Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

So when I tell you what I’m seeing in venture financing these days if you disagree with me, it might just be that we’re touching different parts of the elephant. Haystack’s Semil Shah wrote up his POV on what this has all meant for the seed market and one point in particular caught my eye.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Super Angels. Business accelerator.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

As high-conviction, seed stage investors, we are inherently relationship-driven, and we value meeting exceptional founders face-to-face. billion across 2,288 deals in Q3, with deal count exceeding Q2’s at nearly every stage. . Familiar loops offered invaluable, pre-seeded confidence.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 9, 2023

” Valuation negotiations can reveal a lot “Besides the math of it all, valuation negotiations can tell you a lot about what matters to the founders, the type of relationship they want to have with their investors, and the goals they need to achieve to complete successful next financing.”

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View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

We at NextView Ventures invest exclusively in a startup’s seed-stage round , meaning that many if not most of our deals are made alongside individual angel investors. Cons: Potentially not much value-add beyond initial financing round. These angels, however, come in many different shapes and sizes. The Grouped Angels.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

According to all of the blogosphere chatter over the past month, seed-funded internet startups are entering this year gearing up for the now-near-infamous Series A Crunch. to become not just ramen-profitable, but sustainably profitable.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 16, 2020

As a seed stage investor, I know the math. Some key existings who didn’t want to see their prior money get lost wouldn’t budge on a dilutive financing, despite the fact that they knew where we were headed. Half the companies I invest in won’t provide a financial return. The answer, unfortunately, was to declare bankruptcy.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Since 2002, the law form of Fenwick & West has conducted a venture capital survey, a response to "the burst of the 'dot-come bubble' and a desire to provide the entrepreneurial community with objective information about the status of the venture environment." The median amount raised in preferred stock financings was $1.1 Discuss.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 12, 2012

When a startup doesn’t match the stage where a particular investor focuses, founders may get a response along the lines of “This is interesting to us, but come back once you get from X phase to Y phase” That could be from seed stage to a larger Series A financing need, or to progress from pre-product to post-revenue.

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

Leading up to the event, they published an article listing questions VCs never answer , as submitted by the community. I was recently asked to sit on panel with my fellow VC peers and some top entrepreneurs from the Boston tech community. These are all worth asking … and therefore worth answering. .

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

At the seed stage, no matter how much you know about an industry or a founder, you’re still taking a real bet. And I was so happy to get involved with organizations like All Raise that specifically aim to build community and make venture feel a little less lonely. In this job, I really learned how to learn… and learn quickly.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 20, 2018

Like many in the venture community, especially us newer investors, I enjoy Fred Wilson’s “process” posts, where he shares a POV on the practice of our profession. Like we do at the seed stage, USV almost always plays the role of “ lead investor.”

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package. Last fall I saw a startup with it’s back against the wall, days from shutting down, pull off a new financing round and what looks to be a promising pivot.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Seeking initial investment for your social enterprise places you in the “seed stage” of financing your company. This is a strategy where you can use a funding platform like Kickstarter.com to name a funding goal, explain to the community what your plan is, and receive small investments from anyone interested in your project.

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0 and why Series Seed Documents are better than capped convertible notes “First they ignore you.   That’s because there are not that many issues to negotiate in a simple equity financing. Then you win.”

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

My colleague Rob recently wrote about sprinting at the brick wall as a strong pace and at times necessary strategy for a startup at founding or seed stage. Such universal desire for collective success from all corners of the New York startup community is an outstanding asset for any entrepreneur just starting out.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

My colleague Rob recently wrote about sprinting at the brick wall as a strong pace and at times necessary strategy for a startup at founding or seed stage. Such universal desire for collective success from all corners of the New York startup community is an outstanding asset for any entrepreneur just starting out.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package. Last fall I saw a startup with it’s back against the wall, days from shutting down, pull off a new financing round and what looks to be a promising pivot.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It continues to be highly dependent on company, stage, and location. At the early stages, raising the first $2m tends to be straightforward in most geographies that have meaningful startup communities. Most importantly from my frame of reference, the amount of activity at the early and seed stage seems to be extremely robust.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package. Last fall I saw a startup with it’s back against the wall, days from shutting down, pull off a new financing round and what looks to be a promising pivot.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 17, 2016

While the audience was Colorado focused, the overall message I delivered about the angel ecosystem is very relevant to all entrepreneurial communities. I’ve always felt that a robust angel financing market was important to startup ecosystems and the data on the next two charts really brings that home.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

The gist of the story is that there has been a significant increase in seed stage investments activity over the last 2 years, and many companies are now coming back into to the market for their next round of financing. Active seed investors have also known that this was going to be coming.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.) was spun out, and the valuation was set by that financing round.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

The smaller size also allows the space for teams to get to know each other within the cohort and develop a true sense of community and friendship on a founder-to-founder level, which has proven to be an invaluable resource during and after the program. . The Clarity of the Terms : how will your company be financed?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

Robert believes in "the powerful idea of self-reliance and this idea that you should know how to take care of yourself, and your family, and your community." It really started to get the attention of the scientific community. As he explains, it also has "a diversified bottom line where it's not just about near-term profits.

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Rob Go

MAY 5, 2014

Seed stage investing has developed significantly over the past 7 years that I’ve been in VC. It’d pretty standard for entrepreneurs to contemplate raising an “institutional seed round” prior to approaching VC’s for series A rounds. Many have said that the institutional seed is the new series A.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

The other argument I made to LPs at the time was that if we combined $650 million or more into a single fund it would mean that writing a $3–4 million would feel too small to each individual investor to be important and yet that’s the amount of capital we believed many seed-stage companies needed. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Community is more powerful than money or technology » August 11, 2007 How much equity for investors and employees? Entrepreneurs face some pretty tough questions at a very early stage. They start out higher and get diluted down to these levels after multiple rounds of financing; CEO - 4% VPs - 1% each Director level -.5%

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

I believe some VCs have entered the early-stage market as simply an option on future financing rounds. I think Micro VCs are best at what they do, A/B round investors ought to be mostly A/B round investors and late-stage investors out to focus on companies that are already profitable and growing rapidly.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

million in venture financing. No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. AngelList is an online community that matches startups with investors to streamline the fundraising process. Money and Finance Lists. Health and Environment Related Lists.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I still think it’s best to take money from Dave when you’re also partnered with a more focused, hands-on seed-stage VC who brings different things to the table – like more ability to write larger checks in a downturn (for one) or solving a deep crisis that involves super hands-on involvement.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. They are seeking to build companies so that they are attractive to late-stage funds.” And the late-stage global funds are swarming in, from Accel to KKR to Li Kai-Shing’s Horizon Ventures.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. What follows is the best advice and tips from these interviews. and Path Intelligence.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

For example, Point Nine Capital focuses on B2B SaaS and marketplaces at the seed stage, across many industries. J-Angels “is a community and a VC fund of top American investors (Jewish-American & Israeli-born) in Silicon Valley and San Francisco.”. “software”); 43 invest in 2 types of technology (e.g.,

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. There has been no shortage of controversy and criticism around the convertible note, a popular investing vehicle that’s used by seed stage and angel investors. → Learn More.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Today, AngelList is debuting Docs, which lets seed-stage startups close their round online. Before we had to guess how many connections were actually financed,” explains Ravikant.

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