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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

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In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. You’ve seen this with companies like StackOverflow and Github in software engineering or Behance in visual design. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. What They Do: Travel search engine. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion.

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GrabCAD’s Acquisition: From Talinn to London to Boston

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I was impressed by Hardi as an entrepreneur in our first meeting there in the Seedcamp mentoring sessions. He had a clear vision of what he hoped to achieve with GrabCAD… to make collaborative CAD design easier in our connected world, where CAD engineers and product designers are more distributed.

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Self-Driving Vehicles: The Future Always Takes Longer to Arrive (Part 1)

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But a realistic understanding of the potential timeline for autonomous vehicle adoption is vital to decision making as a startup entrepreneur or investor in this area. . ==. As an investor, I am also bullish about the innovation wave already in its early innings around mobility and autonomy. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

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Boston Startup Talent: Leaky Bucket or Everlasting Spring?

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Boston is utterly unique as an innovation hub, particularly when looking at the pool of young entrepreneurs starting businesses just out of undergrad or grad school. At NextView we’ve been privileged to collaborate with Eliot and many other entrepreneurs who set out to build a company right after college or grad school.

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The End of ?Internet? Companies ? AGILEVC

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The transformation of those sectors is still very much underway and other areas of the economy from education to physical engineering will be impacted in the future. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. The internet has already had meaningful impact on industries ranging from commerce to media to software.

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The Hulu Auction ? Content Is Still King ? AGILEVC

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HBO only turns out a few shows a year, but it’s the major cash generation engine within Time Warner these days. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. It’s not just Hulu either. Turns out content is still king… Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Read More ».