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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I certainly bear no ill will to the various firms that ultimately passed on our fundraise… as a seed stage VC myself now I can appreciate how hard it is evaluating companies at the earliest stages of development. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. link] leehower.

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“Seed Is the New Series A” – Making Sense of the Confusion

View from Seed

For consumer social, you need amazing virality, engagement, and hundreds of thousands of DAUs. For all of these, the metrics and growth need to be the result of legitimate PMF and execution, not tricks. (If For a marketplace or ecommerce business, you need to be doing well north of $5M in annual revenue or GMV to get an A round done.