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Boston’s WebInno Is Now BIG

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Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors. The origins of WebInno are humble.

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Our Investment in One Jackson: Fresh, Yet Familiar

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The company’s familiarity is along what we consider to be the three most important criteria for an investment in a seed-stage startup – team, market, and product: Team – Two of the co-founders were well-known to the NextView partnership years before a line of code was even written.

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Why I Like Our Investment in Triple Lift

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The content on these sites are laden with products, largely submitted by consumers. These product images represent valuable brands – in categories ranging from beauty and home goods to fashion and food. Triple Lift is an ad tech company, which means that the power of the offering is really under the hood.

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Our Investment in CustomMade: Riding the Next Wave of E-Commerce in High-Consideration Shopping

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From the initial humble beginnings of simply selling books online, to shopping/pricing comparison engines for electronic and other feature-laden items, to this current wave of “ social commerce ” which includes local merchants’ deals propagated by friends’ recommendation-driven purchases.

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Getting Back the Band Together for NextView’s Investment in BookBub

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This funding will empower the company to hire more aggressively, expand internationally, and unveil some new products beyond its current core which will allow it to take an even bigger role in an industry in transition… more to come there before too long. Today BookBub is announcing its $3.8M Series A financing.

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How to Find the Perfect Startup Job: Part I "Start with 'When'"

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Yet the company hasn’t figured out product-market fit yet, hasn’t figured out its customer proposition, doesn’t have revenue… it doesn’t have traction. And that derisking is only for 12 +/- 6 months. Learn and work with people or in a special situation.

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