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We’re Hiring a Platform and Operations Associate at NextView

View from Seed

From the beginnings of NextView, we have had a commitment to being high-conviction, hands-on, seed stage focused investors. You are a “digital native” with a strong interest in new technology and have hands-on proficiency with many online tools for managing social media interactions, event production, and project management.

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How to Find and Close Angel Investors from a Standing Start

View from Seed

Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. First and foremost, angels can provide capital.

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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies. 3) UI/UX Matters in B2B - For decades, B2B application developers could skimp on innovating in the presentation layer. RentJuice is doing much the same in real estate software.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

Los Angeles, at least metaphorically, became more of a media/entertainment town. My partner Erik Rannala has had a similar experience, having worked as a VC at Harrison Metal before moving down to LA to co-found our seed stage venture firm. Likewise for Oculus, pioneering next-generation technologies like virtual reality.

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Revenue = Product Market Fit

Agile VC

This is especially true for those with a media / ad based business model (e.g. But B2B startups need to take a different tack. We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses.

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The $100M+ Club: A New Universe of Buyers ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

were fairly active a few years ago though neither is as active today and big media conglomerates like Disney are fairly sporadic as they embrace web-based media. On the B2B SaaS side or enabling services (e.g. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Pingback: this.

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Accidental VC: When Should Startups Announce Seed Funding?

View from Seed

And given my marketing background (Google, Dailybreak Media, HubSpot), I often get this question directly: When should startups announce seed funding? . This recently came up for debate inside NextView HQ as we talked through the go-to-market plans of one of our unannounced seed investments.

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