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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a guest post from Stephano Kim , former co-founder of Web 1.0 success story Blackboard and veteran entrepreneur who’s held several COO and president roles at various startups. It’s why every successful entrepreneur will tell you that focus is so important. But what do COOs actually do for startups? But should you?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

TripleLift is native programmatic advertising simple, scalable, and effective on the visual web. But in order to do that, I need a team of people who are entrepreneurs at heart; they’re passionate about building a business from the ground up and are willing to go through the hard work to do so. Built in New York.).

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APRIL 11, 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. ROB: It’s an interesting product question for AI and voice entrepreneurs.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

In the 10th edition of Traction, we hear the story of Vin Vacanti , co-founder/CEO of Yipit.com (daily deals aggregator) and YipitData (analyzes web data for institutional investors). Listeners should also check out Vin’s blog for entrepreneurs, ViniciusVacanti.com. So much tactical goodness rolled into one episode.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

More importantly, with the proliferation of seed capital and seed-stage startups, entrepreneurs perceived a round to be a double-edged validation: one which cemented your standing, but one which could also attract other capital to competitors. there often isn’t one seminal round to announce. Perception is reality in the game of recruiting.

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MARCH 12, 2015

So how can entrepreneurs do research on us VCs? Yes, sometimes these are generalities about how we back talented entrepreneurs building great companies, but taking a look at a VC’s portfolio can tell you a lot about the types of companies in which they invest. Here are four key areas to consider. or “Who are your LPs?”.

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APRIL 7, 2015

Recently, I’ve been mentally noting a few things that I observe VCs doing regularly that many entrepreneurs may not readily understand. This can even be true when the web or mobile experience itself isn’t even core to a company’s early challenges or milestones. Leave a comment below if you can think of any more.

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APRIL 21, 2016

If you know you are building something that is web-based but very UI intensive, an engineer with lots of Front-End experience is ideal. I think the answer is tricky, depending on who you are as an entrepreneur. The post Hiring Your First Engineer: A Technical Entrepreneur’s Take appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

We’ve made investments in payments companies Swipely and Plastiq and are excited to back entrepreneurs tackling the insurance space. Intelligence Augmentation requires that entrepreneurs with a positive and altruistic outlook on the importance of humanity in technology development lead the way. Tim Devane. tdevane | LinkedIn.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

We’ve made investments in payments companies Swipely and Plastiq and are excited to back entrepreneurs tackling the insurance space. Intelligence Augmentation requires that entrepreneurs with a positive and altruistic outlook on the importance of humanity in technology development lead the way. Tim Devane. tdevane | LinkedIn.

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