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How We are Investing Through The Covid Correction

View from Seed

Trying to be transparent has always been a core value of NextView, and we hope that this will help founders and our co-investors better understand how we intend to operate in the early stage ecosystem in the next several years. . Our strategy is to be able to invest across the full spectrum of seed. Number of Investments.

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How a Seed VC Approaches Pre-Product Startups

View from Seed

We have a bias towards very early stage investing for a bunch of reasons, but it’s not easy. It’s often a good idea for founders to find a way to build something and get some early market validation before raising outside capital. I think this stage, more than others, is very dependent on the individual investor.

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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. And finally the best of the best are able to raise “growth funds” to complement their early-stage funds.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

Raising seed capital is a tricky business. They come in lots of different flavors and stages of fundability. Most are making major mistakes in their approach when seeking capital. At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders.

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How Hardware Startups Gain Initial Traction [Episode #14: Ben Einstein]

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In our latest episode, Ben Einstein , Founder/Partner of BOLT , an early-stage VC investing in hardware startups, shares the stories of several connected devices and hardware companies and their tricks and challenges. Raising seed capital. (In Subscribe on iTunes , SoundCloud , or Stitcher. . to learn more.

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The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

I still wanted K9 to be the first institutional money in a company and work with “frighteningly early-stage” companies. There are a now a handful of funds, that claim to be Pre-Seed funds (K9 included). Raising a Seed round is harder because of the change in expectation for a round of this size. Implications for Founders.

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Answers to 10 Critical Questions for Seed-Stage Startups [SlideShare]

View from Seed

In the last six months, we’ve been asked and answered several key questions about seed-stage startups and raising seed capital. All we do is seed — we focus on it, we want to be the best seed partner, and we obsess over helping startups through that first, formative 18-24 month period.