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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I started Venture for America back in 2011 with the goal of creating thousands of American jobs in communities around the country. In many instances, whether that’s starting a business, or working on a business, or caring for a loved one, or volunteering in the community, or something artistic and creative.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

The play-to-earn model is a simple yet revolutionary concept, and one that is upending the in-game experience for players, developers, and the community. Many of these games build off predecessors to unlock new forms of communities, experiences, and coordination mechanisms at scale. How do these games compare?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Much has been written about the challenges rural communities face in accessing quality care, and the gap between rural and urban healthcare access only widens beyond primary care. . The supply vs demand mismatch is further exacerbated by existing supply concentration in certain geographies (often big cities).

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AUGUST 30, 2016

As business owners on Alignable start to interact with each other, they’re simultaneously building a core network of trusted peers by following, connecting, and recommending each other, strengthening bonds within their community and/or industry. Card games?) Card games. Furthermore, how is that value defined?

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JULY 26, 2021

YAA utilizes, software, content, and community to help buyers navigate their confusing process and get the most out of this significant purchase. A car is likely the second largest purchase in a consumer’s life with significant downstream costs of maintenance and ownership.

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APRIL 4, 2017

TL;DR: We’re launching a newsletter highlighting the best content from the NYC tech community. As a seed-focused venture firm with offices in New York and Boston, we believe there’s a responsibility for us to not just be participants in the local entrepreneurial community, but also contributors to it. Subscribe to Gotham Voices.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. I find the best angels tend to do great not because they are fixated on making money but because they want to participate in the startup community and be involved in the most exciting projects. Investment Strategy.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. I find the best angels tend to do great not because they are fixated on making money but because they want to participate in the startup community and be involved in the most exciting projects. Investment Strategy.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

The obvious answer we all give (and receive) in the startup community is to talk to people. It’s become ubiquitous in our community, but that doesn’t make it any less critical. Step one in building a new company is the YC adage: “Build something people want.”. But how do you go about figuring out what people want?

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JULY 13, 2020

In our world, it means experiencing things directly, using new products and engaging in new communities instinctively. Is not academic about things, but wants to plant their feet on the sand of new shores. Is BOTH wildly open-minded AND intellectually prepared. An explorer that is not intellectually prepared will die at sea.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

Today, I talk to Shai Goldman, one of the most active community builders in NYC Tech, on his background, the evolution of the local startup scene … and who he’d draft to an all-startup pickup basketball game. NextView’s NYC podcast rolls on. Follow me and Shai at twitter.com/tdevane and twitter.com/shaig.

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APRIL 3, 2019

Gender diversity in entrepreneurship has been a high-visibility topic of late, in both the media and venture community. From that dataset, we noticed something else interesting: at a high level, founding teams coming out of HBS tend to over-index relative to gender diversity benchmarks for startups at large.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Experimentation will soon yield commercial applications in fields such as marketing and architecture , which in no way detracts from the beauty of what’s authentically happening in some of the hobbyist communities that have sprung up around these tools.

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JULY 26, 2021

YAA utilizes, software, content, and community to help buyers navigate their confusing process and get the most out of this significant purchase. A car is likely the second largest purchase in a consumer’s life with significant downstream costs of maintenance and ownership.

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JULY 26, 2021

YAA utilizes, software, content, and community to help buyers navigate their confusing process and get the most out of this significant purchase. A car is likely the second largest purchase in a consumer’s life with significant downstream costs of maintenance and ownership.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A lot has changed since we first established a Platform role here at NextView back in 2014, both because our own firm has evolved and as the broader community has subsequently recognized its importance for entrepreneurs. We want to help founders both inside and outside of our portfolio with the things which we think matter most: 1.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Although we’ve written about NYC tech before and are active seed investors here, we’re hoping this podcast can fill a much-needed void, help strengthen the community, and shine a spotlight on an ecosystem that deserves more cheerleaders and local attention. This show will be exclusively about, for, and even by New York City tech.

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MARCH 16, 2016

These companies have a long way to go until global dominance in many cases, but they are all growing, hiring, and strengthening the local community right now. Overall, we’re thrilled by the continued progress of this community and the way it continues to grow and evolve.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

Dorothy will be based in our New York office and will be focused on expanding our relationships with high-potential founders and operators in the New York startup community. I’m very pleased to announce that Dorothy Ren has joined the investment team at NextView!

