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We’re Hiring for Our Investment Team at NextView’s NYC Office

View from Seed

You enjoy meeting new people and have a healthy appetite for conversation. You will spend the rest of your time working alongside the partners throughout the investment process – analyzing investment opportunities, assisting in market research and diligence, and post-investment portfolio support. . What Will The Job Be Like.

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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 enjoy meeting new people and have a healthy appetite for conversation. . NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with over $200M of committed capital under management.

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From Seed to Series A

Reid Hoffman

The term “early-stage” covers a lot of territory in venture investing, from incubating a brand-new idea, to investing in a Series A. Below are some of the key highlights from the conversation. At the seed stage, we have backed very non-obvious, non-pedigreed entrepreneurs, in spaces that weren’t obvious, who ended up being amazing.

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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

View from Seed

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. Google tries to cover a variety of topics, from the bare minimum, “Can you code?”

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

Both Sides of the Table

But my conversations in the private corridors on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley is that many fund sizes will be smaller going forward. You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything. You don’t have to hire as many sales people because much can be sold online.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

You can learn as much from these cautionary tales as you can from the enduring successes, plus studying a broad sample of firms helps avoid drawing false conclusions due to survivorship bias. There are a number of VC firms that had extraordinary success in enterprise software, telecom equipment, and semiconductors in the 1990s.

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Advice for VCs from a serial founder

Austin Startup

This one comes from personal experience, months into conversations and after reference checks (which went well) one particular VC decided he didn’t have commitment to the space. Disclose intentions early It’s not a big deal if you’re doing diligence on a competitor. Founders are duking it out day in and day out. We work 7 days a week.

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