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Accidental VC: When, Exactly, Should Seed-Stage Startups Look for Office Space?

View from Seed

But since almost every founder goes through this, I feel it’s a necessary one. So, when should a seed-stage founder — who, let’s face it, isn’t launching a business because they’re pumped to find corporate real estate — actually start looking for a legitimate office? Who has a good reputation? You’re growing.

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A horrifying accelerator story that you’ll need to read twice

David Cohen

However, I can tell you that I checked this person out and they are completely legitimate and have a strong reputation in their own community. We arrived at the address only to find that it is a co-working space. It is coming from a seed stage VC and suddenly the amount of that investment has a range. None of it happened.

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2016 VC Half-Thoughts: Seed Companies Aren’t Being Overfunded, They’re Being Prematurely Funded

Hunter Walker

So, we actually don’t think most new funds or seed investors are competitive with Homebrew in the traditional sense of “we’re all looking at the same deals and need to ‘win’ deals away from new funds.” And it’s probably one of the biggest differences in seed investing when you compare 2006 vs 2016.

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Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years?

Ben's Blog

That excitement took a sharp downhill turn when one of the top partners said to me, in front of my co-founders, “When are you going to get a real CEO?”. As we set out to design a venture capital firm that would enable founders to run their own companies, we began by asking: In what ways are professional CEOs superior to founder CEOs?

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Hardware, IoT, and the Long Arc of the Internet

Agile VC

So here at NextView we will be investing in them along with all the other forms of internet-enabled seed stage companies. I described our existing investments in Whoop and Konekt and our thinking more broadly on businesses that have a hardware component.

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Hardware, IoT, and the Long Arc of the Internet

Agile VC

So here at NextView we will be investing in them along with all the other forms of internet-enabled seed stage companies. I described our existing investments in Whoop and Konekt and our thinking more broadly on businesses that have a hardware component.

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New Grads: Midstage Startups Are Your Best First Job in Tech

Hunter Walker

There aren’t yet four layers of management between you and the founders. The Early Team Still There and They’ll Be Your Tribe for Years : The founders and early team are still in place because there hasn’t been a liquidity event and the work is still exciting for them.