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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” How to Sell Your Startup’s “Secret” Master Plan at the Seed Stage “Articulating and selling your long run vision is important, but trying to convince those that are deeply skeptical about it is simply a mutual waste of time.”

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Newchip Raises $2 Million in Seed Stage Funding and Launches a $1 Million Crowdfunding Campaign

SiliconHills

Newchip, the online platform that aggregates crowdfunding deals, announced recently that it has closed on $2 million in seed funding. Austin-based Newchip also launched an equity-based crowdfunding campaign on Wefunder. Wefunder is an equity-based crowdfunding platform that lets people invest as little […].

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A primer on convertible notes, convertible securities, and equity

Hippoland

Here’s a quick primer on how investments tend to work in startup companies at the seed stage. Equity Traditionally, investors have invested in companies to receive equity, or shares in a company. The concept of equity rounds (also called priced rounds) is very straightforward. The results are binary.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Founding Date: 2004. Author howerl. Read More ».

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

.  That’s because there are not that many issues to negotiate in a simple equity financing.   Based on the comments received, both on the blog and in the many deals in which these documents have been used, I am convinced that the terms of a simple set of equity documents are really not an issue. 

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. The industry is now dominated by hedge funds and other quant driven approaches.

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

It is what Seed used to be from 2009-2013, until the Seed rounds got fat and bloated and the bar for raising a Seed round became a lot higher. Q: What amount of financing is considered Pre-Seed? Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. Q: Is Pre-Seed a Thing?