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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

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Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. NV: What are some basics you’d recommend to anyone hiring an engineer? office, right in the heart of MIT.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

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Ecommerce has transcended merely shipping a box to your home — it’s about leveraging mobile plus the internet to create an elegant purchasing experience previously unavailable. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. The “Internet of Things”. Empowering Content Creators. Step-Function Ad Tech.

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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

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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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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

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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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HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program

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MBA Unicorns Weigh Heavily Toward Software, Consumer Internet, and E-Commerce. Unsurprisingly, software, consumer internet, and e-commerce companies make up the significant majority of MBA unicorns. Consumer Internet: Dianping (Wharton), Delivery Hero (Vienna), Houzz (Tel Aviv), and GrabTaxi (HBS). UCLA Anderson).

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NextView Investment Themes: A Search for Authenticity

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Sector: Insurance in the Internet Age. The internet has disrupted stock brokerage (E*Trade), payments (PayPal, Stripe), and lending (LendingClub, OnDeck, et al), but little innovation has happened in insurance. We want to do more! leehower | LinkedIn. These will necessarily be good people. Sector #2: Mobile Video Consumption.

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NextView Investment Themes: A Search for Authenticity

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Sector: Insurance in the Internet Age. The internet has disrupted stock brokerage (E*Trade), payments (PayPal, Stripe), and lending (LendingClub, OnDeck, et al), but little innovation has happened in insurance. We want to do more! leehower | LinkedIn. These will necessarily be good people. Sector #2: Mobile Video Consumption.

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