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OCTOBER 5, 2016

What about the second cousin who is a startup lawyer? As a founder, if you have a power alley in a specific functional role or the startup itself will strike a chord with people in that functional specialty, look to add prominent thinkers (especially local ones) in that space to the affinity list. Affinity by personal background.

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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. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B). Network Effect B2B. End-User SaaS.

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JULY 5, 2022

I’m Connor Cash, the founder of Caesar and I grew up outside of Boston but currently live in DC! This uncertainty can make it challenging to operate as a startup, but has built in great flexibility into our business at its core. . Get to know the founder. RH: Please introduce yourself. And your least?

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MAY 14, 2015

For context, the reason a startup would look for an official office runs the gamut, from expanding headcount to serving enterprise clients and thus needing a decent space to wearing out your welcome at a shared spot and more. The entrance to NextView HQ – custom beer labels/bottles for each startup.

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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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MAY 24, 2021

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 act as an “ invited guest.”. You are hungry.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

He is currently a second year student at Harvard Business School and will be focused on supporting the early-stage startup community in Boston and its schools. There’s been a lot of discussion lately about startup fundraising by graduates of various business schools. Boston’s talent pool is unparalleled.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. This is also an opportunity to take a step back and think about what the Platform role means for us overall.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. This is also an opportunity to take a step back and think about what the Platform role means for us overall.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

VC-backed startups used to be an industry that was hyper-concentrated in a few clusters and dominated by very tight profiles of people. . – We deeply believe in boundless entrepreneurship, meaning that the dynamism of entrepreneurial energy should not be held back by unnatural constraints.

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APRIL 30, 2015

There’s been a lot of digital ink spilled around the various types of capital available to startups today. As a startup grows, venture debt becomes a viable option to continue that growth. Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

As the venture capital industry has evolved, more and more seed investors are passing on traditionally “seed stage” startups because there isn’t enough traction. We have offices in New York and Boston, are quite active in the SF Bay area and see significant activity from the diaspora to and from these human capital centers.

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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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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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JANUARY 7, 2020

Anecdotally we’ve heard the sentiment that there are still very few firms who can lead seed rounds in New York, while we’ve also seen a recent uptick of Boston seed rounds led by non-Boston firms. For this analysis, I focused on the four largest startup ecosystems in the U.S. – SF/Bay Area, New York, Boston, and LA.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Chad Laurans is the CEO of SimpliSafe, a large and growing tech company located in the Boston area. Subscribe to the NextView blog for future episodes and more resources for seed-stage startups: nextviewvc.com/blog. The post In a World of Startup How-Tos, What About Bucking the Trend? Thanks for listening!

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Below, Josh talks about designing features from nothing and how to make important design choices during the pre-seed and seed-stage phases of startup growth. Once you identified that What to Wear Daily was worth building, what worked in acquiring your first 100 users — especially since it was focused on just Boston to start?

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JULY 5, 2016

In this episode, NextView’s Rob Go talks with Yoav Shapira, a longtime tech leader in the Boston startup community. Today, he shares the evolution of what it means to lead a startup from the technical side. Yoav was first employee at CarGurus, a founding executive of HubSpot, CTO at Happier, CTO at Jana, and more.

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JANUARY 11, 2016

Despite heroic efforts that pay off in one city, a location-based startup practically hits the reset button when they enter new markets. You can also subscribe to receive every episode plus weekly insights and resources about gaining startup traction.

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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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AUGUST 17, 2021

It’s conventional wisdom to say that it doesn’t, and that startups should keep their head down and execute. One of my side-project ideas is to try to create a new strategy course at a business school focused on startup competition. This is something I’m still struggling with honestly, so maybe this reflection is a cop-out.

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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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JUNE 17, 2015

I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups.

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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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AUGUST 17, 2021

It’s conventional wisdom to say that it doesn’t, and that startups should keep their head down and execute. One of my side-project ideas is to try to create a new strategy course at a business school focused on startup competition. This is something I’m still struggling with honestly, so maybe this reflection is a cop-out.

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JULY 8, 2021

I first met the Lula co-founders in Boston about 2 1/2 years ago, at the very end of 2018. Matthew & Michael had decided in early 2020 to build Lula in Miami, and it was interesting to watch the rapid progress of Lula in parallel with the increased prominence of the Miami startup ecosystem.

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MAY 10, 2017

Will Ahmed is the CEO and co-founder of WHOOP, a fitness tech startup working with high-performance athletes. Their users include LeBron James, Michael Phelps, pro teams like the Boston Red Sox, and thanks to a deal with the NFL Players’ Association, every pro football player across the nation.

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AUGUST 20, 2014

This is what happened awhile back with Gemvara here in Boston. The post How Various Types of Startup Investors Affect Your Seed & Series A appeared first on The View From Seed.' But it’s very typical for a VC to say, “We are committed to half the Series A — go find an outside lead,” and be helpful in making that happen.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

For those of us that have been working in the startup and technology space for at least the past 10 years, these addresses mean two things. The city I call home, Boston, is not known for its social products. The point is, I firmly believe there’s nothing that Boston can’t do, but there are some things Boston hasn’t decided to do … yet.

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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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JULY 19, 2019

And additionally, my partners and I use other, more differentiated, lenses like asking if a startup has an “ unfair distribution advantage.” The startup doesn’t just offer a product that people truly want and can’t get elsewhere, but that the business model itself provides an undisputable reason why the company can and will win.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

It’s conventional wisdom to say that it doesn’t, and that startups should keep their head down and execute. One of my side-project ideas is to try to create a new strategy course at a business school focused on startup competition. This is something I’m still struggling with honestly, so maybe this reflection is a cop-out.

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MARCH 31, 2015

Editor’s note: Unlike the Ubers and Airbnbs of the tech startup world, seed-stage companies don’t typically have the valuations, awareness, or traction typically associated with press coverage. NVV: Tactically, what’s the best way seed-stage startups should reach out to journalists? What was the worst?

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JULY 9, 2015

And given my marketing background (Google, Dailybreak Media, HubSpot), I often get this question directly: When should startups announce seed funding? . So, when should they — or any seed-stage startup — think about drumming up some PR and making noise around funding? You get the idea. Why is that important to remember?

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JUNE 23, 2015

Everyone likes to say that startups should do things that don’t scale, so we wondered … what ARE those things? While we have told the stories and will continue to tell the stories of tech startup rocketships, Dennis himself IS a rocketship thanks to his fascinating career rise. Available on iTunes , Stitcher , and SoundCloud.

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JULY 8, 2021

I first met the Lula co-founders in Boston about 2 1/2 years ago, at the very end of 2018. Matthew & Michael had decided in early 2020 to build Lula in Miami , and it was interesting to watch the rapid progress of Lula in parallel with the increased prominence of the Miami startup ecosystem.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

The journey of every startup is so different. Startups pioneering the future of remote work. No startup relocation, temporary or permanent, is necessary or requested for NextView’s 100% virtual accelerator program. Jambb: Boston, Massachusetts . There will be 6-8 startup teams in this cohort. Who you are.

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