View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You are intentional about developing a point of view on new sectors that we can learn from. You have a deep desire to learn the venture capital business and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. You are hungry.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. Fintech stack shifting to the cloud From the outset, Melio’s broader platform vision of enabling B2B payments in a contextual way has been key.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

Amazon Corporate Development – Notable acquisitions include Whole Foods ($13.7B), smart doorbell system Ring ($1.2B, 2018) and autonomous mobility technology Zoox ($1.2bn). AI startups in the Alexa Fund portfolio. Investing and m&A. In the past two decades, Amazon invested in, or acquired more than 128 companies. Physical space.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

But India is such a welcoming country that it only took a few weeks of preparation to fill a weeklong schedule with meetings – from a dinner arranged by Shiva with approximately 15 founders in Delhi to a talk about crypto at Builders Circle in Bangalore. group pic from meet-up w/ Delhi founders

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 30, 2022

The thing about mission-driven founders, though, is they continue to build even during market uncertainty. As Version One turned 10 last month, we reflected about how lucky we are to work with incredible mission-driven founders – and challenging times like this bolster our gratitude. . million in seed funding. Remio raised $4.5M

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Noreen Sablotsky is the founder and CEO of Imalac , a revolutionary company in the breastfeeding world. Sablotsky continued her professional career as Vice-President of Portfolio Development for Jacobs Investments, LLC. Trends in the breastfeeding world are changing for the better.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Think of your first B2B web site as one step beyond your elevator pitch. Profiles of founders and advisors add credibility. Invest an hour a week looking at competitors’ web sites or viewing web designers’ portfolios. Advisors agree your startup is on the right track. Now is the time to get your web site up. Plan to iterate.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 8, 2019

Q4 was an important quarter for our firm and portfolio companies. And Ada Support raised $14m to help companies develop their own customer service chatbots. Manifold introduced its all-new Manifold Marketplace – designed to be effortless and fun to use, just like every great developer tool should be. Announcements.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

by Marc Pitart, founder and CEO of onlineresume.us. However, it is important to check the portfolio of the program and see how many companies from your industry have participated. On the other hand, if the program’s portfolio demonstrates that they worked with quite a few companies in your field, you are good to go.

Programming 124

Programming Chile B2B B2C 124

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2017

We continue to invest in blockchain companies and funds such as Coinbase and Metastable Capital , which join our existing crypto portfolio ( Blockstack , Citizen Hex and Polychain Capital ). We announced our investment in Manifold , t he easiest way to find and manage essential developer services. You can relive the event here.

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Portfolio Stealth B2B Hosting 112

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

insert founder number] of the founders dropped out of [insert Ivy League school]. We wish we were the founders, experiencing this testosterone-fueled melodrama of success. That was before we even discussed the required software development. Why We Are In Love With Startups? The infatuation is real. Conclusion.

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Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 107

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Alternative Capital. “

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. He is also the Co-founder and Chairman of BrandCycle. He's the founder and chairman of the board of global partner marketing agency, acceleration partners. He's also the co-founder and chairman of brand cycle.

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Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 90

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Here are some of the most memorable highlights for us in 2015: New portfolio companies. This year, we welcomed five new companies to the Version One portfolio: Headout : an on-demand marketplace for tours, activities and experiences. Portfolio Summary and Investment Focus. eSports, and virtual reality. .

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View from Seed

JUNE 11, 2015

Startups and their founders who claim to be in “stealth mode” prior to launch are such a commonplace part of the startup ecosystem that it might seem odd to question its merits. Developing Your Product Behind Scenes. The two main benefits are: 1. There’s a reason Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, et al.,

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Stealth Seed Stage Startup Software Review 120

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

We wish we were the founders, experiencing this testosterone-fueled melodrama of success. It’s one of the main reasons startup founders often shy away from reasonable SEO pricing models, opting instead for the riskier, cheap, outsourced route or the DIY approach —which are both fraught with their own perils.

