Founder Operations Portfolio Seed Capital 
View from Seed
APRIL 27, 2020
We can stay busy by expending time and effort supporting the existing portfolio, which is the right thing to do and a good use of time. Founders do not have this luxury. Founders do not have this luxury. Most founders are going through hell right now, and that is not going away any time soon. Wait and see.
View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Over the past five years, we’ve witnessed an Atomization of the Seed Stage. Early fundraising is no longer a one-and-done fundraise of a single round of Seed capital subsequently followed by a Series A 12–18 months later. Whether or not this situation is good or bad for entrepreneurs and the ecosystem, it is indeed reality.
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VC Cafe
JULY 5, 2010
A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. Secondly, we are selling a fixed investment product – a fixed number of investors, a fixed buy-in and a fixed number of portfolio companies.
View from Seed
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
Once a startup has raised seed capital, plenty of theories and advice exist on how to successfully raise a Series A. Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. in our portfolio. The mean Series A size was $5.2M.
View from Seed
APRIL 23, 2015
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. ” Founders must address distribution in their pitches both overtly and succinctly. You can find those here. ). Accidental VC'
Haystack
AUGUST 18, 2019
If you hit one or two right, you can make a fortune in seed. And if you don’t hit one or two right, you end up with a mediocre portfolio. The seed “territory” is critical, indeed, and now that folks realize how important it is, there is a fight for that turf. But those bets take a long time to get liquid.
K9 Ventures
JUNE 5, 2015
So while the infrastructure cost and startup costs may have declined, the operating costs have increased. Together this means that Seed stage companies need to run longer and at a higher expense structure, meaning they need to raise a lot more capital. Seed is the New A. The seed round has ballooned. The Epilogue.
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