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In particular, we feel deeply indebted to those who are working tirelessly on the front lines of this current crisis, and the founders, employees, and everyday workers who are holding things together with all their might so that something resembling normalcy will be able to resume one day soon.

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JULY 14, 2020

These companies have long had ongoing training needs to ensure that their employees stay safe and keep performance up, while legacy learning management systems are marred with low engagement in this employee segment. Companies from supply chain to manufacturing to services employ over 110 million frontline workers in the U.S.,

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JUNE 13, 2016

In addition to the results customers achieve, you can see the results of these teams by looking at employee retention, as well as measure happiness with a regular NPS survey to the team. Those closest to the problem can come up with the solution, test them with the customer, and iterate from there.

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JUNE 11, 2015

Investors, potential employees, and the press all love to hear whispers about the next great company — it’s the startup equivalent of the hip LA speakeasy. In the end, being public about your company, product, and funding generally only helps to attract the attention of customers, employees, investors, and press.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

This sounds tangential but is perhaps THE deciding factor for many early-stage employees or execs when joining you — perhaps alongside their insight into your talents as entrepreneurs.). What did we like/not like about past companies’ approach to hiring and team development? Early Growth (Founding Team to ~20).

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Players such as Spring Health have seen success in this channel as employers increasingly view mental health/mental wellness as an important issue to address among their employee base. . Another possible growth channel is through employers, though competing with other benefits is never easy.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

Generally-speaking, isn’t it better to bang your drum about your idea with better hopes to attract co-founders, employees, advisors, capital, and other important continents to make your company successful? But I believe the risk of another someone literally copying an entrepreneur’s startup idea is largely overperceived and overweighted.

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JULY 31, 2014

Included in our recent investments in this category are both Dunwello (rethinking how employee feedback and reviews are delivered) and a stealthy investment in NYC empowering software engineers. Step-Function Ad Tech.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

Especially in the Bay Area, but in all major tech hubs, it’s extremely challenging to recruit new employees onto the team. You can of course share privately that you’ve raised a round, but it’s a different story than a prospective employee (and their friends & family who she is going to brag to) can easily find it with a web search.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Leah joins us from Chief, the private network for executive women, where she joined as an early employee and led editorial and brand voice. For those of you who don’t know Leah, her career has spanned across journalism, operating at early-stage startups, venture investing, and hedge fund management.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It could be about building an amazing place to work for your employees. It may be to solve a problem we care deeply about. It could be about providing for or our families. It could be about delighting customers that you care for. These are all worthy motivations that give purpose to our work.

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APRIL 5, 2016

This fact remains especially true in the workplace, where employees will grumble and moan about their jobs in private, but refrain from making changes because of the extraordinary effort required to do so. Rachael Burger is not interested in stability.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

Part of this is your ability to inspire and sell, whether that means future investors, customers, potential employees or execs down the road. While investors may have their own preferences, what we really want is to learn about you as a founder and how you articulate your mission and vision.

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JUNE 13, 2019

That includes items that appropriately would fall into contribution margin, like fulfillment labor (pick/pack/ship employees), payment processing costs (just shy of 20% of this Fulfillment bucket), and variable costs of fulfillment infrastructure like leases on warehouses.

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MARCH 29, 2016

This desperate need for employees often leads to an equally desperate, ad-hoc approach to recruiting without any relevant recruiting metrics being tracked. As a result, to keep the business running smoothly when it starts experiencing success, they often frantically look for junior- and senior-level talent to fill a variety of functions.

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APRIL 11, 2019

The last thing you want to do is go through all the time and energy of finding and hiring a new employee only to find out, after you’ve extended the offer, that they’re not a good fit. Toxic employees can be debilitating for company culture. It happens all of the time. Instead, a coding challenge may make more sense for that role.

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MARCH 1, 2016

That story is how you recruit employees, convince customers to give you a shot, and secure funding. Trying to recruit a co-founder or key-employee? The story of your company is a major piece of what the company itself is. In fact, in the very beginning, the story is the entirety of the company.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

A few stats to consider on the market opportunity in North America alone: 28 million SMBs in North America, with roughly 60 million employees. For instance: Which insurance plan should I provide for my employees in Chicago? SMBs account for 54% of all US sales. SMBs represent 55% of jobs and 66% of all net new jobs since the 1970s.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

We started the process of building our company culture early, before we hired any employees, by writing down our desired values. We make this easier for our employees by providing a $3,000 Personal Development Budget. Remote Work Policy: Our employees work remote when it makes sense for them, personally and professionally.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

