View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have 5-10 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, and/or investor. You have a strong network in the NYC startup ecosystem that is additive to our team. You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. You act as an “ invited guest.”.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. But a large majority of our investments are in our backyard of Boston — and, aside from our work as investors, this city is near and dear to our hearts. Here’s Mike’s comment: Boston’s B2C problem is one of values.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2015

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. The lead time to landing your office can be surprisingly high, particularly in denser startup ecosystems like ours in Boston.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But secondly, the can play a strategic role in everything from optics (signaling “smart money” is involved to connections to tangible, operational help. What about the second cousin who is a startup lawyer? As a VC myself, at a New York- and Boston-focused firm, I frequently point entrepreneurs to the same resources.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. We invest nationally across Consumer and B2B, while most of our investments are based in NYC, SF/Bay Area, and Boston. You are hungry.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. Santa Monica is the place where the highest concentration of early-stage startups are created if you consider also the contiguous geography of Venice Beach. We chose a location that fit our style.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

On Monday I was at the White House to help announce the Startup America Partnership. For an awesome description of Startup America, please read Aneesh Chopra’s (the United States CTO) post on TechCrunch titled Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2016

One of the best things about setting up a startup these days is that nothing is out of bounds thanks to the Internet. Why not set up camp in one of the following cities that are thought to be best for startups? Boston, Massachusetts. Boston has recently been announced as the best American city in which to launch a new company.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. Kayak is great Boston-area success story. It is to out friend. Enjoyed this post?

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David Cohen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We are strengthening our ability to invest in more startups and their founders than any other company in the world. For those of you in Boulder or Seattle that interpreted the communications as a disparagement of the startup community and its impact – that was definitely not the intent. We’re sorry for that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 14, 2012

We at NextView have been thinking about and looking for investments in seed-stage startups which leverage the megatrend of transitioning computing away from a standard fixed-web PC world. Anytime a fundamentally new platform is introduced, it creates white-space… especially for startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Every town has firms that focus on startups – find them.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

On February 16, I visited Washington, DC, where I attended an HBS Club of DC lunch on the Case Foundation and Startup America. One of those partnerships is with Startup America , who was also featured at the lunch. Startup America is an example. Derek Holt of Startup America. Our customer is ultimately the startup. . •

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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. Below, she shares lessons learned from the earliest days of marketing the company and how this has translated to her second startup role as VP of Marketing at Toast. Where do you start?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But to answer the actual question “Is there something going on in LA?”

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

I am talking about the nitty-gritty reality of operating a business, paying the bills, washing the dishes, and managing employees. We use SurePayroll , a Chicago-based startup (now a division of PayChex ) and their solution is economical, simple, and reliable. Small business and startups: great reads from the business press.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

We’re calling them NextView Operator Guilds. . The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Jessica is also a mentor with TechStars, an angel investor, and frequently advises startups.

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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.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

In the last few years we’ve recognized that a startup is not a smaller version of a large company. We’re now learning that companies are not larger versions of startups. But paradoxically, in spite of all their seemingly endless resources, innovation inside of an existing company is much harder than inside a startup.

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2016

Austin, Texas, is often heralded as a startup leader’s heaven, but Dallas is only a few hundred miles away, and it’s nothing to sneeze at. Boston, Massachusetts. While Boston wasn’t one of the top 10 cities on the climate index, it was rated as moderately efficient. In no particular order, here are my top picks: 1.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments. My path to lean startups began with Kent Beck and extreme programming.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 14, 2012

We at NextView have been thinking about and looking for investments in seed-stage startups which leverage the megatrend of transitioning computing away from a standard fixed-web PC world. Anytime a fundamentally new platform is introduced, it creates white-space… especially for startups.

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Search Boston Seed Stage Seattle 100

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The International segment appears to have similar profitability as the North America business though as it accounted for roughly the same proportion of adjusted operating income. But even in Boston & Chicago it remains above $20. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. June 5, 2011.

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North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. A few are still trying to make money doing it, but it is hard to make money off startups. However, many research and technology parks also house incubation programs.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

I worked throughout different areas in Cybersecurity/Identity and Access Management and in 2013 I took the big step and moved to the Boston area. More importantly I want to share what I have learned, my expertise, and the opportunity I had back to the Austin tech and startup community.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Editor’s Note: NextView recently kicked off a Boston-based workshop series on technical interviewing with Google. We also talked about how he’d want to be interviewed if approached by a non-technical startup founder. (I’ve Culture is obviously important at Google and really at every startup and company today.

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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.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 2, 2022

and has rapidly growing operations in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston, New York City, Austin, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., For more information, visit tryhungry.com. The post How to Keep Employees Snacking Healthily in the Hybrid Workplace appeared first on ReadWrite.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2014

If you’re older than 30 and even remotely aware of NBA history, you may remember that the NBA championships of the 1980s were dominated by the dueling dynasties of the Boston Celtics, led by Larry Bird, and the Los Angeles Lakers, led by Magic Johnson. The series was tied after four games, and Game 5 was headed back to the Boston Garden.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The company is based in San Francisco, with significant operations in Africa and elsewhere. #5: Techstars funded PillPack as part of the Techstars Boston Accelerator in 2013. The founders incorporated the startup on the first day of the accelerator. The company later settled in Boston. 5: Scopely (2011).

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David Teten

JANUARY 17, 2013

Startup Money: Bootstrap, angels, and partnerships. Vanessa Liu ’96, JD ’03—Chief Operating Officer, Trigger Media. * . * Launch: Product is ready now what? David Yarkin ’95—President, Government Sourcing Solutions. John West, MBA ’95—Founder and President, The Whistle. Going to Scale: How do you go to the next level and scale?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). Startup CEO experience (Founded P.S. XO along with my good friend Soleil Moon Frye. Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. billion).

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

of teams’ online pitch decks and recorded videos, as well as loved the dozens of second-round video conversations which we had with Founders working on quite compelling startups. The NextView Accelerator Doesn’t Operate in Strict Cohorts. . Most accelerators operate in class cohort “batches.”

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