View from Seed

MAY 3, 2016

Jesse shares insights on everything from mission and hiring to community development to the scrappy and clever tactics they used early on at WeWork. Jesse was also among the first to join the co-founders of WeWork when it started. We also peer ahead to the future of what WeWork could be doing globally. nvsubscribe.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

At the seed stage, we have backed very non-obvious, non-pedigreed entrepreneurs, in spaces that weren’t obvious, who ended up being amazing. HOW DOES GREYLOCK EVALUATE COMPANIES AT THE SEED-STAGE? We are still asking, ‘do you have a plan to get to the seed stage and have the tools to do it?’

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the pre-seed and seed stage VC fund I run in NYC, has invested in 64 companies in the last six and a half years. Creating this community doesn’t only mean backing diverse founders, but also surrounding yourself with a community of other diverse professionals to help your portfolio.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I didn’t want to have to sell back into the intelligence community, because I didn’t want to leverage my contacts so tactically, but plenty of people do it (and we need good people to do it. If you’re really bold, join an early-stage company (seed stage, Series A), but have conviction about the team.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

Specifically, there are five challenges that emerging business typically put on the backburner between funding rounds: Seed to Series A: Customer Testing. Hypotheses should be tested extensively and disproven, which is where customer testing plays a central role for seed-stage startups. At Women 2.0

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It’s interesting to note that the majority of these new funds are focused on Seed stage investing (not surprising if you follow the market, although investments at the Seed and Seed + stages have started to decline quite a bit from their peak a few years ago). Get involved in your community.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

By building a community of users who contributed real-time traffic data, Waze was able to provide a superior navigation experience that was more accurate and up-to-date than traditional GPS systems. “unique business models” – Successful startups develop business models that are difficult for competitors to replicate.

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Founder Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation 88

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Platforms like LinkedIn and sales-oriented communities such as Sales Hackers, Revenue Genius, and SDR Nation are valuable for posting job opportunities. If you are the founder of a seed-stage company interested in learning more about Mucker funding, apply to MuckerLab and/or contact us.

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Early Stage Sales Developer Development Team Review 78

Genuine VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

My partner Rob wrote bit more on his blog about our motivations for adding our first new team member at NextView Ventures — a Director of Platform and Community. Active contributor to the Boston entrepreneurial community with extensive network across technology startups. Compensation will be competitive based on experience.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The obvious answer we all give (and receive) in the startup community is to talk to people. It’s become ubiquitous in our community, but that doesn’t make it any less critical. But for a true seed-stage company or for folks just thinking about companies to start or products to build, I think surveys are generally terrible.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Seed Stage 120

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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Seed Stage Leadership Portfolio Boston 69

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As per the chart above, I highly recommend keeping a founder dominated board at the seed stage. Whether the seed investor gets a permanent seat or a temporary seat will largely depend on: The size check they wrote (If it’s a $1.5m —?just having a sparring partner with a vested interest in your success can be useful.

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Venture Capital Startup Angel Investor Silicon Valley 236

View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. As Rob Go wrote , board decks and board meetings can waste loads of time at the seed stage.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

A New Kind of Venture Firm AutoChrome Autochrome is an inception and seed stage venture capital fund. We invest at the earliest stages in transformative companies that are leveraging technology to move our species forward. Bryant Stibel - Value Growth Cowboy Ventures Cowboy Ventures helps seed-stage technology companies grow.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage 48

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Almost 5 years ago we released a resource for founders looking for guidance on their seed stage pitch decks. Today, it’s been viewed over 300,000 times on Slideshare , and is still one of the resources we hear positive feedback about from the greater founder community.

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Seed Stage Metrics Matching Search 159

VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2021

If you’re inventing a category, marketing needs to come really early on, because market education and brand / community building is critical for business success. VC Cafe: What’s the best advice or practical tips you have for founders with regards to marketing and branding at seed stage? It’s the essence of community.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Now, we want to share some general advice to the broader community. In a three-part series, we’ll outline the core priorities and strategies for each stage in the journey – starting with what happens once you raise your seed round. At this stage, you should be hiring smart, hungry generalists, rather than specialists.

