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Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates

K9 Ventures

I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company. After 10 years of building K9, my knowledge and advice to founders were becoming dated. It has been a while since I posted to the K9 Ventures blog. Like a lot, a lot.

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Expanding To Asia: 5 Tips For Tackling the World’s Largest Market

YoungUpstarts

by Jay Eum, co-founder and Managing Director of TransLink Capital. At one time, expanding into Asia was considered a luxury — a feat attainable only by the largest and most well-heeled companies in the country. In Asia, “face time” is much more important. 2: Pick the right entry point. 4: Reputation matters.

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Aspen Institute Maghreb Investor Delegation, next week in NY and CA

David Teten

In addition, as part of the program, I’ll be making my first public presentation of our research study on VC portfolio operations value creation. David Teten, HBS 98, Partner, ff Venture Capital, will discuss his research study on VC portfolio operations, recently featured in Forbes ).

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Hologram: Everyday IoT Reaches Scale

View from Seed

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M We champion founders redesigning the Everyday Economy , and to many, that brings to mind consumer businesses in particular. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

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Hologram: Everyday IoT Reaches Scale

View from Seed

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M We champion founders redesigning the Everyday Economy , and to many, that brings to mind consumer businesses in particular. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Asia is smaller but growing as wealth increases in large, urban environments. Our portfolio company Ring had a new “security doorbell” which is truly a new market. That’s why Ring is amongst the fastest growing company in our portfolio. So, let’s start with the basics. Competition. You need a wedge.

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

Google Ventures was one of our co-investors, and in addition to all the other typical support GV provides their portfolio, this startup gained some unique insights for their organic and paid search strategy which were impactful and couldn’t have been gleaned elsewhere. .