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We’re Hiring a Platform and Operations Associate at NextView

View from Seed

From the beginnings of NextView, we have had a commitment to being high-conviction, hands-on, seed stage focused investors. You will be supporting the firm’s external outreach efforts to build the brand and presence of NextView within the broader entrepreneurial community. About NextView. A Final Note.

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Lessons from a Diverse Venture Capital Portfolio

This is going to be BIG.

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the pre-seed and seed stage VC fund I run in NYC, has invested in 64 companies in the last six and a half years. Twenty-five of them have at least one female co-founder. Fifteen had co-founders over 40. Five have LGBTQ+ founders.

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The 7 Traits of Super Founders

VC Cafe

” – Marc Andreessen In the book “ Super Founders “, author Ali Tamaseb, studied 200 Unicorns, aka startups valued at over $1 billion, started between 2005 to 2018. The 7 Traits of “Super Founders” 1. They are able to articulate this vision in a way that inspires others and generates excitement.

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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. GrabCAD & Professional Communities. NextView originally invested in the company’s seed round in the spring of 2011 and we again participated in this latest round along with Atlas Venture. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Startups: Avoid These Inner-Series Mistakes When Scaling Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. Specifically, there are five challenges that emerging business typically put on the backburner between funding rounds: Seed to Series A: Customer Testing. Hypotheses should be tested extensively and disproven, which is where customer testing plays a central role for seed-stage startups.

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Make a Living, Not a Life: Inside WeWork’s Seed Stage with Jesse Middleton [Traction #23]

View from Seed

Today’s guest, Jesse Middleton, is a co-founder of WeWork Labs, the company’s global startup incubator, and currently the head of WeWork X, which includes Labs and also the new WeWork investing and M&A activities. Jesse was also among the first to join the co-founders of WeWork when it started.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%