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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

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On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. The post 4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs appeared first on The View From Seed. Tom Eisenmann.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

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Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there. 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). Recent Investment Themes.

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Reflections From Rebounding

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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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Introducing Gotham Voices: An Email Newsletter for NY Tech

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Independently, one of the things I’ve noticed about social media tech conversations is that they tend to be overly centered on founders and operators from Silicon Valley. I think that should change — it’s about time that blog posts and articles written by NYC entrepreneurs receive the attention they deserve.

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What Is Venture Debt and How Should Startups Use It?

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Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. 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. but the underwriting of it is much different.

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Mattermark’s Clever Origin Story & Why Their CEO Loves Arguing with VCs [Traction #11]

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The NextView podcast Traction explores all the clever, creative, and atypical things entrepreneurs do to make initial progress against the odds. You’ll also hear… Why a TV show inspired Danielle to launch a media company, not software startup, and why she was disillusioned with Silicon Valley.

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Mattermark’s Clever Origin Story and Why Their CEO Loves Arguing with VCs [Traction #11]

View from Seed

The NextView podcast Traction explores all the clever, creative, and atypical things entrepreneurs do to make initial progress against the odds. You’ll also hear… Why a TV show inspired Danielle to launch a media company, not software startup, and why she was disillusioned with Silicon Valley.