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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. His investing career started 15 years ago at Apax Partners and continued with Trident Capital. Filed under: Customer Development. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. Steve : And they need to agree.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Others follow independent financial lead investors and most require that independent investors be part of the syndicate.

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How NextView Thinks About Pre-Seed Rounds as VC Investors

View from Seed

On Wednesday, my partner David wrote about how we’ve been using our office space (and network and other resources) to support pre-seed companies. It creates focus and discipline and instills pressure to remain lean and not expand the team too quickly. You can find that here.

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How We Think About Pre-Seeds at NextView

Rob Go

On Wednesday, my partner David wrote about how we’ve been using our office space (and network and other resources) to support pre-seed companies. It creates focus and discipline and instills pressure to remain lean and not expand the team too quickly. On Tuesday, I wrote a post to help define pre-seeds and give context to their rise.