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MAY 24, 2021

NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $200M+ of committed capital under management. You will be based in the NYC office. However, you will serve as a co-pilot on deals with all four partners, across the geographies we cover. About NextView. A Final Note.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The post Seed-Stage Startups: Beware the “Stickiness Squeeze” appeared first on NextView Ventures. In softer time, there will be a lot of hard decisions to make for founders with respect to culture and morale, but nothing will impact them more then the stickiness of prices to run their businesses.

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MAY 19, 2015

To me, the most exciting (and most perilous) times in a company’s lifecycle are the early first stages when it is just getting off the ground. At the seed stage, the founder’s or co-founders’ role in the company is essential and therefore carries a great deal of risk for missteps.

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JANUARY 28, 2015

In the last six months, we’ve been asked and answered several key questions about seed-stage startups and raising seed capital. All we do is seed — we focus on it, we want to be the best seed partner, and we obsess over helping startups through that first, formative 18-24 month period.

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MARCH 24, 2021

How to Sell Your Startup’s “Secret” Master Plan at the Seed Stage “Articulating and selling your long run vision is important, but trying to convince those that are deeply skeptical about it is simply a mutual waste of time.” Seed stage startups are now graded on a curve.”

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APRIL 16, 2015

The post Value Inflection Points for Seed-Stage Startups appeared first on The View From Seed.' The concept of an MVP requires the “V,” and in some cases, you can’t get to “V” without real resources. That’s when it’s important to raise more money sooner, even at the risk of more significant dilution from the start.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

The post The Market Size Fallacy for Seed-Stage Startups appeared first on NextView Ventures. In particular, he asked one very clever question of VCs to run a smoother, more effective process, culminating in four term sheets from interested, lead investors.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

The post The Market Size Fallacy for Seed-Stage Startups appeared first on The View From Seed. In particular, he asked one very clever question of VCs to run a smoother, more effective process, culminating in four term sheets from interested, lead investors.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

As a seed stage VC, I have a unique privilege of confidentially spending time with a number of entrepreneurs throughout their company formation and initial product development process. Rather than just a harmless, misplaced attitude, this copycat fallacy can be a detriment to seed stage founders for two reasons.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $500M+ of capital under management. We will work together to leverage the firm’s platform to help you thrive. You will be based in the NYC office but will be able to pursue investments across North America. About NextView.

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MAY 3, 2016

Listen in these places or wherever you get your podcasts: The post Make a Living, Not a Life: Inside WeWork’s Seed Stage with Jesse Middleton [Traction #23] appeared first on NextView Ventures. You can also subscribe to the NextView weekly newsletter about startup traction at bit.ly/nvsubscribe. nvsubscribe.

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APRIL 2, 2015

To focus on hiring briefly: Seed-stage startups lack early traction but make up for it with tons of promise. The post Accidental VC: How Much Does Design Matter for Seed-Stage Startups? appeared first on The View From Seed. Because in the end, a little design can indeed go a long way. Accidental VC'

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JANUARY 13, 2015

“As a seed-stage investor, should you pay up for team or traction?” So, if you are going to pay up as a seed-stage investor, pay up for team. The post Should Seed-Stage VCs Pay Up for Great Teams or Great Traction? appeared first on The View From Seed.' The Case for Traction.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Our seed stage board deck templates , Hitchhiker’s Guides to the tech communities in Boston and New York , and our startup job guide are some of our most well received projects, and you can check them all out here. There is obviously a lot that goes into building an early stage company. Establishing an excellent early team.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Our seed stage board deck templates , Hitchhiker’s Guides to the tech communities in Boston and New York , and our startup job guide are some of our most well received projects, and you can check them all out here. There is obviously a lot that goes into building an early stage company. Establishing an excellent early team.

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MARCH 31, 2015

Editor’s note: Unlike the Ubers and Airbnbs of the tech startup world, seed-stage companies don’t typically have the valuations, awareness, or traction typically associated with press coverage. That said, coverage is important, and early-stage companies would be wise to work with local press in addition to national.

