Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Fortunately, many of the top VCs share their thoughts on their blogs and are full of advice for startups, both big and small. Here’s a list of our favorite VC blogs, in alphabetical order. I like to follow these blogs through Feedly, but you can often sign up to get email alerts for new posts from most of these blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

*. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. Some quick highlights include: The Role of a Seed Stage VC.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

This includes our own blogs and social content, but also a range of events that we’ve hosted over the years and evergreen entrepreneurial assets and resources that have been shared hundreds of thousands of times. There is obviously a lot that goes into building an early stage company. Establishing an excellent early team.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

This includes our own blogs and social content, but also a range of events that we’ve hosted over the years and evergreen entrepreneurial assets and resources that have been shared hundreds of thousands of times. There is obviously a lot that goes into building an early stage company. Establishing an excellent early team.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The home page and the NextView blog are good starting points to explore. We take board seats and want to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with founders at the seed stage to try to make the biggest possible impact. – We are seed investors. The least was on the firm’s brochure-ware. PS: You can subscribe here. ).

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

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.” Seed stage startups are now graded on a curve.”

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

So, I would suggest that you bootstrap during the inception stage. ? Seed stage. Once you have established the feasibility of the business concept and created considerable traction for your business, it is now suitable for the seed stage. I hope you enjoyed and learned from this overview of startup funding.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 12, 2015

Listen to episode #8 of Traction via iTunes or SoundCloud , or get all links and context via this blog post. The post The Market Size Fallacy for Seed-Stage Startups appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 12, 2015

Listen to episode #8 of Traction via iTunes or SoundCloud , or get all links and context via this blog post. The post The Market Size Fallacy for Seed-Stage Startups appeared first on The View From Seed.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

As a seed stage VC, I have a unique privilege of confidentially spending time with a number of entrepreneurs throughout their company formation and initial product development process. Rather than just a harmless, misplaced attitude, this copycat fallacy can be a detriment to seed stage founders for two reasons.

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View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

Today we’re thrilled to re-launch our most popular resource ever: board deck templates for seed-stage startups. Said another way, seed-stage companies can be led by a founder; scaling companies require a CEO. At the seed stage, where NextView invests, a highly structured board often isn’t a requirement.

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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. Listeners should also check out Vin’s blog for entrepreneurs, ViniciusVacanti.com.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We are high-conviction, hands-on seed stage investors. Our blog content is a staple of the NextView brand identity. Over the past ten years, the partners have published some truly incredible pieces, and my goal was to create a blog page that did this content justice. Check it out! .

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If you’re really bold, join an early-stage company (seed stage, Series A), but have conviction about the team. Read the rest of Laura’s blogs at [link] Both are possible on the outside. How should you think about and mitigate risk if joining a startup? Know your appetite for risk.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

At seed-stage startups, especially companies with well-networked founders and investors, finding applicants who can do a job on paper is not overly difficult. Fuzzy Compass connects you directly to the travel influencers behind the world’s most popular travel blogs, websites, and Instagram accounts to plan customized trips.

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View from Seed

MARCH 8, 2016

Jesse recently sat down with NextView (I assume he was sitting anyway — we spoke on the phone) to talk seed-stage company branding, building a startup identity, and some of the most common mistakes founders make when establishing a name for their companies. Whether we like to admit it or not, the best product does not always win.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2012

It always has great, fresh content from a wide variety of industry professionals.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

It’s an interesting research project and I recommend the book and Ali’s blog post “Land of the Super Founders “, if you want to dive deeper. Ali reviewed over 65 data points for each one of these companies, from the number of co-founders, the founders background, the sector, the investments they raised over time, etc.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We are high-conviction, hands-on seed stage investors. Our blog content is a staple of the NextView brand identity. Over the past ten years, the partners have published some truly incredible pieces, and my goal was to create a blog page that did this content justice. Check it out! .

