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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Lead investors are few. Instead, it’s more of a Manifesto about the core beliefs that shape our strategy.

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

This is particularly true in New York, where their traditional financial services industry client base has sustained significant damage since the 2008 financial crisis. Can you give a brief overview: when you were founded, investors, current status? . David Teten: How do startups sign up?

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Our Investing Manifesto at NextView

Rob Go

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Lead investors are few. Instead, it’s more of a Manifesto about the core beliefs that shape our strategy.

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Looking Back On Our First Couple Years at NextView

Rob Go

I’m thrilled by the companies we are investors in, as well as the founders that lead them. It’s commonly said that the biggest risk facing a new VC firm is disharmony among the partners. This is of particular risk if the founders of the firm never really worked together before, as was the case for us at NextView.

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Ionic Security Raises $9.4m from Kleiner Perkins, Tech Operators, ff Venture Capital

David Teten

I met Adam Ghetti , Founder/CTO, at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York in early 2012 at Union Square Ventures. ff VC became the only and first institutional investor and I joined the company’s board in May. This showed an unusual level of humility and introspection for a founder.

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What Is NextView’s Focus? Another Stroll Through Our Portfolio

Rob Go

As a founder, it feels like a long time, but it’s really a blip on the radar in the scheme of things. But we behave pretty much exactly the same way in those companies as we do when we are the lead and only institutional investor. Geography: 20 / 25 investments are based in the Boston and New York areas.