Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably. Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. .

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Startups with large, lifecycle VCs included in the seed round syndicate did not reach Series A faster than those who did not. However, large, lifecycle VCs who invest in a seed round seem to correlate to an increase the size of the Series A raised by a given startup. 4 Operating Philosophies Affecting Series A Raises.

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

The NextView Accelerator Doesn’t Operate in Strict Cohorts. . Most accelerators operate in class cohort “batches.” The dynamics for participation in the next round’s fundraise syndicate is complex, and many accelerators (and VCs) obfuscate their intentions for self-serving interests.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. These syndicates are often a bit “underground”, so you won’t be able to find them by researching via Google. From there, you can find various syndicates.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. These syndicates are often a bit “underground”, so you won’t be able to find them by researching via Google. From there, you can find various syndicates.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

We at NextView Ventures often invest in a startup’s first round alongside other funds; either seed stage focused ones like ourselves or larger traditional firms. Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

John Berger, Director Operations & Impact Solutions, Toniic , observed that this has clear investor benefits: “ The grace period became a feature because it benefits investors in regions like the US where there can be tax differences between short and long term gains. Payments are commonly delayed for a grace period of 12-36 months.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Massimo Sgrelli, Entrepreneur, angel investor, computer programmer, agrees with Eyal’s suggestion: The best way to attract Silicon Valley investors to your non-US startup is to split your operations keeping R&D in your own country, while moving business and marketing heads in the Valley (and potentially the founders too).

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

2010 Operating Income: $16 million. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

It is more remarkable for a large, well-known company that’s an actual operating business like Yahoo! First, Leader is an “operating business”, not an “IP holding company. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. link] Harry. Read More ».

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Instead, if you’re a seed-stage startup taking that first step in anything (and at the seed stage, you’re going from zero to one in everything), it’d be great to have a place to go for support, inspiration, and practical resources to make the process easier and clearer. – Why raise seed vs jump to Series A?

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

I really liked Jason Lemkin’s “ Do You Have a Weak Investor Syndicate ” blog post from earlier in the summer. It’s a seed stage company that has demand from insiders and new investors to do a ‘top-off’ in order to delay going out for a Series A. Go read it and then come back here….

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

We at NextView Ventures often invest in a startup’s first round alongside other funds; either seed stage focused ones like ourselves or larger traditional firms. Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

In the next post, I’ll talk about how we think about pre-seeds at NextView. It’s become increasingly common for startups to raise several seed rounds, and this has led to a bifurcation in the seed stage between what are known as “pre-seed” (or “genesis”) and institutional seed rounds.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

The International segment appears to have similar profitability as the North America business though as it accounted for roughly the same proportion of adjusted operating income. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Pingback: Iphone Android App. Read More ».

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Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

Initially focused on dairy & livestock operations, Farmeron’s system takes in data from a myriad of sources from farm production systems (e.g. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. automated milking machines that spit out data) to veterinary data (e.g. feedstocks). Read More ».

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. So, when should they — or any seed-stage startup — think about drumming up some PR and making noise around funding?

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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

As many of you may know, we have a section on the NextView website called “Ethos” where we describe five key principles to how we operate. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Ethos: What ‘Blank Canvas’ Means to NextView. April 27, 2012. Author howerl.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

At NextView we’ve intentionally taken an approach which combines both thematic and opportunistic investing for a couple reasons: 1) Our Overall Strategy is Highly Focused - We’re a dedicated seed VC fund, so we invest in startups exclusively at the seed stage. Pingback: watch inception online. Pingback: [link].

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Lots of us woke up this morning to an email from Reed Hastings about Netflix splitting it’s streaming and DVD-by-mail businesses into two separate operations (each w/ it’s own brand). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. September 19, 2011. Author howerl. Read More ».

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Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

NextView Ventures II is $40M, twice the size of our first fund, and we continue to be exclusively focused on seed-stage companies pursuing internet-enabled innovation. As former operators and product-oriented entrepreneurs, Dave, Lee, and I tend to think of our firm as a startup company and our approach to investing as our product.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

We also soon decided that we wanted to outsource as much of our operations to hosted services as we possibly could. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings. Early-stage seed and angel investors all realize that a business will encounter a huge range of flux very rapidly.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

There are more similarities with early-stage VC than public investing, but in these asset classes you still see somewhat more uniform access to investment opportunities and less information asymmetry. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. How do you win? Author howerl. Read More ».

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2014

From the very beginning Satya and I have stressed the importance of adding an outside investor to your Board as early as seed stage. This resulted in an original model where we assumed owning 10% of a company post-seed investment. My answer is, if it does, you’ve selected the wrong investors, which is a bigger problem.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. – All of Facebook’s ad revenue comes from the Facebook.com website. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA. Read More ».

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

Most companies in the IT sector are profitable at least on an operating or cashflow basis, though often not on a GAAP basis when non-cash expenses are taken into account. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Read More ».

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Most startups operate close to themargin of failure, and the distraction of having to deal with clientscould be enough to put you over the edge. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. And we think its better if startups operate out of their ownpremises, however crappy, than the offices of their investors.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Canadian operator Rogers filed to become a bank last year. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Finally, carrier billing is thriving for games and digital content (maybe around 80% for most players like Boju, Payfone, mopay). Read More ». What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Angels typically invest in companies operating in industry sectors with which they are familiar. We also have data points for VC investments in seed/startup companies (but not necessarily pre-revenue companies). In the end, such a portfolio might yield the angel investor a total return on investment of 25% per year or more. million.

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