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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

And how does an entrepreneur balance working IN the business early to tinkering ON the business as it grows? The post Great Entrepreneurs Work ON the Business, Not Just IN It [Traction #30: James Reinhart, thredUP] appeared first on NextView Ventures. What does the evolution from founder to CEO look like?

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JANUARY 5, 2015

Raising venture capital at any stage of company growth requires tremendous effort from entrepreneurs. But because every entrepreneur juggles so much every day and feels that tug back towards building a business (which, again, is a good one to heed), completing these tasks can be easier said than done.

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MARCH 24, 2021

7 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in VC Pitches and How to Fix Them “Different partners in a VC firm are different. Entrepreneurs should know their audience, and most importantly, how savvy it is about the company’s particular market segment.” ” (Lee Hower). ” (David Beisel). This is not always easy to do.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Joe’s latest book, Content Inc, details how smart entrepreneurs are starting to grow an audience through content first, then unpack a product second. In this episode, you’ll also learn… The 6 steps startups can use to grow an audience with content.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

New York City is a tremendous place to be an entrepreneur. Just as there’s an all-for-one-and-one-for-all attitude within a founding team, so too does New York Tech rally around and support the entrepreneurs that have created it. The post City Made: Why NYC Is A Great Place To Be An Entrepreneur appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

New York City is a tremendous place to be an entrepreneur. Just as there’s an all-for-one-and-one-for-all attitude within a founding team, so too does New York Tech rally around and support the entrepreneurs that have created it. The post City Made: Why NYC Is A Great Place To Be An Entrepreneur appeared first on The View From Seed.

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APRIL 14, 2015

Does that help them impress investors, or what else about getting an MBA could help these entrepreneurs succeed? . David: I have a Stanford MBA, and I think that throughout the MBA process you learn a number of things that can help you as an entrepreneur. David: I think it’s correlation.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

As a seed stage VC, I have a unique privilege of confidentially spending time with a number of entrepreneurs throughout their company formation and initial product development process. competing entrepreneurs, VCs, and tech journalists others sometimes privately/publicly accuse and dismiss other groups of copycat tactics.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Activities will include but not limit to: Planning and producing small- and large-scale events with entrepreneurs and high-level technology executives. You will also spearhead internal initiatives to help support the success of our 100+ exciting existing portfolio companies.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

I’ve had the privilege to work with many great entrepreneurs, both in my operating days at the start of my career and over the last decade plus on the VC investing side. And if we’re investing in the company, it then impacts how I might be most helpful as a thought partner to the entrepreneur depending on their archetype.

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MARCH 19, 2015

In the mid-90s, brilliant innovator and entrepreneur Jeff Hawkins had an idea for the personal digital assistant (PDA) that would eventually become the Palm Pilot. NVV: Lots of entrepreneurs reading this will think about the lean startup movement when they hear about pretotyping. And the word pretotype was born.

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MAY 31, 2023

A couple of years later, as reported by the Harvard Business Review in 2011 , a survey of ~500 entrepreneurs in the UK found that serial founders frequently refrain from learning from their failures to minimize the psychological impact. Do not conflate your identity with the failure of your business.”

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MAY 11, 2016

However, I find that none of this is really the case, and entrepreneurs face especially tough challenges in the very beginning of their process of finding that second company to start. But some of the most successful serial entrepreneurs realize they have unfair advantages in markets they know and just keep coming back (e.g.,

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MARCH 29, 2016

Tracking this metric allows entrepreneurs to identify their most effective applicant sources for certain types of positions. The time-to-hire can vary depending on a number of factors, but it’s worth noting that some of today’s most successful entrepreneurs have fast, efficient hiring processes.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

With plenty of resources available for entrepreneurs about how to craft an effective pitch deck for raising seed-stage capital from VCs, often what’s left out are some of the tactical components of an initial meeting. Entrepreneurs should know their audience, and most importantly, how savvy it is about the company’s particular market segment.

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MAY 3, 2022

The company has recruited a network of tens of thousands of small online resellers, frequently individual stay-at-home entrepreneurs, onto its platform. Flyp’s workflow automation capabilities and AI-driven inventory matching system empower these entrepreneurs to develop and scale their at-home reseller businesses.

