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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. Here’s some big news for San Diego’s innovation economy: There’s a new venture capital firm in town—and its investment methodology represents a fundamentally different approach to the conventional business model for venture investing.

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

At NextView Ventures we have written many pieces about venture capital — how to raise it, build your business, engage with investors, iterate your product, navigate expanding industries, etc. So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” I’ve Been in Venture Capital for Two Months.

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There’s more to generative AI than picks and shovels

VC Cafe

As David Sacks from All in put it: On aggregate, a lot of funding was also deployed to startups in the application layer – investing in founders leveraging generative AI to either solve narrow tasks, or bring automation to tasks to reduce costs, increase accuracy, speed etc.

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WHAT ARE SUPER PRO RATA RIGHTS?

Scott Edward Walker

First let’s discuss pro rata rights (sometimes referred to as “participation” or “preemptive” or “right of first offer/refusal” rights) – which investors will typically request in connection with any venture capital financing. Pro Rata Rights.

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

This is going to be BIG.

We used Dumbo as a reference and talked about how the critical mass of Two Trees buildings created a neighborhood with multiple destinations. Community is the aggregate of a web of relationships that flow naturally through a place. A lot of what they''d need would be really simple--intros to capital, spaces to convene, or just some PR.

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Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral

K9 Ventures

Friends and Family : Or sometimes referred to as the 3Fs for Friends, Family and Fools. The limited partners may themselves run the gamut from individuals, family offices, venture capital funds to institutional LPs. At first blush, uVCs acting more like institutional venture capital funds may be considered a bad thing.

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. Education plays a major role in venture capital. Reference an Inexpensive Hedonic Product. For reference, this is about the price of a bar of soap.”. For reference, this is about the price of a [popular local] cookie.”. The problem?