View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

And since we will continue to look proactively at new seed-stage tech startups over the next few years, the question becomes: What, then, will these companies look like? Lastly, given our Boston location, it isn’t surprising that seven investments were Boston-based. Recent Investment Themes. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B).

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. 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. You are hungry.

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Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage Cofounder 120

Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. Although these startups are very diverse businesses themselves, they face similar requirements (especially in that they’re currently all in the seed to Series B range of company stage).

Early Stage 246

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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. HBS Startup Tribe.

Boston 72

Boston Community CTO Hire Cofounder 72

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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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. In a world which is increasingly won by startups who reach and then accelerate their product-market fit, not technology-market fit, this matters.

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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. You’re in control.

Software Review 381

Software Review Churn Rate Due Diligence New York 381

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. Startup Advice'

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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

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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

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!

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

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Boston Cofounder B2C PR 120

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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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Boston, and Philly. Shippo launched Shippo Supercharge to help startups with shipping and scaling up with $12K in shipping credits. . Inflection launched “ Inflection for startups ,” free B2B marketing automation. Now even the earliest startups can use Inflection, for FREE. You can read more about the changes here.

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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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Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

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. The post Second Startups: Why Founders Often Struggle to Find Their Second Act appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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Founder Cofounder CTO Hire Early Stage 159

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Reuters TV Interview by Rhonda Schaffler Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money.

Portfolio 228

Portfolio Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC 228

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The Customer Development process is the way startups quickly iterate and test each element of their business model , reducing customer and market risk. In Discovery startups take all their hypotheses about the business model: product, market, customers, channel, etc. There’s Always One in Boston. “Is Lessons Learned.

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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. It’s conventional wisdom to say that it doesn’t, and that startups should keep their head down and execute.

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IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 205

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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Denver Seattle Colorado Programming 163

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. Also portfolio management strategy has shifted a bit in recent years, and many large investors now evaluate at all risky assets together (US tech IPOs, Brazilian bonds, Chinese private equity, etc) rather than making discrete allocations to each bucket.

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IPO Marketing Silicon Valley Technical Review 100

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Silicon Valley, Boston). Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams. 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

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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. It’s conventional wisdom to say that it doesn’t, and that startups should keep their head down and execute.

IRR 156

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 156

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. Start in a business domain you know well.

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Liquidity Event Angel Investor SEC Accredited Investor 300

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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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

According to the Angel Capital Association: Angels (private money) invest in 55,000 startups each year versus 1,500 companies by VC (venture capital) funding. ” Yes, the JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) is exciting, and it will bring a lot more potential investors into the marketplace. I’m not your average angel.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Software Review Accredited Investor 159

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

But in practice, these phenomena create a tremendous volume of startups, which investors then have to filter. Leading Late-Stage Technology Investors’ Portfolio by Geography, 2001-1Q2010. Companies like PrivCo and Navon Partners (my old startup) are working on automating this signal identification process. 2009) [ii].

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

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. It’s conventional wisdom to say that it doesn’t, and that startups should keep their head down and execute.

IRR 136

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 136

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement. With case studies like this, we aim to illustrate specific Lean Startup techniques through the stories of current practitioners. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

Foundry Group is best known for our investments in startups, but our vehicle currently investing in other venture funds, Foundry Group Next, is off to what we believe to be a great start and I wanted to share an update about it by talking about our new investment in a fund managed by Founder Collective. It starts with the people.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For m­any years, conventional wisdom held that a promising startup needed to be located in a traditional venture capital hub like Silicon Valley, San Francisco or New York to be successful. In fact, many venture capital firms in those areas would routinely require their portfolio companies to relocate. by Chris Sloan of Baker Donelson.

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Nashville San Francisco Venture Capital Silicon Valley 144

Genuine VC

JANUARY 22, 2013

About a year ago, I wrote a post about how office space is the face of a startup – it communicates both an outward message and provides insight into what’s going on underneath, as the physical environment in which startup employees work inevitably match the company’s story and culture. In reality, though, that “area” isn’t too large.

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Boston Startup Portfolio Green 169

Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I often tell these entrepreneurs that I genuinely hope they prove us wrong, and are wildly successful with their startup. I looked at this founder’s prior startup, which ultimately had a successful exit, and then was happy to connect with him again as he launches a new project.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Review 185

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. It used to be that startups went public about 6-7 years from founding; that number is now 10-12 years.

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Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

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! How enterprise startups differ from consumer startups – [link]. 7 Unlikely Recommendations for Startups & Entrepreneurs - [link]. ” – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

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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