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JUNE 7, 2016

Today we’re thrilled to re-launch our most popular resource ever: board deck templates for seed-stage startups. Said another way, seed-stage companies can be led by a founder; scaling companies require a CEO. At the seed stage, where NextView invests, a highly structured board often isn’t a requirement.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. However, our overall goal is to invest in the full spectrum of seed. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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MARCH 8, 2016

Jesse recently sat down with NextView (I assume he was sitting anyway — we spoke on the phone) to talk seed-stage company branding, building a startup identity, and some of the most common mistakes founders make when establishing a name for their companies. Whether we like to admit it or not, the best product does not always win.

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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. Seed stage startups are now graded on a curve. raise $1.8M

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

We are high-conviction, hands-on seed stage investors. We will continue to be hands-on, high-conviction seed stage investors. And as someone coming in at the ten-year mark, I can objectively say that this mantra, this north star, this guiding principle, has worked, and it has worked really well. .

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Traction is a biweekly podcast where founders share the creative or unusual things they did during the seed stage to make early progress. Everyone knows startups should do scrappy things that “don’t scale” — this show explores what those things actually are.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Seed stage companies will mostly face questions around the team and market. When a founder is raising money, he/she should expect that any serious investor will conduct some level of due diligence before getting to yes. This could look somewhat different depending on the maturity of the business.

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MARCH 22, 2016

Even if you’re in the pre-revenue, pre-seed or seed stage, there are still ways to get on a reporter’s radar. Editor’s note: You can find more resources around PR, content marketing, and customer acquisition for seed-stage startups in the Marketing & Growth section of our platform.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 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. You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. After you’ve covered the team and have established some credibility around your company, it’s time to talk about the “what”.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

And seed VCs, especially as new firms were being established, were eager to encourage their portfolio startups to plant that flag in the ground publicly. It seemed like every other TechCrunch post was announcing a startups’s new seed financing round. Seed stage companies just aren’t announcing their rounds anymore.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. As Rob Go wrote , board decks and board meetings can waste loads of time at the seed stage.

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MAY 21, 2020

In some respects, one of the often non-intuitive privileges of a seed stage fundraising process is that the company is so new. The reality is that when fundraising for a successive financing round along the seed stage continuum , all startups are graded on a curve based on the amount of time and capital which has gone into the company.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Because of this, there is a glut of companies out there that can’t quite get to a series A and are raising second or third seed rounds. This creates the illusion that there are a lot of great companies at the seed stage that are actually post-product/market fit. So, investors can wait around asking for more traction.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. First and foremost, angels can provide capital.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

That said, there are many companies that seed funds back that never consider YC, and quite a few great companies do raise money from seed funds before or after the program. But I’d say that it’s obvious that YC has been the most powerful force in the seed stage startup and VC industry over the last 10 years.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

We are high-conviction, hands-on seed stage investors. We will continue to be hands-on, high-conviction seed stage investors. And as someone coming in at the ten-year mark, I can objectively say that this mantra, this north star, this guiding principle, has worked, and it has worked really well. .

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Investors take chances when they invest in seed stage companies, but founders take a profoundly larger chance when selecting a lead investor or board member for their company. We will never take it for granted. Most importantly, we want to say thank you to each and every founder that we’ve had the privilege to work with.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

But for a true seed-stage company or for folks just thinking about companies to start or products to build, I think surveys are generally terrible. Surveys kind of lull you into a false sense of security. They are pretty easy to create, give you what seems like quantitative data, and are very familiar to most people.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We invest at the seed stage, and so product/market fit is always a significant risk. We try to have a blend of companies across the risk spectrum (although all with a seed stage point of entry) and we balance this level of risk with the pricing that the market is willing to bear at different points in time.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I’m often surprised by how much effort seed stage teams put into building an early product and how little credit that receives from investors. And the ultimate uncertainties for a seed stage company are around talent and customer demand. But the way the market values this early work can vary greatly.

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JUNE 21, 2019

NextView Ventures has been around now for nearly a decade, having invested in over eighty seed stage companies along the way. On top of that, all four partners here spent meaningful time at other venture firms previously in our careers. The same is for startups.

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