Sweat Equity 78

Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 78

Version One Ventures

APRIL 5, 2017

Q1 was a busy time for our firm and portfolio companies, and here’s a brief recap of some of the various news clippings, fundraising announcements, and other happenings across the V1 community. The company raised $4M , led by Union Square Ventures, and is building a platform for developing decentralized server-less apps.

Portfolio 111

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Studies show that only 5% of B2B buyers are ready to buy. At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. It helps them audit existing content portfolios (blog posts, landing pages, etc.) CXL’s founder, Peep Laja, has a specific “reason why” his company Wynter exists.

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Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The breakdown of departmental silos allows for improvements—to data collection, persona development, content creation, etc.—that It starts with having the right data in the system,” noted Kamil Rextin, who wrote about B2B attribution. How much experimentation, insight, predictability has the team developed? Expand methodically.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

The solution requires out-of-the-box thinking, and that’s precisely where a forward-thinking housing developer named Danny Haber is making tremendous progress. Already, Haber’s efforts are paying dividends, with multiple big projects in the portfolio, notably 960 Howard Street, 674 23rd Street, 316 12th Street, and 1919 Market street.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

While Israeli startups successes are well known in the B2B space (cybersecurity, enterprise tech, devops…), B2C startups are unsung heroes… The landscape of B2C tech in Israel is blossoming, despite several challenges. Disclosure: a Remagine Ventures portfolio company.

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B2C Generative AI Artificial Inteligence 148

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Examples of such companies in our portfolio include WHOOP , which delivers personalized health insights via a wearable device, Devoted Health , which assists seniors in accessing Medicare Advantage, and Mighty Health , which helps individuals find a healthier path through coaching. We could not be more excited to take part in this innovation.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

For this reason, we’re excited to announce that we have closed on NextView’s $50M third fund, with a mission to champion founders who are redesigning the Everyday Economy. . Internet-connected computing is an innovation wave on par with a few historical developments of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Just look at Uber and Lyft.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As startup founders ask themselves this question, some of the answers might be specific to their product: i.e. we should improve our onboarding, change our freemium model, etc. Throughout our journey, we had a few ‘solid’ theories and concepts that we were confident would work and we invested many resources into developing them.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Hologram is also an example of a B2B platform company, of which we’ve invested in many over the years here at NextView. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

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Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

produced this analysis of engineering representation within VC firms: Selected VCs with Highest Representation of Developers in Workforce. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. VC Firm. $

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Pre-launch customer development data is another way, sometimes in the form of user surveys for consumer companies or interviews with potential beta customers for B2B businesses. One of our portfolio investments, a B2B SaaS company, was a pre-product startup at the time of the seed round. B) Post-Product Companies.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

We wholeheartedly believe in the potential of each company we select; the smaller batch size allows the NextView partners, who possess deep operating and founding experiences at companies like LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, and Blue Apron, the space to spend meaningful one-on-one time with each founder every single week.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Hologram is also an example of a B2B platform company, of which we’ve invested in many over the years here at NextView. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

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Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 136

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

We are holding our second open office hours for solo founders of ecompanies in the commerce ecosystem on 19th Sept. ——————– We will be holding Open Office Hours on September 19th to meet solo-founders of ecommerce companies at the idea stage. Are you a solo founder with an idea?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. We’re not mainly for B2B companies or later stage companies or anything like that.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. Of the NextView-backed founders have have tried to raise this round, over 70% have done so (compared to a mean success rate in the industry of around 27%, according to some sources ).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Internship Title: Business Development Intern Compensation: Paid — $10/hr Description: The Business Development Intern will assist the Sales Team in Prospecting, Outreach and Qualifying leads, and work directly with the Business Development Manager. SkimKing SocialMatters.ai SocialMatters.ai

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Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

While we’re ready to look ahead and embrace 2017, here’s a quick recap of the major activity across our portfolio last quarter. Portfolio companies in the news. Frank + Oak (who was named innovator of the year by Canadian Business) announced the launch of its 50/50 Founders’ Fund , in partnership with General Assembly.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. You dive deep into a customer development process, working closely with a few customers who feed you requirements and are willing to trial an imperfect product that is evolving quickly. 3) Developer Driven Sales.

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