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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. We hired outside experts. We checked charge times. Time will tell. It is safe.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

Although we had a busy summer, I was fortunate enough to take a bit of time off as well, and to step back for a moment and reflect on Nextview’s strategy and market position going forward. . The rest have been companies with some early market validation. However, our overall goal is to invest in the full spectrum of seed.

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Our Investing Manifesto at NextView

Rob Go

Although we had a busy summer, I was fortunate enough to take a bit of time off as well, and to step back for a moment and reflect on Nextview’s strategy and market position going forward. . The rest have been companies with some early market validation. However, our overall goal is to invest in the full spectrum of seed.

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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

Both Sides of the Table

Today’s $24 billion storage market in the US has these same key disadvantages and that was the genesis of Sam Rosen’s initial idea for MakeSpace , which I initially funded 15 months ago. He spent a few months building out the software because just taking stuff from people isn’t that difficult. 10x the experience.

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15 Female Entrepreneurs Share What Changes They Would Most Like to See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

I’ve had to put in many hours to learn my own equipment due to a lack of interest in even training me. The short answer was no and whilst many of the businesses present had a large technology component to their company, with custom developed software etc they could not present themselves as a tech company.

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Analytics Career Advice: Job Titles, Salaries, Technical & Business Roles

Occam's Razor

The prospect of collecting self reviews and getting 360 degree feedback and writing a performance review for each of your employee each quarter does not make you want to jump off the building. It is quite likely that you'll sit in the IT (CTO / CIO) function. Motivating them. Solving their personal problems.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder.

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