David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many are reporting that they’re seeing a more diverse pool of applicants than traditional equity VCs… even though virtually none have a particular focus on women or underrepresented founders. In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. Half our portfolio is consumer.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Last year, NextView co-founder and partner David Beisel asked our portfolio startups which service providers they use to make up the nuts and bolts of their businesses, which he published as the first edition of a potentially recurring resource. This resource represents the responses submitted to NextView in a poll of our portfolio.

Boston 331

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Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. But rather than just keep the info internal, wouldn’t it be more productive to publicly publish the aggregate results for the whole community?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft.

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Genuine VC

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The benefits have been touted previously : an anchor for attracting and retaining talent in Boston, as well as a breeding ground for the next set of great Boston entrepreneurs and founders. Build it and they will come” has been the philosophy. And that thinking has carried out into the companies as they were being built.

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David Cohen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We are strengthening our ability to invest in more startups and their founders than any other company in the world. And helping founders be successful has always been our goal. By expanding our presence in these top markets (SF, NY, Boston, LA), we can better support all of our portfolio companies for the coming decades.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Editor’s Note: NextView recently kicked off a Boston-based workshop series on technical interviewing with Google. Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.) I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. office, right in the heart of MIT.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I highlight endogenous social impact because many of my portfolio companies might give money to charity or provide low-cost pricing to nonprofits, but that’s not what I think of as an impact company; they’re tacking on social impact on top of their core business, whatever that is. . Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). They also want to help founders and want their products and services to exist. Be founder driven. Investment Strategy. Just a few pointers.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). They also want to help founders and want their products and services to exist. Be founder driven. Investment Strategy. Just a few pointers.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Nicole is not new to the NextView family… previously she had worked for a NextView portfolio company that for a while was even working out of our Boston offices! We want to help founders both inside and outside of our portfolio with the things which we think matter most: 1. So we’re glad to have her (back) on board.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. Almost as good as the blog itself is the thoughtful and intelligent community that posts hundreds of insightful comments on a daily basis. As co-founder of Y Combinator and co-founder of the Viaweb which sold to Yahoo!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

What he gave the community with VentureHacks is a pure gift to the community. What he (along with Naval) started with AngelList is also a very important transformation to the communications between first-time entrepreneurs & angels. If I were a founder I would personally start with these kinds of seed funds.

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Rob Go

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Although Ginny is new to the team, she has many connections to the NextView family, as she started her career at our portfolio company Shareaholic , and worked closely with both Jay Acunzo (our first head of platform) and Joe Chernov (the VP of Marketing at our portfolio company Insight Squared ). Establishing an excellent early team.

Seed Stage 28

Seed Stage Boston Early Stage Portfolio 28

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

Upfront’s Team At Upfront we’re six full-time investment partners and a whole cast of additional team members that support the work we all do and work directly with portfolio companies to be helpful. The investment partners are Yves Sisteron (the founder), myself, Greg Bettinelli , Kara Nortman , Kobie Fuller & Kevin Zhang.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I do something I now call community hours. We just finished the second year in Boston. And so that is a steady import of talent but even more interestingly what it really did is it re-energized the entrepreneurial community.”. Venture Capital in Boulder and other smaller communities. “So Was it David Cohen’ Idea?

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

View from Seed

APRIL 18, 2018

In this role, you will manage several of our current founder-focused initiatives (e.g. create and edit content for our Medium publication, spearhead our events series, run portfolio-specific programming, etc.), as well as developing new ways for us to proactively engage with the founder community.

