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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

Both Sides of the Table

He wanted to work in venture capital and I was new to the industry and in no position to hire anybody. A few years later I was in the position to hire but Aaron was way more senior than our entry-level positions. But we continued to meet over the years and swap experiences.

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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.” Hiring Your Team. ” (Lee Hower). ” (Rob Go).

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Two Clean Energy Incubators Launched in Texas

Austin Startup

This program provides the seed capital to do so. Funding from this program is intended primarily to cover personnel and some travel costs, in particular hiring a leader of the clean energy incubator. Those events drew more than 5,000 people. ATI and SECO believe that this success can be replicated in other regions in Texas.

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Repeat Founders and the Risk of a False Positive

View from Seed

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. Their early hires are probably much stronger too, which allows for better execution as well. Third, repeat founders are likely to execute at a much higher level early on.

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Why I Worry About Venture-Backed Mental Health & Addiction Startups

Hunter Walker

Which leads us to the fundamental difference between, say, a small self-funded online therapy practice and one that has taken millions of dollars in seed capital: the latter can acquire a larger number of patients much faster using investment dollars for both customer acquisition and to subsidize the economics of serving those clients.

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

Both Sides of the Table

Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. If you haven’t yet raised an A-round my recommendation would be that you not yet hire a big, well-known PR firm. It super charges a business that is closer to product delivery.

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Exploring the NextView Platform? Start Here

View from Seed

We’ll need your contributions and your knowledge around categories like Product & Design , Marketing & Growth , Hiring & Talent , Fundraising , and more. – Flowchart: Seed VC Decision Tree (how one seed investor gets to yes or no). Example Blog Resources: – How & Why to Hire a COO.