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Meet Our Newest Investment: Properly

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Properly provides full-service brokerage service through its data and software platform, just like what you’d get from a traditional agent. Since launching in Atlanta in 2015, it has sold over 100 homes with an average of 18 days on the market (3x faster vs. market average) for more than 98% of the recommended list price.

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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

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90% of the airtime around ownership and valuations is focused on what happens when the first check is written. Effective post money is the effective valuation of an investor’s dollars at any one time. Also, being too dogmatic isn’t very fun J. What matters is effective post-money at exit. We think about this a lot too.

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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

View from Seed

90% of the airtime around ownership and valuations is focused on what happens when the first check is written. Effective post money is the effective valuation of an investor’s dollars at any one time. Also, being too dogmatic isn’t very fun J. What matters is effective post-money at exit. We think about this a lot too.

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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

View from Seed

90% of the airtime around ownership and valuations is focused on what happens when the first check is written. Effective post money is the effective valuation of an investor’s dollars at any one time. Also, being too dogmatic isn’t very fun J. What matters is effective post-money at exit. We think about this a lot too.

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Announcing NextView IV

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In our first two funds, we’ve been fortunate to seed five unicorns ( Attentive , Whoop , Grove Collaborative , Skillz , and TripleLift ) and 10 companies with $100M+ exits or recent valuations. Thirteen of these 15 companies were seeded pre-revenue, and many were at concept stage or had rudimentary early products.

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What Is Venture Debt and How Should Startups Use It?

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” Venture debt gives you those options, and particularly for companies that wind up doing well, then on your same cash-out date, you’d likely have achieved a better milestone thanks to fueling your spend, which would translate into a better valuation. NVV: Let’s talk about the seed stage specifically.

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What Are Pre-Seed Rounds and Why Do They Exist?

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These are well known , so I won’t go into much detail but: The combination of the capital efficiency of early stage software companies, the increase in VC fund sizes, and the rise of institutional seed funds created a fairly different early-stage landscape in the following five years. (I Also, the stage of the company tends to be very early.