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Join me at Terrapinn Trading Show New York, October 6, NYC

David Teten

I’m honored to chair the quant and big data stream of the upcoming Terrapinn Trading Show, New York, October 6, NYC. Karl Sprules, Partner & CTO, AllianceBernstein. Katina Stefanova, Founding Partner & CIO, Marto Capital. If you are a quant, trader, or financial engineer, limited VIP passes are available.

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. She was one of the lead engineers at Uber. That way when my partners in are in …. New York, Chicago, Boston, etc.

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It’s About Women Running Startups

Steve Blank

Just before the holidays I had coffee with Anne, an ex MBA student running a fairly large product group at a search engine company, now out trying to raise money for her own startup. She had an interesting insight: existing content/media companies were having the same problem as hardware companies that rarely made the leap to new platforms.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive been talking to the folks at [a very good VC firm] about helping them with a new venture.

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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. And we chose to locate ourselves 3 blocks East of The Third Street Promenade where much new development is taking place. Let’s start with the fund.

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

View from Seed

Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund. And since we will continue to look proactively at new seed-stage tech startups over the next few years, the question becomes: What, then, will these companies look like? Step-Function Ad Tech.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

News sites have long been at the forefront, but plenty of speciality sites (e.g., Search engines are vital for discoverability. As such, Google continued to get stopped at our paywall during crawls, and we became virtually non-existent in its search engine results pages. — Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) April 16, 2020.

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