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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

But cannabis retailers have their own unique set of needs in facilitating customer transactions, both managing online and offline interactions, as well as ensuring compliance with the regulatory requirements of this ever-evolving new category.

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JULY 31, 2014

When the purchasing decisions for work software can be made bottoms-up at the individual or group level, rather than top-down from management, committee, or a CIO/CTO’s office away from the front line of the business, the product offering and entire software business can be radically different. What’s on the Horizon?

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JULY 14, 2020

These companies have long had ongoing training needs to ensure that their employees stay safe and keep performance up, while legacy learning management systems are marred with low engagement in this employee segment. Enter Opus, an employee training and engagement platform that brings the frontline workforce forward into the new era of work.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In this role, he will continue to produce and manage our successful, 5-star podcast Traction as well as continue to push our thinking around our own creative and digital strategy at NextView. Getting lots of customers in a profitable way. Needless to say, she received rave reviews from everyone we spoke to about her.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In this role, he will continue to produce and manage our successful, 5-star podcast Traction as well as continue to push our thinking around our own creative and digital strategy at NextView. Getting lots of customers in a profitable way. Needless to say, she received rave reviews from everyone we spoke to about her.

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JULY 8, 2021

Lula is an insuretech company, building an API based platform to help companies obtain and manage insurance policies in a fully integrated software suite. The Lula team took this from an idea to live with paying customers in their first market segment within about 5 months.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As a result, many student loan borrowers are struggling to manage a repayment process that’s largely setting them up for failure. Will and his co-founders Paul Joo and Vincent Tran honed in on a segment of the student loan market that has a huge, unaddressed need – providing customized recommendations for loan forgiveness opportunities.

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JUNE 30, 2022

RH: Who are your customers? AB: I am currently reading Monkey Management by Jan Roy Edlund. Our technology platform does not require the animal itself at any stage, is more sustainable, ethical, and the negative side effects of traditional animal agriculture are eliminated. . Would you recommend it? .

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JULY 8, 2021

Lula is an insuretech company, building an API based platform to help companies obtain and manage insurance policies in a fully integrated software suite. The Lula team took this from an idea to live with paying customers in their first market segment within about 5 months.

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APRIL 8, 2020

Understand Your Customer and Their Timelines. Seek out 2 or 3 industries where you have a few customers already and come up with a handful of ways to approach these customers during this time and sell to them effectively. Retaining Customers in a Recession. you should be thinking about what your segmentation looks like.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

This B2B startup allows homeowners and small business property managers renting out their properties on sites like Airbnb to get paid early. This benefit changes the cash cycle for property owners, freeing up more capital to improve customers’ experiences with property improvements and additional services. Alignable ).

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

What percent of your time do you spend head-down coding versus managing or scoping product or talking to customers? If I want to reach out to the marketing manager for Android Wear, for instance, the guy is there to help me do my job better. NV: What are some questions someone non-technical can ask in these cases?

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MAY 9, 2019

In part I of this topic, we’ll go through some pros and cons of remote work, and in part II we’ll highlight the types of people you should hire for remote work and how you can manage them effectively. This allows for more innovative ideas, problem solving and a better understanding of their customers.

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APRIL 26, 2018

Without the right team in place, it’s much harder to build great products, find customers, and not run out of money in the process. The full-day bootcamp will give portfolio founders, senior execs, and hiring managers real tactics and hands-on practice building out recruiting machines at their organizations.

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JUNE 5, 2018

We launched the Hiring Bootcamp to equip portfolio founders and hiring managers with the best practices around building a hiring machine , so they can maximize their chances of getting the best talent into the door efficiently. Measure and manage your recruiting effort like a marketing/sales funnel. Metrics, metrics, and metrics!

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JULY 15, 2020

VC’s also manage multiple funds that get deployed over 10+ years, with new investments happening over the first 2-3 years of a fund’s life. There is a question of whether this recent surge in demand will be a momentary spike or will represent a new baseline as customer preferences radically shift in a permanent way.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Similar to Product Managers, a strong Analytics hire requires a diverse set of skills. This skillset is usually not required / less important until later stage of the business when you’re wrestling with more complex questions, such as “what are the predictive indicators of churn?”, “what’s the forecasted LTV of given customer cohort?”,

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JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. It’s about hits that can generate customers, not just hits on popular sites for the sake of ego-stroking.

