View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2015

“As a seed-stage investor, should you pay up for team or traction?” When you are thinking about joining an early stage company, how should you be evaluating the risk of the overall company? How should you be weighing the presence of a great founding team versus early signs of traction?

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Rob Go

MARCH 16, 2012

Many of the early stage investors that used to do a lot of raw consumer deals are saying “man, consumer is hard! I’m going to focus on B2B” Consumerization of business software is a “hot” meme. It’s not viral. No B2B service has a Draw Something moment.

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B2B Seed Stage Viral Early Stage 46

Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

In this post, I’m going to very *simplistically* dive into some high level categories and talk about how early stage investors consider each. These are some of the most important criteria to investing in seed-stage teams. Do you have virality built into the product? But, you need to be growing FAST.

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Startup Vertical Early Stage Bootstrapping 48

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. Etc… At the pre-seed stage, a big way to stand out is if you have a V3 statement (as opposed to a V1 statement). I know nothing about viral marketing. And that’s ok.

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Seed Stage Business Model B2B Email 48

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. Etc… At the pre-seed stage, a big way to stand out is if you have a V3 statement (as opposed to a V1 statement). I know nothing about viral marketing. And that’s ok.

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Seed Stage Business Model B2B Email 48

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. and Path Intelligence.

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