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View from Seed

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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

But this gets all the space on prominent blogs because it’s what bloggers like to cover.&# It’s self selecting. Dan believed that consumer internet entrepreneurs have a choice now: traditional VC vs. super seed investors. Is there a bubble going on in seed investing? Dan: Maybe in the future, but not now.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 8, 2015

But among those options, appearing on almost every site, is one link that simply doesn’t belong with the rest: “Blog.” ” Don’t misunderstand, it’s not the fact that a startup’s blog exists that’s so troubling. So, should startups blog? It’s simply about solving problems.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It’s interesting to note that the majority of these new funds are focused on Seed stage investing (not surprising if you follow the market, although investments at the Seed and Seed + stages have started to decline quite a bit from their peak a few years ago). Stay active and top of mind. Participate.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2021

That said, there are many companies that seed funds back that never consider YC, and quite a few great companies do raise money from seed funds before or after the program. But I’d say that it’s obvious that YC has been the most powerful force in the seed stage startup and VC industry over the last 10 years.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We’ve actually written several blog posts on this concept, so I’ll gloss over it. We invest at the seed stage, and so product/market fit is always a significant risk. 10X Better, Faster, Cheaper / Monopoly Potential. Generally, we are looking for companies that are JDCC.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Almost 5 years ago we released a resource for founders looking for guidance on their seed stage pitch decks. As some of you may remember, last September we did “Fundraising Month”, where we posted a blog a day on some topic related to fundraising.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

And seed VCs, especially as new firms were being established, were eager to encourage their portfolio startups to plant that flag in the ground publicly. It seemed like every other TechCrunch post was announcing a startups’s new seed financing round. Seed stage companies just aren’t announcing their rounds anymore.

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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

MAY 21, 2020

In some respects, one of the often non-intuitive privileges of a seed stage fundraising process is that the company is so new. The reality is that when fundraising for a successive financing round along the seed stage continuum , all startups are graded on a curve based on the amount of time and capital which has gone into the company.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 19, 2014

You weren’t supposed to be reading this blog post. It was easier to just discuss privately with other investors, but Jason Calacanis tweeted this morning about VCs trying to take entire seed rounds , and so, here it goes. Or wrote blog posts like this one. Why Are We Seeing More Piggy Rounds? (a) No one tweeted about it.

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View from Seed

MAY 2, 2019

As the seed stage that atomized and series A rounds have become larger and more traction based, the paths to series A have changed. 500K in angel or pre-seed funding -> Raise a $2–3M institutional seed -> Raise an A. This is the logical path that one would think is pretty “standard” for early stage companies.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 3, 2021

As seed stage investors here at NextView Ventures , we have the privilege of working with a wide profile of founders at the company conception stage — from early-career first time entrepreneurs , to seasoned execs turned founders , to repeat successful entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

Jonathan Strauss took this issue head on in a blog post that I believe every startup founder should read on “ Replacing Oneself as CEO.” I know because I marked the occasion with a blog post on how to have a great VC meeting. I have a very public seed stage investment policy and awe.sm I saw it first hand.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Because of this, there is a glut of companies out there that can’t quite get to a series A and are raising second or third seed rounds. This creates the illusion that there are a lot of great companies at the seed stage that are actually post-product/market fit. So, investors can wait around asking for more traction.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Almost two years ago, in a private/closed meeting with K9 Ventures’ LPs only, I claimed that: What was being referred to in the press as the “Series A Crunch” was not because fewer Series A deals were being done, but because there were too many Seed deals being done. Seed stage was super tough. Implications for Founders.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Subscribe to the NextView blog for future episodes and more resources for seed-stage startups: nextviewvc.com/blog. Today, we discuss how Chad built an Internet of Things-like product before that phrase existed, before the hype helps your marketing or fundraising, and before anyone was thinking about the connected home.

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Business Plan Blog

AUGUST 9, 2012

This week, Tyler Jensen will break down the “seed stage” of business planning. If the link isn’t working, check out the video at: [link]. View our archived videos on our YouTube channel at [link]. Comments comments Powered by Facebook Comments. Business Planning Entrepreneurship Videos'

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