View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

Chicago 177

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 177

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

Chicago 156

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

And especially if you are dealing with early stage firms where partners might have different areas of specialization but they might have a lot of connective tissue across things. And that’s very different than a firm where you have an IT team and a Clean Tech Team and a Bio Team or an early stage team and a late stage team.”.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

They want to lock in future clients at an early stage. For a very small fee they can get your Delaware C corp registration, make sure that you have IP protection and ensure you didn’t make an early bumbling mistakes that you’ll pay for dearly in the next 7-10 years of hard work. Our lives are intertwined.

Southern California 318

Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 14, 2008 How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people Frequency is more important than talking to the "right" customers, especially early on. Youll know when the person youre talking to is not a potential customer - they just wont understand what youre saying.

San Francisco 131

San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

Chicago 136

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 136

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2011

Its product Fetch Fans is a social media design application that builds highly interactive and custom branded Facebook business page tabs, Twitter and blog backgrounds, which was launched at DEMO earlier this year. The service would use early-stage smart phones and a push system developed by Rhino. What Could Have Been.

Social Media 187

Social Media Media Management Application Development 187

View from Seed

JULY 19, 2019

All early stage venture firms essentially look at some weighting of team, market, product, and traction. JDCC stands for “Jaw-Dropping customer value through a Competition-Crushing business model.”. Like other investors, we at NextView have a number of frameworks which we use to evaluate decisions on making new investments.

Boston 149

Boston B2B Early Stage Portfolio 149

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 belief in the new.

Boston 120

Boston Marketing Early Stage Startup 120

Rob Go

JUNE 16, 2014

Now it’s table stakes”; Jo Tango’s blog post on the VC Bottleneck in Boston; and Mike Volpe’s comments on a post from my blog on raising seed rounds vs. Series A’s. On top of that, there are fewer series A investors now than there have been in the past (at least in Boston). Wow, that sounds really bad.

Early Stage 67

Early Stage Boston Portfolio Venture Capital 67

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Oh, and since it was not code compatible with anything, we were going to have to port all the key scientific applications our customers needed (as soon as we figured out who they were.) Personal supercomputer s meant yet again learning something completely new; new computer architectures, new applications and customers, new markets.

North Carolina 125

North Carolina Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 125

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

John Jantsch: Want to quickly send amazing looking emails to your prospects and customers in just minutes? I was actually building like ASP custom shopping carts, all this crazy stuff that I don’t even know how to do now. I was like, “There are not a lot of the type of church that we are at out there in Boston.

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Audio Boston Video HTML 57

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 2, 2023

For each dollar men raise in early-stage venture capital, women raise an average of $.38, For example, men are asked questions such as “How do you want to acquire customers?,” “How do you plan to monetize?,” “Do you think your target market is a growing one?,” to 2.7%, averaging roughly 2% year over year. 38, Columbia says.

Founder 118

Founder Affiliate Cofounder Boston 118

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

How they think and feel; their sense of community; and their appetite to share their opinions are all creating new paradigms for how any business, regardless of size, connects with its customers. According to our research, millennials ardently avoid calling customer service. Old school customer service rules haven’t changed.

Customer 100

Customer Singapore Advisory Board Asia 100

Rob Go

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. There is obviously a lot that goes into building an early stage company. Establishing an excellent early team. Not running out of money.

Seed Stage 28

Seed Stage Boston Early Stage Portfolio 28

View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. EM: When you’re at an early stage, you don’t know what that buyer path looks like yet, so you should be trying all different strategies to get data and figure out the playbook.

Marketing 120

Marketing Sales Cycle Startup CTO Hire 120

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. Those two things aren’t really the same. Angels can’t do it alone.

Community 172

Community Miami Portland Startup 172

View from Seed

JULY 17, 2019

Your company is likely both one step removed from many brand name B2B customers and a step removed from reporters and press that are excited to tell your story. In a competitive selection process, customers like the thought of buying from a company with positive momentum that everyone seems to be talking about it.

San Francisco 243

San Francisco Cofounder B2B Seed Stage 243

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, November 17, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part one Ive written before about some of the advantages startups have when they are very small, like the benefits of having a pathetically small number of customers. Talking to potential customers and competitors customers.