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Seed Stage Portfolio Metrics Hiring 163

Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. In many cases, you need a community of users already (in addition to a product) in order have a successful token sale. This year has been crazy in the fundraising landscape.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. In many cases, you need a community of users already (in addition to a product) in order have a successful token sale. This year has been crazy in the fundraising landscape.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 5, 2013

About half our investments are in companies at true startup stage – i.e. founder + idea, nothing built – and half are in slightly more mature companies, up to late seed stage when there are maybe 5-10 people in the company.

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Partner Software Review eCommerce Due Diligence 117

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This list is included as a part of our ever-increasing collection of Growth Guides — resources to help seed-stage startups execute — all of which can be found on a dedicated page here , including the list below. The post The 2nd Annual List of Go-To Boston Startup Service Providers appeared first on The View From Seed.'

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

What’s the best advice or practical tips you have for founders with regards to marketing and branding at seed stage? There’s a rise in community led startups. What best practices have you seen in Israel when it comes to community building? Some of the largest communities on Facebook were created in Israel (i.e

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B2C Marketing Stealth 145

View from Seed

DECEMBER 10, 2014

He is currently a second year student at Harvard Business School and will be focused on supporting the early-stage startup community in Boston and its schools. This is his first post to The View From Seed. And done well, local seed capital can be the catalyst for the new Harvard engineering campus in Allston.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

10 Insights That Helped Me Level Up as a Seed Stage VC — Part 1 and Part 2. I also recommend you join the most relevant online communities for you, since building a network is so fundamental to VC. I also suggest for the other most relevant major online communities. (We How students can help VC firms. Venture Deals.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Seed Stage 78

Rob Go

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In that time, we’ve found that the role of Platform is to multiply the impact of our investment dollars and the human capital of the firm for the benefit of our portfolio companies and the broader entrepreneurial community. There is obviously a lot that goes into building an early stage company. Building a product people love.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

I have a very public seed stage investment policy and awe.sm I wish the tech community would found its own version of YPO Forum. The decisions were endless, the choices not obvious and the VC involved a pain in the ass. The financial pressures of running a startup started to hit Jonathan. I saw it first hand.

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Technical Review Cofounder Analytics Founder 303

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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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

I certainly bear no ill will to the various firms that ultimately passed on our fundraise… as a seed stage VC myself now I can appreciate how hard it is evaluating companies at the earliest stages of development. We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. . We’ve been lucky.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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. Semil asserts, Seed-stage valuations have generally been left-unchanged, and I could argue even they’ve gone up since the beginning of 2022. Why are the Top 10% less impacted?

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Cap Table Valuation Salary Seed Stage 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

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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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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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

This developed into another question: Even more, since there’s so much that goes on within the community, how can I know in one place, on my phone, what’s going on?—?in in the African communities around me? No class, no community project, and certainly no job straight of college can teach you all this?—?or in one undertaking!

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

With many seed investments locally already, everyone on the team has had a window into how entrepreneurship in the city has evolved over this current cycle. And it was these conversations that I believe led to the team’s decision to add their own stubborn presence to stand up for seed-stage startups in NYC … me.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 9, 2023

Hunter also breaks down their framework for evaluating an investment opportunity when achieving their target ownership exceeds their maximum check size, and the “opportunity cost” of doing so resulting in less diversification.

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Valuation Seed Stage Portfolio Framework 68

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. AngelList is a community of startups and investors who make fund-raising efficient. → Learn More.

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Term Sheet San Francisco Technical Review Seed Stage 70

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Almost as good as the blog itself is the thoughtful and intelligent community that posts hundreds of insightful comments on a daily basis. As president of Y Combinator, the hugely successful seed-stage investor/accelerator, Sam Altman has a lot of knowledge to share. Above the Crowd. Follow Paul on Twitter @paulg. Sam Altman.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Silicon Valley Cofounder 60