Genuine VC
MAY 16, 2012
Instead, a startup’s offsite provides the leaders of a startup with the opportunity – and excused absence from one day’s operational details – to review where the company has been and point it in the right direction for the future given that context. The benefits of an offsite for a startup include: Challenging assumptions. That’s their job.
Genuine VC
JULY 19, 2010
Initial investment in a company is among the first non-founder capital raised. These results are based on actual usage of product by early users, with resulting operating metrics which more than just validate a hypothesis. The capital deployment velocity is notably higher than a traditional 1-2 investment per partner per year.
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Genuine VC
MAY 5, 2015
At NextView Ventures, we’re hyper-focused on the seed stage, and since starting the firm, we’ve heard repeatedly and consistently from founders that a primary challenge they face during that stage is hiring. And their feedback isn’t about hiring in general, nor is about hiring senior executives.
Genuine VC
JULY 8, 2010
In addition, I will also continue to independently operate the Web Innovators Group. The three of us believe that there is a compelling market opportunity on the east coast for a new seed-stage venture capital firm for founders starting internet-enabled businesses.
Genuine VC
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
And through internal collaboration tools and forums we’ve introduced, Founders and CEOs of NextView portfolio companies help each other out with advice, support, and connections. So the sense of Tribe, then, extends beyond our partnership to our family of entrepreneurs with whom we work.
Genuine VC
AUGUST 3, 2010
The diligence on the team can be completed fairly rapidly, and is often already partially completed if an investor has a solid previous relationship with the entrepreneur founder or was referenced to him from an extremely trusted source. At the end of the day, it’s all about #1: the team and ability to execute.
Genuine VC
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
And through internal collaboration tools and forums we’ve introduced, Founders and CEOs of NextView portfolio companies help each other out with advice, support, and connections. So the sense of Tribe, then, extends beyond our partnership to our family of entrepreneurs with whom we work.
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