Defined-benefit (DB) pension funds are the entities which pay a fixed pension amount to retired employees of a particular organization. There remain many corporate pension funds still investing in VC, though a lot of DB pension funds in the private sector are no longer enrolling new employees. The first is a staff constraint.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It’s no surprise to me that fast-forward a few months later, along with some seed capital from NextView and our syndicate partner Underscore to accelerate their efforts, the team has grown the service to reach dozens of companies and employees of all stripes, as featured in today’s Scott Kirsner Globe article.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Mike Volpe is the CMO at Cybereason, a cybersecurity SaaS startup which has raised $189m and grown to over 300 employees globally. Nancy lives in Lexington, MA with her husband and two daughters. Mike Volpe, CMO at Cybereason. Back to Top).

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Investors of all types and stages, startup founders and employees, and tech media are all counted among them.). The company’s efforts have clearly paid off, too, as the subscription base for the Mattermark Daily currently exceeds 80,000, according to Danielle.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram has grown to hundreds of employees, thousands of customers, and attracted substantial capital all from its home base in Chicago. But 5-6 years ago, building a critical mass of talent and attracting capital wasn’t as easy outside of the top startup hubs.

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MAY 28, 2020

The food supply chain has been rattled with distribution shifting from restaurants to grocery and with food production bottlenecks resulting from fewer employees at work. We can’t dine at restaurants, so we’re cooking and ordering takeout and delivery more frequently. billion in VC funding in Q1 2020, according to Pitchbook.

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MAY 31, 2023

Take a moment to consider failure at the start” Infinite optimism is often a requirement in entrepreneurship, especially when convincing employees and investors of your vision. Instead, try to reframe the anger into a motivating force and accept it as a contributing factor towards your efforts.

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MAY 19, 2015

Without a full corporate infrastructure of support, and more importantly, without extensive monetary resources, founders and employees must spend wisely. Even if VC financing has been raised, extravagant and wasteful spending by a few founders or company leadership sets the tone for the entire organization.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

A population of founders, employees, investors, advisors, and others all aligned in trying to build large disruptive businesses is naturally prone to lofty, even over-the-top language. I saw this firsthand with my own experience as an early PayPal employee. The Power of Perception . PayPal ultimately became a very successful company.

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DECEMBER 19, 2014

This past year was nothing short of packed for NextView, from announcing our second fund to several acquisitions (TapCommerce to Twitter, GrabCAD to Stratasys, Directr to Google), three late-stage fundraises (InsightSquared, Swipely, and thredUP), to hiring our first employee (Jay Acunzo, i.e. me, our director of platform).

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram has grown to hundreds of employees, thousands of customers, and attracted substantial capital all from its home base in Chicago. But 5-6 years ago, building a critical mass of talent and attracting capital wasn’t as easy outside of the top startup hubs.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The challenge, however, is that there will be people—VCs, potential customers, and employees—who don’t understand the concept, or don’t see the value of your product. The perks of being early in the marketplace are obvious: shorter sales cycles due to lack of competition, less competition for top talent, and so on.

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APRIL 8, 2020

These acts of kindness not only build good brand awareness for the community, but also for your employees. You want your employees to believe in the mission and rally around each other. Startups generally get started to try and make a dent in the universe or make the world a little bit better.

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JULY 5, 2016

Yoav was first employee at CarGurus, a founding executive of HubSpot, CTO at Happier, CTO at Jana, and more. In this episode, NextView’s Rob Go talks with Yoav Shapira, a longtime tech leader in the Boston startup community. Today, he shares the evolution of what it means to lead a startup from the technical side.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram has grown to hundreds of employees, thousands of customers, and attracted substantial capital all from its home base in Chicago. But 5-6 years ago, building a critical mass of talent and attracting capital wasn’t as easy outside of the top startup hubs.

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APRIL 18, 2018

NextView Ventures provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. If you or anyone you know is interested, please send us an email at: ventureassociate@nextviewventures.com.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

It doesn’t need to be extremely granular with all the minutiae of your expenses, but since employees are most often the overwhelming cost-drivers — and there aren’t too many early on in a company’s life — it’s prudent to build the expense lines on an employee by employee basis. Adjust the model for real-world scenarios.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

If you can channel an employee correctly to do what they excel at and enjoy, it benefits the whole team. What she’s trying to learn: As a manager, it’s very important to understand what motivates people as everyone is motivated differently. It also tells me if that person is the wrong fit (e.g.

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