View from Seed
MARCH 24, 2021
At NextView Ventures we have written many pieces about venture capital — how to raise it, build your business, engage with investors, iterate your product, navigate expanding industries, etc. Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise? Hiring Your Team. VCs sure do love writing. ” (Rob Go).
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 6, 2013
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. We got along and shared stories about the startup market.
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Hunter Walker
JANUARY 11, 2021
Traditional venture capital models lean into what’s called ‘power laws.’ Basically the idea that you are backing risky new ventures, many of which will stumble along the way, but one or two of the companies you back will be such outsized successes that the investment gains from those will more than offset the others.
Steve Blank
APRIL 10, 2019
As Venture Capital emerged as an industry in the mid 1970’s, investors in venture-funded startups began to give stock options to all their employees. And Mark Suster of Upfront Capital has a great post that summarizes these changes. It’s called Growth capital. On its surface this was a pretty radical idea.
K9 Ventures
JUNE 5, 2015
That in turn requires more capital. In addition, the competition for and the cost of hiring people, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, has gone up dramatically. In that presentation, I said that Seed is not the first round of financing any more and that K9’s investments were mostly “pre-seed”.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 26, 2014
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.
VC Cafe
JULY 26, 2020
“After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. But when it comes to launching a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) these days, as incremental and iterative prototypes, things have changed significantly: Capital abundance: There’s never been more seed capital in the market.
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