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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

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Since getting started in October, the board has already invested work in three startups (all in stealth mode): whoisgreen.com , burringo.com and doitinperson.com. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc.

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Accidental VC: When Should Startups Announce Seed Funding?

View from Seed

Depending on how stealthy you plan to be (and there are pros and cons for being in stealth mode ), it’s good to have a public record of the company by generating some press. Across the NextView portfolio and in discussing this topic more broadly, we’ve found that funding announcements are rarely good customer acquisition channels.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

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In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. After someone signs up for your site, you ask them to share it with their friends through various social media channels and/or email. All Rights Reserved.

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Our Investment in Cloze ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The company has been in stealth mode for the last couple months but I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about NextView’s investment in the company and our enthusiasm to be working with co-founders Dan Foody and Alex Cote. Our Investment in Cloze. June 25, 2012. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. Others follow independent financial lead investors and most require that independent investors be part of the syndicate. Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform.