Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2010

Startups are the search to find order in chaos. At a board meeting last week I watched as the young startup CEO delivered bad news. A startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Investors bet on a startup CEO to find the repeatable and scalable business model. Steve Blank.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So angel and seed stage investors’ returns will be dependent on good times continuing or on the ability of their portfolio companies to get financed. – While many people publicly predict that the future of investing is about seed investing I think this is wrong. Importantly, what does this all mean for startups?

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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 lead time to landing your office can be surprisingly high, particularly in denser startup ecosystems like ours in Boston.

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View from Seed

JULY 6, 2020

You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $200M of committed capital under management. You act as an “ invited guest.”. You are hungry. What Will The Job Be Like. You will be based in the NYC office.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 11, 2022

And then specifically there’s surely some social proof dynamics as well — I’ve always believed that if Homebrew commits to your seed round the risk of not raising the amount you want basically goes to zero (equally so, since we see many opportunities from coinvestors, there’s often already capital coalescing around the startup).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

If you save the punch line that you’re from the industry, did CS at MIT, worked for 3 startups, whatever, then they don’t have that powerful knowledge as part of their evaluation set. Mostly by early stage investors talking about getting smaller exits. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice.

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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. You have an authentic passion for technology, startups, and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. You have effective written communication skills with an established body of work. What Will The Job Be Like.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

When convertible debt first started being introduced as a “faster, cheaper way to get startups funded” they didn’t have pricing built into them. ” And some seed stage investors told me, “I prefer not to fight over price now. And every seed stage VC tells me they don’t ever even ask for them.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

I have often been asked about Startup Funding by entrepreneurs. Many myths surround the subject of startup funding. Here is Startup Funding, a Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs. You must have seen a lot of startups giving out promotions, discounts, and incentives at the early phase of their business. Debt investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively. The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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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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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In Q3 of 2024, AI-related startups landed $19 billion USD, which equates to 28% of total venture dollars. The rise of startups in the pet care space A recent analysis of veterinary services in the US showed that the number of graduates from existing vet colleges will be enough to meet demand through 2035.

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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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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2017

Roughly 27 percent of startups can’t get the funding they need to take their business to the next level, according to the National Association of Small Businesses. For the last eight quarters, the number of angel and seed stage deals has declined, according to an Eisner Amper VC report.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If you haven’t raised any money or if you raised a small round from angels or friends & family I would suggest you avoid setting up a formal board unless the people who would join your board are deeply experienced at sitting on startup boards. especially at the earliest stages but if you can avoid it I would recommend it. —?just

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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. Acquiring seed-stage funding is admittedly tough, but a source that I find often overlooked is government grant funding, accessible in the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. Jonathan Strauss took this issue head on in a blog post that I believe every startup founder should read on “ Replacing Oneself as CEO.”

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Another full-stack short-term rentals startup ? It seems as though in many categories, especially in consumer internet space, a handful of startups pursuing quite similar or even apparently identical ideas launch within months of each other. Another d2c gourmet pet food company ? Another affinity-based co-working space?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A founder asked me what makes a $2M round “pre-seed”? especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? And why do we still sometimes hear about pre-seed rounds that look more like a series A in pricing and size? Defining the pre-seed round It’s futile to look for ‘one true’ definition.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Most of the Internet startup consulting firms went bankrupt. “Reality is, at the seed stage, most rocketships look more like the cardboard variety you’d make as a kid than something NASA developed. Ameet said, “Don’t worry, we’ll be fine, just wait for the next downturn.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public. more than 5 years ago?—?and

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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. To help you more effectively build your early teams, we asked a group of founders to share their favorite interview questions when they build new startup teams.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2021

But 1) many of the best companies were created by rookie founders and 2) there are legitimate reasons why an experienced founder who could raise a large series A might choose a right-sized seed for better alignment, optionality, and early support. Today, multiple rounds are often raised, due to the atomization of the seed space.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 14, 2012

We at NextView have been thinking about and looking for investments in seed-stage startups which leverage the megatrend of transitioning computing away from a standard fixed-web PC world. Anytime a fundamentally new platform is introduced, it creates white-space… especially for startups.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

It’s not uncommon for startups that are laser-focused on fundraising to deprioritize certain challenges. Startups tend to put a premium on being “agile,” but that doesn’t always work – and certainly won’t replace the effective collaboration a business needs to grow. by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

Free Template for Great Startup Pitch Decks, Direct from VCs. 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.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack. 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. Investing Strategy.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $200M+ of committed capital under management. You act as an “ invited guest.”. You are hungry. You will be based in the NYC office. About NextView. A Final Note.

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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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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The obvious answer we all give (and receive) in the startup community is to talk to people. But for a true seed-stage company or for folks just thinking about companies to start or products to build, I think surveys are generally terrible. Step one in building a new company is the YC adage: “Build something people want.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

A fund size of $100 million – $200 million is likely to either be an A round investor or “stage agnostic&#. A round investor implies they are the “first institutional money in the deal.&# GRP Partners is stage agnostic. You can ask around to startup lawyers and other entrepreneurs who know these things.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

There’s been a lot of digital ink spilled around the various types of capital available to startups today. At NextView, for instance, one of our more popular posts centers on atypical seed rounds to know. As a startup grows, venture debt becomes a viable option to continue that growth. What are some pros and cons?

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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. But whatever the reason to avoid it, there are much better reasons to pursue holding board meetings early in the life of a startup. Since then, they’ve been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

A few weeks ago, we launched two startup pitch deck templates for raising seed capital — part of NextView’s platform of exclusive startup resources. 5 Surprising Mistakes Found in Seed-Stage Startup Pitch Decks. #1: You lose the forest thanks to all those damn trees. “THIS is why we exist.

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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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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. Building a product people love.

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