View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Although we had a busy summer, I was fortunate enough to take a bit of time off as well, and to step back for a moment and reflect on Nextview’s strategy and market position going forward. . The rest have been companies with some early market validation. This is not what Nextview is about.

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North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

Any Digital Marketer living in today’s age will tell you that Content Marketing is a must, for not only promoting your brand to new prospects, but also to maintain a relationship with your existing customers. 8 Platforms to Supercharge your Content Marketing with Paid Advertising. Start with those notes already! Outbrain. . .

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2021

But in the grand scheme of things, 10 years is a blip, and one that had a continuous bull market in tech. But what has also happened over the last 10 years is the massive expansion of the series A and lifecycle fund market. The third factor is probably the biggest, which is that we’ve been in a very fortunate market environment.

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Dilution Later Stage Portfolio Technical Review 399

Genuine VC

JULY 10, 2012

Term-driving investor approach – An entrepreneur finds a lead (quasi-)institutional venture investor to price and set the structure/dynamics of the round, working together to bring in additional syndicate partners (either/both other funds and individual angels). larger check writers have a greater tendency to lead rounds).

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Portfolio 207

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. The IPO market, she is a fickle mistress. In the first half of 2011, the IPO markets were looking strong for VC-backed companies. But if you read the whole article you glean more insight… the entire public equity markets have sunk in the last 3-4 months. September 15, 2011.

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View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

Historically, seed rounds were syndicated among several different firms. Today, we are seeing less syndication of seed rounds and sharper elbows among many of the funds in the market. Instead of broadly syndicated rounds, we are seeing much more competition for fewer slots. These two forces go hand in hand.

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Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Cap Table 267

David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

First, a formal definition: According to Capital Dynamics , “Co-investments are direct investments in a company made alongside and on the same terms as a lead [General Partner]. We see our potential coinvestors in four primary buckets: 1) HOF Capital ’s own limited partners. 2) Investors with very specific value-add.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 of US social network users) according to Falcon.io’s 2021 digital marketing trends. Ark Invest forecasts that by 2030 the AR market could scale from under a $1 billion today to $130 billion. Fortnite alone made $1.8 Immersive ar/vr/xr.

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Technical Review Audio Forecast Social Media 207

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Yet if you look at some very successful market changes in the last few years it does point to technical prowess in the number 1 seat. When he had his prototype solution for DataSift and had secured re-syndication rights (the rights to resell Twitter data – which only 3 companies ever had) I knew I wanted to work with him.

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Founder CTO Hire Silicon Valley Leadership 309

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

YouTube Marketing and Analytics Framework for Success. Some have even tried original content (a la GoPro ), but originality without key integrations into the overall marketing strategy and media mix is hard to pull off/sustain. What's advertising/marketing/participation on YouTube? YouTube is magnificent. How cool is that!

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Analytics Marketing Audience Channel 149

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

So far most of the top funded AngelList Syndicates look, well, not surprising. Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

The challenge is that my time and money budget for “influencing”–content creation and marketing– is minimal. Also, since I’m not trying to be a full-time marketer, I can’t use some of the standard celebrity techniques. They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Tech stack.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

My partners and I would be thrilled to support this founder in general, but we don’t have enough conviction about the market opportunity he and his co-founders are pursuing to proceed with an investment. My partners and I at NextView know we’ll be wrong a decent chunk of the time, especially as seed stage investors.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Review 185

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2021

What is Duct Tape Marketing? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. More than anything Duct Tape Marketing is an idea that started with the belief that marketing is a system and in order to operate that system, there must be a very clear point of view about how to build a remarkable business.

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Marketing Syndicate Syndication New York 82

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The venture capital industry is continuing its evolution from an upside-down pyramid (typically 3-10 Partners, plus some administrative support) to a traditional hierarchical pyramid. Out of 5,923 investment professionals in our dataset, 916 (15.5%) were focused primarily on origination and marketing.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Hunter Walker

APRIL 10, 2014

But he’s raised the largest syndicate on AngelList , turning himself effectively into a one-man fund for, if not the masses, at least the 270 people who have already committed nearly $3.4m AngelList syndicate has surprised some people, you’ve been angel investing for quite a while, right? penchina#syndicate.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I often tell people that in some ways it’s easier to build great companies in down markets. ” But as entrepreneurs you don’t get to sit these years out and as investors we don’t get just let a few years pass and return back to the market. .” One needs to be in during bull markets and bear markets.

