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APRIL 21, 2016

How do you build your engineering/dev team from the ground up? You need to bring in the right people to build your product. What kind of engineers do you need? What kind of engineers do you need? Now consider a few high-level categories of engineers: Front-End. It is just you. System/Ops. Native App Types.

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MAY 24, 2017

Christina Sass is co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that locates, trains, and staffs world-class engineers in Africa for hire by tech companies in the US and elsewhere. The post How Andela Finds and Trains World-Class Engineers in Africa [Traction #41: Christina Sass] appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

This post on how to retain tech talent was written by Dan DeMeyere, director of engineering at thredUP. NextView is an investor in thredUP, and this post originally appeared on their engineering team blog. Retaining engineering talent has become an increasingly challenging task for any engineering manager in the Bay Area.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Currently, it feels like every sharp technologist is pouring their effort into generative AI models or embedding them into their products—a movement too significant to overlook. The first time you try to do anything with a generative AI product, it feels like magic. Are these features, products, or actual companies?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Many founders have to turn to brute force to figure it out, even when they themselves don’t have practitioner product management experience. However, managing product development correctly is incredibly important in the earliest days and can make or break your company. Post-PMF: Key milestones the business needs to hit (e.g.

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MARCH 24, 2021

At NextView Ventures we have written many pieces about venture capital — how to raise it, build your business, engage with investors, iterate your product, navigate expanding industries, etc. Rethinking the Standard Fundraising Deck “I’d make it crystal clear what your product actually does. VCs sure do love writing.

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APRIL 20, 2022

Even in a sustained downturn, tech is likely to be a driving force of economic productivity improvements rather than the proximate cause of recession (as in 2001). At a company level, global supply chains made it possible to source and build products faster and cheaper with a “just in time” model.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The need for an alternative to our current meat production is becoming more apparent with each passing day. That’s why in order to reimagine the way humans consume protein, Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck created WildType , an engineered protein company. They’ve been hard at work creating lab grown salmon for consumption.

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APRIL 21, 2015

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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OCTOBER 24, 2019

This means being really conservative with your cash burn early on until you have clearly found product/market fit. But the best founders I know almost always operate as though they have much less money in the bank, and won’t scale burn until they are super confident in their product/market fit. Experienced founders: B2B.

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JULY 31, 2014

While all three of our most recent investments built on this foundational idea still remain stealthy, everyone utilizes connected technology to uniquely deliver a service or bundled product. Finally, productivity mobile calendaring app Sunrise has been adding features which leverage demand-side economies of scale.

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APRIL 27, 2020

But in this current environment more than ever, there will be some spectacular companies that are getting built that need a bit more seed capital to shore up their product or growth engine prior to a scaling series A (or perhaps as a last step before profitable long term growth).

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JANUARY 21, 2022

As a kid, I was enamored with anything possessing an engine that could go fast (Fast and Furious is my favorite movie series). This passion manifested itself in real life when I went to school at Northeastern to study Mechanical Engineering. As an engineer, my brain solves problems by breaking them into digestible pieces.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For the last 20+ years, the dominant trend among grocers, restaurants, packaged food and beverage companies and others have been a market shift towards natural and organic products. The new wave of food products tend not to have pictures or farms or vegetable fields or happy cows on their packaging.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, 8 have been pre-product or pre-seed style rounds. We also continue to be guided by the same North Star – which is to offer a great product for our customers, the entrepreneur, so that he or she can achieve the full-potential of their creations. .

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JUNE 30, 2022

The production process is based on microbial fermentation which allows us to create proteins identical to those found in meat, being highly nutritious for the human body. Anita has a background in bioprocess engineering and has been actively involved with the alternative protein space since 2017.

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JULY 14, 2020

yet there isn’t a product out there that is effective at helping this workforce acquire skills and stay ahead. Opus equips frontline workers with the necessary skills to perform and grow, while helping their managers and executives increase productivity and better develop their people for the long-run.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” Her ideal answer: Ideally one that shows the person likes to be challenged, spend time solving complex problems or gets a high from delivering a really quality product or strong outcome. ” His ideal answer: It can vary, but an ideal answer is something related to building impactful products/business/technologies.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Prior to this, design was not a consideration of auto manufacturers, cost and technical engineering were the primary influences. While the autonomous future of vehicles is on the relatively near horizon, other ideas from Harley Earl’s team never took hold but were radical in both their design and engineering.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I’m often surprised by how much effort seed stage teams put into building an early product and how little credit that receives from investors. In most cases, the two most important things to prove early on are 1) that the founders can attract A+ talent and 2) that there are signals of market demand for their product.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

As the former Head of Product at Blue Apron where I also built and led our Analytics & Data Science team (I know enough SQL to be dangerous), I have an intuitive sense for the “when” and “what” of this role. Similar to Product Managers, a strong Analytics hire requires a diverse set of skills.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

When executing well, the company finds its rhythm and builds engines made of people, process, and technology that run on limited day-to-day oversight from the top. In most situations, the founder of the company tends to be the product visionary and establishes the company’s mission.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

This is a deep, nuanced exploration of a job role that doesn’t often fit as neatly into departmental categories as engineering, product, sales, or marketing. They talk about what business development roles actually do for their companies, and when and why a founder would hire someone to lead up the function.

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JULY 24, 2015

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. On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. We had a plan.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

In this episode, we talk to Gabriel Weinberg, co-founder and CEO of the search engine Duck Duck Go and author of the book, Traction , now in its second edition. How a product without a concept of a “registered” user like Duck Duck Go addresses acquisition and hunts for signs of a potentially venture-scale business.

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MARCH 15, 2016

It’s all about having a great product experience.”. For some companies, like Slack, that works — right product, right place, right time. We also started a Medium publication where anyone on our team can write and submit stories about the things they’re working on, from product to design to marketing.

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APRIL 16, 2015

Get a working version of the product. For a lot of products, everyone will believe that you can build a product that can do X or Y. If the product is really well executed, it helps bolster one’s belief that the team can execute. can be done with an incomplete product. Get three paying customers.

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APRIL 7, 2015

Whether it’s rational or not, it’s really hard to convince an investor that the founders will be great at creating wonderful products if the materials and web presence they put in front of them fall flat. The product spoke for itself. We invested in the team and product. ” “Have you tried XYZ product?”

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JANUARY 11, 2018

In our portfolio, Code Climate is a perfect example of this, as its software becomes embedded within an engineering team’s daily workflow. Paintzen ), companies with multiple products with different customers (e.g. Startups also can become extremely habitual for a smaller subset of business end-users. Alignable ).

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MARCH 10, 2015

Tamiz Ahmed is a former product manager at Bleacher Report, where he helped build the successful app for sports fans, Team Stream , prior to the company’s nine-figure sale to Turner. Below, he shares product management lessons from his time at BR. The entire product team on the app was just me and my boss at the time.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

I’m looking both at applications that leverage this trend as well as enabling technologies and picks-and-shovels businesses that enable other application layer products, all of which will form around this theme of invisible interfaces. This includes everything from new forms of non-visual entertainment (e.g. Authenticity to NextView.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

I’m looking both at applications that leverage this trend as well as enabling technologies and picks-and-shovels businesses that enable other application layer products, all of which will form around this theme of invisible interfaces. This includes everything from new forms of non-visual entertainment (e.g. Authenticity to NextView.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

If you look at historically, when people built the first cars over 100 years ago, there were no companies that made engines and components and whatever. LEE: Right, Ford’s first factory — the main, huge one, where they still make cars — this was called River Rouge. It’s like the size of a city.

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