Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

What product/service is generating revenue that has not yet been adopted in Boston? I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. 8- Relying on social media for marketing. Lesson: Don’t rely solely on social media for your marketing.

Entrepreneur 55

Entrepreneur Delaware Hiring Social Media 55

Genuine VC

JANUARY 22, 2013

So just as a thought-experiment, I plotted both NextView Ventures’ Boston-based and Manhattan-based companies on a map to see what the picture looked like. My partner Rob Go recently took a stroll through the NextView portfolio in a post which only briefly touched upon geography.) In reality, though, that “area” isn’t too large.

Boston 169

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

What product/service is generating revenue that has not yet been adopted in Boston? I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. 8- Relying on social media for marketing. Lesson: Don’t rely solely on social media for your marketing.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Delaware Hiring Social Media 54

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. Nikhil Kalghatgi, Senior Associate, SoftBank Capital.

Portfolio 122

Portfolio New York Social Bookmarking Philadelphia 122

Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

But as social media continues to pervade businesses large and small, and purchase decisions increasingly happen at the user level (see #2) we will see dramatically more customer acquisition happen via the web. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Pingback: swtor swtor sith warrior abilities.

Software 100

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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. BA in economics. Business Ops.

Boston 120

Boston Marketing Early Stage Startup 120

Genuine VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

We are looking for a passionate, outgoing, and talented individual embedded within the local Boston entrepreneurial community to facilitate information sharing between NextView portfolio companies, spearhead community-building & outreach efforts, and help promote our firm. Exceptionally high attention to detail.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. Her network from her educational institutions alone has friends in all of the top tech, media & banking institutions. That’s why Greg Bettinelli has become such a successful partner addition to Upfront. She has been in operations in Seattle and Los Angeles.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

2) New market (less common form, examples are Lyft and eShares) and 3) New business model (least common, non-K9 portfolio examples are PriceLine and SolarCity). Direct Revenue, meaning no three-way business models and no advertising, media, or content. We don’t have categories of interest. Frighteningly Early.

San Francisco 48

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View from Seed

APRIL 4, 2017

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. Fill out the form below to get Gotham Voices in your inbox each week, and read on to learn why we’re excited to launch this today.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I’m extremely excited about the portfolio of companies my partners and I have put together at Foundry Group which includes some great ad tech companies which you list above. Rather, I’d say that the one truly common trait across our portfolio of companies is the obsession these businesses have with their product.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Venture Capital IPO 60

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).

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

It would be easier in terms of getting access to angels, VCs, the media, whatever. This afternoon (Saturday) I have a coffee meeting with a portfolio company founder. Importantly … I would pitch investors in SF, NY, Boston, LA, etc. So if you’re really indifferent you might consider it.” Take me for example.

Kansas City 365

Kansas City San Diego Kansas Dallas 365

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston. Edelman’s annual study on the state of trust in institutions, industries and media. We will discuss how the networks are creating the social media airbag. Time: 12:30PM?—?

Technical Review 58

Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

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.

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Boston Syndicate Syndication eCommerce 120

Genuine VC

JUNE 22, 2011

Are they funky and hip, as many media investors’ are, parallel to the domain in which they invest? Within a stone's throw are other startups like DataXu and CLOVR Media , as well as entreprenurial coworking spaces like the Bocoup Loft and WorkBar Boston. Are they in Class A space with a view? Collaborative.

Seed Stage 123

Seed Stage Boston Incubator Portfolio 123

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

This supplement to our BVP VII fund will ensure that we can take advantage of future investment opportunities and that the companies within the Bessemer portfolio have continued access to capital." Labels: Portfolio , Venture Capital. Portfolio. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. To learn more, visit [link].

Software Review 48

Software Review Partner United States Venture Capital 48

David Teten

MARCH 8, 2013

How to add value to portfolio companies after you invest. Prior to Commerce Ventures, Dan spent 6 years at Highland Capital Partners, where he invested in several early-stage mobile, payments and consumer media startups. Among the topics I will cover: Introduction to HBS Angels and the 2013 Webinar schedule. How to source great deals.

San Francisco 114

San Francisco Venture Capital Angel Groups LLC 114

Genuine VC

JANUARY 17, 2011

Today we are officially launching our firm , NextView Ventures, announcing our first nine portfolio company investments , and recognizing the additional people who are working with us. Now six months later, we’re ready to lift the covers on what we’re doing (although there have been a few previews ).

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Seed Stage Boston Early Stage New York 125

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Boston is a great place to start and build a company. However, Boston is a transient town, especially for the student population that refreshes a large population each year. This guide is designed to help you hit the ground running and is a starting point for your entrepreneurial journey in Boston. The Grand-daddy.

