View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Last year, NextView co-founder and partner David Beisel asked our portfolio startups which service providers they use to make up the nuts and bolts of their businesses, which he published as the first edition of a potentially recurring resource. This resource represents the responses submitted to NextView in a poll of our portfolio.

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Boston Seed Stage Portfolio Cofounder 331

View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You will spend the rest of your time working alongside the partners throughout the investment process – analyzing investment opportunities, assisting in market research and diligence, and post-investment portfolio support. We invest nationally across Consumer and B2B, while most of our investments are based in NYC, SF/Bay Area, and Boston.

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Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage Cofounder 120

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.

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Boston Community CTO Hire Cofounder 72

View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Lastly, given our Boston location, it isn’t surprising that seven investments were Boston-based. More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. As we look to continue to build out portfolio, we encourage you to subscribe to The View From Seed to keep in touch.

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Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

After my board meeting I had to do an interview with a CFO candidate that one of my portfolio companies asked me to speak with. New York, Chicago, Boston, etc. I left the meeting and had to attend a 3-hour board meeting where two founders have been fighting and each want the other one fired. But it’s only Tuesday.

Software Review 381

Software Review Churn Rate Due Diligence New York 381

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Although Ginny is new to the team, she has many connections to the NextView family, as she started her career at our portfolio company Shareaholic , and worked closely with both Jay Acunzo (our first head of platform) and Joe Chernov (the VP of Marketing at our portfolio company Insight Squared ).

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Boston Early Stage Portfolio 120

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Although Ginny is new to the team, she has many connections to the NextView family, as she started her career at our portfolio company Shareaholic , and worked closely with both Jay Acunzo (our first head of platform) and Joe Chernov (the VP of Marketing at our portfolio company Insight Squared ).

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Boston Early Stage Portfolio 120

Agile VC

JULY 16, 2014

One of our portfolio companies, Plastiq , announced yesterday that they raised a $10M Series B led by Khosla Ventures and are planning to move their headquarters from Boston to San Francisco. Some lament the relocation of Plastiq and other companies who start in Boston but end up moving to Silicon Valley or other startup hubs.

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Boston Silicon Valley San Francisco Cofounder 208

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. Half our portfolio is consumer. Some say it’s a lack of risk-taking appetite.

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Boston Cofounder B2C PR 120

Genuine VC

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The benefits have been touted previously : an anchor for attracting and retaining talent in Boston, as well as a breeding ground for the next set of great Boston entrepreneurs and founders. The post The Unique but Powerful Way the HubSpot Mafia is Impacting Boston Startups appeared first on GenuineVC.'

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Boston IPO B2B Cofounder 279

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Boston, and Philly. And as always, to keep up to date with our portfolio companies, you can follow us on Twitter. Filebase announced upcoming changes to their platform, namely removing Skynet and Storj integrations permanently. You can read more about the changes here. And they’ll be coming to Phoenix soon. . Happy Fall everyone!

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Phoenix Portland Europe 60

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. Our portfolio companies value us as sparring partners. Like many modern VCs, we’re committed to investing in the community and in our portfolio companies. That seems pretty superficial!”.

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Los Angeles Las Vegas San Francisco Baltimore 343

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. Haystack Portfolio Data. Well, that time has finally come.

San Francisco 116

San Francisco Silicon Valley Seattle Venture Capital 116

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

In case you didn’t know, many VCs target a 3-year investment horizon for a fund and after that the fund mostly does only follow-on investments in companies in that portfolio. You can usually find 2-3 investors per location but it’s not uncommon to see VCs in: Boston, NY, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, St.

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Las Vegas St. Louis Southern California San Diego 396

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

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. 9-0 in IPOs and 3-1 in big M&A in favor of Boston? But then why have consumer plays like Boston-based Kayak, TripAdvisor and Zipcar done so well?

Boston 52

Boston IPO Technical Review New York 52

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

After I retired I would get calls from VC’s to help with “marketing problems” in their portfolio companies. There’s Always One in Boston. “Is Is there a salesperson in Boston?” The standard corporate presentation wasn’t working, so the Boston sales rep made up his own. (I It’s A Marketing Problem.

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Burn Rate Silicon Valley Marketing Boston 248

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. This is the implied rate of return of a fund based on the value (mostly unrealized) of a portfolio. Part of the reason to do this was just to reconnect after a long time apart.

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IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 205

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. This is the implied rate of return of a fund based on the value (mostly unrealized) of a portfolio. Part of the reason to do this was just to reconnect after a long time apart.

