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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have 5-10 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, and/or investor. You have a strong network in the NYC startup ecosystem that is additive to our team. You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. You act as an “ invited guest.”. You are hungry. A Final Note.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 10, 2023

SDR Strategy & Model Checklist In the intricate world of sales development, finding the balance between art and science is crucial for a startup's success. Instead, identifying a narrow target market and focusing efforts there is key, especially for startups with limited resources.

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MARCH 24, 2021

Free Template for Great Startup Pitch Decks, Direct from VCs. 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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SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Traction is a biweekly podcast where founders share the creative or unusual things they did during the seed stage to make early progress. Everyone knows startups should do scrappy things that “don’t scale” — this show explores what those things actually are. You can subscribe here.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early. And by early, we mean pre-traction. This is not what Nextview is about.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. First and foremost, angels can provide capital.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2015

“As a seed-stage investor, should you pay up for team or traction?” Prices in the startup world are relatively high. So, if you are going to pay up as a seed-stage investor, pay up for team. Great companies are often founded by first time founders who don’t seem obviously special.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. Now it’s time to set the stage with the early traction you have. Seed stage VCs are realistic about how much traction a very raw company might have. B) Post-Product Companies.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Once a startup has raised seed capital, plenty of theories and advice exist on how to successfully raise a Series A. Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. More on these below.). There was no meaningful difference.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

I’ve spent over a decade investing in consumer and B2B companies that do things like expand access to reproductive care and childcare , support the circular economy , enable more seamless payments for small businesses and individuals, rethink mindfulness for the modern world , and champion learners from the classroom to the metaverse.

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View from Seed

JULY 17, 2019

Although you still hear stories of investors that require founders to move to SF, it’s more likely these days that investors see a winning business outside of the Bay Area as a positive, given the costs and competitive pressure in that local market. How should a founder go about it? But doing this takes extra work.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early. And by early, we mean pre-traction. This is not what Nextview is about.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Traction is a biweekly podcast where founders share the creative or unusual things they did during the seed stage to make early progress. Everyone knows startups should do scrappy things that “don’t scale” — this show explores what those things actually are. You can subscribe here.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

We’ve also proven that giving new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a dedicated, hands-on chance leads to follow-on funding and additional accelerator success across the board. What happens when you give new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a real chance during a time of economic uncertainty? .

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JUNE 10, 2020

of teams’ online pitch decks and recorded videos, as well as loved the dozens of second-round video conversations which we had with Founders working on quite compelling startups. Many of these Founders we wouldn’t have had an opportunity to connect with if we hadn’t launched this program.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2020

by Ash Rust , founder and managing partner of Sterling Road. Given that mindset, it’s only natural that most entrepreneurs jump at the first chance they get to secure early-stage startup funding. Most startups will need a viable product and proof of credibility before they can expect early-stage investors to really bite.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

It’s a common question that every VC fields from founders — and founders field from other founders, and marketers field from founders, and PR people field from founders. So, when should they — or any seed-stage startup — think about drumming up some PR and making noise around funding?

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. Hila Qu has been the Head of Growth or VP of Growth at a number of different companies and startups, most notably Acorns and GitLab. That’s never happened.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

Frank + Oak (who was named innovator of the year by Canadian Business) announced the launch of its 50/50 Founders’ Fund , in partnership with General Assembly. This seed-stage fund is named 50/50 since Frank + Oak plans to grant 50 percent of the fund to female entrepreneurs and 50 percent of the fund to male entrepreneurs.

