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Tim Devane’s Next Chapter

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Tim joined our investment team as the first non-founder, and also as the first NextView team member based in our New York office. Thanks in large part to Tim, the NextView family today includes exceptional founders of companies like Dia & Co , Timber , The Outline , and Parsec.

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Boston Startup Talent: Leaky Bucket or Everlasting Spring?

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To these folks, Boston’s founder pool is a leaky bucket… a young founder who moves to Silicon Valley, New York, or elsewhere is a sign of frailty of Boston’s startup ecosystem. And talent flows in many directions (all three co-founders of NextView are all Silicon Valley transplants to Boston).

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Alibaba S-1: How Alibaba Is Governed Like China’s Politburo

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Some context… like many startups, the founders of Alibaba still own substantial stakes in the company and believe it’s in the company’s best interests for them to retain an outsized influence in the company’s governance longer term. Companies like Ford and the New York Times Co.

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GrabCAD’s Acquisition: From Talinn to London to Boston

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All of us at NextView extend our congratulations to founder Hardi Meybaum and the rest of the GrabCAD team. He was wrapping up GrabCAD’s participation in the Seedcamp accelerator program, and the Seedcamp startups were in the US to visit potential advisors and investors in Boston, New York, and SF.

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Playing Startup

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We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package. Additionally, a lot of people today work in startups or want to work in startups or want to be founders, which overall is a great thing. So why should I or we collectively care?

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Playing Startup

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We’re hearing more about people new to startups asking their seed stage company how many months of severance is included in their package. Additionally, a lot of people today work in startups or want to work in startups or want to be founders, which overall is a great thing. So why should I or we collectively care?

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

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New York never went through a phase as a suburban startup hub… basically just an urban boom as Silicon Alley 1.0 But more broadly than just that,the direct costs of launching a startup have obviously plummeted which makes being a founder more accessible than historically.