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How We are Investing Through The Covid Correction

View from Seed

Similarly, FOLD has always held seed investors back from doing second seed or late seed investments for fear that they are being suckered into something that others have already passed on.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words. It may surprise you to learn that LA graduates more engineers than anywhere else in the country. Where do all of these engineers end up?

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Boston’s WebInno Is Now BIG

Genuine VC

Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors. Seed capital is more readily available, including of course through NextView Ventures.

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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

A startup is more like Typo Keyboards, which recently engaged ISBX as its software engineering team to help it grow rapidly enough to fill an urgent market demand for Apple’s iPhone 6 buyers. Although a plumbing company may be new but it can’t be considered a startup because it is not designed to grow fast. Startups play in a bigger field.

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise? “At some point, an entrepreneur begins to exhaust her network, and her network’s network, and the incremental hours devoted to fundraising will begin to yield less capital raised than the previous.” ” (Lee Hower). ” (David Beisel). ” (Rob Go).

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Harvard’s Big Moves to Improve Its Startup Spirit: An HBS Student’s Take

View from Seed

When I was a freshman, a wise mentor told me, “Pick your major based on something for which the Stanford engineering department is creating new buildings.” Harvard’s new master plan in Allston is to build an entire science and engineering campus … from scratch. Buildings That Buzz.

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SXSW Startups: CargoX

Austin Startup

But, we jumped that hurdle successfully last year, when we presented our idea to the world through an ICO platform, where we raised our seed capital to make it happen. In December, CargoX secured partnerships with both Global Cargo Alliance and ConsolFreight. How do you determine if an organization is a good fit for CargoX?