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MAY 24, 2021

You are intentional about developing a point of view on new sectors that we can learn from. We lead or co-lead most of our investments and we develop our individual conviction vs. trying to hang around the hoop for market signals. We have a high-conviction, hands-on approach to seed investing.

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

Google’s strategy is to build around hiring these generalists, but that might not be the case if you’re at a startup — maybe you want someone who has a bit of experience with front-end development, so you’re fine specializing. In any production-oriented job (writing, design, development, etc.),

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APRIL 5, 2016

Rachael is enrolled at the Startup Institute , an eight-week program that teaches its pupils the nuances of web development, web design, technical marketing, or sales and account management. She is a student on the web development track—and based on her background, that might seem a little hard to believe. There is so much to know.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Next, I try to develop a mutually beneficial relationship that aligns the company’s objectives with the engineer’s desired career path. At thredUP, we call this relationship “professional development,” and it has been a big priority for us as a company. Editor’s note: The Alliance was written by LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

We lead or co-lead most of our investments and we develop our individual conviction vs. trying to hang around the hoop for market signals. We are proud seed investors of over 100 portfolio companies over the last decade, including TripleLift, Grove Collaborative, Skillz, Attentive, Whoop, Dia&Co, MealPal, Parsec, and Code Climate. .

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Payer relationships will inevitably take time — if not years — to develop. We are probably still too early in the development of digital health verticalization to confidently predict the eventual outcome. Among them, insurance reimbursement , scaling provider pool , and scalable go-to-market are the most challenging to overcome. .

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MARCH 29, 2016

Let’s say you’re looking for a junior level developer. You post an open position in three places: a technical college’s website, a national job board with a general audience, and a developer-focused job board. Tracking this metric allows entrepreneurs to identify their most effective applicant sources for certain types of positions.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Software developers like to spend time with like-minded developers. Beyond (potential) customers, publicly visible analysts, and consultants, consider placing industry leaders who are a “reach” on your list. Affinity by function. Marketing people love to swim with other marketing gurus.

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JULY 5, 2022

One hour I’m deep into product development, the next I’m thinking about our hiring needs and recruiting, to the next on a sales call. CC: Being a founder is a rollercoaster ride. . My favorite part is how many different hats I wear. I’ve learned and grown more as a leader than I ever could have imagined.

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JULY 8, 2020

Founders who set up and lead effective board meetings from the very beginning stages of the business more quickly develop that crucial muscle memory. Central to any CEO’s job is thinking through strategy and reflecting on operations, as well as communicating these things to various constituents.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

As seed funds have raised larger and larger funds, more have developed the muscle around issuing term sheets and “leading”. We also invested in more traditional IT and software categories much like other VC’s, and had not developed more of a market and consumer-driven POV on the future.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Enterprise SaaS/B2B software – account executives (AEs) and sales developement reps (SDRs). .: 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.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

First, the ease at which developers can get started working with AI models is starting to lead to a Cambrian explosion of products and applications that leverage this technology. There is something about the accessibility of the applications that spurs this kind of creativity, but also fear and concern for unintended consequences.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

And even though this was just the mini tour, he developed immense respect for these real pros. On the course, pros played within themselves, stuck to their strategies, and grinded through the good and bad shots and good and bad rounds. On the range, everyone looked more or less the same, but the real pros had an edge.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

Developers hold the skeleton key, and they are the ones to profit. After years of conceptualizing, designing, and building immersive worlds–not to mention investing an immense amount of capital–developers can turn a game off at any moment. . Developers are no longer Lord and Master; players have the power. Consider FarmVille.

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MARCH 19, 2015

” After spending some time at the acquiring company, I was hired by Google and eventually was put in charge of the development team that launched AdWords. Our product, a software development and testing tool, was amazingly innovative, worked great, and won a bunch of prestigious awards. Another success.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

To this end, we are excited to announce two big developments for NextView. We continue to be committed to the core values of the firm, but also have a vision for how we want to practice our craft differently and with the ambition befitting the opportunity in front of us.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

We’ve learned now to shy away from this, but to actually seek it as long as we get comfortable that we can develop a strong working relationship over time. I actually find that many of the strongest founders put us “on our heels” initially because of their intensity or competitive drive.