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Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . 2) Marketing. See How Private Equity and VC Investors Are Using Social Media. See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. .

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . 2) Marketing. See How Private Equity and VC Investors Are Using Social Media. See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. .

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Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

The Evolution Of The Podcast written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Todd Cochrane. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Todd Cochrane. 4:32] Is that was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated? [5:48]

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% return cap.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2019

One of the key conversations that happens during NextView’s evaluation of an investment is the “debrief” after the partner meeting , where the entire partnership gets the opportunity to interact with the founding team and dive deeper into the business. . team, market, product, stage/traction) but also the potential deal itself (i.e.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The first step in the process of expansion is identifying which markets are of the most strategic significance to your business. Once you’ve targeted a market, however, things can quickly become convoluted and overwhelming. Also consider an area for its potential business partners (software integrators, resellers, etc.)

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France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

But the emphasis of our program is the direct one-on-one interaction with NextView partners to help push the company forward. The partners at NextView hold sessions more than once per week to push the participants’ thinking and actions to strive towards making significant advances finding true-product market fit.

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Cofounder Syndicate Syndication Alabama 177

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. If you remember your history the market crashed the next week. By mid September the entire market was constipated. History repeated itself in September 2008 with that market crash.

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Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Working to understand why and how things connect is the secret to great market presence. There is a perfect formula out there for all our client’s marketing needs — and it’s our job to help them discover it. Luckily I didn’t have to – a friend ended up texting me and my business partner, suggesting the name Codal.

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Naming CPA Entrepreneur Software Review 146

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. 2) Market . 1) Manage the firm .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. His investing career started 15 years ago at Apax Partners and continued with Trident Capital. You need to be able to understand how to take advantage of the market you’re operating in, including how to take advantage of corporations. .

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Although we had a busy summer, I was fortunate enough to take a bit of time off as well, and to step back for a moment and reflect on Nextview’s strategy and market position going forward. . The rest have been companies with some early market validation. This is not what Nextview is about.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

The best VCs are the ones that balance their optimism, vision and enthusiasm for startups with realism based on very real constraints (the primary one being his/her own time, but also includes market development and exit timing). Too many pivots, and you can lose the market opportunity, even with the greatest idea.

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Venture Capital Syndicate Syndication Bandwidth 78

View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

And if you just want to learn about different types of angels and what motivates each, my partner David has written about that before here.). Maybe you’ll do better as an angel since you are investing smaller dollars which is easier to deploy in this segment of the market, but maybe not. A Primer on Angel Investing. Why Invest?

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

And if you just want to learn about different types of angels and what motivates each, my partner David has written about that before here.). Maybe you’ll do better as an angel since you are investing smaller dollars which is easier to deploy in this segment of the market, but maybe not. A Primer on Angel Investing. Why Invest?

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Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas has produced world-changing startups in the past such as Dell Software , National Instruments and Whole Foods Market but all of those were founded more than 30 years ago. Some businesses can service all four cities with a single distribution hub in one of the cities, making it a unique market for launching new businesses.

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 19, 2024

Over the course of Foundry, we deliberately structured our work in a way that reflected this goal, keeping our organization small and each of the Foundry partners closer to the portfolio (both the companies each of us was responsible for, but also across the portfolio more broadly). I have the same board seats today that I had yesterday.

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Portfolio Syndicate Syndication Cofounder 72

View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

Use good judgment, talk to your co-founders/investors/lawyers, and partner with a bank that values transparency and relationships such as SVB.]. Especially in the early stages, so much about the company may change in how they think about product or go-to-market — and change multiple times — before raising an institutional round.

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Term Sheet Equity Startup Seed Stage 120

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

And finally, in Darwinian fashion, competition for market share amongst the venture capitalists as a result of increased numbers of angel investment syndicates will clear the decks of the low-value add venture capital dollars. All of these attributes will effectively benefit the entrepreneurial community.

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Entrepreneur Startup Balance Sheet Non-Compete 210

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The goal of any cartel is to control production, distribution & marketing of a set of goods with the goal of maintaining high prices. I might talk openly about how Hulu is my partner, while simultaneously launching an iPad player before hulu does (as ABC did) – even when I’m a shareholder.

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