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The Risks of Becoming an Advisor When You (Might) Want Something More

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A few days ago, a friend who works at a growing startup emailed me with the following question (in which I’ve masked just a few of the identifying details): I caught up with a friend of mine from high school that has started a new company where my skills are very pertinent. We’re close to formalizing some sort of relationship.

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Never Raising Capital Ever Again

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Seed financing direct to long-term profitability is often both a realistic and laudable goal, especially given capital efficiency of internet-enabled startups. We use it to describe the bold and ambitious nature of the founders we hope to work with. However, it doesn’t match the ethos of our investment strategy at NextView Ventures.

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The Road to Our Investment in Bridj

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This year, though, a local startup called Bridj has been making headlines by taking a fundamentally new approach to thinking about mass transportation. The startup utilizes machine learning algorithms to become smarter as more users enter the system, striving towards the goal of a “living, breathing, and thinking” transportation system.