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How NextView Thinks About Pre-Seed Rounds as VC Investors

View from Seed

It creates focus and discipline and instills pressure to remain lean and not expand the team too quickly. Third, we look for founders that are customer obsessed, and are inclined to do the careful work of customer development that makes the pre-seed really productive.

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How We Think About Pre-Seeds at NextView

Rob Go

It creates focus and discipline and instills pressure to remain lean and not expand the team too quickly. Third, we look for founders that are customer obsessed, and are inclined to do the careful work of customer development that makes the pre-seed really productive.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. should have leaned on them a lot more, but I didn't, or at least not in the right ways. The process is called mass syndication, or a party round. Customer Validation needs to have the CEO actively involved.