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JANUARY 21, 2022

As a kid, I was enamored with anything possessing an engine that could go fast (Fast and Furious is my favorite movie series). This passion manifested itself in real life when I went to school at Northeastern to study Mechanical Engineering. As an engineer, my brain solves problems by breaking them into digestible pieces.

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MAY 31, 2023

However, it is important to consider the potential of failure in the early stages of building. He is currently finishing a joint degree MBA and MS in Engineering Sciences at Harvard. For example, in the Lerner’s and Scharfstein’s study the “success” benchmark was completing an IPO. Ash was NextView’s 2022-2023 MBA Associate.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

He is currently a second year student at Harvard Business School and will be focused on supporting the early-stage startup community in Boston and its schools. When I was a freshman, a wise mentor told me, “Pick your major based on something for which the Stanford engineering department is creating new buildings.”

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

And the ultimate uncertainties for a seed stage company are around talent and customer demand. Although this seems obvious, you’d be surprised how many early stage companies immediately invest too much time and energy to build a product that doesn’t really prove anything.

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APRIL 7, 2015

Dirty Secret #1: An early-stage startup’s design actually does matter. It probably shouldn’t be the case, but the look and feel and polish of your materials makes a big difference for early-stage investors. But at the early stages, it’s surprisingly impactful.

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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. On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. At NextView, we invest across the US.

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APRIL 16, 2015

An easy way to think about it is that value over time doesn’t go up and to the right in a straight line like this: Instead, it’s more of a stair step like this: So, what are the value inflection points that create the stair steps, and how does one think about it at the earliest stages? These might include: Bring on a technical co-founder.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Startup salaries — especially on the engineering side — are at near record highs. These two costs suck up a lot of the money in an early stage company. Here are the two most obvious examples: Wages. For all of 2015, for all classes, it was $57.75. In 2009, it was $37 in FiDi and below $30 for all of SF.

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JUNE 23, 2022

So in college, I studied aerospace engineering, joined Air Force ROTC, and eventually was accepted by the Air Force to go to flight school upon graduation. So in college, I studied aerospace engineering, joined Air Force ROTC, and eventually was accepted by the Air Force to go to flight school upon graduation. And your least?

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

For most of my career, I’ve served startups and early-stage companies as an operating executive or advisor. At a startup, especially in the early stages, there’s always something to optimize, something to fix, and something to change and improve upon. When should founders hire one? Based on what criteria?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

When you have extremely limited engineering resources, it’s even more critical to stay focused and clearly set your priorities. This is a common challenge for companies of all sizes/stages, but the tradeoff could be especially tricky for early-stage startups given the extremely limited engineering resources.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Adam Brod , VP of Technology and Engineering, BookBub. If it’s a seed-stage hire, you should already know the person. ” When I meet people and think, “I want to work with that person someday,” be it for engineering or sales or customer support or anything, I add them to the list. Built in Boston.).

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