View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

For professional development as well as exposure for your management team, founders often bring in VPs (or SVPs, or other C-levels, etc.) At the seed stage, where NextView invests, a highly structured board often isn’t a requirement. More Reading on Board Meetings and Management: How to Avoid a Cluttered Board Room.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Aligning the Startup Team Strategy with the Capitalization Strategy. The single most important factor to raising capital for any tech startup is the management team. This is true for early stage funding as well as venture capital funding. Below are some tips for aligning the startup team with the capitalization strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

Cunningham’s term was coined to identify a specific problem in the tech industry, but the fundamental concept is universal — Ben Horowitz, for example, took Cunningham’s concept and applied it to management structures. . Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

You may end up a company in the difficult position of having to scale back or become defensive, due to market evolution, management blunders, or any combination. It can be very tempting to take in a little bit of seed capital, and start to operate as if you’re a big company. But it will still be your company.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. Seed capital is a component of the initial investments made in young businesses. Some return value must be offered to the investors for startup seed funding to be considered acceptable.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

” At Version One Ventures, they understand that there is no such thing as a good management style. Everyone regardless of gender manages differently, and this is something that Boris and his team are not just open-minded about, but that they welcome: You cannot generalize about leadership whether male or female.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Make your public profile as sexy, comprehensive and enticing as possible, adding a short, well done, elevator pitch video (think “the kind of video you see on great Kickstarter campaigns”) and listing your full management team. And don’t forget the ability to customize your profile’s background.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. You can learn more about that by reading The engineering managers lament.) Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Instead, focus on getting them ready for that stage. And do your customer development.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Rule Number One: the best help for start-ups comes from proven leaders who don’t need cash from your seed capital and genuinely want to help ideas they believe in. Most SIC members are either burned-out, serial founders who never got an exit, or someone who had a senior management position in a large, mature company.

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Up and Running

JUNE 5, 2017

I am definitely not recommending you raise seed capital this way—but you wouldn’t be the only person to have done it.). Now, the FedEx Corporation employs four hundred thousand people across the world and brings in fifty billion dollars every year. So, why am I talking about FedEx?

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Along those lines, I’m excited to work with the NextView Ventures team over the next and final six months of my time at HBS to examine more of the data and help build institutional seed-stage funding into the fabric of the emerging Harvard tech cluster. Boston’s talent pool is unparalleled.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2013

Other investors in this financing round include SPRING Seeds Capital , Clearbridge BSA and Lu Yoh Chie of Biosensors International , and existing shareholder BioVeda.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

When you won an IRU World Congress Startup competition award, Boris Blanche, Managing Director of IRU, called out CargoX for its “viability and invention,” in other words, you maintain a realistic, yet disruptive, model. We all love logistics, so we want to see the public blockchain computer to start managing and optimizing global logistics.

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

You must have a strong product management pedigree. See Ready to Join a New Management Team? We agree that upon raising capital, each team member will earn $X, perhaps with an automatic bump to $Y upon achieving agreed-upon milestones. Once we’ve executed all the steps above, we go to VCs and raise seed capital of $1-2m.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 10, 2025

Because to some people on the org chart and on the cap table it’s better to use the last $500,000 to take one last growth hack swing than to manage a wind down. I’ve said before this is one reason why we are very very careful about investing in addiction or mental health startups.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

You must have a strong product management pedigree. See Ready to Join a New Management Team? We agree that upon raising capital, each team member will earn $X, perhaps with an automatic bump to $Y upon achieving agreed-upon milestones. This work is unpaid, as with any other startup at the pre-seed stage. Sounds great!

