B2C, Founder, Seed Stage and Startup

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

And since we will continue to look proactively at new seed-stage tech startups over the next few years, the question becomes: What, then, will these companies look like? We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C.

Seed Stage

Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation

Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This is a question startup founders ask themselves multiple times a week. It’s not just the competition against the incumbents and the large tech platforms that founders has to worry about, but most importantly is the company’s performance and product market fit. How are we doing?

Retention

Retention Conversion Churn Rate B2C

Why This Startup Teaches Everyone to Code + a Framework to Find a CTO

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.

CTO Hire

CTO Hire Framework Cofounder Seed Stage

Pitch Deck Month: “Is It Working?” (aka the “Traction” Slide)

View from Seed

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.

Seed Stage

Seed Stage B2B Seed Capital Revenue

Why This Startup Teaches Everyone to Code + a Framework to Find a CTO

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.

Framework

Framework Cofounder Seed Stage B2C

Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

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.

Product

Product CTO Hire Startup Fractional CTO

JFDI.Asia Accelerator: Bootcamp Practicalities

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.

Asia

Asia Singapore Cofounder Incubator

Introducing my next chapter: Dragon Army

Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 30, 2013

And I’ve been dying to get my hands back into a true startup. Now, the city’s most buzzed-about techpreneur thinks Atlanta has the chops to also build sustainable business-to-consumer mobile startups. David Cummings , who last year sold his marketing automation startup for $95 million, will launch a “mobile app studio.”

Atlanta

Atlanta B2C Georgia Los Angeles

Israeli Startups and Marketing – 5 Questions with an Experienced CMO

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.

B2C

B2C Marketing Stealth

Introducing NextView III and Our Focus on the Everyday Economy

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. . While our lens on the Everyday Economy is focused on our actions as individuals, it’s not constrained to B2C companies.

Seed Stage

Seed Stage Portfolio Cofounder B2B

Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. The phrase is quite ambiguous.

Technical Review

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow

Announcing NextView’s Everyday Economy Accelerator

View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2020

We at NextView Ventures are sensitive to the challenges which all startups face during these times brought upon us by the current Coronavirus crisis. As we have discussed elsewhere, the world of early stage investing is shifting from FOMO ( F ear O f M issing O ut) to FOLD (Fear Of Looking Dumb).

B2B

B2B Seed Stage B2C Programming