View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $200M+ of committed capital under management. However, you will serve as a co-pilot on deals with all four partners, across the geographies we cover. About NextView. Check out our blog for how we think about company building and investing.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

If you’ve been following my tweets lately, you’ve read some of my quick musings on the state of the seed market this summer. years of investing in the seed stage, I have never seen activity levels like I’m seeing today. In short, in my 6.5 Granted, 6.5 You lose way more than you win.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $500M+ of capital under management. We are proud seed investors in over 100 portfolio companies over the last decade, including TripleLift, Grove Collaborative, Attentive, Whoop, Devoted Health, Drift, ThredUp, and Skillz. About NextView.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Under this category, you have the angel investors who would invest their own money and Venture Capital or VC firms, who manage funds aimed towards specific startup sectors and stages. So, I would suggest that you bootstrap during the inception stage. ? Seed stage. Debt investors. It is a symbiotic relationship.

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View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

Today we’re thrilled to re-launch our most popular resource ever: board deck templates for seed-stage startups. Said another way, seed-stage companies can be led by a founder; scaling companies require a CEO. At the seed stage, where NextView invests, a highly structured board often isn’t a requirement.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In this role, he will continue to produce and manage our successful, 5-star podcast Traction as well as continue to push our thinking around our own creative and digital strategy at NextView. There is obviously a lot that goes into building an early stage company. Establishing an excellent early team. Building a product people love.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In this role, he will continue to produce and manage our successful, 5-star podcast Traction as well as continue to push our thinking around our own creative and digital strategy at NextView. There is obviously a lot that goes into building an early stage company. Establishing an excellent early team. Building a product people love.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

Specifically, there are five challenges that emerging business typically put on the backburner between funding rounds: Seed to Series A: Customer Testing. Hypotheses should be tested extensively and disproven, which is where customer testing plays a central role for seed-stage startups. Series B: Hiring and Developing Managers.

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View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2015

To focus on hiring briefly: Seed-stage startups lack early traction but make up for it with tons of promise. You can hire a professional, outsource to various marketplaces and task management platforms, or rely on any number of free tools. The post Accidental VC: How Much Does Design Matter for Seed-Stage Startups?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2015

“As a seed-stage investor, should you pay up for team or traction?” So, if you are going to pay up as a seed-stage investor, pay up for team. The post Should Seed-Stage VCs Pay Up for Great Teams or Great Traction? appeared first on The View From Seed.' The Case for Traction.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2017

For the last eight quarters, the number of angel and seed stage deals has declined, according to an Eisner Amper VC report. These software programs are more efficient for managing a company’s finances. In today’s investment climate, it’s getting even harder to raise money from investors.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Israeli startup Monday.com , which provides a platform for team collaboration and project management, is an excellent example of a company that exhibits world-class execution. “excellent team building” – Successful founders build and manage teams that are aligned around a shared vision and able to execute effectively.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Management, Compensation & Benchmarks Minimum Requirements in place for an SDR Setting up an effective Sales Development Representative (SDR) team involves essential groundwork. Relying on spreadsheets hampers productivity; having a CRM is crucial for organized prospect management.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 6, 2013

The Austin-based startup Taskbox, which makes a popular iPhone app to manage an email inbox, announced it has raised $600,000 in seed stage funding from angel investors with the Central Texas Angel Network. The post Taskbox Raises $600,000 in Seed Stage Funding appeared first on SiliconHills. version of [.]

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. If people are funding the business, they should get a premium because at the end of the day, cash funding founders are acting no different than a seed stage investor.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2023

I’m going to assume you disagree with this but how do you manage through a changing environment and try to keep a team steady during a business cycle like the one we’ve experienced over the last year? When you’re hiring at Ethena, how do you assess whether a candidate is stage-appropriate?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Here is a summary of the key stages along the way: Idea and seed stage. In this first stage, a specific idea or passion is solidified into an executable plan. This is the stage where most entrepreneurs exit, get pushed out, or learn to operate as full-time business owners.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

Foundry Group is best known for our investments in startups, but our vehicle currently investing in other venture funds, Foundry Group Next, is off to what we believe to be a great start and I wanted to share an update about it by talking about our new investment in a fund managed by Founder Collective. It starts with the people.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As per the chart above, I highly recommend keeping a founder dominated board at the seed stage. Whether the seed investor gets a permanent seat or a temporary seat will largely depend on: The size check they wrote (If it’s a $1.5m Can I really manage a 7-person board plus 2 board observers? Legally speaking.