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MARCH 24, 2021

” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. Developing Your Product. So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” ” (Melody Koh). ” (Melody Koh).

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JULY 26, 2022

I developed Poplin after working as a clinical nutritionist with couples trying to conceive, reviewing thousands of lab tests to try to discern what was going on and realizing that they had preventable health problems that were often going undiagnosed by their doctors (including well into multiple rounds of fertility treatments).

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Innovation Waves This is often said but worth repeating: innovation waves tend to move from a period of infrastructure building to the development of enabling platforms and ultimately to applications.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

we’ll cover the following topics: Challenges of Product Development. This guide will help you figure out how to navigate building a product people will love prior to hiring a full time PM, and figuring out when the right time to bring someone on is. Getting Great Feedback from Customers. Thoughtful & Clever Product Experiences.

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JUNE 7, 2016

Founders who set up and lead effective board meetings from the very beginning stages of the business more quickly develop that crucial muscle memory. For professional development as well as exposure for your management team, founders often bring in VPs (or SVPs, or other C-levels, etc.)

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

As a seed stage VC, I have a unique privilege of confidentially spending time with a number of entrepreneurs throughout their company formation and initial product development process. Despite the perceived increased perception of this situation, I believe instead that there’s often a Startup Copycat Fallacy.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

I’d keep the dilution really low at that stage, and focus on very cheap customer development tactics or even a hybrid services model to test out your initial hypothesis without requiring meaningful outside funding.

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MARCH 1, 2016

All of these stories are useful for recruiting, internal alignment, and business development—they really serve as analogies for different types of startups. So this post is about storytelling, specifically about the four types of stories you’ll need to be able to tell well when fundraising for your company.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Internally to our portfolio, platform means developing “products” to help our portfolio companies get from zero to one on their most critical seed stage priorities. There is obviously a lot that goes into building an early stage company.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Internally to our portfolio, platform means developing “products” to help our portfolio companies get from zero to one on their most critical seed stage priorities. There is obviously a lot that goes into building an early stage company.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Near-term product development and commercial traction are still important goals, but being profligate with capital or time early on or being inconsistent about your vision & strategy makes it harder to be a meaningful force in a market in the years to come as that market grows and matures.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Near-term product development and commercial traction are still important goals, but being profligate with capital or time early on or being inconsistent about your vision & strategy makes it harder to be a meaningful force in a market in the years to come as that market grows and matures.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

I think the reasons the development of this took so long is on account of 3 things: our understanding of stem cell biology and knowing which of the genes that are involved in cells becoming tissues, advances in tissue engineering, and our ability to grow cells is at much lower cost than ever before.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Near-term product development and commercial traction are still important goals, but being profligate with capital or time early on or being inconsistent about your vision & strategy makes it harder to be a meaningful force in a market in the years to come as that market grows and matures.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Of course, true to the classic unfolding narrative of new technology, there are critiques to all of these developments. We are only at the beginning of understanding how Generative AI will change the world as we know it. “This sucks for the exact same reason we don’t let robots participate in the Olympics.”

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

They are disciplined about their time, their strategy, the way they engage with founders, and the way they fight to develop an independent point of view. Disciplined investors stay true to the things that are core to their business. But the best investors I find are not dogmatic.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

We first met Fatma when she was graduating from MIT Sloan and working on her previous startup; we did not invest but proactively maintained a relationship as she developed into a product leader at Jet.com and later becoming VP of Product at Artsy.

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MAY 3, 2022

Flyp’s workflow automation capabilities and AI-driven inventory matching system empower these entrepreneurs to develop and scale their at-home reseller businesses. The company has recruited a network of tens of thousands of small online resellers, frequently individual stay-at-home entrepreneurs, onto its platform.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Max is a terrific leader and developer of talent and someone you want to have on your side when the chips are down. I worked with Max very closely as he was building his prior company Directr which was loved by millions of users and was successfully acquired YouTube.

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