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The Startup Pivot

Reid Hoffman

Early product-market fit can sometimes be illusory or limited in scope to a small pool of early adopters. Sometimes your technology platform changes, and you need to pivot from on-premise to the cloud. It’s easier (but still hard) when you’re running a small, early-stage organization. You’re giving out money.”

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Distribution Advantage

Rob Go

I was asked recently how NextView evaluates such early stage companies for investment. Here are a couple examples from our portfolio: Vertical Communities: One of the exciting attributes of GrabCAD in the early days was its rapidly growing, engaged community of mechanical engineers.

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Investing in the pillars of the Metaverse

VC Cafe

I previously covered on VC Cafe the state of ‘Creative Automation’ Cloud-based asset management, build, and release systems – Most of the 3D content used in these games/experiences is hard coded and locked. Why can’t the assets be centrally managed in the cloud? Tyler Cowen interviews Marc Andreessen on Web3.

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