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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

For decades large companies have gone shopping in Silicon Valley for startups. The Innovation Portfolio. Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. Five Types of Innovation to Buy.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there. More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. We opportunistically invest in other geographies across the country as well. Recent Investment Themes.

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The Power of Getting the Band Back Together

Both Sides of the Table

Neither is very strategic nor in the best interest of either set of customers that VCs have (portfolio companies & LPs). We brought Ryan Lissack down from San Francisco to become Maker’s CTO and the rest is history. He was a very key player in why Maker Studios was eventually sold for up to $950 million.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

This year was a banner year as boldstart portfolio cos raised over $150mm of follow on capital from some of the top Series A and B investors (highlights below). This means more collaboration with the Fortune 500 and more go-to-market experience as our portfolio companies navigate their path to first customers. New CXO advisors join?—?

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How Sin-Mei Tsai, Shippo’s VP of Engineering, Defines Code Quality

Version One Ventures

This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company. Over the years, I have had the pleasure of getting to know Sin-Mei over many lunches.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). Evolv Technologies – Advanced Imaging Technology (backed by General Catalyst and Bill Gates). Plastiq – Payments (NextView Portfolio Company).

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What Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech Struggles [#BostonB2C Recap]

View from Seed

We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York. Half our portfolio is consumer. Talking design was Brian Kalma, design chief at Blade, a startup foundry launched by Paul English, former co-founder/CTO of Kayak. At NextView, we invest across the US.

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