View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2018

After the 2017 price run up, reality set in during 2018; both BTC and ETH value plummeted. Lots of ICOs and capital poured into the frenzy of this market in 2017. Now as projects are developing, it is clear that blockchain technology is still in the early stages. Crypto/blockchain. Some say that we are in “crypto winter.”

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. The seed stage is focused on building the core team, product optimization, exploring avenues for monetization. ? Early-stage. An early-stage investor usually looks at a return of 10 to 15 times.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The Tel Aviv based studio was founded in 2017 by Anat Shperling , and has released a number of games including the first official Miraculous Ladybug Roblox Game, which generated over 200 million visits since launch, as well as proprietary games like My Farm.

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Austin Startup

JULY 7, 2019

Funding early-stage resources?—?how The number of female-owned businesses has grown 58% from 2017 to 2018 (compared to 12% increase for all other businesses), and the number of black-female-owned businesses was 3x that (by the way, to add insult to injury they raised only 0.0006% of the total venture dollars pool). Mentorship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/09/2017. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As an early-stage VC I love this phase. While early-stage companies have all of their engineers working on product innovation, companies that want to scale realize that you also have to build systems to help with organizational scaling. What is a reasonable payback period and how quickly do we want to grow?

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 22, 2019

When China banned cryptocurrency exchanges in 2017 and then went after Bitcoin mining in 2018, we saw short-term impacts on the price of Bitcoin, but no lasting effect despite the huge size of the Chinese market for the currency. Wave 2: Disruption of financial markets (early product market fit).

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

This can set up a perfect storm if early-stage companies don’t manage their expectations and reality properly. Likewise, early-stage investors may not appreciate just how much follow-on support their portfolio companies will need. Looking ahead to 2017. 2016 for Version One companies. – Angela & Boris.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 6, 2021

In 2017 I helped get the Techstars Sustainability Accelerator off the ground in partnership with The Nature Conservancy (TNC). The program has been running in Colorado supporting pre-seed to post-seed stage startups at the intersection of conservation and technology since 2018.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley. Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Competencies?

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2017

In my last post, I covered 5 tech trends that shaped 2017 including the proliferation of AI, Blockchain and crypto currencies the growing dominance of GAFAM, etc. In my last post, I covered 5 tech trends that shaped 2017 including the proliferation of AI, Blockchain and crypto currencies the growing dominance of GAFAM, etc.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

None of us can un-ring the bell for whatever happened in 2017, but we can decide now to improve in 2018. We just closed out in 2017 our 10-year early-stage venture fund started in 2000. All of them are performing at a very high level, and I take inspiration from them. Yes, that has multiple meanings!) Do the math.

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View from Seed

JUNE 30, 2022

Anita has a background in bioprocess engineering and has been actively involved with the alternative protein space since 2017. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? AB: Balletic was founded by Anita Broellochs, who is a passionate and mission-driven entrepreneur, in June of 2021. And your least?

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

As an early stage investor in the world of gaming and metaverse technology at Remagine Ventures, I find these companies have the potential to set the agenda, become the potential platforms for developers building in this space and future acquirers/consolidators of startups building the next generation of the Internet. Dapper Labs.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

So, four years later, DPI is still trying to catch up with TVPI from 2017. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. This begs the question – will D PI ever converge?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

So, four years later, DPI is still trying to catch up with TVPI from 2017. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. This begs the question – will D PI ever converge?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2024

Ken (03:37): That's a great question because I think we are actually very early on. I think we've made remarkable progress in a very short period of time, but I think it's still, we're at the very early stages. If you use GPUs to run these complex equations, then we can actually solve pretty complex problems.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The business evolved and the Niesh platform followed in 2017. In the early stages of your business, you are constantly testing and evaluating your hypotheses with customers – and sometimes it’s a lot easier to do that in your own backyard.”.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. As Ethereum took off in 2017, we began taking Ethereum profits and investing in more speculative crypto protocols. We began working on Multicoin in earnest in early May. We held our first close on August 1, 2017.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Early stage startups are encouraged to apply to pitch at the 2017 Startup Pitch Competition, organized by the Rice Alliance-Austin Chapter and Central Texas Angel Network, known as CTAN. Want a shot at winning an investment and other prizes? The deadline to apply is Dec. 5th at midnight.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2023

Key Takeaway: While significant progress has been made in AI, we are still at the early stages of it’s development. Kenneth Wenger (04:32): You know, that's a great question because I think we are actually very early on. Kenneth explains the complexity of AI, demonstrating its potential and exposing its shortfalls.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? Methodology.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. . Accompany focuses on this use case.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

billion across 2,288 deals in Q3, with deal count exceeding Q2’s at nearly every stage. . Early stage deal activity showed real resilience coming off of a slow Q2, with deal count at angel and seed stage in 2020 now about at par with the same period in 2019. Familiar loops offered invaluable, pre-seeded confidence.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

So, four years later, DPI is still trying to catch up with TVPI from 2017. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. This begs the question – will D PI ever converge?

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VC Adventure

MAY 6, 2021

I have a long history with the Unreasonable Institute (renamed Uncharted in 2017) and the work they’ve been doing around empowering entrepreneurs from many different backgrounds who are working across the globe on some of our world’s most important problems. I hope you can help get the word out. The Initiative.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 26, 2023

Hunter Walk: So why venture capital, why early stage, and why Canada? 500 Startups was looking to add someone with an enterprise background to their investing team, so I made the leap into venture at the start of 2017. After DataHero was acquired, I felt like it was time to try something new.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 13, 2019

At the end of 2016, folks in the startup tech ecosystem looked toward 2017’s impending “uncertainty.” ” Then at the end of 2017, the same worry about 2018; rinse and repeat last year, looking toward 2019. So, will the end of this year be any different, as we look to 2020?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

KPMG’s Venture Pulse Q3 2017 reported that the Asian market has raised $12.3 billion across 283 deals in the first three quarters of 2017, nearly three times that of in 2012. Venture capital fundraising can be divided into three stages: seed, early stage, and later stage. Drives development in technology.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2017, the brand invested again in a redesign to distance themselves from incoming competitors. To become and remain competitive, you need both brand marketing and product marketing at each stage of your company’s development. In the early stages: Use product marketing to execute the GTM strategy.

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View from Seed

JULY 15, 2020

For example, a 2015 vintage fund is adding new portfolio companies in 2015, 2016, and perhaps 2017. Some early stage businesses may even be able to get to CFBE fairly quickly. VC’s also manage multiple funds that get deployed over 10+ years, with new investments happening over the first 2-3 years of a fund’s life.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

“How is an early-stage founder expected to interpret the Give First philosophy?”. That’s the polite way of rewording a question Keith Coleman, Founder of Fraudmarc (Techstars Atlanta 2017), posed to Brad Feld and me in an email a little while back. Keith got our attention with his subject line, “give first, finish last.”.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Meet the Locals Here are the most active early stage investors in town that you should meet while you’re here and do deals with. It’s a robust ecosystem so I’m only listing the ones we’ve done the most deals with here but Capital Factory is the most active early stage investor in Texas so this is a good sampling.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage. According to the fund chairman, Ronnie Osumba, the start-up market is yet to be explored.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2018

In 2017, Austin was the topped-ranked city by funding amount outside of the Western, Northeast and Chicago regions. A tendency towards more money but less deals could be debilitating for early-stage companies. The tens-of-millions-of-dollars rounds aren’t going to the early-stage startups. for funding amounts.

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