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July 14 2010
by Scott Johnson

The Six Step Venture Capital Investment Process

Every venture firm has pretty much the same six step process. It is not hard to understand, and every firm puts their own spin on it. But you can pretty much count on these six steps occurring in sequence before you will see any cash in your bank account.

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May 19 2010
by Todd Hixon

Venture Lite

The “Cloud” and other forces have slashed the cost of starting an IT company  and produced a surge in seed investing.  We discussed this in a segment of our annual meeting last week, which was attended by professional limited partners (“LPs”), individual LPs, and entrepreneurs, as well as the NAV partners.  There was strong energy ...

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January 11 2010
by Scott Johnson

Follow-on Capital

I see seed stage investing happening all around me.  Angels appear to me to be very active as individuals although I have nothing but anecdotal data to support that.  Dedicated funds doing seed investing are gaining traction with LPs who want their piece of the next super-deal.  We at NAV do the occasional seed deal, ...

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July 3 2009
by Stephen Marcus

If pink is the new black, is seed financing the new pink?

About two weeks ago one of my friends called me for some advice on raising a seed round for his startup. There’s nothing about that call that’s unusual. It was the subsequent calls by five other entrepreneurs looking for a seed round in less than a week that perked my ears up. Is this the ...

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