San Francisco 88

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 88

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. Then, create an encouraging environment for early-stage companies. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Continuous Deployment 113

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Las Vegas sets itself apart from startup cities like Boston and San Francisco by offering a much lower cost of living in a major city.

United States 113

United States Las Vegas San Francisco Denver 113

A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

I remember when I made that first flight out to San Francisco from Boston to meet the team in 2004, the company was down to its last $20K in the bank. Back in 2004 - 2010, he would routinely send me early stage companies to check out as part of his diligence process. Having an hour set aside per day helped us stick to that.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Bangladesh Ukraine Philippines 60

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. Erin’s main points: “As a former tech sales executive, I agree with many of [Mark's] lessons — when applied to later-stage, post-traction point startups. And that leads me to today’s post.

Startup 319

Startup Early Stage Sales Cofounder 319

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

In another we decended into a debate about our 5 year forecasts (I built the models so fielded most of these questions), and it became clear they probably weren’t the best fit for our Series A round (this group is no longer in the early-stage VC business). And a third firm “pressure tested” (i.e. link] dazhi chen.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Editor’s Note: NextView recently kicked off a Boston-based workshop series on technical interviewing with Google. Takeaway 3: Identify your team’s current learning style (especially among any existing tech talent or leaders, but also more generally across your early-stage team). office, right in the heart of MIT.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Engineer Software Review Founder 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

understand who their core and tertiary customers are, and the sales and marketing process required for initial clinical sales and downstream commercialization. understand who their core and tertiary customers are, and the sales and marketing process required for initial clinical sales and downstream commercialization.

San Diego 261

San Diego North Carolina Chicago Lean 261

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# Customer Support.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Marketing Sales & Marketing Home Marketing Basics Sales Online Marketing Finding Customers Social Media Branding Social Media Does Your Companys Social Personality Need a Makeover? Sweat equity is just one component of early-stage valuation. Coming soon to Dallas, Boston and Philadelphia. How to Brand Yourself After 50.

Sweat Equity 55

Sweat Equity Equity Fractional CTO CTO 55

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. Come to TS in Boston! The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Tickets are available now and include dinner. On August 20th, Eric is leading a half day in-depth workshop on the Lean Startup.

Lean 68

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 68

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

What everyone can agree on, though, is that there are definitely more seed and early stage funds now than ever before, and more people willing to give money to young companies looking to make it big. In late 2000, early 2001 I started my second company to test whether I can build a successful company again. That’s what K9 does.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Our customer is ultimately the startup. We’re not just focused on NY/Boston/Silicon Valley. Early stage startups are <5 yrs old. 5-10 years is typically the rampup stage. . • Our origins were some studies from McKinsey to Kauffman. We focus on everything that can help them grow. There are 1.4m-1.6m

America 144

America DC Startup Aggregator 144

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. I was recently asked to sit on panel with my fellow VC peers and some top entrepreneurs from the Boston tech community. What’s the real reason you didn’t invest?

Boston 120

Boston Syndicate Syndication eCommerce 120

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

You can apply using the links below: Feb 22nd in San Francisco Feb 27th in Boston March 13th in Upfront’s offices in Los Angeles (bonus?—?ocean But I’m encouraged to see the unity and camaraderie of these group of VC leaders go out and make a difference. ocean views!) And April 12th back in San Francisco. Tell a friend. Take action.

Founder 256

Founder San Francisco Deal Flow Los Angeles 256

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

We were even more embarrassed by the pathetically small number of customers we had, and the pathetically low amount of revenue we had earned so far. The core of the article is my first attempt to articulate the key metrics (in graph form) that I believe demonstrate customer value. Retention cohort analysis. Funnel averages over time.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Tampa Continuous Deployment Lean 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

benjaminjoffe : early adopters of buggy product are visionary customers, sometimes smarter than founders! goap #ericries InvisibleGaijin : #goap #leanstartup Eric Ries talks about importance of "visionary customers" in startup success. Startups need to spend time with these customers. Brilliant insight.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Japan Continuous Deployment 60

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2023

Key Takeaway: While significant progress has been made in AI, we are still at the early stages of it’s development. It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the eighth. Every year inbound brings together leaders across business, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and more. That's right.

Artificial Inteligence 64

Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Algorithm Networking 64