Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

If you work in B2C or e-commerce, you optimize that Add to Cart flow like crazy because that is your revenue. You still have a revenue goal to hit this quarter, something like that. Hila Qu: I love when people think about the user journey because sometimes it's not thought about enough in B2B because it’s complicated.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 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. Now it’s time to set the stage with the early traction you have. Seed stage VCs are realistic about how much traction a very raw company might have. A) Pre-Product Companies.

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Rob Go

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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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. Etc… At the pre-seed stage, a big way to stand out is if you have a V3 statement (as opposed to a V1 statement). You want your revenue to be higher than your costs.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. Etc… At the pre-seed stage, a big way to stand out is if you have a V3 statement (as opposed to a V1 statement). You want your revenue to be higher than your costs.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2021

VC Cafe: What’s the best advice or practical tips you have for founders with regards to marketing and branding at seed stage? This can be really hard for early stage startups, but it means the difference between being good or being great. And running fast as an early stage start-up is so important.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

But they’ll sit up and pay attention when you talk about the customers and revenues of the business. We spend tremendous energy recruiting between 100 and 200 angels and seed-stage investors who may invest in your business. ii.actual REVENUE? You’re in dialogue with the marketplace. Listen to what it tells you.

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Asia Singapore Cofounder Incubator 207

Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

The simple answer is “be able to convince a partnership of smart investors that your startup has a good probability of being a $100M+ revenue company within 5ish years.” I was in a board meeting for a seed stage company recently and a successful GP at a larger fund said “you know it when you see it” which is true.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

I’ve spent over a decade investing in consumer and B2B companies that do things like expand access to reproductive care and childcare , support the circular economy , enable more seamless payments for small businesses and individuals, rethink mindfulness for the modern world , and champion learners from the classroom to the metaverse.

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Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

Some believe that there are “new” revenue models being created by consumer web companies, like virtual goods or “freemium” services. Their first revenue stream is simply inserting affiliate links to e-tailers into the pinboards that users create. But I still firmly believe the overall framework holds true.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

BOLDstart helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round. helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round”. As they say, the rest is history.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). As of this week, here’s a sample of multiples: LinkedIn – 16x+ trailing revenue. Read More ».

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Rob Go

MARCH 16, 2012

I’m going to focus on B2B” Consumerization of business software is a “hot” meme. Whereas B2B might yield a more predictable customer and real revenue from the beginning, scaling a company selling to businesses happens more slowly. No B2B service has a Draw Something moment.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

Actually, growth equity firms I find are best at this, because they have very specific financial criteria that they look for, such as ranges for revenue, ebitda, growth, etc. We don’t have such a section on our website (yet) and in some ways, the seed/early stage is more amorphous. Stage: Pre Product: 12.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

BOLDstart helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round. Smart enterprises are analyzing all of this data to make better decisions, increase revenue, and improve operating performance. As they say, the rest is history.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

As a result, for these kinds of businesses, investors often don’t expect that companies can earn revenue right out of the gate, because they may not legally be able to. These are some of the most important criteria to investing in seed-stage teams. Is the company already in the middle of overcoming regulatory hurdles?

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

This seed-stage fund is named 50/50 since Frank + Oak plans to grant 50 percent of the fund to female entrepreneurs and 50 percent of the fund to male entrepreneurs. Growing your B2B marketplace. As CEO Thomas Smyth told VentureBeat, “Basically we want to see how many people we can help before Comcast shuts us down.”.

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Seattle Portfolio Seed Stage Canada 128

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

But for us, revenue is not a hard prerequisite because some of our bets are based on our conviction around technology or platforms that might take a little more time to build out and get going.”. At the seed stage, we have backed very non-obvious, non-pedigreed entrepreneurs, in spaces that weren’t obvious, who ended up being amazing.

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Technical Review Seed Stage Software Review Early Stage 69

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

“Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. Thirty-four VC firms in OpenVC call themselves “early-stage” Yet, 30% of those don’t actually invest in pre-revenue startups. For example, Point Nine Capital focuses on B2B SaaS and marketplaces at the seed stage, across many industries.

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