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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

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Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make. NVV: When do you start thinking about technology choices and what you’ll use to build something? NVV: Startups are all about tradeoffs, and engineering is a great example.

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NextView’s Investment in Sincera: Simplifying Digital Advertising with Metadata

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By providing essential tools, Sincera aids businesses in enhancing their products, thereby creating a collaborative environment for advertisers, publishers, and ad technology platforms customers to thrive. Fostering Ecosystem Growth Moreover, Sincera’s approach of serving the broader ecosystem resonates with us and others.

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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

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Or, to be more precise, there are a lot of similarities between the way the tech world is reacting to these two different technologies. First, the ease at which developers can get started working with AI models is starting to lead to a Cambrian explosion of products and applications that leverage this technology.

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How to Retain Tech Talent in Competitive Markets

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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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Exploring The Everyday: Better Meat For a Better Future

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That’s why in order to reimagine the way humans consume protein, Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck created WildType , an engineered protein company. We sat down to talk about what engineered meat means for the world and how something like this can seem crazy at first, but once you really dig into it, you realize it is actually quite genius.

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How We are Investing Through The Covid Correction

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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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Is This Ex-Googler’s Pre-Product Approach the Fast Track to Product-Market Fit?

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Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.” Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop. What users thought was happening.).

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