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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

In a few months, we are likely to see the annual Forbes Midas list of top performing early stage VC investors. Innovation is Becoming More Broadly Distributed. Name brand firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, and NEA had 4+ partners on the list. Firm Persistence.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US. they generate $400M in proceeds from that $100M).

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Announcing NextView Operator Guilds

View from Seed

Here is who will be joining the NextView Operator Guilds (for full bios, click the link in their name): Product Guild. For this reason, we’ve partnered with Guild members who have experience across different kinds of customers, business models, and distribution channels. Sara Wajnberg, SVP of Product at Oscar. Back to Top).

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Transcript of Crafting Growth-Focused Content for Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

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.

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A conversation with Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz, author and speaker at Lean Startup Conference 2019

Startup Lessons Learned

If you live in a major hub of VC - e.g., Bay Area, Boston, NYC, LA - it’s easier to tap into your local resources to help augment your understanding, but there are a lot of smart people with great ideas in other parts of this country and globally for whom access to information is just not as available. No need to name names.

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Introducing Traction, the NextView Podcast: Creative Ways Startups Find Results Against the Odds

View from Seed

But we noticed that while the information in these podcasts is interesting, many are often far removed from the actual day-to-day challenges of very early stage founders that are just trying to go from nothing to something. We find that these are great, and I personally listen to many of them. Thanks for listening!

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Is This Mic On?: Capital Factory Members at #SXSW2018

Austin Startup

The Food+City Challenge Prize is an international competition among early stage business startups encouraging innovation in the urban food system. Finalists addressing issues such as storage, distribution, packaging, waste, and more, will compete for up to $50,000 in prizes. Date: Tues March 13, 2018 Time: 9:30 AM?

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