Boston 72

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

And given my marketing background (Google, Dailybreak Media, HubSpot), I often get this question directly: When should startups announce seed funding? . Across the NextView portfolio and in discussing this topic more broadly, we’ve found that funding announcements are rarely good customer acquisition channels. You get the idea.

Startup 120

Startup PR Cofounder Stealth 120

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. Building a great product. We want to talk to you! Back to Top).

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Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2012

(We’ve looked) at how social media sites can be used as powerful networking tools for new college graduates, sharing our best picks for tips, tools, and more for Facebook , Twitter , and now, LinkedIn. Some of the best of these include the Boston College Alumni Group and The Penn State Alumni Association. Useful LinkedIn Tools.

Networking 221

Networking Social Network Social Media Portfolio 221

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

How to build a portfolio of startup investments. How to add value to a portfolio company. What to do when your portfolio startup pivots. Bantuveris is a recognized national expert in boosting parent involvement in school and using social media for social good. How to source great deals. When should you think about exits.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

In my research on how private equity and VC funds source investments , one of our conclusions was that VCs get better returns when they invest outside of the traditional geographic hotspots of New York, Boston, and the Bay Area. As a result, we have been unlocking major new revenue streams for HOF portfolio companies.

New York 60

New York Africa Cofounder Egypt 60

Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

When I first heard about VC firms in the late 1980s, and my first company (Feld Technologies) started writing portfolio management software for some Boston-based VC firms, many of them had funds with SBIC leverage, although even by the late 1980s this was changing and many of them had shifted away from the SBIC.

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SBIC Venture Capital Colorado SBA 142

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” customers, other employees, books, blogs, social media, news?—?and stars to 4.6

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

You could argue that the recent companies are too early, so I''ll take that challenge and compare it with my own portfolio. All of the companies but one were funded in NYC, with the other in Boston. The media needs to do it''s part, too. Of the 20 teams, only half count an engineer as a founder or co-founder.

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Venture Capital Cofounder IRR Dilution 152

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 22, 2012

Over a year and a half ago, I did a two-part blog post on the East Coast IPO malaise – one focused on Boston (Massachusetts more broadly), another focused on New York. There was one big exit from my list of NY IPO candidates – Buddy Media ($700M, Salesforce.com) – but no others. 9-0 in IPOs and 3-1 in big M&A in favor of Boston?

Boston 52

Boston IPO Technical Review New York 52

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In addition, Orin has served on boards or as the Principal Investigator for the NYC Media Lab , PowerBridgeNY , and the Columbia Coulter Translational Partnership. Prior to joining Columbia, Orin spent seven years with the Boston Consulting Group’s New York office.

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Government Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Silicon Valley 120

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Suggestions for Angel Investors - Feld Thoughts , June 2, 2010 I’m on an Acela train between Boston and New York (listening to Boston’s More Than A Feeling – how recursive) on my way to the TechStars Boston 2010 Investor / Demo day. So true, so true, and that's the perspective you must adopt to become adroit in social media."

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 18, 2012

Buddy Media, Demandware, Endeca, Millenial Media) have been in the $500 million - $1 billion range. 150-300 million in size, funds like Union Square (NYC), Foundry (Colorado), Spark (Boston) are among those that have generated the best returns for their LPs this decade. Nearly all of the mega hits have been Silicon Valley based.

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Silicon Valley Colorado Boston Early Stage 42

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Free Flat Design Social Media Icons – [link]. 34 Fresh Portfolio Websites Inspiration | CSS Matter – [link]. Free Flat Design Social Media Icons – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 23, 2010

Imagine if the article were: "Social media found to be useless" or "Broadband totally over-hyped, has no impact on innovation." Christoph Westphal's recent piece in the Boston Globe on how to address the continuingly high costs of drug development was excellent. But because it was in a traditional media outlet, there was no dialog.

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Lean Boston Venture Capital Social Media 35

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Note also that, for obvious reasons, I leave out any Flybridge Capital portfolio companies in my analysis. Boston Scientific Corp. Name Media ($50-60m). Massachusetts. First, let’s look at my home state of Massachusetts. American Tower Corp. Thermo Fisher Scientific. Genzyme Corp. Biogen Idec. Analog Devices. Waters Corp.

IPO 34

IPO Massachusetts New York Silicon Valley 34

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2009

The first event is January 21, and is being put on by Dealmaker Media as part of their Strategy Series events: In the Trenches: Cutting Costs in a Tight Economy. Hes a very smart guy who, as a Sequoia portfolio CEO, can tell you all about the " RIP good times " strategy. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

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.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114