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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

View from Seed

The way investors process investments, what they look for, and how they behave will likely shift in some pretty interesting ways in the coming years. VCs are always founder focused no matter the market environment. This gets really challenging if it remains difficult to meet in person or to travel.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Lead investors are few. Leads that are true force-multipliers are exceedingly rare.

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Our Investing Manifesto at NextView

Rob Go

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Lead investors are few. Leads that are true force-multipliers are exceedingly rare.

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Trust starts at 100% and goes down…

Hippoland

2) You mix up the definition of common software startup KPIs This is unfortunate. 3) You act cagey about information Early stage investors understand that there is a lot of work to do in an early stage startup. What looks really bad is when founders try to be evasive about their answers. But that’s ok.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Correlation Ventures is tied to a different legacy—HNC Software, which was a pioneering developer of predictive software that was used to assess the risk of credit card fraud.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 million in commitments from 620 investors in the past four months, with about $2 million raised per month on average. Investors included Founders Fund, 500 Startups and Marc Cuban.

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My Obsession With The Product

Feld Thoughts

When I’m on a VC panel, I’m always amused by the answers from my co-panelists as they are usually the same set of “VC cliches” which makes it even more fun when I blurt out my answer. “ The great companies that I’ve been an investor in share a common trait – the founder/CEO is obsessed with the product.

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