Genuine VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

My partner Rob wrote bit more on his blog about our motivations for adding our first new team member at NextView Ventures — a Director of Platform and Community. Formulate and conduct NextView’s media relations strategy, both with traditional media journalists and online influencers (creating, executing, and measuring).

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APRIL 4, 2013

After we sold our startup Sombasa Media just over a dozen years ago, I embarked on two distinct “journeys.” But this isn’t an analogizing blog post about having “co-founders.” The first was a month-long 1500+ mile cycling trip from the southern tip of England to the northern tip of Scotland (“ Land’s End to John O’Groats ”).

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Genuine VC

JULY 8, 2010

I thought I would share a quick update on my blog about my professional plans. I believe that the company is dramatically changing the face of women’s-focused media with an authentic & powerful community of bloggers, and I am happy to continue to be a part of that endeavor as it grows.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 17, 2011

And given dynamics in the digital media space, we think that (especially along the Boston to New York corridor) there is a market need for a funding source like ours for early stage entrepreneurs. I’d encourage you to follow both his blog and my partner Rob’s as we share our story.?.

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Genuine VC

JUNE 10, 2013

As an ad-tech company, tapCommerce provides e-retailers with an array of services for acquiring and keeping customers on the mobile + tablet platform… and tapCommerce’s website does much more justice to their offering than my short blog post can. What really compelled us about making an investment, however, was what we learned about the team.

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Genuine VC

JUNE 22, 2011

In the past couple years, I’ve written a couple blog posts explaining how startup offices are like faces , which can basically be summed up in an excerpt paragraph – “they [startup offices] communicate what is going on in the inside. It fits in with my blog post last year about our approach to venture capital.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 15, 2010

And of course social media has helped spread the word, from the nearly two thousand Twitter followers ( @webinno ) to all of the blog posts attendees write as follow up. Feel free to comment on this blog post, message me @davidbeisel on twitter, or send me an email at [david at web innovators group dot com]. The details matter.

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