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MARCH 24, 2021

Doing Reference Checks on VCs “Try to speak to at least one founder that the investor has worked with in a failed investment. The Seed VC Decision Tree “If the market is attractive and there just isn’t great founder/market fit, we will be open minded as well. Hiring Your Team. This is not always easy to do.

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JULY 5, 2022

Founder: Connor Cash. Get to know the founder. I’m Connor Cash, the founder of Caesar and I grew up outside of Boston but currently live in DC! RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? CC: Being a founder is a rollercoaster ride. . Company: Caesar Sustainability. ” – Lee Hower.

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MARCH 1, 2016

Investors and smart hires will always do appropriate diligence before investing money and time, but they won’t bother doing that unless they are excited about your story. Trying to recruit a co-founder or key-employee? The post The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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MAY 14, 2019

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. We’re also seeing a wave of folks who were not founders, but were star players among the first 25 folks at a unicorn company also starting new companies.

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MAY 14, 2020

Meet our experts: Jessica Meher – Angel investor, startup advisor, and founder. Max Goldman – Founder and CEO. Ed Aten – Founder and CEO at Merchbar , manages 15 full time employees and has a full team of 60. Do you have any tips for hiring someone virtually without ever meeting in person? Do you do interviews remote?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Many founders confuse the two as they both involve lots of numbers. When to make your first analytics hire. Being a data analyst in addition to being the founder is a lot of work?—?you’re

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APRIL 26, 2018

At the seed stage, hiring great people is one of the most important things to get right. I saw this first-hand at Blue Apron — I had to hire 30+ people across a ton of different functions in just under two years. If you have to hire several people this year, you won’t want to miss this session.

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JUNE 5, 2018

Last week, we hosted our very first portfolio-only Hiring Bootcamp in NYC, led by NextView’s talent advisor Kristen Caldwell. The quest for building such hiring machine is universal across companies at various stages. Tracking your recruiting process provides you insights around the two most important aspects of hiring: Conversion.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Projecting from the seed stage, there are two types of team-building topics you want to address – key senior hires and org-level team building. As the company progresses through product market fit (PMF), you will want to highlight other key senior hires required to scale and round out the functional expertise of the exec team.

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APRIL 21, 2016

Let’s make a few assumptions: You are a founder, you have your idea, and you have your money. This idea of flexible generalists hired early leads to another question: How do you then vet potential hires? You and that early engineering hire need to approach the problem with intent and be informed. It is just you.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Dan Reich is the CEO and co-founder of Troops, a company bringing artificial intelligence to your sales team’s workflow, right in Slack. Today, we discuss Dan’s smart process hiring his early technical talent — both leadership and front-line developers. Disclosure: NextView is an investor in Troops.). Visit troops.ai

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MARCH 3, 2016

Founders want to get things going, as content marketing helps with brand awareness and lead generation, but often they don’t have a realistic understanding of how much these marketing efforts cost or just how much effort they really take. How to Hire a Content Marketing Consultant for Your Startup. An essay (with data) to decide.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have 5-10 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, and/or investor. You have a deep desire to hone your skills as a venture capitalist and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. You have a strong network in the NYC startup ecosystem that is additive to our team. You are hungry. A Final Note.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

They talk about what business development roles actually do for their companies, and when and why a founder would hire someone to lead up the function. The post The What, How & Why of Hiring a Business Development Lead at Your Startup [Traction #35] appeared first on NextView Ventures. Follow Kristen on Twitter.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Over the years, we’ve worked with, and talked to thousands of founders just starting out. A collection of some of our greatest hits, and some new content, put into one helpful package for founders navigating building a company. How to Hire the First PM. The first guide we are releasing is around product.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Instead, it’s more of a Manifesto about the core beliefs that shape our strategy. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a guest post from Stephano Kim , former co-founder of Web 1.0 Many startup CEOs hire COOs or launch companies with a co-founder carrying the title. When should founders hire one? The needs of each founder are so different from the next, and the challenges his/her business faces are even more diverse.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

In a recent TED talk , Idealab founder Bill Gross talked about how Airbnb likely wouldn’t have taken off if not for the recession: People were strapped for cash and were therefore more willing to rent a room in their home to a stranger. Like a lot of startup founders, I’m a huge nerd. Make talent a top priority.

