View from Seed

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'As the holiday season is behind us and 2015 is firmly underway, we wanted to take a moment to both announce and celebrate the collection of top entrepreneurs who have agreed to return as our Entrepreneur Advisors. These individuals have all graciously agreed to continue their prior commitments to NextView-backed startups and entrepreneurs. . We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah and Steven Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'As the holiday season is behind us and 2015 is firmly underway, we wanted to take a moment to both announce and celebrate the collection of top entrepreneurs who have agreed to return as our Entrepreneur Advisors. These individuals have all graciously agreed? to continue their prior commitments to NextView-backed startups and entrepreneurs. We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'Some people are born leaders; others were groomed to be ones. There’s a fine difference between becoming a leader because the situation called for it and becoming a leader through hard work and diligence. When it comes to frontline management, you can never be too careful about how you handle yourself. Your decisions and choices will affect dozens if not thousands of other people in the same organisation or company as you are.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

As the holiday season is behind us and 2015 is firmly underway, we wanted to take a moment to both announce and celebrate the collection of top entrepreneurs who have agreed to return as our Entrepreneur Advisors. These individuals have all graciously agreed​ to continue their prior commitments to NextView-backed startups and entrepreneurs. We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'by Donny Gamble Jr., founder of Personalincome.org . It’s almost a rite of passage in every successful entrepreneur’s life to spend a period of time at a totally unfulfilling nine-to-five, punching the clock and watching the hours of your life slowly slip away. “Meh. They say it builds character,” you say to make yourself feel better. But ultimately you find yourself turning into a character you don’t want to be and you just can’t reconcile that in your mind.

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For Entrepreneurs

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'Survey results from 342 B2B SaaS companies on key inside sales metrics including group structure, ramp and retention, quota and compensation, activity & technology and leadership. Intro The SaaS model has become mainstream, and is everywhere. Gone are the early fears of data privacy and security, and now even late adopters are using SaaS for […].

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'I was fortunate to spend an hour with a group of about 30 people and Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the FCC yesterday morning. It was a super interesting and stimulating conversation that preceded an excellent speech that Wheeler gave on his Net Neutrality proposal. Go read it and ponder it. It’s in English (not legalese), is blunt, direct, and at times humorous.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'Autoresponder emails, which are automatically triggered based on specific criteria you set, can be one of the greatest tools for building relationships and growing sales, if they are used appropriately. If they aren’t used wisely, you run the risk of annoying your customers and finding out just how quickly you can lose your subscription audience. Email marketing has been identified as one of the most profitable modern marketing techniques.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'This post is brought to you by HackerRank – find the best tech talent globally. Fingers deep in a keyboard, large headphones on, and a can of energy drink within reach flashes the paradigm of the traditional developer. Perhaps our figment of artificial intelligence is in the middle of a hackathon, maxing out mad coding skills in the programming languages that speak in new volumes to better UX, capabilities and functionality never seen by the likes of everyday Web users before.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'The mobile payments industry has exploded into the mainstream since its relatively obscure beginnings, and more consumers than ever are realizing the advantages that secure mobile payments offer. Because mobile payments store a consumer’s financial information on an item frequently carried on their person such as a keychain, a mobile payment device makes it unnecessary to carry cash for added security.

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K9 Ventures

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'When we started in the PhD program in Computer Science at Stanford , Prof. Rajeev Motwani , who was the “default PhD advisor” for all incoming PhD students told us that our only priority should be to find a research topic that we care about. In fact, Prof. Motwani was so adamant that this was the only thing that mattered, that he said that we shouldn’t worry about the myriad of other requirements for the PhD.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'by Edward D. Hess, author of “ Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization “. Technology is replacing real jobs and will continue to do so at a record pace over the next couple of decades. We’re accustomed to seeing this kind of thing in certain industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, and banking. But now technology will be coming for white collar jobs, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'*. Phone calls. Millennials are allergic to them. I have this conversation Sofa King often that I’m sure each reader who has met me will think I’m talking specifically about you. I’m not. Well, I am. But not only you. Email is efficient. You can crank out asynchronous thoughts, orders, questions, commands and comments. I email often.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'There is a lot of planning and strategy that goes into coordinating an event that takes place months before the actual event takes place. You have to choose a location and vendors, solicit the help of extra volunteers, and put in long hours to make sure that the event runs smoothly. The better prepared you are, the more confident you will feel about a successful outcome.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'There are some people at startups who are cynics. They see everything that might go wrong and assume it will. Sometimes they even list all the things that might go wrong and assert you would have to be crazy to believe that their company might survive all these potential disasters. These people are often smart and talented in the narrow area of their job, but they are poisonous for the company overall.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Pipeline Fellowship Founder and CEO Natalia Oberti Noguera spoke recently at a Women 2.0 conference in San Francisco. She talked about her experience as a LGBT Latina entrepreneur and afterwards a black woman approached her tearfully and thanked her for sharing her experience. It turns out the […] The post Pipeline Fellowship Launches in Austin to Invest in Women-Led Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'As a Business, We Are What We Aspire to Be written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. The title of this post applies to most things in life I feel and certainly in business. Unless we have goals and aspirations for our business, it’s hard to imagine arriving at a destination of our own control.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'BuildASign.com, a bootstrapped online sign printer which also sells home decor items, Tuesday announced it has received an investment from PWP Growth Equity. The Austin-based private company did not disclose financial details of the investment. Founded in 2005, BuildASign.com has been on a steady growth track. (Silicon Hills News did this story in 2012 on […] The post PWP Growth Equity Invests in BuildASign.com appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Early Growth Financial Services

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'This guest post was contributed by Mike Viney, Founder of Deck Works. You already know a pitch deck is important to securing funding for your startup, but how do you avoid the common mistakes that can keep you from getting funded? When I started helping startups with their pitch decks, it used to take rounds of iteration and feedback to avoid these mistakes.

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ithacaVC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'A friend of mine just sent me a link to a CB Insights piece that presents the periodic table of VC bloggers. It is a pretty cool way of showing everyone! Go to this link to check it out. Anand (CEO at CB Insights), add links to the blogs in your next iteration! Enjoy.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'When we have trouble with an employee, it’s easy to place the blame on them. If they’d only followed the procedure, or if they’d only understood the clients’ needs, or if they’d showed more initiative, then things might not have gone wrong. The problem is that it’s not always the employee’s fault. Sometimes we’re truly the one who deserves the blame.

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