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Why Reporters Ignore Your Seed-Stage Startup Pitches, And How to Fix That

View from Seed

Even if you’re in the pre-revenue, pre-seed or seed stage, there are still ways to get on a reporter’s radar. Nine times out of 10, your email gets ignored — not because the reporter is a jerk, but because he or she is already swamped. You have a new hire (if they’re not the CEO or CTO, reporters probably won’t care).

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Pitch Deck Month: The “Where Are You Going?” Slide

View from Seed

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. Now it’s time to discuss the “where”. As a seed-stage company, it is understandable to have a nascent (or non-existent) product and a barebone team relative to the great ambition of the company.

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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. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early. However, our overall goal is to invest in the full spectrum of seed.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Lab

If you go back to thinking about what kind of company is a great fit for PLG, there are two important criteria: The first one is your target segment, your customer size. Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. That’s the success.

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

www.informationarbitrage.com

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. Too often, however, I have found CTO / Founders paired with business people who not only don't add value, but frequently detract from the value of the business.

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What I’ve learned from seeing 20k company pitches

Hippoland

(revenue / traction / setting up infrastructure / etc) This can set you apart, because the vast majority of businesses I see at the seed stage are just ideas with no action. Not only is it important to show what you’ve done but if you’ve been executing on a fast time scale, then that’s even more impressive.

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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. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early. However, our overall goal is to invest in the full spectrum of seed.