Mucker Lab

JULY 11, 2023

Understanding the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) A good way to think about search is essentially as roadmaps drawn by targeted keywords, which branches outward to create intersections that become digital real estate - websites, media, ads, and more. High authority often leads to higher search engine rankings.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Startup salaries — especially on the engineering side — are at near record highs. The post Seed-Stage Startups: Beware the “Stickiness Squeeze” appeared first on NextView Ventures. Here are the two most obvious examples: Wages.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

How to Sell Your Startup’s “Secret” Master Plan at the Seed Stage “Articulating and selling your long run vision is important, but trying to convince those that are deeply skeptical about it is simply a mutual waste of time.” Seed stage startups are now graded on a curve.”

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

A Startup Lab invests guidance, strategy, and takes equity in a carefully selected collection of early and seed stage startups. A talented group of specialists including engineers, designers, financial analysts, and lawyers are assigned to develop various facets of the company’s framework. What is a Startup Lab?

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View from Seed

APRIL 16, 2015

” You might find that you can actually invest a lot less time and engineering resources to get to some of these answers and to get a step or two higher on the value creation stairs. The post Value Inflection Points for Seed-Stage Startups appeared first on The View From Seed.'

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. However, our overall goal is to invest in the full spectrum of seed. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

At seed-stage startups, especially companies with well-networked founders and investors, finding applicants who can do a job on paper is not overly difficult. Adam Brod , VP of Technology and Engineering, BookBub. If it’s a seed-stage hire, you should already know the person. Built in Boston.). In The End….

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2012

Aggregage , the platform that powers StartupRoar has added a powerful personalization engine. That means that the site now allows users to sign-up and have their content personalized based on their interests.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The company has built a team of world-class engineers who are passionate about solving complex security challenges, and this team has been instrumental in Checkmarx’s success. Israeli startup Checkmarx , which provides software security solutions, is an excellent example of a company that fulfills this trait.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Pre-seed Round of Funding. In the pre-seed stage, a startup is searching for product/market fit. Funding: Startups typically raise anywhere from $100K to $750,000 in pre-seed. Goal/Time: By the end of the pre-seed stage the company ought to have evidence that it has found product/market fit.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

And along the way we’ve met with or observed a larger number of seed-stage startups attempting to start them. Communities like those of uTest (software QA testers), as well as NextView portfolio companies GrabCAD (mechanical engineers) and thredUP (parents), which resulted in marketplaces had origins in this approach.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 6, 2019

Claimbot announced this week it has raised seed stage funds to expand its artifical intelligence powered virtual chat engine. The post Claimbot Raises Funds to Advance its Virtual Chat Engine for the Insurance and Automotive Industries appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Experiment Engine, an Austin-based SaaS start-up, proudly announces the close of a $1 million seed round. Founder Collective, based in NY and Boston, joined the seed stage round with other notable support from Texas-based Mercury Fund. Digital experiment engine Funding'

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I’m often surprised by how much effort seed stage teams put into building an early product and how little credit that receives from investors. And the ultimate uncertainties for a seed stage company are around talent and customer demand. But the way the market values this early work can vary greatly.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Along those lines, I’m excited to work with the NextView Ventures team over the next and final six months of my time at HBS to examine more of the data and help build institutional seed-stage funding into the fabric of the emerging Harvard tech cluster. Boston’s talent pool is unparalleled. Buildings That Buzz.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 12, 2016

That was the Datadog pitch in late 2010, my first full year of leading deals, that I got from two software engineers. Market research is probably one of the most overvalued pieces of information for seed stage companies--one that all too easily leads you away from working with great founders. Makes sense, no?

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. You’ve seen this with companies like StackOverflow and Github in software engineering or Behance in visual design. It’s really been a pleasure for me to work with these guys.