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Rob Go

MAY 2, 2013

It was a wonderful showcase of all the great companies, people, and investors that have helped the Boston technology market come roaring back in recent months and years. It was fun to attend, and I was really pleased that a bunch of our portfolio company founders (and many other friends) were nominated for awards that night.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Successful businesses that give back to the community, and it’s all on brand. Time: 12:30PM?—? 4:30PM Hilton?—?Salon

Technical Review 58

Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

Genuine VC

MARCH 25, 2014

Rob, Lee, and I couldn’t be more excited to share that as of Monday, Jay Acunzo has joined NextView as our Director of Platform and Community. In his Boston-based career, he’s also worked for Google and local startup Dailybreak, in addition to co-founding the community group Boston Content which has grown to hundreds of members.

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Boston Early Stage Portfolio Cofounder 123

View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

We’ve also proven that giving new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a dedicated, hands-on chance leads to follow-on funding and additional accelerator success across the board. What happens when you give new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a real chance during a time of economic uncertainty? .

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

I’m thrilled by the companies we are investors in, as well as the founders that lead them. This is of particular risk if the founders of the firm never really worked together before, as was the case for us at NextView. OUR PORTFOLIO. I’ve done little portfolio overviews from time to time.

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View from Seed

APRIL 4, 2017

TL;DR: We’re launching a newsletter highlighting the best content from the NYC tech community. As a seed-focused venture firm with offices in New York and Boston, we believe there’s a responsibility for us to not just be participants in the local entrepreneurial community, but also contributors to it. indicates required.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

We’re highlighting key members of the community to find out. Manu Kumar is Founder and Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures. Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. We don’t have categories of interest.

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San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Wonderful human being who is civically engaged, mother of 3, mentorer of younger founders, hard worker and arguer extraordinaire (so says her current Twitter bio). As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already. Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. Notes: Only for IT & related sectors.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

And I am often approached by entrepreneurs in cities which don’t have a vibrant VC community. Where do you want to build your community, your relationships, your family?” If their commitment to staying local is weak I normally say, “Well, it certainly would be easier on you to be in a larger community.

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View from Seed

JULY 28, 2015

While the startup environment in Boston has vastly improved over the last several years , I continue to hear the sentiment that it’s really tough to build a great consumer startup in Boston. This is expressed by people outside of Boston, but it often comes from those within our community too. A very particular culture.

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Boston Marketing Early Stage Startup 120

Austin Startup

JUNE 14, 2017

Boston has among the world’s top healthcare lawyers, but slim pickings for entertainment lawyers (many of which are in Los Angeles). There is no set of advisors for whom a founder/management team should care more about their independence than company counsel. No surprises there. And sometimes you can’t.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

We also cavalierly lampoon the “suits” that get brought in to run startups after the founders are fired by callous VC’s. They have the ultimate responsibility in a venture-backed company of deciding whether to fire the founders and bring in “professional management.” I also frequently see the reverse. And there’s a worse fate, too.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco Lean Investment Bankers 167

View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

Editor’s note: Local tech media company BostInno (a division of the American City Business Journals) hosts an annual Boston State of Innovation conference. Leading up to the event, they published an article listing questions VCs never answer , as submitted by the community. What’s the real reason you didn’t invest?

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Boston Syndicate Syndication eCommerce 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

The reality today is that capital is more available than ever and entrepreneurs have become more sophisticated, so founders are looking for more than just cash from their venture backers. I’ve seen many founders not fully grasp how the venture capital business works and what incentives investors have.

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Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

At NextView Ventures, we have a number of companies in our portfolio which are “marketplace” businesses, where buyers and sellers meet to exchange a good or service. The most often I’ve seen this approach work is through a fostering community of sellers, where these sellers find benefit in just interacting with each other.

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Engineer Vertical Portfolio Seed Stage 201

Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2021

Working with founders. You might think I’m referring to the time spent with a founder before deciding to make an investment in their startup, and certainly, there are moments where an in-person conversation can be the difference between Deal or No Deal. My 2022 will hopefully include a return to events like these.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. Sisu is currently expanding its product portfolio and geographic scale to develop additional cutting-edge, patented, clinically proven medical devices, and to create a system for medical device commercialization in emerging markets. The majority of our $2.9M

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