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Provide some sort of seed capital to their founders. Have a strong management team who are typically proven entrepreneurs. Not every accelerator is/could be/would be a member in GAN, nor is it designed that way. To become a member, each accelerator must meet the following strict criteria: Operate a 3-6 month long program.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

If you get into a high-growth company and you have asymmetric information on how the management team is performing?—?this In reality the “private capital market” now really consists of three distinct markets: Seed capital (the start), Venture capital (scale or bust) and Growth Capital (private IPOs).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The price points are not as high as your beautiful Excel spreadsheet had forecasted when you raised your seed capital. But where many startups under invest is in “channel managers.&# These are people whose job it is to manage the channel partners you do sign. yes, I'm joking. They need lots of love and attention.

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Gust

MARCH 11, 2014

Despite the noisy data, it’s reasonable to conclude the financing market has become more competitive, driven by an increase in the total number of startups raising seed capital and a relatively constant inflow of capital into venture capital. Originally posted by Tomasz Tunguz on his blog, www.tomtunguz.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. Management talent is usually transitional. Often that’s moving from entrepreneur to investor or from junior investor in a fund to managing director in a future fund. We had a specific goal in mind.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The best case I’ve seen is our portfolio company Osmo who had already built the product but used crowd-funding to handle inventory management, supply-chain logistics and perfecting the final version of the product. Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

A venture should be run and managed only by people who have genuinely bought into and share the entrepreneurial vision. Procuring venture capital funding or business angels who put up with seed capital or expansion capital can be helpful and exciting.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Another thing I noticed was that I was now referring companies that I had invested in at a “pre-seed” (capitalization intentional) stage over to folks who would previously be considered my peer venture funds doing Seed-stage investments. The change in thinking is a natural and logical thing.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. Access to capital continues to be a challenge in Europe. Large companies also provide an important ‘exit strategy’ for startups.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Which leads us to the fundamental difference between, say, a small self-funded online therapy practice and one that has taken millions of dollars in seed capital: the latter can acquire a larger number of patients much faster using investment dollars for both customer acquisition and to subsidize the economics of serving those clients.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last December, Kate Mitchell, former head of the NVCA and currently Managing Director at Scale Venture Partners, stated that EGCs were overdue for relief. Crowdfunding is an efficient way for entrepreneurs to raise seed capital," the editors wrote.

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Up and Running

MAY 2, 2014

I learned this lesson when I raised the first round of seed capital for my startup PopInShop , an online platform that connects brands and boutiques to facilitate short-term, cross-promotional shopping events. Successful businesses are the result of the management team, not the business idea.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2011

It required a small investment of time and money to get QuickBooks up and running, but it was a manageable distraction from building SayAhh’s core product. While they’ve been hard at work on their product, they’ve also incorporated the company, now named SayAhh (thanks Mac!) as a C-Corp in Delaware.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Steven Cohn , founder and CEO of Validately , which helps user researchers, product managers and others validate demand or usability for prototypes and live sites. Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Steven Cohn.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Steven Cohn , founder and CEO of Validately , which helps user researchers, product managers and others validate demand or usability for prototypes and live sites. Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Steven Cohn.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 22, 2013

As a product manager one of my fallbacks was the notion I could always do the task myself if necessary. Of course I had a great team of product managers who owned their own scope of responsibility but if they had trouble, I would step up and help them finish it, or just do the work myself from the start. And it’s about control.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

It’s a world that doesn’t fit our seed-focused model and fund strategy. Outside of life-sciences, we’ve noticed something interesting emerging: There is a huge dearth of seed capital for health care services and software-driven health-tech companies.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the things we frequently discuss with founders is how to interpret and manage their dialogue with VCs when raising capital. We’ve written before on how to research partners , how to pitch the right investor at a given firm, and how to raise seed capital , generally speaking.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

With this seed capital – more often than not totaling between $100,000 and $1,000,000 - the company accomplishes a number of key technical milestones, gets a beta customer or two, and then goes on a "road show" to venture capitalists around the country for capital to “scale” the business. There are a lot of dark, hard days.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Instead I will make a few observations about how an investor might think about the impact of ICOs / token launches on the venture capital industry, in particular, and some of the downstream ramifications that need to wrestled with. Need for growth capital. Who sets the policy for token sales—management or the board of directors?

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