Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

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David Cohen

AUGUST 29, 2013

. – David, I guess I should preface this by saying we haven’t publicly addressed this and we’re not sure if we want to but this story starts like most in the startup world. My startup applies to an accelerator and gets in. It is coming from a seed stage VC and suddenly the amount of that investment has a range.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In this post, I wanted to deconstruct the various pieces of the flywheel that drives the Creator Economy, as well as the challenges, and opportunities for startups in this space. New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. Source: A16Z, 1,000 true fans? The new Creators.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2014

We think of Homebrew as our startup, just one which writes checks instead of code. New VCs are vulnerable to fashionable verticals. For a seed stage fund like Homebrew, chasing hot markets seemed like madness. The second counterbalance was our own partnership dynamics. Chasing Hot Markets. For example, food delivery.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Both early- and late-stage startup valuations are currently elevated. For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Early-stage valuations are up 70%, and late-stage valuations are up 103% (source Pitchbook ). The answer is likely a mix of both. Source: AngelList.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. There are countless B2B startups that are enabling this digital transformation and how consumers experience the Everyday Economy. Early-stage investing is still the only thing we do.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Both early- and late-stage startup valuations are currently elevated. For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Early-stage valuations are up 70%, and late-stage valuations are up 103% (source Pitchbook ). The answer is likely a mix of both. Source: AngelList.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

We at NextView Ventures invest exclusively in a startup’s seed-stage round , meaning that many if not most of our deals are made alongside individual angel investors. Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example.

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

To me, it makes sense, because “tech” is no longer a vertical – it’s seeping into every sector horizontally. While I don’t think founders expect a SWAT team to show up and build their startup with them, they do expect some high-leverage support in business development, executive recruiting, and capital formation.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

And along the way we’ve met with or observed a larger number of seed-stage startups attempting to start them. What are the best practices for going from zero to sixty with a marketplace startup? Often this focus can be on a specific geography or vertical. Piggyback off an existing marketplace.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 24, 2018

BuildingConnected , a leading construction tech SaaS startup, was acquired for $275m as part of Autodesk’s push into the vertical. The biggest risk to this model of course is that you are able to find great startups and that those founders want to work with you.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 20, 2017

As Techstars continues to selectively expand into new geographies and industry verticals, our mentors are important as ever. It provides an outlet for mentors to engage in their local startup communities and keep a pulse on emerging technologies. AngelList syndicates helps enable seed stage investing at scale.

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Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

The company’s familiarity is along what we consider to be the three most important criteria for an investment in a seed-stage startup – team, market, and product: Team – Two of the co-founders were well-known to the NextView partnership years before a line of code was even written.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 4, 2014

Venture capital isn’t the only way to fund your business and for many at the earliest stages of their startup, it’s one of the worst choices. Ones which bring the efficiency of software into traditionally unsexy verticals via a new mobile app.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Editor’s note: The NextView team periodically holds internal “shootarounds,” where we discuss a startup topic or trend and try to make sense of it for everyone involved: entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers. Their thinking seems to be that the only way to get a fully autonomous vehicle to market is purely vertical like that Ford example.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Thirty years later we now realize that its one the causes of early startup failure. This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. It has become an integral part of startup culture.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Both early- and late-stage startup valuations are currently elevated. For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Early-stage valuations are up 70%, and late-stage valuations are up 103% (source Pitchbook ). The answer is likely a mix of both. Source: AngelList.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 24, 2017

Folks outside of seed stage venture often think “winning” deals is the most important part of being a great investor, but I’d argue it’s “seeing” the best opportunities that’s actually the strongest indicator of future fund success.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Now, I don’t mean to overgeneralize but I want to tell you about something that reporters and pundits frequently get wrong when evaluating the venture-worthiness of a failed startup.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates. 1) The International Dealflow Syndicate. 2) The Bundled Expertise Syndicate.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

We at NextView Ventures often invest in a startup’s first round alongside other funds; either seed stage focused ones like ourselves or larger traditional firms. Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

These are some of the most important criteria to investing in seed-stage teams. If your startup is in this category, you’ll need to craft a story around: Hypergrowth How this hyper growth is happening organically? Is the company already in the middle of overcoming regulatory hurdles? Do you have virality built into the product?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As is the case in other countries with a relatively new, rapidly growing tech sector, e-commerce is Russia’s fastest growing vertical. Much of the slack at seed stage funding is taken up by the Russian state. The IIDF’s plan is to provide support to more than 400 startups in Russia within three years.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 13, 2019

And if your reputation’s present value was the sum total of all future startups brought to you, well, putting that dealflow at risk was an expensive proposition. We invest at the seed stage so companies are still very embryonic. And seven years into Homebrew I believe we have. Now it’s not just about VCs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups. But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. Just like with startups, this is a hybrid question. So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Comparing the list to the top 300 leading SaaS companies in the US, some interesting trends emerge: Europe is showing strength in data/ analytics and security, driven by the booming ecosystem in Israel but is less represented in developer/infrastructure and vertical applications. and Intacct for $0.85B.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

We at NextView Ventures often invest in a startup’s first round alongside other funds; either seed stage focused ones like ourselves or larger traditional firms. Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2014

17 core investments have been made, I’d say our investment model was, and continues to be, consistent with the type of firm we want to build but if you’re not constantly evaluating how to get better and serve entrepreneurs, you won’t last very long in the early stage venture business.

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Rob Go

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Usually financial metrics are pretty sparse at early stages and investors have a hard time giving companies “credit” for steady, linear progress. For seed stage companies, typically, it’s about: Compelling founder(s). You need to show me that the “real” business model can work.

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Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Others were able to provide additional data for one or more business verticals. The Halo Report for the rolling median for the 12 months proceeding June 30, 2012 showed that the median pre-money valuation for Seed Stage deals as $2.7 Median: 2.75. Number: 30. Three groups chose to provide only the overall median valuation.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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