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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. congrats to Fortress IQ on its $12mm Series A led by Lightspeed and a stealth co on their $13.5mm Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners. In each of these cases, we led much smaller rounds before they raised proper seed funding. Dev-first API for interactive emails?—?will

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Schrödinger’s Start-Up — Why VCs Don’t Sign NDAs or Non-Compete Agreements

Austin Startup

Every so often, I get an email from an entrepreneur that starts something like this: “By reading further, you agree to the terms of our non-disclosure and non-compete agreement” My immediate reaction is to delete these emails with prejudice. I am not alone. VCs get inundated with pitch decks and proposals for new technology.

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Accidental VC: When Should Startups Announce Seed Funding?

View from Seed

This particular company, as a B2B SaaS business, would definitely benefit from driving traffic to convert into subscribers or leads on their email list. So, when should they — or any seed-stage startup — think about drumming up some PR and making noise around funding? They aren’t great demand-gen channels.

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10 Startup Red Flags

adamac.blogspot.com

Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. Posted by Adam MacBeth at 1:50 PM Email This BlogThis! Adamac Attack!

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Our Investment in Cloze ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The company has been in stealth mode for the last couple months but I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about NextView’s investment in the company and our enthusiasm to be working with co-founders Dan Foody and Alex Cote. And of course email, CRM, and other tools for managing your network of contacts are far older.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. and Path Intelligence.