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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

In the past 18 months at NextView, we’ve made 13 new investments (out of the 36 we’ve made since the inception of the firm back in 2010). Network Effect B2B. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups. Recent Investment Overview. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B).

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

Tuesday, August 17, 2010. He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. The only way a software engineer can tell a business idea is a viable is to see the money coming in. There’s the team.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Sunday, August 15, 2010. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. Most software engineers arent business people. Because software engineers dont work for free.

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Congratulations IndexTank!

K9 Ventures

I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. In March, 2010 Diego and I reconnected. This acquisition also made me think more about how threads and networks cross and connect. Diego and I first met in 1997.

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Congratulations IndexTank!

K9 Ventures

I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. In March, 2010 Diego and I reconnected. This acquisition also made me think more about how threads and networks cross and connect. Diego and I first met in 1997.

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Diverse Startups Can Receive Tech Mentorship And Thrive

ReadWriteStart

Money wasn’t an obstacle for the Chicago-based founder, but as a black woman in technology, networking in a new city might be. “We The fact that Citizen Made has earned funding is also rare: in 2010, just one percent of venture-funded startups were founded by black people. How do those numbers get changed? It’s a lack of opportunities.