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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

As the venture capital industry has evolved, more and more seed investors are passing on traditionally “seed stage” startups because there isn’t enough traction. We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage.

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Our Investing Manifesto at NextView

Rob Go

As the venture capital industry has evolved, more and more seed investors are passing on traditionally “seed stage” startups because there isn’t enough traction. We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Sabena Quan-Hin, Marketing Manager at Flow Capital , wrote, “There are two crucial aspects of marketing that investors often overlook: automation and analytics. Automation allows you to spend less time on tedious tasks and will help boost productivity, especially within a small marketing team. Deer Isle Group has built the D.I.G.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Early stage investors are also mining product crowdfunding sites ( Indiegogo *); lists of product launches ( Producthunt ); angel group platforms ( Gust , Proseeder ); and equity crowdfunding sites ( AngelList , CircleUp , FundersClub , OurCrowd , SeedInvest ) for leads. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

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What Is NextView’s Focus? Another Stroll Through Our Portfolio

Rob Go

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. But we behave pretty much exactly the same way in those companies as we do when we are the lead and only institutional investor. Stage: Pre Product: 12.