Rob Go

AUGUST 26, 2013

Over the past couple years, there has been an emerging bifurcation in the seed investing market. Most seed rounds tended to look like “genesis rounds” This market gap, coupled with the capital efficiency of software brought on the rise of seed funds. in a round was very challenging for most.

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Valuation Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 68

View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

But let’s make this more concrete in the context of an entrepreneur raising a round: How NextView Approaches Pre-Seed Rounds. So when it comes to what the market regards as “pre-seeds,” we simply do the same things we typically do, but slightly tuned to this stage of company. But we emphasize a couple things a bit more.

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

This is the feeling you get from watching the venture capitalists talk about the entrepreneurs and other investors in the film. I''m all for transparency, but won''t be naming names in this post as I don''t want to put some entrepreneurs in a difficult position. Startup outcomes tend to be very binary.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 46

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. It’s like a dam has broken and now there is a flood of new entrepreneurs, investors, and big companies moving to Texas. Dallas (North) is the ninth largest city and was recently named the number one commercial real estate market in the US.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

I know many super experienced entrepreneurs who don’t understand the basics of how fund size and age can affect them so I thought it was worth establishing a baseline. In a world of The Funded, VentureHacks and entrepreneur blogs this kind of informations spreads like wildfire. Let me explain: 1. And they don’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

A reminder that it is important for all entrepreneurs is to remember to be careful about “deal drift.” We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. If you remember your history the market crashed the next week. Yes, this was stupid.

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Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301

Rob Go

JANUARY 28, 2016

But let’s make this more concrete in the context of an entrepreneur raising a round: How NextView Approaches Pre-Seed Rounds. So when it comes to what the market regards as “pre-seeds,” we simply do the same things we typically do, but slightly tuned to this stage of company. But we emphasize a couple things a bit more.

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Cofounder Finance Founder Syndicate 28

Rob Go

MAY 20, 2014

As seed rounds have become much more common, it’s been said that the “seed is the new series A” This is sort of true – it used to be that Series A’s would often happen pre-product, and certainly before product-market fit. In that case however, the founders might end up taking a lot of dilution.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

TL;DR: In a market that has historically idolized huge, splashy financings and exits, an increasing number of entrepreneurs are realizing that everyone else’s definition of success — particularly among certain large VCs — isn’t necessarily aligned with their own. Most individual VCs can only support about 7–10 companies at a time.

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