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Designing Products from Scratch: An Interview with UX Leader Josh Porter

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Below, Josh talks about designing features from nothing and how to make important design choices during the pre-seed and seed-stage phases of startup growth. JP: So I love this question because it gets to a very important issue in product design and growth: user bias. You Found a Problem to Solve. Great … But Now What?

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20/20/20 – Harley Earl: Design Icon, Seer of Our Autonomous Vehicle Future

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Unless you are a student of design or an aficionado of cars, you may not know the name Harley Earl. His design ideas and vision of the future, which go back nearly 100 years at this point, continue to echo in the world of transportation today including alternative propulsion and autonomous vehicles. 1927 Ford Model T Touring 2.

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Accidental VC: How Much Does Design Matter for Seed-Stage Startups?

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.” So it’s no wonder that one aspect of an early-stage startup’s existence can be perpetually up for debate: their graphic design. Now, I recognize that every founder wants their pitch deck and website design to be quality. Just how good should a young company’s various assets look? Does it matter?

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Come Join Our Investment Team in NYC!

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You resonate with the NextView mission to “design the future that we want to live in” You enjoy meeting new people and have a healthy appetite for conversation. You have a deep desire to learn the venture capital business and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. What Will The Job Be Like.

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Pitch Deck Month: The “Where Are You Going?” Slide

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This is sometimes business-model dependent, e.g.: Product/Design/Engineering headcount – need to bring on a full-time PM and/or designer with X product milestones; rough estimates of engineering headcount by stage. Enterprise SaaS/B2B software – account executives (AEs) and sales developement reps (SDRs).

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

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” to the more complex, “Can you design Google?” ” (We’re testing for whether you can design a really large system.). I learned they were good at high-level architecture design but had clearly been doing only that for a really long time.

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We are Adding a Principal to Our Investment Team

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You resonate with the NextView mission to “design the future that we want to live in.”. You enjoy meeting new people and have a healthy appetite for conversation. You believe that entrepreneurship can be a profound force for good. What The Job Will Be Like.