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I Stared at Startup Pitch Decks for 3 Straight Weeks – Here’s What I Learned

View from Seed

A few weeks ago, we launched two startup pitch deck templates for raising seed capital — part of NextView’s platform of exclusive startup resources. In short, what’s your unfair advantage to gain traction and distribution and start to solve this particular problem?

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works.

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Accidental VC: The Most Dangerous Question for Founders to Overlook in Pitches

View from Seed

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. I believe this to be 100% true, and I know every partner at NextView feels the same way. You can find those here. ).

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

With this seed capital – more often than not totaling between $100,000 and $1,000,000 - the company accomplishes a number of key technical milestones, gets a beta customer or two, and then goes on a "road show" to venture capitalists around the country for capital to “scale” the business. Venture capitalists Cut Tough Deals.

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The Role Venture Capital is Playing in Online Schooling (Guest Post)

VC Cafe

A Wall Street Journal piece from April 2012 reports on the impact of $16 million in venture capital awarded to Coursera to increase the scope of the program. Elite education is too expensive, and it’s available to too few,” said John Doerr , one of the venture capitalist partners backing Coursera.

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

BHAG is one day be able to truly focus on what is ahead and its achievability and aim to change my goals always to stay relevant to my customers, employees, market, partners, investors and the society. Setting up a publishing company to internationally distribute the book, initially in 3-4 languages. Thanks to Sid Mohasseb. #6-