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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” Doing Reference Checks on VCs “Try to speak to at least one founder that the investor has worked with in a failed investment. Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise? ’ like all startups have to, but also “why invest now?'”

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% Translation? Business 101.