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Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. On the B2B SaaS side or enabling services (e.g. The expanding universe of potential buyers is a great thing for founders. And it’s not just because there will be more transactions and more competition for exciting startups.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Specialists” have deep experience in some area of startup practice, like law, bookkeeping, growth hacking, or platform strategy. In the US, seed accelerators offer more than $100,000 to startups. Some founders stay at hostels. Fundraising isn’t easy.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

I’m thrilled by the companies we are investors in, as well as the founders that lead them. NextView is our startup, and I often reflect on how things are going and what we could do better. This is of particular risk if the founders of the firm never really worked together before, as was the case for us at NextView.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

We have over 20 years of experience backing bold founders with big visions. BOLDstart helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round. finally, this theme is also applicable for b2b. That is pretty self explanatory.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. And we invest in US-based startups, primarily on the US east coast though we’ll consider other parts of country on a selective basis (roughly 15-20% of our portfolio is in the SF Bay area). How To Think About The Future. May 16, 2012.

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Rob Go

JULY 18, 2019

Although you still hear stories of investors that require founders to move to SF, it’s more likely these days that investors see a winning business outside of the Bay Area as a positive, given the costs and competitive pressure in that local market. How should a founder go about it? But doing this takes extra work.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

These are some of the most important criteria to investing in seed-stage teams. Free consumer app companies In contrast to the last two categories, successful founders of free consumer apps tend to come from any background. Does the team know exactly what they need to do to go into business?

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View from Seed

JUNE 11, 2015

Startups and their founders who claim to be in “stealth mode” prior to launch are such a commonplace part of the startup ecosystem that it might seem odd to question its merits. But it’s important to address this head on and ask: What are the benefits of stealth mode for startups, really? .

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Hippoland

JANUARY 4, 2017

Here’s a quick primer on how investments tend to work in startup companies at the seed stage. Lawyers can charge as much as $10k-$30k (in the US) to draft and execute the legal docs for an equity round, and traditionally, founders are responsible for paying for this as well as investors’ legal costs!

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Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

As a founder, it feels like a long time, but it’s really a blip on the radar in the scheme of things. We focus on investing in seed stage companies. It’s an old fashioned idea, but it’s what we would want if we were founders taking capital from a VC, so that’s the model that works for us.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Out of hundreds of applications, we selected six pre-seed stage teams building companies shaping a brighter collective future by combining software and creativity to drive change in the lives of everyday people — their businesses include everything from empowering local main street businesses to making automobile insurance more accessible.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

We wholeheartedly believe in the potential of each company we select; the smaller batch size allows the NextView partners, who possess deep operating and founding experiences at companies like LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, and Blue Apron, the space to spend meaningful one-on-one time with each founder every single week.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

When is the right time for a startup to bring on marketing? We asked Hila Shitrit Nissim*, an experienced CMO, to share her perspective on marketing in Israeli startups. Hila spent 12 years as the VP Marketing for Israeli venture capital fund Viola before embarking on an independent CMO career for startups. Hila Shitrit Nissim.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

For this reason, we’re excited to announce that we have closed on NextView’s $50M third fund, with a mission to champion founders who are redesigning the Everyday Economy. . There are countless B2B startups that are enabling this digital transformation and how consumers experience the Everyday Economy.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

At NextView, we’ve long had a set of ethos or guiding principles behind all we do, which includes internal work as a team, external work as investors, and the lens through which we view seed-stage startups and their founding teams. Sector: B2B On-Demand. Maybe a loved one or friend did. davidbeisel | LinkedIn.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

At NextView, we’ve long had a set of ethos or guiding principles behind all we do, which includes internal work as a team, external work as investors, and the lens through which we view seed-stage startups and their founding teams. Sector: B2B On-Demand. Maybe a loved one or friend did. davidbeisel | LinkedIn.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2021

Israeli startups raised over $2 billion in March 2021 alone. As the startup ecosystem in Israel scales, so must the teams leading the growing number of Israeli unicorns. How should Israeli startups think about marketing? And running fast as an early stage start-up is so important. Is there a marketing crunch in Israel?

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Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. seed round today. NextView is thrilled to have co-led this round along with our friends at SoftTech VC and Farmeron’s existing investors 500 Startups, Seedcamp, and TAG. I first met Matija Kopic, Farmeron’s co-founder & CEO, a few months ago. May 10, 2012.

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