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ithacaVC

DECEMBER 22, 2012

I recently engaged in a conversation (over a few days) about the need for a seed stage company to have a board member other than the founder. Let’s say a seed stage company raises $600K from a group of seed stage VCs. Might be kind of lonely, but completely legal.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Our returns are obviously very good, but in no way unique in today’s venture markets, especially among emerging managers that invest at the seed stage. Note: TVPI stands for total value of investments net of fees / invested capital; DPI stands for distributions (= cash to LP’s) / invested capital). So, is 10x the new 3x ?

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. My partner Erik Rannala has had a similar experience, having worked as a VC at Harrison Metal before moving down to LA to co-found our seed stage venture firm. Ability” vs. “Knowledge”.

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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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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It’s interesting to note that the majority of these new funds are focused on Seed stage investing (not surprising if you follow the market, although investments at the Seed and Seed + stages have started to decline quite a bit from their peak a few years ago).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

Here is a summary of the key stages along the way: Idea and seed stage. In this first stage, a specific idea or passion is solidified into an executable plan. This is the stage where most entrepreneurs exit, get pushed out, or learn to operate as full-time business owners.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. Many prominent LPs have also recognized the “prorata opportunity” and have set up “direct investment vehicles” themselves to take prorata stakes in their managers portfolio companies. On the surface the narratives have been.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They chose the name First Round Capital because they thought capital would be deployed most efficiently at smaller seed stage rounds considering the cost to build an internet business had come down drastically. SecondRound.com – This is a proprietary CRM system that was built to help manage the fundraising process.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Almost two years ago, in a private/closed meeting with K9 Ventures’ LPs only, I claimed that: What was being referred to in the press as the “Series A Crunch” was not because fewer Series A deals were being done, but because there were too many Seed deals being done. Seed stage was super tough. Implications for Founders.

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View from Seed

MAY 18, 2016

Here at NextView, we are strong proponents of creating a board at the seed stage. At the seed stage, we typically have three-person boards with two founders and one VC — though as companies grow at later stages, five-person boards and ultimately six- or seven-person boards become more common.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

We have seen these companies grow and go through the different stages in the start-up journey. We actively help each portfolio company manage their changing priorities as they grow. At this stage, you should be hiring smart, hungry generalists, rather than specialists. The post So you just raised your seed round, now what?

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 27, 2016

In the spirit of clearing out some half-formed thoughts, here’s how I try to kill the dream for folks who tell me they want to get into venture: “You really want to be an… investment manager?” ” Investment manager? Or that all VCs share a similar approach to investment management.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. NVV: Let’s talk about the seed stage specifically. It’s not often a seed-stage company — usually it’s later — but the trends are going earlier and larger. first and foremost.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

A New Kind of Venture Firm AutoChrome Autochrome is an inception and seed stage venture capital fund. We invest at the earliest stages in transformative companies that are leveraging technology to move our species forward. We all have decades of experience investing in and managing the best technology companies in the world.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Too often, investment structures force the management team to make decisions between misaligned growth and investment (return) objectives. Early liquidity.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

I have a very public seed stage investment policy and awe.sm The truth is I have never enjoyed running team meetings, managing processes & procedures and deciding HR policies, promotions and org structures. They need to be passionate about leadership, management, and organizational processes as the company scales.”

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Hunter Walker

JULY 22, 2014

The earliest a company should “manage by forecast” is post product/market fit and the absolute latest is at Series A fundraise. In most cases we try to shift focus to a Top Down Forecasting model as it’s more milestone-based, which we think is appropriate for early stage startups. Fear not the forecast for it will show the way!

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Haystack

JANUARY 12, 2020

For those following this blog and the seed market over the past decade, you may have noticed that every year, we see increases across the board — more investors, newer funds, and funds that get larger. Much has been written about the fact that traditional seed stage funds have grown in size and dollars under management.

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