IRR 156

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 156

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

With all these considerations, I recommend the following steps and considerations for investors newly interested in startups: Build a balanced investment portfolio. But these requirements go away with the new Crowdfunding JOBS Act just passed into law. Begin with perhaps 5-10% of your total investment base, and be prepared to lose it all.

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Portfolio Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC 228

David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital , reports that “37% of our portfolio companies would be considered ‘impact’ qualified companies. I contacted every RBI venture capital investor I could identify, and learned: .

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Revenue Cofounder Founder Venture Capital 60

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. This is the implied rate of return of a fund based on the value (mostly unrealized) of a portfolio. Part of the reason to do this was just to reconnect after a long time apart.

IRR 136

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 136

David Cohen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By expanding our presence in these top markets (SF, NY, Boston, LA), we can better support all of our portfolio companies for the coming decades. We will continue to support and invest in our existing portfolio companies in these locations and will continue to source and fund new companies in these locations also.

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Denver Seattle Colorado Programming 163

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Silicon Valley, Boston). These partnerships may take the form of Proof of Concept projects with startups, getting to know VC firms and their portfolios, and familiarizing themselves with university groups doing research in the established strategic problems. (It This is not the the optimal way to start.

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Silicon Valley Incubator Acquisition Business Model 120

Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

Today one of our portfolio companies, GrabCAD, announced it’s Series A funding led by Matrix. Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Community Estonia Syndicate Syndication 100

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

One of our recent investments, offered by Founder Collective (FC) – an eight-year-old manager with offices in Boston and San Francisco – is an excellent example of what we look for when we invest in funds offered by other managers. We also know many of the entrepreneurs in their portfolio. It starts with the people.

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Founder LP Technical Review Seed Stage 75

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

With all these considerations, I recommend the following steps and strategies for any investors newly interested in startups: Build a balanced investment portfolio. These requirements for equity investing have been relaxed only a bit, with caveats, with relevant crowdfunding changes. Do your homework before investing.

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Liquidity Event Angel Investor SEC Accredited Investor 300

Rob Go

MAY 2, 2013

It was a wonderful showcase of all the great companies, people, and investors that have helped the Boston technology market come roaring back in recent months and years. It was fun to attend, and I was really pleased that a bunch of our portfolio company founders (and many other friends) were nominated for awards that night.

Boston 52

Boston Silicon Valley Acquisition Portfolio 52

Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I’ve always respected Bessemer for publishing their “ Anti-Portfolio ” on their website. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

Seed Stage 185

Seed Stage Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Review 185

David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Twilio became a popular perk for Techstars companies globally over the years and many other Techstars portfolio companies use the product extensively. Techstars funded PillPack as part of the Techstars Boston Accelerator in 2013. The company later settled in Boston. 4: Zipline (2011). 10: PillPack (2013).

San Antonio 171

San Antonio New York City Seattle Los Angeles 171

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

A few years ago, a friend of mine who was coming off an EIR gig at a well-known venture fund in Boston ended up joining one of my portfolio companies part-time as a technical advisor / interim CTO. A couple suggestions: #1: Try solving other people’s problems.

Founder 159

Founder Cofounder CTO Hire Early Stage 159

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Nicole is not new to the NextView family… previously she had worked for a NextView portfolio company that for a while was even working out of our Boston offices! We want to help founders both inside and outside of our portfolio with the things which we think matter most: 1. So we’re glad to have her (back) on board.

Portfolio 120

Portfolio Boston PR Social Media 120

View from Seed

JULY 19, 2019

has become a mantra here at NextView over the past few years after we were introduced to the concept by one of our portfolio CEOs. My partner Rob wrote a more extensive blog post on the topic about 18 months ago, and even since then the phrase has been become even more embedded into who we are. Go (re)read that post.

Boston 149

Boston B2B Early Stage Portfolio 149

View from Seed

JULY 17, 2019

Another founder in our portfolio recently remarked at how her business is one that investors initially don’t immediately “get”, but tend to appreciate over time as they talk to more and more people about this market problem. But this typically takes a fair bit of time to marinate. I know this all sounds like a lot of work, and it is.

San Francisco 243

San Francisco Cofounder B2B Seed Stage 243

Rob Go

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Although Ginny is new to the team, she has many connections to the NextView family, as she started her career at our portfolio company Shareaholic , and worked closely with both Jay Acunzo (our first head of platform) and Joe Chernov (the VP of Marketing at our portfolio company Insight Squared ).

Seed Stage 28

Seed Stage Boston Early Stage Portfolio 28

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

Boston Startup Portfolio Green 169