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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage. As seed funds have raised larger and larger funds, more have developed the muscle around issuing term sheets and “leading”.

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What Is Venture Debt and How Should Startups Use It?

View from Seed

Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. If they can’t, then we want to know more about the existing investor syndicate, so we’re not the only ones at the table. In terms of negotiation, there are always hot buttons. Traction and revenue?

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. LinkedIn’s product had only been live for a couple months, we only had tens of thousands of registered users, and wouldn’t start generating revenue for more than a year after this point. How To Think About The Future. May 26, 2011. It was a $4.7M

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Our Investing Manifesto at NextView

Rob Go

We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage. As seed funds have raised larger and larger funds, more have developed the muscle around issuing term sheets and “leading”.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. In Boston thebiggest is the CommonAngels. One experienced CFO said: The better ones usually will not give a term sheet unless they really want to do a deal. In the Bay Area its the Bandof Angels.