note now accounts for over 50% of all angel and early stage deals. Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones. CrunchBase.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Over the years, we have spent a lot of time in four key geographies: Toronto (nine investments), San Francisco (15 investments), New York City (five investments), and Seattle (four investments). These are important hubs where we have a strong network and the critical mass that are helpful for a growing startup.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 26, 2011

This week, we are sharing a bonus video: the first keynote address at the 7th Founder Showcase in San Francisco entitled “The Anatomy of a Fundable Startup,” presented by Naval Ravikant. Each week, we share a favorite video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics.

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