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Seed Stage Founders Undervalue Angels With Marketing & Comms Expertise

Hunter Walker

Seed Stage Startups Don’t Hire Fulltime For These Roles, And Certainly Not Senior Hires. But at the same time, for seed stage needs, I’ve generally found they can provide much value ‘on demand’ without having to be caught up on the intricacies of your business.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

And since we will continue to look proactively at new seed-stage tech startups over the next few years, the question becomes: What, then, will these companies look like? This is hardly a unique investment category, but that’s because the shift in how software is purchased and delivered has been so fundamentally transforming.

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We’re Hiring a Platform and Operations Associate at NextView

View from Seed

From the beginnings of NextView, we have had a commitment to being high-conviction, hands-on, seed stage focused investors. NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with over $200M of committed capital under management. About NextView. A Final Note.

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Pitch Deck Month: The “Where Are You Going?” Slide

View from Seed

*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. As a seed-stage company, it is understandable to have a nascent (or non-existent) product and a barebone team relative to the great ambition of the company. Now it’s time to discuss the “where”.

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The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

Haystack

If you’ve been following my tweets lately, you’ve read some of my quick musings on the state of the seed market this summer. years of investing in the seed stage, I have never seen activity levels like I’m seeing today. In short, in my 6.5 Granted, 6.5 You lose way more than you win.

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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The Consumerization of Business Software. One of the themes that we’ve been most interested in at NextView over the last 12+ months has been the impact of consumer web trends on business software. People have been selling software over the web for awhile and indirect selling via screensharing and webinar, etc isn’t new.

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Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

VC Cafe

I also previously wrote about the rise of consumer subscription as well as the ‘ consumerisation of enterprise software ‘ on VC Cafe, and I recommend Ben Futoriansky’s post with additional benchmarks. The benchmarks are based on the US market.

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