View from Seed

JULY 8, 2020

Today I’m excited to announce the relaunch of our most popular resource ever: board meeting deck templates for seed-stage startups, now in conjunction with an investor update email template. Yet the landscape for the seed stage has evolved over that period. Download Board Deck Template .

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View from Seed

APRIL 6, 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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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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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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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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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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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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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

If you’ve been following my tweets lately, you’ve read some of my quick musings on the state of the seed market this summer. years of investing in the seed stage, I have never seen activity levels like I’m seeing today. In short, in my 6.5 Granted, 6.5 You lose way more than you win.

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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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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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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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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

I was just asked about a particular startup situation (seed stage, CMO hire, non-founder) and particularly what compensation and equity is appropriate. Seed Stage Compensation What are typical compensation numbers? Quick & Dirty How-To: Employee Stock Option Allocations

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The post Trashbots Raises Seed-Stage Investment as Demand for its K-12 Robotics Platform Increases appeared first on SiliconHills. “The K-12 market, as a whole, is more important now than ever,” said Rohit Srinivasan, Co-Founder of Trashbots.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The post Seed-Stage Startups: Beware the “Stickiness Squeeze” appeared first on NextView Ventures. In softer time, there will be a lot of hard decisions to make for founders with respect to culture and morale, but nothing will impact them more then the stickiness of prices to run their businesses.

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View from Seed

MAY 19, 2015

To me, the most exciting (and most perilous) times in a company’s lifecycle are the early first stages when it is just getting off the ground. At the seed stage, the founder’s or co-founders’ role in the company is essential and therefore carries a great deal of risk for missteps.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

*. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. Some quick highlights include: The Role of a Seed Stage VC.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2015

In the last six months, we’ve been asked and answered several key questions about seed-stage startups and raising seed capital. All we do is seed — we focus on it, we want to be the best seed partner, and we obsess over helping startups through that first, formative 18-24 month period.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We take board seats and want to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with founders at the seed stage to try to make the biggest possible impact. – We are seed investors. And our plan is to continue adding more and more to the resources section where we think it will be helpful to founders at the seed stage. (PS:

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I’ve recently taken a look at seed stage funding by venture capitalists (VCs) and angel investors over the past five years. For VCs, I chose to look at all seed stage VC deals (from MoneyTree©) as well as those in five of the most active regions in the country. All Seed-VC. million in seed stage deals in 2010.

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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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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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View from Seed

APRIL 16, 2015

The post Value Inflection Points for Seed-Stage Startups appeared first on The View From Seed.' The concept of an MVP requires the “V,” and in some cases, you can’t get to “V” without real resources. That’s when it’s important to raise more money sooner, even at the risk of more significant dilution from the start.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 12, 2015

The post The Market Size Fallacy for Seed-Stage Startups appeared first on NextView Ventures. In particular, he asked one very clever question of VCs to run a smoother, more effective process, culminating in four term sheets from interested, lead investors.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 12, 2015

The post The Market Size Fallacy for Seed-Stage Startups appeared first on The View From Seed. In particular, he asked one very clever question of VCs to run a smoother, more effective process, culminating in four term sheets from interested, lead investors.

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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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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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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The Austin-based healthcare insurance startup reported that the seed funding was led by Gigafund and Trust Ventures. Million in Seed-Stage Funding appeared first on SiliconHills. Other investors include Greenlight Re and Mark VC as the other major institutional […]. The post Sana Lands Another $3.6

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View from Seed

MAY 3, 2016

Listen in these places or wherever you get your podcasts: The post Make a Living, Not a Life: Inside WeWork’s Seed Stage with Jesse Middleton [Traction #23] appeared first on NextView Ventures. You can also subscribe to the NextView weekly newsletter about startup traction at bit.ly/nvsubscribe. nvsubscribe.

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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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View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2015

To focus on hiring briefly: Seed-stage startups lack early traction but make up for it with tons of promise. The post Accidental VC: How Much Does Design Matter for Seed-Stage Startups? appeared first on The View From Seed. Because in the end, a little design can indeed go a long way. Accidental VC'

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2015

“As a seed-stage investor, should you pay up for team or traction?” So, if you are going to pay up as a seed-stage investor, pay up for team. The post Should Seed-Stage VCs Pay Up for Great Teams or Great Traction? appeared first on The View From Seed.' The Case for Traction.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

A Startup Lab invests guidance, strategy, and takes equity in a carefully selected collection of early and seed stage startups. The seed stage startups also save time and money while increasing efficiency because Startup Labs have the knowledge and tools for real success. What is a Startup Lab?

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Our seed stage board deck templates , Hitchhiker’s Guides to the tech communities in Boston and New York , and our startup job guide are some of our most well received projects, and you can check them all out here. There is obviously a lot that goes into building an early stage company. Establishing an excellent early team.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Our seed stage board deck templates , Hitchhiker’s Guides to the tech communities in Boston and New York , and our startup job guide are some of our most well received projects, and you can check them all out here. There is obviously a lot that goes into building an early stage company. Establishing an excellent early team.

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SiliconHills

MAY 17, 2014

million in seed stage funding, according to the Wall Street Journal. Million in Seed Stage Funding appeared first on SiliconHills. Million in Seed Stage Funding appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Capital Factory seed stage funding venture capital Wall Street Journal Youearnedit Youearnedit.com'

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View from Seed

MARCH 31, 2015

Editor’s note: Unlike the Ubers and Airbnbs of the tech startup world, seed-stage companies don’t typically have the valuations, awareness, or traction typically associated with press coverage. That said, coverage is important, and early-stage companies would be wise to work with local press in addition to national.

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SiliconHills

JULY 12, 2014

Comfy, a startup that helps students find housing, received $600,000 in seed stage funding last week. Comfy has developed a mobile and online platform that uses […] The post Austin-based Comfy Lands $600K in Seed Stage Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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