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MARCH 4, 2020

I’m quite optimistic about the direction that this is headed based on the momentum of more diverse hiring in the junior and mid-level ranks of the industry. Most of the remainder are funds that are less than 20 years old, such as General Catalyst, Lightspeed, Founders Fund, and A16Z.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Hiring and onboarding new engineers are time consuming and expensive. The culture they have built, the thoughtfulness that goes into the hiring process, and an emphasis on peer mentoring has helped keep engineers at thredUP. Editor’s note: The Alliance was written by LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. In the past 3.5

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AUGUST 9, 2016

They’ve recently expanded to working with investors too, as our own Rob Go joined Reboot founder Jerry Colonna, fellow VC Brad Feld, and several others at their very first VC Summit. ( In our podcast series together, Reboot and NextView will focus on communication and leadership challenges facing startup founders specifically.

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MARCH 5, 2015

But I do think it’s pretty successful to pattern-match based on founders. When an investor has success with a particular profile of founder, they tend to be enamored by founders of a similar ilk. For me personally, I tend to be obsessed with what I would call deterministic, design-focused product founders.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

This is a guest post from Rob May , a co-founder and CEO of Backupify , which raised $19.5M I called the recruiter running the search and told him I was going to step down and hire a CEO. So, in order to hire a CEO, we have to give someone their first shot at the job.” Hang out with other founders and CEOs.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Depending on the business model, some hire providers as full-time W2 workers and some assemble a network of part-time providers with disperse distribution of available hours. As the landscape continues to evolve, we look forward to working with founders bringing unique perspectives and innovations in digital health. .

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JULY 7, 2015

I recently sat down with the remarkably thoughtful (and insanely scrappy) Patrick Campbell , co-founder and CEO of Price Intelligently. In the episode, you’ll hear about how we got hired in the first place and why we decided to leave. The moving story of Patrick beating cancer and the surprising way that changed him as a founder.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

One of the biggest rookie mistakes I see among founders pursuing seed rounds is that they’ve spent too much time building something vs. proving something. In most cases, the two most important things to prove early on are 1) that the founders can attract A+ talent and 2) that there are signals of market demand for their product.

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MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. NVV: Lots of marketers are under pressure to come in and generate demand right away, whether because sales is asking for leads or founders are demanding PR or user growth.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Traction is a biweekly podcast where founders share the creative or unusual things they did during the seed stage to make early progress. Founders from LinkedIn , DraftKings , General Assembly , The Muse , Behance , InsightSquared , and more have appeared on the show. Subscribe on iTunes , SoundCloud , or Stitcher.

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JULY 26, 2022

Founder: Alexandria DeVito. Alexandria has unparalleled founder/market fit, and the kind of deep experience and passion for her market that we love to see in all of the founders we work with.” Get to know the founders. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? Company: Poplin.

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MAY 24, 2017

Christina Sass is co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that locates, trains, and staffs world-class engineers in Africa for hire by tech companies in the US and elsewhere. They’ve sparked a movement, cracked the code on finding great coders, and have attracted investors like Mark Zuckerberg.

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APRIL 30, 2015

What is it, and how should founders think about it? note: We’d like to be extra clear that founders should not take on venture debt if they don’t have 100% visibility into repaying the loan, as banks that need to recoup their loan my force the company or you as the guarantor into liquidation or bankruptcy.

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MAY 31, 2019

Our investment team here frequently actively discusses what qualities make a founder a top.01% Another positive attribute of some founders which we’ve been discussing more recently is one’s ability to “defy gravity.” Gravity is a just given fact of our reality. Some might argue that what goes up must come down.

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JULY 21, 2022

Founders: Ingrid Hung & Emily Persky . Beyond offering disruptive and fair pricing, we’re becoming the go-to, trusted one-stop shop to discover and hire the talent clients always wanted, but didn’t know how to find and didn’t think they could afford. Get to know the founders. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. .

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JANUARY 6, 2021

When I’m shepherding a company through our process, founders sometimes ask me to point out the things that are of particular importance to the folks on our team. Founders who can articulate both the big picture well and dive deep into the unit economics tend to impress him.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

At seed-stage startups, especially companies with well-networked founders and investors, finding applicants who can do a job on paper is not overly difficult. To help you more effectively build your early teams, we asked a group of founders to share their favorite interview questions when they build new startup teams.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

So hiring your first marketer as a startup founder can be a daunting task. When do you hire someone? As a result, few departments in business have changed how they work quite like marketing, and few functions look so fundamentally different today than a decade ago. What’s the profile of the candidate?

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

This profile of founder tends to be younger, obsessively driven, and inclined towards making big, bold, necessary mistakes early and often on the path towards product-market fit. New tech ecosystems often benefit from entrepreneurs who will dive in blind and figure out their direction along the way.

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