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Accidental VC: When Should Startups Announce Seed Funding?

View from Seed

Depending on how stealthy you plan to be (and there are pros and cons for being in stealth mode ), it’s good to have a public record of the company by generating some press. Across the NextView portfolio and in discussing this topic more broadly, we’ve found that funding announcements are rarely good customer acquisition channels.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. We never seek any rights to give Amex preferential treatment at the time of a potential acquisition. Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform.

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Our Investment in Cloze ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The company has been in stealth mode for the last couple months but I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about NextView’s investment in the company and our enthusiasm to be working with co-founders Dan Foody and Alex Cote. Our Investment in Cloze. June 25, 2012. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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