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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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Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.) 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?

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How We are Investing Through The Covid Correction

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We can stay busy by expending time and effort supporting the existing portfolio, which is the right thing to do and a good use of time. Like most VC’s, we’ve been engrossed in helping our portfolio company founders navigate these challenging times while thinking through how we will approach this market going forward. Wait and see.

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

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More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. 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. Recent Investment Themes.

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Why We Invested in Opus

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Today, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Opus , announced its rebrand as well as their $2M seed round. Rounding out the founding team is Jeff Silver , who brings software and product leadership after years of engineering leadership experience at Managed by Q.

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Highlights from NextView’s inaugural Hiring Bootcamp

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Last week, we hosted our very first portfolio-only Hiring Bootcamp in NYC, led by NextView’s talent advisor Kristen Caldwell. no one wants to be the first female engineer joining a 15-person all male-engineering team. The quest for building such hiring machine is universal across companies at various stages.

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Accelerator Spotlight: I Have This Friend

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For creatives, we’re a premium, value-aligned partner to help grow their networks and portfolios, and monetize their passions. We call this the Creative Gig Economy and it is made up of creative service providers who need tools to hone their craft, book jobs, and build their portfolios. And your least? Honestly, I get the hype now.

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What Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech Struggles [#BostonB2C Recap]

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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. Half our portfolio is consumer. On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit.

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