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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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DECEMBER 10, 2014

He is currently a second year student at Harvard Business School and will be focused on supporting the early-stage startup community in Boston and its schools. There’s been a lot of discussion lately about startup fundraising by graduates of various business schools. He’ll work with NextView through his final semester at HBS.

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JULY 31, 2014

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? But we’re also very active in New York, as five of the most recent startups we’ve funded are based in Manhattan (which is 40% of this recent flurry of investments).

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MARCH 24, 2021

Free Template for Great Startup Pitch Decks, Direct from VCs. How to Sell Your Startup’s “Secret” Master Plan at the Seed Stage “Articulating and selling your long run vision is important, but trying to convince those that are deeply skeptical about it is simply a mutual waste of time.” Happy reading!

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MARCH 19, 2015

If you’re in the tech startup industry today, you get the sense that every one of your peers wants to take on the entire world. Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.” ” Startups launched around seemingly mundane, insular problems glow about their abilities to change the world.

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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. The post The What, How & Why of Hiring a Business Development Lead at Your Startup [Traction #35] appeared first on NextView Ventures. Follow Kristen on Twitter.

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JUNE 30, 2022

Anita has a background in bioprocess engineering and has been actively involved with the alternative protein space since 2017. Before starting Balletic Foods, Anita was the Director of Outreach at a California-based startup building software for scientists and lab optimization.

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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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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

However, we’ve found that it’s frequently the most over-engineered, and often filled with extraneous information. After all, a startup is comprised of human beings. Director of Marketing at Facebook, VP Engineering at Startup X, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at MIT, etc. (If That’s it, then move on.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

If startups should do things that “don’t scale,” then this podcast asks a simple question: What ARE those things? Can you use a framework and process to gain initial startup traction? The brilliantly simple but effective framework startups use to gain initial traction. Subscribe on iTunes , SoundCloud , or Stitcher.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Startup salaries — especially on the engineering side — are at near record highs. As startups raised more capital and needed to compete for the best talent, they’ve been forced to give both real equity and pay market rates. Here are the two most obvious examples: Wages.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

As the venture capital industry has evolved, more and more seed investors are passing on traditionally “seed stage” startups because there isn’t enough traction. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early. And by early, we mean pre-traction.

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MAY 31, 2023

raising $1M in venture funding for a startup that was liquidated 2. All of them were in the process of re-founding or were already operating their next startup. He is currently finishing a joint degree MBA and MS in Engineering Sciences at Harvard. I reached out to a dozen founders using the criteria of: 1.

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APRIL 16, 2015

As Fred once told me, “The most common mistake I see startup founders make is building too much software too early.” ” You might find that you can actually invest a lot less time and engineering resources to get to some of these answers and to get a step or two higher on the value creation stairs.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

success story Blackboard and veteran entrepreneur who’s held several COO and president roles at various startups. Many startup CEOs hire COOs or launch companies with a co-founder carrying the title. But what do COOs actually do for startups? So … What’s the Role of a Startup COO, Exactly?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Given the common challenges encountered by founders as they navigate through this hiring decision, I thought I’d outline some of my thoughts below that can hopefully serve as a simple framework when it comes to making the first Analytics hire at your startup. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s what’s the difference (and what do you need)?

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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. At NextView, we invest across the US.

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JUNE 7, 2017

Today, we talk about this notion of growth hacking and debunk some myths, then walk through a smart process you can use to start running a growth engine strategically, instead of seeking false silver bullets. Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown are entrepreneurs, growth experts, and co-authors of the book Hacking Growth.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

Through all of those posts, we’ve received one common question from founders: Are all Everyday Economy startups consumer-facing? We think there are two main categories of Everyday Economy B2B startups: enabling layers and pervasive tools. Startups also can become extremely habitual for a smaller subset of business end-users.

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JUNE 5, 2018

no one wants to be the first female engineer joining a 15-person all male-engineering team. If you’re working on a startup that could benefit from this types of programs to supercharge your ability to scale, don’t hesitate to reach out to any of us on the NextView team.

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JUNE 23, 2022

So in college, I studied aerospace engineering, joined Air Force ROTC, and eventually was accepted by the Air Force to go to flight school upon graduation. So in college, I studied aerospace engineering, joined Air Force ROTC, and eventually was accepted by the Air Force to go to flight school upon graduation. Would you recommend it?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

At seed-stage startups, especially companies with well-networked founders and investors, finding applicants who can do a job on paper is not overly difficult. To help you more effectively build your early teams, we asked a group of founders to share their favorite interview questions when they build new startup teams.

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APRIL 7, 2015

Dirty Secret #1: An early-stage startup’s design actually does matter. While I’m not advising every startup skip their pitch decks , these examples highlight a young company’s ability to appear polished while not over-investing in design. Again, that’s the norm. But as I said, lots of outlier examples exist.

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JULY 21, 2022

The show has so many layers to it: politics, money, engineering, relationships, rivalries… It’s so fun now to follow all the F1 racing season live- I’m invested. Honestly, I get the hype now. Looking Ahead . RH: What are you hoping to learn/get out of your time in the NextView Everyday Economy Accelerator?

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

MBA founders without strong engineering backgrounds are more likely to found companies that require less technical expertise. The post HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program appeared first on NextView Ventures. have reached unicorn status. Most MBA Unicorns are Headquartered in the U.S.

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MARCH 15, 2016

There’s often debate about whether or not you should publish on Medium instead of your own blog because of the impact on search engine optimization. And if you’re doing startup marketing, this should be encouraging, because for the most part, people are lazy. Some startups take off like rocketships from day one (or so says the media).

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Most startups don’t have the luxury of hiring an experienced PM early in their journey. When you have extremely limited engineering resources, it’s even more critical to stay focused and clearly set your priorities. Approach 2: Allocate [x]% of your engineering bandwidth for such activities and do not go over.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Editor’s note: The NextView team periodically holds internal “shootarounds,” where we discuss a startup topic or trend and try to make sense of it for everyone involved: entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers. The post Startup Shootaround: Inside a VC Team Meeting on Autonomous Vehicles appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

At NextView, we’ve long had a set of ethos or guiding principles behind all we do, which includes internal work as a team, external work as investors, and the lens through which we view seed-stage startups and their founding teams. AI is a trending sector for startups and seed funds right now. davidbeisel | LinkedIn.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

At NextView, we’ve long had a set of ethos or guiding principles behind all we do, which includes internal work as a team, external work as investors, and the lens through which we view seed-stage startups and their founding teams. AI is a trending sector for startups and seed funds right now. davidbeisel | LinkedIn.

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MARCH 10, 2015

So that was an early tradeoff the team made as a startup within a startup. NVV: Even though BR was a later-stage startup at that point, you mentioned being that proverbial “startup within a startup.” But in general, startups need to be great about having direct customer conversations.

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JUNE 13, 2016

According to David Cancel , CEO of Drift , the optimal number of members in a product team at a young startup is three. After a lot of testing, David has landed on a specific model with three engineers to a team. Two software engineers, either back-end or front-end, report into the tech lead. What was the theory behind three?

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APRIL 20, 2022

A lot of thoughtful people have weighed in on whether this is a “buy the dip” moment for startups and public tech companies, or rather, the cusp of a sustained downturn. Comparisons have been made to the two most recent significant pull-backs of the dot com crash in 2000-2001 and Great Recession of 2008-2009. .

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MAY 2, 2019

I wrote about this in this post on After Organic as well as in our interview with the founders of WildType about engineered fish protein. Some of these may be addressed by B2B software tools purchased by enterprises, but others may be addressed by companies that don’t seem like “future of work” startups at all.

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