View from Seed

MAY 14, 2015

So, when should a seed-stage founder — who, let’s face it, isn’t launching a business because they’re pumped to find corporate real estate — actually start looking for a legitimate office? The post Accidental VC: When, Exactly, Should Seed-Stage Startups Look for Office Space? appeared first on The View From Seed.

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Seed Stage Startup Cofounder Technical Review 120

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 11, 2022

Seed Stage Startups Don’t Hire Fulltime For These Roles, And Certainly Not Senior Hires. But at the same time, for seed stage needs, I’ve generally found they can provide much value ‘on demand’ without having to be caught up on the intricacies of your business.

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Seed Stage Cap Table Founder Marketing 105

View from Seed

JULY 6, 2020

NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $200M of committed capital under management. You will be based in the NYC office. However, you will serve as a co-pilot on deals with all four partners, across the geographies we cover. . About NextView. A Final Note.

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Technical Review Software Review Hiring Seed Stage 257

View from Seed

JANUARY 27, 2021

From the beginnings of NextView, we have had a commitment to being high-conviction, hands-on, seed stage focused investors. NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with over $200M of committed capital under management. About NextView. A Final Note.

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Operations Hiring Seed Stage Boston 227

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 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. As a seed-stage company, it is understandable to have a nascent (or non-existent) product and a barebone team relative to the great ambition of the company. Now it’s time to discuss the “where”.

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Part-Time VPE Seed Stage CTO Hire Forecast 195

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

With Things Going So Well for Seed Funds the Winds Shifted in 2015 Seed investors had a good run and all seemed rosy and then in 2015 the momentum seemed to shift. But the strangest thing about the decline in the seed stage only happened in the seed stage.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage IPO 328

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acquiring seed-stage funding is admittedly tough, but a source that I find often overlooked is government grant funding, accessible in the U.S. This process costs money, which professional investors are not willing to contribute, since their interest is in scaling a proven product and business model into a growth business.

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Early Stage SBIR Technical Review Seed Stage 225

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

“Reality is, at the seed stage, most rocketships look more like the cardboard variety you’d make as a kid than something NASA developed. I was reminded of all this this when I read a blog post by one of my favorite thinkers on the VC market, Bryce Roberts, who talked about “ unfundable companies.&#.

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Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

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

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

What’s the difference between an angel round and pre-seed round and why do I believe we’ll see more pre-seed rounds taking place in 2024? While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing.

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Valuation Software Review Generative AI Technical Review 186

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2010

At the seed stage, microcap funds/ superangels understand that companies are still searching for a business model – they get Pivots. Most startup business models are initially wrong. The process of iteration in search of the successful business model is called the Pivot. Pivots need to happen quickly, rapidly and often.

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Business Model Agile Customer Development Startup 335

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

” And some seed stage investors told me, “I prefer not to fight over price now. Nobody I know accepts multiple liquidation preferences in early-stage deals. And every seed stage VC tells me they don’t ever even ask for them. I just want into the hottest deals. That’s all that matters.

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Ratchet Liquidation Preference Equity Stock 354

Mucker Lab

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Since our inception, Mucker has focused on writing seed stage checks to invest in compelling companies and founders. In 2020 we kicked off a separate fund called Mucker Early to focus on investing just past the seed stage, writing $3-5m checks when companies have found product-market fit and are ready to scale.

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Seed Stage Term Sheet eCommerce Technical Review 135

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

So, I would suggest that you bootstrap during the inception stage. ? Seed stage. Once you have established the feasibility of the business concept and created considerable traction for your business, it is now suitable for the seed stage.

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Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. On the surface the narratives have been. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like).

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

With plenty of resources available for entrepreneurs about how to craft an effective pitch deck for raising seed-stage capital from VCs, often what’s left out are some of the tactical components of an initial meeting.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Due Diligence Seed Stage 308

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Mostly by early stage investors talking about getting smaller exits. But whether you’re talking with micro VCs, seed stage investors or series A,B investors they all want to believe that your company CAN be big one day. Market Size - There is a lot of talk about “dip sh**&# companies these days.

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Early Stage Startup Venture Capital Seed Stage 360

View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $200M+ of committed capital under management. You will be based in the NYC office. However, you will serve as a co-pilot on deals with all four partners, across the geographies we cover. About NextView. A Final Note.

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Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage Cofounder 120

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

I have a very public seed stage investment policy and awe.sm The decisions were endless, the choices not obvious and the VC involved a pain in the ass. The financial pressures of running a startup started to hit Jonathan. I saw it first hand. So I wrote another check to extend our runway another year.

