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JANUARY 31, 2024

Internally at NextView, we’ve talked about this wave of innovation wave in the same breath as the internet or the internal combustion engine, or even humanity’s ability to harness to electricity. Personally, I believe that this wave is much larger than the three I’ve mentioned above.

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APRIL 21, 2015

Joris Poort , Founder and CEO, Rescale (Software platform and hardware infrastructure to perform scientific and engineering simulations; undisclosed capital raised, per CrunchBase): We spent two and a half years writing custom software to run large-scale simulations on Boeing’s data centers.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

That’s why in order to reimagine the way humans consume protein, Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck created WildType , an engineered protein company. Tissue engineering is a field that is only a couple of decades old. One of the biggest issues right now is tissue engineering. J: I’d say that there are three roadblocks.

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APRIL 27, 2020

But in this current environment more than ever, there will be some spectacular companies that are getting built that need a bit more seed capital to shore up their product or growth engine prior to a scaling series A (or perhaps as a last step before profitable long term growth).

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Prior to this, design was not a consideration of auto manufacturers, cost and technical engineering were the primary influences. While the autonomous future of vehicles is on the relatively near horizon, other ideas from Harley Earl’s team never took hold but were radical in both their design and engineering.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Most series A’s in B2B require a minimum level of top line revenue and a minimum amount of historical data to prove retention and some sort of repeatable growth engine. Further down the road, I find that second seeds are often necessary to help B2B companies achieve a really strong series A, even for companies with solid PMF.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

However, we’ve found that it’s frequently the most over-engineered, and often filled with extraneous information. Director of Marketing at Facebook, VP Engineering at Startup X, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at MIT, etc. (If You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. That’s it, then move on.

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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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DECEMBER 10, 2014

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.” Harvard’s new master plan in Allston is to build an entire science and engineering campus … from scratch. Buildings That Buzz.

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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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MARCH 19, 2015

Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.” Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Because of that, foods are being increasingly engineered to achieve certain goals or outcomes, and consumers are willing to accept some pretty weird form factors to achieve this. But it is really the beginning of what I think is the next 20+ year wave around these engineered, purpose built food products.

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JUNE 7, 2017

Today, we talk about this notion of growth hacking and debunk some myths, then walk through a smart process you can use to start running a growth engine strategically, instead of seeking false silver bullets. Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown are entrepreneurs, growth experts, and co-authors of the book Hacking Growth.

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JUNE 30, 2022

Anita has a background in bioprocess engineering and has been actively involved with the alternative protein space since 2017. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. . AB: Balletic was founded by Anita Broellochs, who is a passionate and mission-driven entrepreneur, in June of 2021.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

For example, in the case of one recent company that we’ve been working with for the last 7 months, we have sourced half of the new team members for the company, including their CTO, head of marketing, head of customer success, and a talented senior engineer.

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JULY 14, 2020

Rounding out the founding team is Jeff Silver , who brings software and product leadership after years of engineering leadership experience at Managed by Q. This allowed them to design a conversational-based learning experience that is enthusiastically received by both the frontline workers and their managers.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

You might be able to get your engineering team to do some of the above, but you most likely can’t offload the strategic thinking around “what metrics/ways to look at the data is the best to answer X question” until you have someone focused on analytics full-time. dashboard, and implementing some sort of automated report generation.

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MAY 31, 2023

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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MARCH 24, 2021

Because of that, foods are being increasingly engineered to achieve certain goals or outcomes, and consumers are willing to accept some pretty weird form factors to achieve this.” ” (Rob Go).

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

And to do that, founders either spend way too much money on a third party dev shop, or hire a “lead engineer” that is capable, but not really a star. 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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DECEMBER 14, 2016

NYTech does not mirror the diversity of its host city… Today on Gotham Alpha, I talk to Alex Qin, Skillshare engineer and founder of Code Cooperative, about the reality of New York Tech’s diversity gap…what factors actually reinforce hiring prejudice here…and how we can all start to fix this problem, right now.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

This is a deep, nuanced exploration of a job role that doesn’t often fit as neatly into departmental categories as engineering, product, sales, or marketing. They talk about what business development roles actually do for their companies, and when and why a founder would hire someone to lead up the function. Follow Kristen on Twitter.

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JUNE 5, 2018

no one wants to be the first female engineer joining a 15-person all male-engineering team. Building a diverse team requires a deliberate effort and early start. Diverse teams produce better business performance. In order to get this right, you must start early?—?no

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

In this episode, we talk to Gabriel Weinberg, co-founder and CEO of the search engine Duck Duck Go and author of the book, Traction , now in its second edition. Subscribe on iTunes , SoundCloud , or Stitcher. Can you use a framework and process to gain initial startup traction?

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APRIL 11, 2019

For example, asking a Sales Director candidate to give a presentation may make more sense than asking an engineering candidate for that. Each assignment doesn’t need to be personalized to each candidate, but make sure you are assigning a project that appropriately reflects the role. Observe Behavioral Clues.

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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.

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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.

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JULY 21, 2022

The show has so many layers to it: politics, money, engineering, relationships, rivalries… It’s so fun now to follow all the F1 racing season live- I’m invested. Honestly, I get the hype now. Looking Ahead . RH: What are you hoping to learn/get out of your time in the NextView Everyday Economy Accelerator?

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Startup salaries — especially on the engineering side — are at near record highs. In other words, while lots of things floated up with increasing frothiness they are going to be harder to drive down quickly the same way valuations and invested capital has collapsed in the last three months. Here are the two most obvious examples: Wages.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

In our portfolio, Code Climate is a perfect example of this, as its software becomes embedded within an engineering team’s daily workflow. Startups also can become extremely habitual for a smaller subset of business end-users.

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APRIL 16, 2015

” You might find that you can actually invest a lot less time and engineering resources to get to some of these answers and to get a step or two higher on the value creation stairs. As Fred once told me, “The most common mistake I see startup founders make is building too much software too early.”

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APRIL 7, 2015

So, by company-building standards, these companies appear to be early — but they aren’t actually that unproven, given their product-market fit or their initial growth engine. Again, that’s the norm. But as I said, lots of outlier examples exist.

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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. ” 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. (The Grommet is a platform that launches innovative, undiscovered products and helps them succeed.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

When executing well, the company finds its rhythm and builds engines made of people, process, and technology that run on limited day-to-day oversight from the top. Teams are built, culture forms, direction is chosen, plans are made, progress is tracked, and corrective measures are taken.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

MBA founders without strong engineering backgrounds are more likely to found companies that require less technical expertise. have reached unicorn status. Most MBA Unicorns are Headquartered in the U.S. Finally, as the above charts illustrate, three-quarters of MBA unicorns are based in the United States.

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MARCH 15, 2016

There’s often debate about whether or not you should publish on Medium instead of your own blog because of the impact on search engine optimization. We also started a Medium publication where anyone on our team can write and submit stories about the things they’re working on, from product to design to marketing. Forget about that.

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