Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

Today, I’m thrilled to publicly announce NextView’s Talent Exchange, a program helping both top talent and NextView-backed startups connect with each other more easily, beginning with Boston companies (which make up just over half our portfolio). For our startups, we knew we could help them source better and move faster.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 25, 2014

In his Boston-based career, he’s also worked for Google and local startup Dailybreak, in addition to co-founding the community group Boston Content which has grown to hundreds of members. My startup is part of the NextView portfolio. I don’t work for a NextView-backed startup. What does this mean for us?

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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.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Once you’ve figured out whether you want to find a very early stage startup or a late stage one (the topic of my first post in this series ), the real hard work begins. Whether it’s early or late, there are always a certain set of startups within a particular ecosystem that are generating all of the talk in the community.

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Genuine VC

JUNE 18, 2013

As a startup-tech industry, we’ve been talking about it coming right around the corner for well over a decade. And we’re thematically making new investments in startups which ride this momentous wave, like our two most-recently announced ones in Sunrise and tapCommerce. As it’s a salient one for any and all startups in our space.

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Genuine VC

JUNE 22, 2011

In the past couple years, I’ve written a couple blog posts explaining how startup offices are like faces , which can basically be summed up in an excerpt paragraph – “they [startup offices] communicate what is going on in the inside. Just as all startups are different, their offices should be different as well.

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Genuine VC

MAY 18, 2011

Given the unique and original service, it’s no surprise that TurningArt has been featured in dozens of media outlets in the past few months like NPR , CBS News , and the Boston Globe. Of course, like any startup there is quite a bit of work to be done.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 17, 2011

” First and foremost, we are dedicated seed-stage investors focused on investments in internet-enabled startups. And given dynamics in the digital media space, we think that (especially along the Boston to New York corridor) there is a market need for a funding source like ours for early stage entrepreneurs.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

And along the way we’ve met with or observed a larger number of seed-stage startups attempting to start them. What are the best practices for going from zero to sixty with a marketplace startup? One way to jump-start a marketplace with sellers is to attract them to a platform with carrots other than buyer demand.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 5, 2010

Whenever I am navigating through the notorious Boston traffic, I am often reminded of the cognitive bias of illusory superiority. I can assure you that that percentage of drivers here in Boston I wouldn’t even consider “good,” let alone impossibly above the median. drivers put themselves in the top half of the driving population.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 15, 2010

For the past five years, I’ve been organizing a regular event here in Boston called the Web Innovators Group (aka “WebInno”). Every couple months, 700-1000 web & mobile entrepreneurs, techies, startup junkies, and investors gather for one big meetup of the community.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Whether a startup’s initial Seed round is comprised of individual angels, seed-focused funds, larger VCs , or some combination of the three, when it’s time for the entrepreneur to raise a true Series A round, of course the goal is run a process to “optimize” it.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 5, 2010

Whenever I am navigating through the notorious Boston traffic, I am often reminded of the cognitive bias of illusory superiority. I can assure you that that percentage of drivers here in Boston I wouldn’t even consider “good,” let alone impossibly above the median. drivers put themselves in the top half of the driving population.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 15, 2010

For the past five years, I’ve been organizing a regular event here in Boston called the Web Innovators Group (aka “WebInno”). Every couple months, 700-1000 web & mobile entrepreneurs, techies, startup junkies, and investors gather for one big meetup of the community.

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Genuine VC

AUGUST 10, 2007

About two weeks ago, I posted about seven coming digital uber-trends which are ripe for startup opportunity. Startup sites like TreeHugger (which also has a site called Hugg , a Digg for environmental news) offer news, culture, and instructive information. Boston-based GoLoco is pursuing the same ends with a stand-alone web service.

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Genuine VC

JUNE 6, 2012

If you’re meeting in a VC’s office conference room, and you’re an entrepreneur, then the default assumption is you’re pitching your startup. Who knew startup investors would be so averse to actually visiting startups? There are only two reasons VCs typically visit a startup’s office. Either he’s in from out of town (e.g.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Here in our innovation hub of Boston, the country’s oldest subway tunnel built in 1897 is still in use as part of the MBTA Green Line. This year, though, a local startup called Bridj has been making headlines by taking a fundamentally new approach to thinking about mass transportation.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

I am happy to share that we at Venrock have made an investment in a startup which directly addresses this problem. And the CTO James McElhiney is also a seasoned entrepreneur (cofounder of Boston Compliance Systems, which he later sold to Thomson Financial), bringing over 20 years of large-scale development expertise to the company.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

I am happy to share that we at Venrock have made an investment in a startup which directly addresses this problem. And the CTO James McElhiney is also a seasoned entrepreneur (cofounder of Boston Compliance Systems, which he later sold to Thomson Financial), bringing over 20 years of large-scale development expertise to the company.

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