View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. As a seed-stage company, it is understandable to have a nascent (or non-existent) product and a barebone team relative to the great ambition of the company. The “product roadmap”.

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Mucker Lab

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That is certainly true, but in many cases, an investment is the result of interactions and a broader relationship-building exercise spanning both years and product iterations. Since our inception, Mucker has focused on writing seed stage checks to invest in compelling companies and founders.

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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. Rethinking the Standard Fundraising Deck “I’d make it crystal clear what your product actually does. VCs sure do love writing.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Below, Josh talks about designing features from nothing and how to make important design choices during the pre-seed and seed-stage phases of startup growth. My goal at this very early stage wasn’t to figure out how to unlock growth but to create a product people loved. You Found a Problem to Solve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. A seed-stage “super angel.”

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You have unbounded curiosity for emerging trends, a love for experimentation, and you’re always eager to dive into new products and technologies before others do. NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $200M+ of committed capital under management. You will be based in the NYC office.

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Agile VC

MAY 15, 2014

Well our focus here at NextView is helping exceptional seed stage companies get things off to the best possible start. Simply put these Growth Guides are a step-by-step playbook which cover a specific need that seed stage companies may face in their first 12-24 months. What’s a Growth Guide?

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop. Having The Right It is essential for the following reason: Most new products and innovations fail in the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This process costs money, which professional investors are not willing to contribute, since their interest is in scaling a proven product and business model into a growth business. Acquiring seed-stage funding is admittedly tough, but a source that I find often overlooked is government grant funding, accessible in the U.S.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have unbounded curiosity for emerging trends, a love for experimentation, and you’re always eager to dive into new products and technologies before others do. NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $500M+ of capital under management. Who We Are Looking For. About NextView.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

As a seed stage VC, I have a unique privilege of confidentially spending time with a number of entrepreneurs throughout their company formation and initial product development process. independently come to launch very similar products/services. without any knowledge of the other’s activities?—?independently

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

*. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. Some quick highlights include: The Role of a Seed Stage VC.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

It’s not just the competition against the incumbents and the large tech platforms that founders has to worry about, but most importantly is the company’s performance and product market fit. A high retention rate indicates that customers find the product or service valuable and are likely to continue using it in the future.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

You must have a prototype or a minimum viable product (MVP). To fund the sudden spike in production, funds will be required for additional inventory and wages. It is going to cost a lot of money just to get the initial batch of products to test the market and would definitely require external funding. Seed stage.

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View from Seed

APRIL 16, 2015

Often, when I speak to very early-stage founders, the conversation around value focuses on achievements. Get a working version of the product. For a lot of products, everyone will believe that you can build a product that can do X or Y. can be done with an incomplete product. Get three paying customers.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

A Startup Lab invests guidance, strategy, and takes equity in a carefully selected collection of early and seed stage startups. Some more experienced Labs may also have a major talent pool available for use by its companies, as well as develop and build their own products. What is a Startup Lab?

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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

The MAD 2024 landscape A final example, is this list of the 50 most popular consumer AI web products , recently published by A16Z. I believe they were able to capture mindshare in a crowded market of AI video startups partly because of their cool early demos (even before the product was fully ready) and partly by being early.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Our seed stage board deck templates , Hitchhiker’s Guides to the tech communities in Boston and New York , and our startup job guide are some of our most well received projects, and you can check them all out here. There is obviously a lot that goes into building an early stage company. Building a product people love.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Our seed stage board deck templates , Hitchhiker’s Guides to the tech communities in Boston and New York , and our startup job guide are some of our most well received projects, and you can check them all out here. There is obviously a lot that goes into building an early stage company. Building a product people love.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. However, our overall goal is to invest in the full spectrum of seed. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 12, 2015

Today, Lumos Labs is better known by their product’s name, Lumosity.com, which is used by more than 70M worldwide. The post The Market Size Fallacy for Seed-Stage Startups appeared first on NextView Ventures. The company has raised about $68M in funding as well. VCs pass because of “market size” all the time.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 12, 2015

Today, Lumos Labs is better known by their product’s name, Lumosity.com, which is used by more than 70M worldwide. The post The Market Size Fallacy for Seed-Stage Startups appeared first on The View From Seed. The company has raised about $68M in funding as well.

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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 A to C: Automation.

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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. Great teams fail to build a product and get early distribution all the time. The post Should Seed-Stage VCs Pay Up for Great Teams or Great Traction?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Going back to the Docsend research, which includes a survey of 300 founders and VCs in addition to their anonymous data collection on thousands of decks shared and reviewed, they found the top components/slides on successful pre-seed decks. These 10 slides should be part of every pre-seed deck: Company purpose – why do you exist?

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View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2015

The same debate around pitch deck design also extends to other important touchpoints: a company’s homepage, careers page, product pages, social media profiles, business cards, and so on. To focus on hiring briefly: Seed-stage startups lack early traction but make up for it with tons of promise. Accidental VC'

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View from Seed

MAY 3, 2016

Listen in these places or wherever you get your podcasts: The post Make a Living, Not a Life: Inside WeWork’s Seed Stage with Jesse Middleton [Traction #23] appeared first on NextView Ventures. You can also subscribe to the NextView weekly newsletter about startup traction at bit.ly/nvsubscribe. nvsubscribe.

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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. Based on that reaction, we wanted to continue improving the product through both additional revs/design and continuing to evolve how we think about board meetings in the first place.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The larger the company, the more they’ll separate out business development and sales, with business development focused primarily on lead generation and sales focused on sealing the actual sale of the product or service. You just have to go in and work through the mechanics of selling them on your product or service.

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Mucker Lab

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Investors are constantly looking for elements to guide their decisions, but founders can look to some of the same elements in order to build better, stronger companies and better, stronger products. One of those precursors is product velocity. One of these precursors is product velocity.

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View from Seed

MARCH 8, 2016

Jesse recently sat down with NextView (I assume he was sitting anyway — we spoke on the phone) to talk seed-stage company branding, building a startup identity, and some of the most common mistakes founders make when establishing a name for their companies. In today’s world, product is necessary but not sufficient.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

“superior product vision” – This involves having a clear and compelling vision for a product or service that solves a real problem for customers. They should be able to identify a gap in the market that their product can fill, and be able to communicate this to investors and employees.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Over the past five years, we’ve witnessed an Atomization of the Seed Stage. Early fundraising is no longer a one-and-done fundraise of a single round of Seed capital subsequently followed by a Series A 12–18 months later. Seed stage startups are now graded on a curve. raise $1.8M

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Traction is a biweekly podcast where founders share the creative or unusual things they did during the seed stage to make early progress. As a result, Vin has a great framework for deciding if this is a viable path for your product. Exactly how Vin launched Yipit.com and built his list to the initial 20K and 50K users.

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View from Seed

MARCH 11, 2020

Seed stage companies will mostly face questions around the team and market. More mature companies will have to answer more detailed questions around their tech, product, and business. Reach out to founders or execs that they are close to that might have a POV on your product or business.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Arguably revenue is the best signal of product-market fit for B2B startups. Some potential customers won’t take your product seriously unless you’re charging for it. You will be benchmarked on revenue and paying customers when you seek Series A funding… conceivably even at seed stage.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Product knowledge can be taught, but a profound understanding of intricate prospecting methodologies is indispensable for success. Patience is vital, emphasizing that SDR productivity takes time to develop, dispelling the misconception of instant results. SDRs require proper tools, including a CRM system and reliable data sources.

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