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A Beer Drinker's View of the Venture Industry

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In other words, for a company looking to compete across the entire marketplace in a specific industry, it must either develop a unique product offering (along the lines of brand, design, features) or more-efficiently produce the product to outcompete on price.

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Why I Like Our Investment in Triple Lift

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The endless scroll of Pinterest , Polyvore , The Fancy , Behance , Tumblr , are just a few mainstream examples of a broader trend towards graphically-rich design , but this aesthetic carries to longer-tail sites like foodgawker which have embraced this paradigm. Today Triple Lift announced their $2M seed round financing.

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Introducing the NextView Talent Exchange: Connecting Top Talent to Startups

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Rather, we’ve heard time and again just how difficult it is to find exceptional operators — those all-important “doers” that are integral to making things really happen — a senior front-end engineer, a tactical online acquisition marketer, a phenomenal designer, and so on. These great people are in our network.

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