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Rob Go

JULY 29, 2014

But we think they are important even at the seed stage of a business. We tend to suggest that seed stage companies convene with their board ever 6-8 weeks. Have you been unable to hire the engineers your were hoping for? Even at the seed stage, I believe governance is really important. Governance.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. However, we’ve found that it’s frequently the most over-engineered, and often filled with extraneous information. Director of Marketing at Facebook, VP Engineering at Startup X, Ph.D.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 9, 2016

(revenue / traction / setting up infrastructure / etc) This can set you apart, because the vast majority of businesses I see at the seed stage are just ideas with no action. At the seed stage, there are companies who have been around for 5 months and others for 5 years. 2) Speed matters.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2016

Valuation is a nebulous topic amongst early stage startups, so I thought I’d really spell it out in detail. In short: Valuations for seed stage companies are fairly arbitrary and driven solely by supply and demand. Supply - amount of your round and Demand - investor demand.

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andrewchen.co

AUGUST 20, 2012

How long will the “seed stage bubble” last? It’s never been easier to raise seed funding, and there’s warnings that we’re in the midst of a “seed stage bubble.” You can also subscribe by RSS or email below, and youll get updates when things start back up again. Andrew. -->.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2010

One of the Pivot’s positive consequences for the startup team is realizing that a lack of scalable revenue is not the fault of Sales or Marketing or Engineering departments – and the solution is not to fire executives – it’s recognizing that there’s a problem with the assumptions in the initial business model.).

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2012

Let’s start out with the basic functions of a tech company: 1) Engineering 2) Marketing 3) Sales 4) Business development 5) PR 6) Design 7) Product Management 8) HR 9) Operations 10) Finance Ok, that's just overwhelming. I can break down all the things a startup needs to do into three ideal people. Ready to start simplifying?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. However, our overall goal is to invest in the full spectrum of seed. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

I have a very public seed stage investment policy and awe.sm We knew we had a valuable product that an acquiring company would gain greatly from and a world-class engineering and product team that would be valued by a buyer. The decisions were endless, the choices not obvious and the VC involved a pain in the ass.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Privacy engineering rules: We can’t go a week without a new data breach or privacy violation; Marriott, Google, Facebook and more. On the seed side, we are seeing more firms focus on smaller and more concentrated portfolios instead of a spray and pray mentality. See a recent Business Insider article with more of my thoughts.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.” Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. What They Do: Travel search engine. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Headquarters: Norwalk, CT & Concord, MA.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

But you must be doing real engineering of some kind. For example, Point Nine Capital focuses on B2B SaaS and marketplaces at the seed stage, across many industries. (Rare exceptions to $6M with extreme traction.). Traction / Progress: Almost always $5K to $30K/month in gross profit. No ideas or prototypes.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 9, 2023

Their significance in SEO is immense, acting as pathways that help search engines discover and prioritize content. Without links, attaining a high rank on search engine result pages becomes not just difficult, but often impossible. The Importance of Links in Ranking Links are often considered the infrastructure of the internet.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

tldr: instead of choosing between in-person or remote, your seed stage company (or team) should be more hybrid, tied to the type/phase of project going on. Experienced leadership, well-funded, and hiring in engineering, product and operations. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Today, AngelList is debuting Docs, which lets seed-stage startups close their round online. For a seed stage round, legal fees can be upwards of tens of thousands of dollars, which is costly for a bootstrapped startups. AngelList eventually resulted from this, and actually helped startups make connections to investors.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

You will be benchmarked on revenue and paying customers when you seek Series A funding… conceivably even at seed stage. The early goal isn’t to maximize near term revenue… it’ll take time to fully understand your market and establish P-M fit, let alone optimizing the sales & marketing engine.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

As an electrical engineer and software developer with decades of experience building internet infrastructure, there are certain areas where I believe I could contribute much more than the puny sums that I can invest. If your seed-stage company fits the criteria above, please contact me. Some lawyers, even.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

There has been no shortage of controversy and criticism around the convertible note, a popular investing vehicle that’s used by seed stage and angel investors. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. → Learn More. Sometimes these loans have a valuation cap and/or a discount. Crunchboard.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 25, 2016

In the spirit of clearing out some half-formed thoughts, I wanted to share my response to venture LPs who ask about the effect of “so much money” flowing into the seed space and how we think about its competitive impact upon our fund Homebrew. Well, when we see a company at this stage we assume their round is going to get done.

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