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MARCH 15, 2018

For example, NextView-backed managed marketplaces like CarDash and Renoviso provide compelling internet-enabled services to connected customers driven by market opportunity. Markets, though, aren’t always well defined. In fact, some of the best companies help create and define a new market.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Getting more customers. Is this something that will be used every single day by a target set of customers? For this reason, we’ve partnered with Guild members who have experience across different kinds of customers, business models, and distribution channels. Building a great product. Not running out of money.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

Has this investor ever introduced you to a customer you closed or to a candidate that you gave an offer to? These partners are probably inundated with new deal flow, are managing some high-fliers in the firms portfolio, and are probably just starting to take on a leadership role in fundraising and firm management.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The community has given birth to tremendous successes and lots of failures, participants have come and gone, round sizes have grown, hot sectors have cooled, reignited, and cooled again, and founders have come from every conceivable background to build here and seek talent, customers, and funding from an increasingly diverse field of investors.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

As you think about the channels you can use to sell, the supply chain that you build to create your product, and the customer segment you target, think about guiding your company to an equilibrium where the economics are in your favor. Yes, it is hard to manage. The next time around, I’ll manage for capital efficiency.

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MARCH 29, 2018

This could include areas like mental health (as in our portfolio company 10% Happier ), dental health (such as Smile Direct ), nutrition and exercise, pain management, and other areas that impact the everyday life of tens of millions of people. 3) Health Data Applications.

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JUNE 23, 2022

Automating their end-to-end eCommerce operations (from managing inventory to order fulfillment to customer service). RH: Who are your customers? Creating storefronts for influencers that also connect to their social commerce platforms (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube).

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APRIL 2, 2015

These all serve as doorways to different but important audiences that a founder needs to impress, ranging from investors to target customers or users to potential new hires. You can hire a professional, outsource to various marketplaces and task management platforms, or rely on any number of free tools.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Do you need highly skilled functional managers or do you need a true partner? These include: Do I need help leading or managing? What functional responsibilities do I need this person to manage? This enables the COO to decisively and proactively lead more and escape the cycle of reactive management.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

Culture bleeds right into our product, our relationships with customers, and our potential impact on the world. Our operations manager Rob notes that he wouldn’t have been able to get a pup without this flexibility. How can it not? Generally, folks head into the office 3-4 days per week as a result.

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JANUARY 13, 2015

Someone with experience and relationships in the company’s target market are better at landing early customers, negotiating more favorable deals, building out and managing sales teams, and raising more money earlier to build a more robust product.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

As a result, the interview process during the seed stage can feel a bit more meandering to the hiring manager — who is most likely the founder(s) given the size and stage of the company. What she’s trying to learn: As a manager, it’s very important to understand what motivates people as everyone is motivated differently.

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JULY 28, 2015

I recall that when I was a management consultant at The Parthenon Group, a pretty analytical place, one of my friends in our associate class was clearly the most analytical one in the bunch. You don’t really know how customers are going to respond to your product over time. Guess what he’s doing now?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Many founders have to turn to brute force to figure it out, even when they themselves don’t have practitioner product management experience. However, managing product development correctly is incredibly important in the earliest days and can make or break your company. How do you think about these top company priorities?

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JUNE 13, 2016

” The point is to focus on the customer better. All of the products and services that we create are ultimately connected with the customer. And the only way to figure out what’s right is to constantly talk to and involve customers. Second, reorganize around customer and team happiness. Yes, really.).

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MARCH 10, 2015

Tamiz Ahmed is a former product manager at Bleacher Report, where he helped build the successful app for sports fans, Team Stream , prior to the company’s nine-figure sale to Turner. Below, he shares product management lessons from his time at BR. The goal was to give you a customized, local feel around your team.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

Recently, we got a group of Product Managers from our portfolio together to chat with Fareed Mosavat about all things growth. Fareed is the Director of Product at Slack where he is working on the adoption and growth for their largest customers. Customer Segmentation. At Slack we think about customer types differently.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Managed marketplaces , robotics , and on -demand delivery networks are changing how we experience the simple pleasure of eating a meal. For example, Upserve , a NextView portfolio company, is an all-in-one tech platform (POS, payments, CRM/loyalty, BI) to help restaurants better serve their customers.

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JANUARY 15, 2015

In her book, Creative Conspiracy, Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management cites dozens of studies that suggest that the business world runs its brainstorm meetings entirely backwards. There will always be a need to brainstorm new ideas internally, even in organizations who are experts in gathering actual customer feedback directly.

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