View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

At seed-stage startups, especially companies with well-networked founders and investors, finding applicants who can do a job on paper is not overly difficult. TripleLift is native programmatic advertising simple, scalable, and effective on the visual web. If it’s a seed-stage hire, you should already know the person.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 23, 2013

There aren’t a tonne of funds focused on seed-stage funding worldwide, but we can add a new one to the list today. SparkLabs , the company behind the accelerator program in Korea , is expanding its scope with its first seed-stage fund that will “help great startups go global.”. Asia Entrepreneur Insider News sparklabs'

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Pre-seed Round of Funding. In the pre-seed stage, a startup is searching for product/market fit. Funding: Startups typically raise anywhere from $100K to $750,000 in pre-seed. Goal/Time: By the end of the pre-seed stage the company ought to have evidence that it has found product/market fit.

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View from Seed

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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Genuine VC

MARCH 14, 2012

We at NextView have been thinking about and looking for investments in seed-stage startups which leverage the megatrend of transitioning computing away from a standard fixed-web PC world. But this exploration also includes alternative user-interfaces and inputs, like gesture controls.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

If people are funding the business, they should get a premium because at the end of the day, cash funding founders are acting no different than a seed stage investor. So, let’s say that one founder puts in $100,000 in seed capital, that could be worth 20 percent of a seed stage company’s valuation.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

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. I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

Its so cheap to start web startups that orders of magnitudes more will be started. Lots of Startups So my first prediction about the future of web startups is pretty straightforward: there will be a lot of them. The mobility of seed-stage startups means that seed funding is a national business.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2010

About three years ago I attended a Web 2.0 This was before the great recession, but in the middle of the explosion of web apps and social media. One thing that came up repeatedly, then, was the impact of steeply declining web development costs on professional investment. This was a problem for a few, and an opportunity for many.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0 is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

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]. 30 Beautiful Nature Inspired Web Designs – [link]. Common Web Design Mistakes People Keep Making – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Super Angels. Business accelerator.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 14, 2012

We at NextView have been thinking about and looking for investments in seed-stage startups which leverage the megatrend of transitioning computing away from a standard fixed-web PC world. But this exploration also includes alternative user-interfaces and inputs, like gesture controls.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Super Angels. Business accelerator.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

Ideally we’re looking for the Magical Founding Team Mix For Web Startups : Developer; Designer / UI / UX person; Inbound Marketer; Sales Person; and in addition, ideally a data analytics person. This work is unpaid, as with any other startup at the pre-seed stage. Q: What are you looking for in the team? . Sounds great!

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VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

Jivy specializes in web development for the gaming and trading industries. Technion Seed CEO Moshe Katznelson said, “Incubators are the leaders in seed-stage investment in Israel.&# (via Globes ). Each week I’ll be profiling 2-3 startups that caught my attention. Will the Kindle and the iPad feel a dent?

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The Small Business Tips Series is supported by Bantam Live , a web-based collaboration workspace with “Social CRM&# for small business teams. The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Most consumer web/mobile companies focus on user growth and usage early in the company’s lifecycle before shifting to monetization. You will be benchmarked on revenue and paying customers when you seek Series A funding… conceivably even at seed stage.

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View from Seed

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. In the 10th edition of Traction, we hear the story of Vin Vacanti , co-founder/CEO of Yipit.com (daily deals aggregator) and YipitData (analyzes web data for institutional investors).

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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. Web Designer.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

On the seed side, we are seeing more firms focus on smaller and more concentrated portfolios instead of a spray and pray mentality. There is so much money out there at the seed stage and specializing, focusing, and concentrating paves a path to success.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

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? I sort of feel mentored by Fred via his blog, which is pretty remarkable for just writing words on the web and sharing them. Will folks be able to buy a house and raise their families here?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The Assistant Director will also help host the Texas Wireless Summit , the Wireless Seed Stage Forum and the Entrepreneur Lounge at SXSW (this alone is worth it). ATI also works closely with MobileMondayAustin and Semantic Web Austin. ATI On Campus “Assistant Director&#.

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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. Balderdash Developers Log(n) Consultants RelayStrategy Developers Smartsourcing Global Services Epsilon Concepts - LA Web Design Company Developers.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Super Angels. Business accelerator.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Today, AngelList is debuting Docs, which lets seed-stage startups close their round online. For a seed stage round, legal fees can be upwards of tens of thousands of dollars, which is costly for a bootstrapped startups. AngelList eventually resulted from this, and actually helped startups make connections to investors.

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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. I see all the deals come together.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 4, 2013

The web has become increasingly visual. 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 this investment, everyone around the table is excited about transforming marketing on the web as we know it.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2016

At the moment of writing, Seed-DB, a global database of seed stage accelerators, listed 235 programs (both active and defunct) that 5,688 startups had gone through. Some of the programs take equity in exchange for a seed round, some are free for participants, others work anywhere in between those two models.

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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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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

The bulk of the patents they believe Facebook is infringing pertain to things like A) display & targeting of online ads, B) online privacy, C) personalization of a user’s web experience, D) general online messaging (Yahoo! I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

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. Web Video Roundup. Programming and Web Development Lists. Web Design. Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share. Top Stories. My Stories (Personalized).

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

In the past five years, seed-stage investing has experienced a boom. In North America, seed funds now represent 67 percent of all VC funds, up from 33 percent in 2008. Hand-in-hand with the rise in seed funding… This story continues at The Next Web. Andrej Kiska is an Associate at Credo Ventures.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2018

– Aaron Patzer, founder of web-based personal finance service Mint.com, which he ultimately sold to Intuit for $170 million. Every company needs a starting point,” says Eric Paley, managing partner of seed-stage venture capital fund Founder Collective. “I I look for those problems in my own life.

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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. Or you can find seed-stage investors who will give you the money to hire a developer.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Chances are if things are going good (or even not so good) those early stage startups you were so passionate about 12 or 18 months ago will be coming to the market again asking for more money. Do you have relationships with other investors at the next stage of the investment lifecycle?

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

Requirements: A “digital native” with an established personal web presence and a strong interest in new technology. Include pointers to your LinkedIn profile and other professional web presences.' Strategize new project initiatives based on top-level firm goals, set priorities, and manage towards operational completion.

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