Remove B2B Remove Lead Investor Remove Operations
article thumbnail

Which Fundraising Round Should You Skip?

View from Seed

The reality is that if a founder raised every one of these rounds, and lead investors always got their “target” ownership, the level of dilution would be ridiculous. Experienced founders: B2B. For an experienced founder building in B2B, the round to skip is the pre-seed.

Dilution 149
article thumbnail

The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

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. . Lead investors are few. Leads that are true force-multipliers are exceedingly rare. Belief #2: Capital is plentiful.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

Over the past 15 years we’ve built this amazing membership to serve our core clients – leading investors, corporations, consulting firms, and nonprofits. We’re not mainly for B2B companies or later stage companies or anything like that. They use GLG to quickly and efficiently answer some of their toughest questions.

New York 114
article thumbnail

How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . See Beyond the Money: Best Practices of Venture Capitalists in Helping Early-Stage Companies Create Value and It’s the People: Improving Private Equity Portfolio Company Valuations by Working with Operating Executives. See Where Are the Deals?!:

article thumbnail

How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . See Beyond the Money: Best Practices of Venture Capitalists in Helping Early-Stage Companies Create Value and It’s the People: Improving Private Equity Portfolio Company Valuations by Working with Operating Executives. See Where Are the Deals?!:

article thumbnail

Our Investing Manifesto at NextView

Rob Go

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. . Lead investors are few. Leads that are true force-multipliers are exceedingly rare. Belief #2: Capital is plentiful.

article thumbnail

How I Raised A $1.5M Seed Round in Austin

Austin Startup

Recently I was fortunate enough to have raised a seed funding round from a fantastic group of investors for my pre-product, pre-revenue B2B SaaS startup here in Austin, Texas. Mark Cuban leads $1.5 Lead Investor : The person or firm who defines the terms of the round. I found a great lead in Mark Cuban.

Austin 54