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NextView’s Early Stage Startup Guide: Product

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Welcome to the first installment of the NextView Ventures Early Stage Startup Guides. Every stage of building a company comes with a certain set of challenges, and we have written a lot of content around the earliest set of challenges. The first guide we are releasing is around product. How to Hire the First PM.

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Hammer or Hands?

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Admittedly, I stopped blogging a few years ago because of the proliferation of content around VC and startups. I think a big question facing early stage investors is: are you a hammer? Everyone is just a different flavor of early stage investor deciding how they will slice up the universe of early stage opportunities.

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Second Startups: Why Founders Often Struggle to Find Their Second Act

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This mentality is good for keeping the raw, early-stage muscles in shape, and sometimes these side projects actually lead to something much more substantial. They assemble what looks like a dream team — but one that ends up moving surprisingly slowly in the early stages.

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We are Adding a Principal to Our Investment Team

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You have a strong network in the NYC startup ecosystem that is additive to our team. You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. You have 5-10 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, and/or investor. You act as an “ invited guest.”.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

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It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

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But 1) many of the best companies were created by rookie founders and 2) there are legitimate reasons why an experienced founder who could raise a large series A might choose a right-sized seed for better alignment, optionality, and early support. Today, multiple rounds are often raised, due to the atomization of the seed space.

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The Long Arc of Startup Teams: How Founders’ Approach to Talent Evolves

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I realize sports analogies for startups can feel trite, but as you think about the different phases of team-building in a startup, this one is actually pretty spot on. At the beginning, a startup team is typically just a couple of co-founders. Early Growth (Founding Team to ~20). Basketball or football?

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