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Announcing NextView Operator Guilds

View from Seed

The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. Brian Balfour, Founder & CEO of Reforge.

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Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Need High-Tech Partners

Startup Professionals Musings

Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? The right answer for a good business partner today is neither of the above. Startups succeed most often when the founding partners know how to build and run a business, rather than how to build and run technology.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. Congratulations class of 2014: Embrace change and lead the way. This never ends well. Be an optimist.

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Pledge 1% Today

Feld Thoughts

In this spirit, one of the key organizations my partners at Foundry Group have helped create and nurture is Pledge 1%. Pledge 1% Colorado has now distributed over $8 million back to various organizations in our community. Over the years, I’ve written about my belief in the importance of giving back to your communities and #givefirst.

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10 Startups That Changed The Narrative In 2013

ReadWriteStart

This year, the company partnered with HP and plans on embedding the motion-control technology on future HP devices. Twitter cofounders Ev Williams and Biz Stone created another content distribution platform, this time letting users write more than 140 characters. IFTTT=If This Then That. Correction, Jan.

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