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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

In this comprehensive template and guide we break down each of the nine core sections in the deck: intro , team , what do you do , is it working , why does it matter (market) , can you be the best in the world (product, growth, financial metrics) , where are you going , what do you want (the ask) , and appendix. ” (Lee Hower).

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Four Winning Strategies from Series Seed to Series A

Genuine VC

A couple years ago, my partner Lee penned a blog post about the milestone benchmarks for startups raising a Series A round of financing. This focus translates into big top line figures, (admittedly) vanity metrics, and pretty graphs with less substance on business metrics or even deep engagement for now.

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Repeat Founders and the Risk of a False Positive

View from Seed

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. They are most likely to encourage you to keep going, and that metrics will only improve if you keep plugging away.

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The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

Another thing I noticed was that I was now referring companies that I had invested in at a “pre-seed” (capitalization intentional) stage over to folks who would previously be considered my peer venture funds doing Seed-stage investments. Pre-Seed is the New Seed. If it doesn’t have the product fully baked yet?

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

As a result, the companies get a lot of exposure to VCs, investors, and partners in larger, more traditional startup hubs. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. Inspiring ideas: real-time biz metrics; safe continuous deployment; A/B split testing. And do your customer development.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

While in law school, my partner, Leigh, and I had a concept for a law firm that did more than just “law.” I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com. Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.”

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

With this seed capital – more often than not totaling between $100,000 and $1,000,000 - the company accomplishes a number of key technical milestones, gets a beta customer or two, and then goes on a "road show" to venture capitalists around the country for capital to “scale” the business. Venture capitalists Cut Tough Deals.