Board Effect

JULY 13, 2023

Among this year’s winners, joining the likes of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and the Animal Rescue League of Boston, is Crisis Text Line. Each year, the Classy Awards recognize nonprofit organizations that use unique approaches to make a positive impact on our world.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Indiana Government 52

View from Seed

MAY 14, 2015

The lead time to landing your office can be surprisingly high, particularly in denser startup ecosystems like ours in Boston. Otherwise, explore some of the alternatives mentioned above (or establish that your team will be largely distributed and bake that into how you operate and how you craft a culture).

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Startup Cofounder Technical Review 120

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

In this manner, you can see both the current equity distribution of the company, as well as historically what the equity holdings looked like. Now there are two events: the initial issuance of founders common shares, and then issuing new founders common shares along with creating an options pool.

Cap Table 133

Cap Table CTO Hire Technical Cofounder Cofounder 133

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

We did that for six years, and then we decided we would move to Boston because … This is where my marketer brain kicked in. I was like, “There are not a lot of the type of church that we are at out there in Boston. ” Lance Cummins: So I literally moved my family, my three kids and my wife and I, to Boston.

Audio 57

Audio Boston Video HTML 57

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

Chicago 177

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 177

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

I remember when I first started NextView and I was giving a talk to an audience in Boston about innovative new consumer businesses and internet business models. But in a world of power-law distributions and the near magical scale enabled by software, the potential upside far outweighs the downside in most cases.

IRR 205

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 205

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

You told me you're from Boston, so I'm envisioning some of the South sider kind of accent coming out of you. I actually grew up in the suburbs, so I don't have that real Boston accent, but I'll do my best if you'd like that. John (16:20): So increasingly today, myself included, my entire team is distributed.

Leadership 58

Leadership Boston Conversion Hosting 58

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

Chicago 156

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

I remember when I first started NextView and I was giving a talk to an audience in Boston about innovative new consumer businesses and internet business models. But in a world of power-law distributions and the near magical scale enabled by software, the potential upside far outweighs the downside in most cases.

IRR 156

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 156

Rob Go

JUNE 26, 2012

A lot of ink has been spilled about the challenges of building large scale consumer internet companies in Boston. To me, the biggest challenge of consumer web companies in Boston is a lack of perspective. And most specifically, it’s a lack of perspective on distribution. It’s just harder. Couple suggestions: 1.

Boston 53

Boston Web Distribution PR 53

View from Seed

JULY 19, 2019

And additionally, my partners and I use other, more differentiated, lenses like asking if a startup has an “ unfair distribution advantage.” In the past, we’ve created and published a flowchart on how we think through these factors. JDCC stands for “Jaw-Dropping customer value through a Competition-Crushing business model.”.

Boston 149

Boston B2B Early Stage Portfolio 149

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We see innovation becoming more broadly distributed over time, and outlier companies being built in more and more places. We have offices in New York and Boston, are quite active in the SF Bay area and see significant activity from the diaspora to and from these human capital centers.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

Chicago 136

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 136

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Distribution. We just finished the second year in Boston. We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. Human Computer Interaction. Protocol Digital Life.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

I remember when I first started NextView and I was giving a talk to an audience in Boston about innovative new consumer businesses and internet business models. But in a world of power-law distributions and the near magical scale enabled by software, the potential upside far outweighs the downside in most cases.

IRR 136

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 136

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

View from Seed

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Quilt (a NextView portfolio company incubated in our Boston office) recently launched a fully digital life insurance product that approves policies in just 15 minutes. We also believe blockchain will enable novel distributed services that do not presently exist, for lack of a scalable real-time architecture for managing microtransactions.

Finance 185

Finance Distribution Seed Stage Government 185

Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2013

Was Cambridge separated from Boston? In contrast, Cambridge and Boston are one startup community, consisting of six startup neighborhoods (three in Cambridge, three in Boston, all within a 15 minute drive of each other, even in traffic.). It’s called the Denver-Boulder Metropolitan Statistical Area for a reason.

