Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We rode the bubble wave to a successful outcome in 2000 , and after moving away for a few years which included a stint at business school , I returned back to Boston in 2004, and it felt like the web entrepreneurial community had almost entirely scattered after the crash. Today the landscape is very different from 2004.

Boston 206

Boston Internet Entrepreneur .Net 206

Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

But rather than just keep the info internal, wouldn’t it be more productive to publicly publish the aggregate results for the whole community? And the results were pretty interesting, especially as they clustered with meaningful overlap among companies. When we took the poll itself, one founder said: “This is a great idea.

Early Stage 246

Early Stage Boston Portfolio Silicon Valley 246

Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

The most often I’ve seen this approach work is through a fostering community of sellers, where these sellers find benefit in just interacting with each other. One way to jump-start a marketplace with sellers is to attract them to a platform with carrots other than buyer demand.

Engineer 201

Engineer Vertical Portfolio Seed Stage 201

Genuine VC

JANUARY 15, 2010

Every couple months, 700-1000 web & mobile entrepreneurs, techies, startup junkies, and investors gather for one big meetup of the community. However, as a venture capitalist I believe that it’s incumbent on me not just to be a member of the entrepreneurial community but also truly participate in and contribute to it.

Silicon Valley 208

Silicon Valley Boston DC Cofounder 208

Genuine VC

JANUARY 17, 2011

” We think it’s incumbent on venture capitalists to truly be a part of the entrepreneurial community… and by that we mean not that we’re participants in it, but rather that we’re genuine contributors to it.

Seed Stage 125

Seed Stage Boston Early Stage New York 125

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Lastly, we at NextView consider ourselves to be part of a greater Tribe within the entrepreneurial web and mobile community. For us, the idea of Tribe is really a set of concentric circles – expanding from our partnership, to our portfolio family, to the broader community.

Portfolio 114

Portfolio Seed Stage Venture Capital Partner 114

Genuine VC

JUNE 18, 2013

It seems like most people in the community have been once or twice over the years, and there’s a devoted following of regular attendees. What started as an impromptu gathering of a dozen people at a bar in Central Square in Cambridge has now grown up to a quarterly event drawing nearly a thousand people from the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Mobile 131

Mobile Web Boston Distribution 131

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Lastly, we at NextView consider ourselves to be part of a greater Tribe within the entrepreneurial web and mobile community. For us, the idea of Tribe is really a set of concentric circles – expanding from our partnership, to our portfolio family, to the broader community.

Portfolio 100

Portfolio Seed Stage Venture Capital Partner 100

Genuine VC

JULY 8, 2010

I believe that the company is dramatically changing the face of women’s-focused media with an authentic & powerful community of bloggers, and I am happy to continue to be a part of that endeavor as it grows. I am excited to remain on the Board of Directors for Venrock’s portfolio company BlogHer.

Silicon Valley 154

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Cofounder Venture Capital 154

Genuine VC

JANUARY 15, 2010

Every couple months, 700-1000 web & mobile entrepreneurs, techies, startup junkies, and investors gather for one big meetup of the community. However, as a venture capitalist I believe that it’s incumbent on me not just to be a member of the entrepreneurial community but also truly participate in and contribute to it.

Silicon Valley 103

Silicon Valley Boston DC Cofounder 103

Genuine VC

MAY 1, 2014

And BookBub is in the pole position to help readers and publishers through this industry disruption — today already, (outside of retailers) BookBub is the largest community of readers purchasing ebooks. Today BookBub is announcing its $3.8M Series A financing.

Cofounder 118

Cofounder Syndicate Syndication Social Network 118

Genuine VC

JUNE 22, 2011

The three of us were looking for a space that felt inviting and welcoming, just as we strive to be within the community. Rob, Lee, and I are looking forward to inviting over and hosting our friends within the entrepreneurial community to our offices once we’re settled in. Collaborative.

Seed Stage 123

Seed Stage Boston Incubator Portfolio 123

Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Just as a small community newspaper or a special-interest magazine didn’t need significant amounts of capital to become sustainable, so too today with many of the recently seeded startups which have focused services for a specific target audience or customer-set.

Seed Stage 166

Seed Stage Venture Capital Audience New York 166

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

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. My advice: search for heat, but don’t follow - evaluate.

Startup 148

Startup Portfolio Later Stage Hiring 148

Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Though Tim plays lip service to community publicly, it’s not incorporated into the new company model. It’s becoming apparent that an increasing amount of referral traffic is generated from social networks , as opposed to search. AOL is essentially creating a traffic magnet… for what will soon become an old paradigm.

Arkansas 100

Arkansas Algorithm Advertising Audience 100

Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Though Tim plays lip service to community publicly, it’s not incorporated into the new company model. It’s becoming apparent that an increasing amount of referral traffic is generated from social networks , as opposed to search. AOL is essentially creating a traffic magnet… for what will soon become an old paradigm.

Arkansas 100

Arkansas Algorithm Advertising Audience 100