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JANUARY 11, 2021

Investors looked to known, credible networks, to closed communities, and sought warm introductions to source new deals. We looked to who from our respected community could help us meet founders, partnered closely with co-investors we’d worked with before and with credible angels.”.

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JULY 11, 2019

The second is that we are in a moment in time where brands and creators have an unprecedented level of direct communication with their community of fans. Otis will provide a powerful new avenue for creators and brands to engage with their community to establish a true market price for their work.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Mike is also active in the startup community as a member of the board of directors for Repsly, as an advisor to Crayon, Drift, Privy, UserTesting, Digital Ocean, OnShape, and others, and as an angel investor in more than 25 companies including Desktop Metal, BounceX, TinyPulse and Tettra.

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MAY 2, 2019

This could be through community (as in the Wing ), through training and continuing education (as with our portfolio company Strive ), or through more effective hiring and recruiting. Another big challenge is around improving access and opportunity for under-represented professionals to grow and advance in their careers.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

We kindly ask you don’t simply list your own organization, as that’s not the best way to offer unbiased value to the community.). With that in mind, please feel free to use the comments section if you feel any were missed. (We Preferred Boston Startup Service Providers 2014. Click to view a larger version.).

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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. NextView Ventures is excited to welcome Dimitri Dadiomov to the team as an MBA Associate. He’ll work with NextView through his final semester at HBS.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Morrill likes to feature content from around the startup community that might not get significant traction otherwise, but not just any piece of content can make it into the newsletter. Mattermark has a specific process that its newsletter curators follow in assembling the list of featured articles each day.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

The easiest example is around community. Experiments like this have existed for years, whether it’s newer attempts like Common or Roam or cohousing communities that have existed in Denmark for decades.

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JULY 11, 2018

Activities range from a night out at SF’s best Secret Bar , to an exclusive “Date Night at the SF Ballet ,” to the top day hikes suggested by the Nudge community. A personal digital lifestyle advisor which sends SMS-based ideas about things to do (with a link to an detailed entire plan to make it easier to follow through).

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MARCH 22, 2016

Even if your own company isn’t newsworthy, you are on the ground in the startup community, and that is valuable. If your startup’s still small potatoes, a reporter might tell you it doesn’t merit a story just yet, and that’s okay. But the relationship doesn’t have to end there.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

The smaller size also allows the space for teams to get to know each other within the cohort and develop a true sense of community and friendship on a founder-to-founder level, which has proven to be an invaluable resource during and after the program. . Think alumni advice circles from founders who have successfully fundraised post-program.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Today, it’s been viewed over 300,000 times on Slideshare , and is still one of the resources we hear positive feedback about from the greater founder community. Almost 5 years ago we released a resource for founders looking for guidance on their seed stage pitch decks.

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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. Yoav was first employee at CarGurus, a founding executive of HubSpot, CTO at Happier, CTO at Jana, and more. Today, he shares the evolution of what it means to lead a startup from the technical side.

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APRIL 18, 2018

as well as developing new ways for us to proactively engage with the founder community. In this role, you will manage several of our current founder-focused initiatives (e.g. create and edit content for our Medium publication, spearhead our events series, run portfolio-specific programming, etc.),

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MAY 3, 2016

Jesse shares insights on everything from mission and hiring to community development to the scrappy and clever tactics they used early on at WeWork. Jesse was also among the first to join the co-founders of WeWork when it started. We also peer ahead to the future of what WeWork could be doing globally.

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JUNE 16, 2015

Leading up to the event, they published an article listing questions VCs never answer , as submitted by the community. I was recently asked to sit on panel with my fellow VC peers and some top entrepreneurs from the Boston tech community. These are all worth asking … and therefore worth answering. .

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AUGUST 27, 2014

As the demand for writers and content creators increases, more and more companies turn their one-size-fits-all hiring process onto the writer community for the first time. Why We All Usually Botch This Hire. They package job descriptions that sound like any other job. They review resumes like they would for any other function.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Sandi MacPherson, Founder of Quibb, a private community of tech tastemakers sharing professional content and discussions, tells the story of creating an application-only social network. Past episodes include stories from founders of LinkedIn , DraftKings , General Assembly , Mattermark , Duck Duck Go , InsightSquared , and more.

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