View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. First and foremost, angels can provide capital.

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Angel Investor Boston Seed Stage Syndicate 332

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

But B2B startups need to take a different tack. We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses. Arguably revenue is the best signal of product-market fit for B2B startups.

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Revenue Product B2B Marketing 234

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. There are countless B2B startups that are enabling this digital transformation and how consumers experience the Everyday Economy. Early-stage investing is still the only thing we do.

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Seed Stage Portfolio Cofounder B2B 273

Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

These are some of the most important criteria to investing in seed-stage teams. Obviously within this category there are a LOT of verticals that are looked at very different — everything from e-commerce to B2B SaaS to marketplaces. Is the company already in the middle of overcoming regulatory hurdles?

Startup 48

Startup Vertical Early Stage Bootstrapping 48

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

I know that in B2B world you are dead in the water without CRM tool… We are using our own stuff – [link] Reply Josh , on February 28, 2011 at 12:12 am said: Thank you for all the great links, how can i get an invite to quora? Reply Jarek , on February 27, 2011 at 11:51 pm said: What about CRM?

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110