Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

But now you can learn the origins first hand on this YouTube video as well as how to approach them, how they make decisions and what innovations they've introduced. I have sat on a board with Howard and have known him a few years. I am simply blown away by his industry knowledge, contacts, detail orientation and hard work.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Along those lines, I’m excited to work with the NextView Ventures team over the next and final six months of my time at HBS to examine more of the data and help build institutional seed-stage funding into the fabric of the emerging Harvard tech cluster. Boston’s talent pool is unparalleled.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

. “Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator.

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View from Seed

JUNE 11, 2019

I believe it’s more important to optimize on the right lead investor vs. the highest valuations at the seed stage (within reason). The strongest investors usually aren’t cheap, but typically don’t do things outside of the normal bounds for a company at the seed stage.

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

of teams’ online pitch decks and recorded videos, as well as loved the dozens of second-round video conversations which we had with Founders working on quite compelling startups. First, we were pleasantly overwhelmed with submissions over the past few weeks since we opened up applications.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The number of enabling platforms for creators has grown to all media types including music, social, gaming, education, publishing, adult video and so on. Anyone can download a Tiktok video or copy it, forward a newsletter or share ‘exclusive’ images with friends on Whatsapp. Creators Platform Dependency.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The top seed-stage tech and consumer startups in Texas. We’re launching our virtual Texas Startups Roadshow (November 17–19) within GEW to showcase and elevate the Texas innovation ecosystem on the world stage while connecting startups with local and out-of-state investors. Who should attend the roadshow? Why are we doing this?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

I'm a mentor and investor in CapitalFactory , a seed-stage startup mentorship program in Austin, TX. For more details, including the application process and a great 3-minute video which includes interviews from the 2009 companies, see the CapitalFactory home page. Help me spread the word about this program! Leave a comment.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Pitch 1: I had an awesome young entrepreneur come in this week to talk about his seed stage business. He wasn’t really ready to raise VC but wanted to meet me early in his process and wanted some help thinking through potential angel or seed stage investors. It was a 1-on-1 meeting between the two of us.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

One day, I watched a Y Combinator video about how to incorporate a startup through Clerky. So I have embraced it fully, and though we are still in the early stages (seed stage), it’s the hardest thing I have ever done yet it’s the most fulfilling thing to me. After confirming it in prayer, I was off to New York City.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Clarify, which makes audio and video search technology, announced Wednesday that it has closed on $1 million in seed stage financing.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

The notable alumni able to secure substantial funding success from VCs like Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, and Softbank include ShelfLife (ordering marketplace for food & beverage brands – $3M Seed round), Jambb (NFT crypto platform for video content – $3.5M Applications are officially open. Who you are.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

He’s dubbed the approach “ pretotyping ,” and it shares many of the same principles as both its similar-sounding (if later-stage) cousin, prototyping, as well as the more well-known lean startup movement. NextView Ventures: For those who might be unfamiliar, what is this concept of pretotyping?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

If you enjoy this blog I think you’ll enjoy watching the first 14 minutes of this video (just click on the image of me below). Heck, stick around and watch me discuss the seed funding debate that is going on right now and what is happening in the VC industry overall. If you watch the video I go into greater detail.

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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. And the deck from my talk. Thanks to 500 Startups #PreMoney. As always I welcome your thoughts and feedback.

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Scott Edward Walker

AUGUST 9, 2013

Each week, we share a favorite video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. The analysis at the seed stage is a fairly succinct one”: there must be (i) a strong founding team, (ii) going after a real problem and (iii) in a very large market. I hope you enjoy it. Cheers, Scott.

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View from Seed

JULY 28, 2016

This is a credible photo or video of a solution. These images or videos should support your claims, educate your customers, and persuade them to proceed. Of course, it’d be nice to list some big numbers, but at the seed stage, that’s just not possible. Hero shot (main image). Social proof.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 16, 2015

million in seed stage funding. “The telemedicine industry has been experiencing enormous growth over the last 12 months, and video visits are […] The post Chiron Health Raises $2.3 The Austin-based company also released its iPhone and iPad app for patients. Million appeared first on SiliconHills.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

This is just the next phase of AngelList’s evolution into a one-stop shop for seed-stage companies and their backers. Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Disrupt NY. After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 4, 2013

Of course the same broadband penetration trends which catapulted the rise of online video over the previous decade also empowered delivery of image-heavy web pages. With all of our seed stage investments here at NextView, we both look at the market opportunity as well as the team behind the startup.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 7, 2017

But in addition to their inherent benefit as incentive mechanisms for distributed projects, they appear to be a useful new approach for certain types of organizations to raise funds — just as crowdfunding has been effective for everything from video game developers to hardware startups.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A picture is worth 1,000 words so I’ve collected a few videos that bring these potential use cases to life. Beyond just a giant screen (which is also cool) the volumetric video stuff looks amazing. I especially like these graphics on real world surfaces or video. So much so, that the term ‘Glasshole’ was born.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 11, 2015

Each week, we share a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.”

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A lot of people talked about the rise of UGC and how it might displace a large amount of professionally produced video content (TV shows and movies). And YouTube, how-to websites, and others have offered both an audience and monetization outlet for small scale video producers. Content was no longer king. Filed under Uncategorized.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 25, 2013

Each week we share a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. I think objectively there are too many seed-stage companies…The good news is, I don’t think it’s a systemic problem.” (at To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.”

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2011

TokBox , a US-based video chat startup, raised $12 million in Series C funding from DAG Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Bain Capital last November, after going through a significant pivot. TokBox essentially stopped developing its consumer facing product, instead focusing on Open Tok, its video chat API , as its core business.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

We’ll look at the model stage-by-stage. Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 1, 2017

When people say “there are more seed investors” than ever, usually they are talking about the ample seed dollars available for companies who are already thriving and growing. This is still in experimental stages, but the initial feedback from the first one was promising, so I plan to tweak this concept more and continue it in 2017.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

I have to say that I’m not a fan of the brand “Qwikster” for the DVD-by-mail service, though I think it’s good that group will expand into other media types like video games (a la Gamefly). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl. Read More ».

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Seed-stage investors are learning the metrics of traction, and are getting better at identifying those companies that are really achieving validated learning about customers. If our goal is just to create a blog or a YouTube video as a hobby, there’s no need for this kind of rigorous process. Expo SF (May.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

And 2 seed stage companies that haven’t launched yet. If you do a launch of any kind, you will most definitely need a video. The production quality of videos has also gone up to keep pace with user expectations and that also means that the cost of producing such videos has also risen accordingly.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

So it's not a video, it’s something you can play with. If you are the founder of a seed-stage company interested in learning more about Mucker funding, apply to MuckerLab and/or contact us. For example, Amplitude is a product analytics software. But they built a very realistic simulation demo. It's not your own data.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

So VCs invest in different stages. You have seed stage, A round, B round, C round, D round. We don’t invest in video. I think video distribution in the future is going to look more like the Gilt Groupe than it is going to look like NBC. What Vcs are investing? It’s a hits driven business.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Seed Stage Valuation Guide – [link].

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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. Latest Video.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

The physical office hasn’t been rendered obsolete by any means, but IP video conferencing has fundamentally changed how and with whom many people work on a daily basis. That said, we realize that the starting point for companies at the seed stage may be much narrower than a company’s ultimate ambitions.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

At NextView, we’ve long had a set of ethos or guiding principles behind all we do, which includes internal work as a team, external work as investors, and the lens through which we view seed-stage startups and their founding teams. Sector #2: Mobile Video Consumption.

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