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Technical Review Cofounder Analytics Founder 303

View from Seed

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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North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They chose the name First Round Capital because they thought capital would be deployed most efficiently at smaller seed stage rounds considering the cost to build an internet business had come down drastically. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5 million and opened another office in San Francisco. Investing Strategy.

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Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Cofounder Cram Down 284

Agile VC

MAY 15, 2014

Well our focus here at NextView is helping exceptional seed stage companies get things off to the best possible start. Simply put these Growth Guides are a step-by-step playbook which cover a specific need that seed stage companies may face in their first 12-24 months. What’s a Growth Guide?

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Seed Stage Engineer Community Sales 193

View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

How to Sell Your Startup’s “Secret” Master Plan at the Seed Stage “Articulating and selling your long run vision is important, but trying to convince those that are deeply skeptical about it is simply a mutual waste of time.” Seed stage startups are now graded on a curve.”

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Seed Stage Hiring IPO Analytics 177

View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

Today we’re thrilled to re-launch our most popular resource ever: board deck templates for seed-stage startups. Said another way, seed-stage companies can be led by a founder; scaling companies require a CEO. At the seed stage, where NextView invests, a highly structured board often isn’t a requirement.

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Seed Stage Founder Seed Capital Institutional Investors 120

View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2021

That said, there are many companies that seed funds back that never consider YC, and quite a few great companies do raise money from seed funds before or after the program. But I’d say that it’s obvious that YC has been the most powerful force in the seed stage startup and VC industry over the last 10 years.

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Dilution Later Stage Portfolio Technical Review 399

View from Seed

MARCH 11, 2020

Seed stage companies will mostly face questions around the team and market. When a founder is raising money, he/she should expect that any serious investor will conduct some level of due diligence before getting to yes. This could look somewhat different depending on the maturity of the business.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Seed Stage 279

View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

As a seed stage VC, I have a unique privilege of confidentially spending time with a number of entrepreneurs throughout their company formation and initial product development process. Rather than just a harmless, misplaced attitude, this copycat fallacy can be a detriment to seed stage founders for two reasons.

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Seed Stage Startup Cofounder Stealth 120

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

At seed-stage startups, especially companies with well-networked founders and investors, finding applicants who can do a job on paper is not overly difficult. If it’s a seed-stage hire, you should already know the person. The true challenge is to find candidates who will mesh into a small, budding team and culture.

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Founder Seed Stage Cofounder Boston 120

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Below, Josh talks about designing features from nothing and how to make important design choices during the pre-seed and seed-stage phases of startup growth. He is best-known as the creator of 52 Weeks of UX and was also head of UX at HubSpot, by way of being co-founder of Performable (acquired in 2011).

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Design Product Cofounder Boston 330

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $500M+ of capital under management. We will work together to leverage the firm’s platform to help you thrive. You will be based in the NYC office but will be able to pursue investments across North America. About NextView.

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Technical Review North America Seed Stage Bandwidth 156

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the pre-seed and seed stage VC fund I run in NYC, has invested in 64 companies in the last six and a half years. Twenty-five of them have at least one female co-founder. Fifteen had co-founders over 40. Five have LGBTQ+ founders. Three teams have African-American founders.

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Venture Capital Portfolio Cofounder Seed Stage 165

View from Seed

MAY 2, 2019

As the seed stage that atomized and series A rounds have become larger and more traction based, the paths to series A have changed. 500K in angel or pre-seed funding -> Raise a $2–3M institutional seed -> Raise an A. This is the logical path that one would think is pretty “standard” for early stage companies.

Early Stage 214

Early Stage Dilution Valuation .Net 214

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

But with the massive growth of seed funds being raised and the huge value increase of prorata rights many more LPs have stepped in to take their VC (industry term is GP) position. What would you do as an LP fund if you backed a seed-stage GP who had a position in Twitter, Pinterest, etc. But there is never a simple answer.

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Technical Review Later Stage Early Stage LP 336

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. I find myself having similar conversations and really appreciate that you’ve written and shared this. Can’t wait for the next part. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

Specifically, there are five challenges that emerging business typically put on the backburner between funding rounds: Seed to Series A: Customer Testing. Hypotheses should be tested extensively and disproven, which is where customer testing plays a central role for seed-stage startups.

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Technical Cofounder Burn Rate Seed Stage Cofounder 113

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. A seed-stage “super angel.”

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 9, 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. You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. After you’ve covered the team and have established some credibility around your company, it’s time to talk about the “what”.

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Southern California Phoenix Technical Review Seed Stage 159