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The Golden Age of the Boston Internet Entrepreneur

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(And at NextView Ventures, we’ve funded both young entrepreneurs out of college as well as veteran executives in their forties, along with a range in between.) Two years ago Jeff Bussgang lamented about “Lost Generation” of entrepreneurs which I think is especially acute here in Boston.

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Our Newest NextView Team-Member: Jay Acunzo

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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. Although the idea of venture firms developing a platform (i.e. In short, for those reasons and more, Jay is the perfect fit.

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Director of Platform & Community

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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. Exceptionally high attention to detail.

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Do Startup Location Matters Even Matter?

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So just as a thought-experiment, I plotted both NextView VenturesBoston-based and Manhattan-based companies on a map to see what the picture looked like. First, take the startups in our portfolio based the greater Boston + Cambridge area. In reality, though, that “area” isn’t too large.

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Officially Launching NextView Ventures

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Last summer, I along with my partners announced that we were forming a new micro venture capital firm. 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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Introducing the NextView Talent Exchange: Connecting Top Talent to Startups

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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). Below, I’ll quickly explain the genesis of this initiative and share a few more key details.

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Majority of both Drivers and VCs are Above Average

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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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