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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

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Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund. As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. Lastly, given our Boston location, it isn’t surprising that seven investments were Boston-based.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

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Both are building on top of the existing credit card infrastructure because as Swipely Founder/CEO Angus Davis points out, millions of people are walking around with a mobile payment device in their pocket… it’s called a credit card. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

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According to Toni Schneider, a Partner at True Ventures, and a Team-Lead at Automattic, boundaryless teams confer a real advantage; “You can hire great people wherever you find them: Once your company is untethered from one physical location, your pool of available job applicants becomes the entire world.