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APRIL 30, 2015

From a company milestones perspective, entrepreneurs who take on venture debt are almost always thinking about raising that next round of capital from other institutions. GM: The model is more about the relationship with the entrepreneurs, the investors, and us as the bank, as opposed to cash flow or fixed assets to lend on.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

This made me think a bit about what it’s like to be “a pro” as an entrepreneur and as a venture capitalist. It’s delivering on your responsibilities, even if they seem tangential to delivering near-term, self serving outcomes. I also polled my twitter followers for their thoughts, and consolidated some of my favorites below.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In generations past, organizations like YPO (Young Presidents Organization), Rotary Clubs, and local Chambers of Commerce helped entrepreneurs, execs, and other business leaders connect and thrive in their careers.

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MAY 14, 2015

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. The water-cooler discussion included both VCs and entrepreneurs.). Answer: Much sooner than you’d think.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Through all of this, what has been obvious is her hunger to serve founders and desire to work with entrepreneurs to bring about the kind of world changing impact we seek to be a part of at NextView. We’ve coinvested with her, competed against her, and have shared wins and losses.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

With the onset of COVID-19, we, along with the broader ecosystem of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, have been pushed to rapidly adapt, forge connections, and do our jobs remotely. You can realize fast if there’s not a fit, to avoid wasting both your and the entrepreneurs time. You can meet more teams and hear more ideas.”.

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APRIL 27, 2020

I’m reading letters (public and private) every day from relentless entrepreneurs who have been forced to make some of the hardest decisions of their lives as they fight to keep their companies going. Founders do not have this luxury. Most founders are going through hell right now, and that is not going away any time soon.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

There are many traits and habits that successful entrepreneurs, especially repeat ones, display. Many successful entrepreneurs keep a running list. For some entrepreneurs, these lists aren’t kept physically and literally, but are rather mental annotations. Most of them are correlated to, but don’t directly cause success.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

At this point, the investor and the entrepreneur work together to develop their perfect list of potential partners, and then do targeted outreach to try to bring this investor into the round. The other is that I think both investors and entrepreneurs are getting much more efficient about reaching one another.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Listeners should also check out Vin’s blog for entrepreneurs, ViniciusVacanti.com. Exactly how Vin launched Yipit.com and built his list to the initial 20K and 50K users. Why Vin decided to pivot the business (read: launch a second startup) and what he learned going from B2C to B2B.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Ultimately, it is the entrepreneurs that pull us into spaces that we never expected and allow us to join their remarkable adventures. The second-order effects of super-technologies mean that their implications create new problems and more room for entrepreneurs to maneuver and build important companies.

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APRIL 3, 2019

I created an updated dataset of HBS founders from the last five classes, a total of 325 entrepreneurs who have raised $180MM in venture capital.* A note on my methodology: I defined entrepreneurs as self-identifying founders and co-founders using LinkedIn. Our early read is that they are. The post Are MBA Founders More Diverse?

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

John got away with his pitch above because he was a very experienced education entrepreneur and his pitch was in an era before the “XYZ sucks” style pitch. Try to do so by including one killer stat or analogy that gets the point across in a powerful way.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

I find that when an entrepreneur starts to turn too much to their investors for feedback, advice, or approval, it’s a sign of major issues. It’s super easy to impose one’s ego on a founder, especially if the entrepreneur is quite green. I agree with that. Founders that really internalize this tend to perform better.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Perhaps most famously, Guy Kawasaki quipped that the value of an MBA to an entrepreneur is “probably about a negative $250,000.”. The question is, can MBA entrepreneurs really think big? Key Insights. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns.

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AUGUST 13, 2014

Doing so can help entrepreneurs not only secure funding in general but better recognize the pros and cons of taking money from certain types of individuals. They will have the ability to “see” the opportunity that the startup is going after unlike anyone else — aside from the entrepreneur — because they inherently get the space.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

These are just some of the opportunities we are thinking about, but as is often the case, VCs are usually a step or two behind the pioneering vision of entrepreneurs. Potential Challenges.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

As seed stage investors here at NextView Ventures , we have the privilege of working with a wide profile of founders at the company conception stage — from early-career first time entrepreneurs , to seasoned execs turned founders , to repeat successful entrepreneurs.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

As seed stage investors here at NextView Ventures , we have the privilege of working with a wide profile of founders at the company conception stage — from early-career first time entrepreneurs , to seasoned execs turned founders , to repeat successful entrepreneurs.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Take serial entrepreneur Mike Lazerow, who founded Buddy Media. Y Combinator President Sam Altman—and just about every other successful entrepreneur— has said that hiring will, and should, require a significant amount of your time. If you’re thinking this is a big time commitment, you’re right.

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JULY 31, 2014

Typically, these patterns arise out of a combination of approaches by my partners and me: proactive searching for startups in specific categories, reacting to what entrepreneurs pitch, and translating valuable learning from making one investment over to making another.

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