Venture Capital 164

Venture Capital San Francisco Silicon Valley San Jose 164

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

It ultimately failed because she was focused on engineering the product, but didn’t validate the rest of her business model (product/market fit, distribution channel, customer acquisition, etc.). Her first startup, Pencil You In, grew from a personal need to schedule hair appointments.

Detroit 120

Detroit Baltimore Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2018

Empower Cocktails CEO, Tiffany Hall has not only begun to fill that space in beverages, but she has also utilized the Empower Cocktails platform to partner with several non-profits that champion women’s initiatives including the Voss Foundation, Dress for Success Boston, Kicked it in Heels and the Metro-Manhattan Community Foundation to name a few.

Founder 100

Founder Boston Distribution Community 100

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode. Amazon PostRank

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean 94

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode. Amazon PostRank

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Launchpad Angels (Boston). Hub Angels (Boston). Golden Seeds (NY, Boston, CA). CommonAngels (Boston). In 2011, we noted that the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue deals funded by angel groups in Silicon Valley, Boston and New York was higher than most other regions of the country. Band of Angels (Silicon Valley).

Angel Groups 169

Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation North Dakota 169

Genuine VC

JUNE 18, 2013

However, the consistent challenge which we’re observing in the mobile ecosystem is acquiring customer distribution. Micah Adler , Founder of Fiksu , Boston’s white-hot mobile app marketing startup. Both Wayne and Micah know a thing or two about mobile distribution, to say the least… they’re masters at it.

Mobile 131

Mobile Web Boston Distribution 131

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

They were interested in the tools and new distribution medium kaChing provided. They were interested in the tools and new distribution medium kaChing provided. Finally, after launch, 30 professional money managers, having read articles on the company, contacted kaChing out of the blue. Take a look and let me know what you think.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2012

” That was the question one of my students asked me three years ago when I quietly told him my plan to start a design museum in Boston with my friend and business partner, Derek Cascio. Before we get too deep, a little bit about me: my name is Sam Aquillano and I’m the Director of Design Museum Boston.

Boston 86

Boston Design Architecture New York City 86

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. Leveraged distribution channels. Its now possible to gain massive distribution for almost any product without asking anyone for permission or signing a complex contract. Amazon PostRank

Product Development 88

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 88

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode. Amazon PostRank

Software Review 68

Software Review San Francisco Technical Review Continuous Deployment 68

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode. Amazon PostRank

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

In management jobs related to operations – that is, the people tasked with actually making and distributing physical products – this kind of thinking is now considered ludicrous, thanks to a century of progress. In fact, making mistakes is seen as “proof&# of being second-class. Take a look and let me know what you think.

San Francisco 161

San Francisco Management Founder Lean 161

Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 21, 2016

seed investment in Sentenai , an exciting machine learning company based in Boston, alongside our friends at Founder Collective, Project11 as well as a new local seed fund, Hyperplane. . I first met Rohit when he was helping run Techstars Boston, where I'm a small personal investor. Today, we are announcing co-leading a $1.8m

Artificial Inteligence 20

Artificial Inteligence Cofounder Georgia Boston 20

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. 6:00 – 7:30).

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode. Amazon PostRank

Customer Development 131

Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode. Amazon PostRank

Audience 119

Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean 119

Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 21, 2016

seed investment in Sentenai , an exciting machine learning company based in Boston, alongside our friends at Founder Collective, Project11 as well as a new local seed fund, Hyperplane. . I first met Rohit when he was helping run Techstars Boston, where I'm a small personal investor. Today, we are announcing co-leading a $1.8m

Artificial Inteligence 20

Artificial Inteligence Cofounder Georgia Boston 20

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode. Amazon PostRank

San Francisco 142

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 142

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

Every region has its own culture (Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin), so travel is well worth the cost and time. Your business team may be small but distributed. It is not uncommon today to see two founders located in two different cities, as well as key employees.

Small Business 251

Small Business Advisory Board Silicon Valley Boston 251