The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

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. So, let’s say that one founder puts in $100,000 in seed capital, that could be worth 20 percent of a seed stage company’s valuation.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

One of the themes that we’ve been most interested in at NextView over the last 12+ months has been the impact of consumer web trends on business software. I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2010

About three years ago I attended a Web 2.0 This was before the great recession, but in the middle of the explosion of web apps and social media. One thing that came up repeatedly, then, was the impact of steeply declining web development costs on professional investment. This was a problem for a few, and an opportunity for many.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0 is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Super Angels. Business accelerator.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 14, 2012

We at NextView have been thinking about and looking for investments in seed-stage startups which leverage the megatrend of transitioning computing away from a standard fixed-web PC world. But this exploration also includes alternative user-interfaces and inputs, like gesture controls.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Super Angels. Business accelerator.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

Ideally we’re looking for the Magical Founding Team Mix For Web Startups : Developer; Designer / UI / UX person; Inbound Marketer; Sales Person; and in addition, ideally a data analytics person. This work is unpaid, as with any other startup at the pre-seed stage. Q: What are you looking for in the team? . Sounds great!

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Most consumer web/mobile companies focus on user growth and usage early in the company’s lifecycle before shifting to monetization. You will be benchmarked on revenue and paying customers when you seek Series A funding… conceivably even at seed stage.

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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. In the 10th edition of Traction, we hear the story of Vin Vacanti , co-founder/CEO of Yipit.com (daily deals aggregator) and YipitData (analyzes web data for institutional investors).

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

On the seed side, we are seeing more firms focus on smaller and more concentrated portfolios instead of a spray and pray mentality. There is so much money out there at the seed stage and specializing, focusing, and concentrating paves a path to success.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The Assistant Director will also help host the Texas Wireless Summit , the Wireless Seed Stage Forum and the Entrepreneur Lounge at SXSW (this alone is worth it). ATI also works closely with MobileMondayAustin and Semantic Web Austin. ATI On Campus “Assistant Director&#.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Super Angels. Business accelerator.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

. “Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator. I see all the deals come together.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 4, 2013

The web has become increasingly visual. Of course the same broadband penetration trends which catapulted the rise of online video over the previous decade also empowered delivery of image-heavy web pages. With this investment, everyone around the table is excited about transforming marketing on the web as we know it.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2016

At the moment of writing, Seed-DB, a global database of seed stage accelerators, listed 235 programs (both active and defunct) that 5,688 startups had gone through. Some of the programs take equity in exchange for a seed round, some are free for participants, others work anywhere in between those two models.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

He’s dubbed the approach “ pretotyping ,” and it shares many of the same principles as both its similar-sounding (if later-stage) cousin, prototyping, as well as the more well-known lean startup movement. NextView Ventures: For those who might be unfamiliar, what is this concept of pretotyping?

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

The bulk of the patents they believe Facebook is infringing pertain to things like A) display & targeting of online ads, B) online privacy, C) personalization of a user’s web experience, D) general online messaging (Yahoo! I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

In the past five years, seed-stage investing has experienced a boom. In North America, seed funds now represent 67 percent of all VC funds, up from 33 percent in 2008. Hand-in-hand with the rise in seed funding… This story continues at The Next Web. Andrej Kiska is an Associate at Credo Ventures.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

Requirements: A “digital native” with an established personal web presence and a strong interest in new technology. Include pointers to your LinkedIn profile and other professional web presences.' Strategize new project initiatives based on top-level firm goals, set priorities, and manage towards operational completion.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

This is just the next phase of AngelList’s evolution into a one-stop shop for seed-stage companies and their backers. RelayStrategy Developers Smartsourcing Global Services Epsilon Concepts - LA Web Design Company Developers Arul & Associates LLC Accounting The Resumator HR admin. Powered by Personforce.

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Genuine VC

JULY 8, 2010

In addition, I will also continue to independently operate the Web Innovators Group. The three of us believe that there is a compelling market opportunity on the east coast for a new seed-stage venture capital firm for founders starting internet-enabled businesses.

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Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

For the last 5-7 years the universe of potential acquirers web-based businesses has been fairly concentrated. were fairly active a few years ago though neither is as active today and big media conglomerates like Disney are fairly sporadic as they embrace web-based media. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. May 21, 2012.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2018

– Aaron Patzer, founder of web-based personal finance service Mint.com, which he ultimately sold to Intuit for $170 million. Every company needs a starting point,” says Eric Paley, managing partner of seed-stage venture capital fund Founder Collective. “I I look for those problems in my own life.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Pitch 1: I had an awesome young entrepreneur come in this week to talk about his seed stage business. He wasn’t really ready to raise VC but wanted to meet me early in his process and wanted some help thinking through potential angel or seed stage investors. It was a 1-on-1 meeting between the two of us.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Meanwhile, the bubble for “seed stage&# startups began when Ron Conway’s Silicon Valley Angels and DST guaranteed every startup out of a YCombinator $150,000. No one doubts that social networks and web and mobile applications are reinventing commerce. We are seeing this bubble unfold by the book.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Chances are if things are going good (or even not so good) those early stage startups you were so passionate about 12 or 18 months ago will be coming to the market again asking for more money. Do you have relationships with other investors at the next stage of the investment lifecycle?

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Connecting people and data over the web and mobile also creates something that wasn’t possible before – the end result is new and unique, not just something faster, cheaper, or better. This brings us to our refocused thesis: we like to invest in businesses with potentially large network effects built around people and/or data.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

I played around on BBS’s when I was growing up in the late ’80s and of course the foundations of the web were laid even before that by the military and academic institutions. So here at NextView we will be investing in them along with all the other forms of internet-enabled seed stage companies.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

I played around on BBS’s when I was growing up in the late ’80s and of course the foundations of the web were laid even before that by the military and academic institutions. So here at NextView we will be investing in them along with all the other forms of internet-enabled seed stage companies.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

But recognizing that the funding landscape has changed - more angels, more Web startups - this year the firm conducted its first Angel/Seed Financing Survey. Seed stage funds led 45% of the financings, individual angels led 31% and venture capital funds led 24%.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

And from my perspective as an engaged seed stage venture investor, this makes them unfundable. Posted at 12:28 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink Comments Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. Click to email him.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

And along the way we’ve met with or observed a larger number of seed-stage startups attempting to start them. If a web service provides content which helps a person or organization learn more about what and how to buy, then it becomes a trusted source for later in the buying process.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

As a result of a convergence of many factors (lean startup methodology, broadband & smartphone penetration, social web, cloud computing, etc), breakout startups are clearly getting scale faster than they used to. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 17, 2011

” First and foremost, we are dedicated seed-stage investors focused on investments in internet-enabled startups. There we describe not just the “who” and “what” of what we’re doing, but also “why” and “how.”

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

I like to break-out startup growth into four stages, not too dissimilar to four years of high school education: freshman, sophomores, juniors and seniors. Sophomores are beta site to full production site with initial users (seed stage angels—raise $500K to $1MM). Back into a valuation that gets your investor a 10x return.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Rob, Lee, and I actively become involved operationally with each and every one of our investments, especially at the seed stage. Lastly, we at NextView consider ourselves to be part of a greater Tribe within the entrepreneurial web and mobile community.

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