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We are looking to bring on board a versatile new team member to support the varied internal operations of the firm as well as collaborate with the partners on our external programs and communications with the broader entrepreneurial community. Check out our blog for how we think about company building and investing. . A Final Note.

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging. So What Should Founders Do?

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AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. It’s by far the longest time I’ve spent working on any one thing, and I feel very blessed to have been able to work with my partners, colleagues, founders, and collaborators. This one is controversial.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

After 12 years of hearing startup pitches, my favorite first 5 minutes came from John Katzman, the founder of 2U. He was a repeat founder looking to do something ambitious, but he was months away from launch, raising $5M out of the gate. What does your company actually do? Often, this happens because of one of two reasons.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. For example, my team’s bias at Zensight is towards functional programming, and the tools we’d be using for almost anything are colored by that philosophy.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

We’ve also proven that giving new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a dedicated, hands-on chance leads to follow-on funding and additional accelerator success across the board. Why we started the program in the first place. The NextView accelerator has not and will not subscribe to the aforementioned model.

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JUNE 10, 2020

of teams’ online pitch decks and recorded videos, as well as loved the dozens of second-round video conversations which we had with Founders working on quite compelling startups. Many of these Founders we wouldn’t have had an opportunity to connect with if we hadn’t launched this program.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

We are also excited that this is now the third company from our first Accelerator cohort that has gone on to raise a large seed or Series A, joining Lula ( series A led by Founders Fund ), and Shelflife ( Seed round led by Kindred ).

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

We are also excited that this is now the third company from our first Accelerator cohort that has gone on to raise a large seed or Series A, joining Lula ( series A led by Founders Fund ), and Shelflife ( Seed round led by Kindred ).

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In alcohol addiction, Monument (a NextView portfolio company) is taking a fundamentally different approach to traditional AA groups by creating a holistic online alcohol treatment program with specialized therapy and medication with physician guidance. The post Is the Future of Healthcare a Telehealth Company for Every Condition?

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

We are also excited that this is now the third company from our first Accelerator cohort that has gone on to raise a large seed or Series A, joining Lula ( series A led by Founders Fund ), and Shelflife ( Seed round led by Kindred ).

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MAY 14, 2015

But since almost every founder goes through this, I feel it’s a necessary one. So, when should a seed-stage founder — who, let’s face it, isn’t launching a business because they’re pumped to find corporate real estate — actually start looking for a legitimate office? There’s momentum. You’re growing.

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MAY 11, 2020

Today, Monument announced the launch of their virtual programs for people looking to change their relationship with alcohol. While treatment programs do exist, there is wide variation in terms of price, quality, and efficacy. We are pleased to once again be working with the founders of Monument Mike Russell and Justin Geller.

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JULY 8, 2021

Today Lula announced its $18M funding round led by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures. We couldn’t be more thrilled for co-founders Michael and Matthew for this next phase of building the business with substantial additional backing. I first met the Lula co-founders in Boston about 2 1/2 years ago, at the very end of 2018.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M We champion founders redesigning the Everyday Economy , and to many, that brings to mind consumer businesses in particular. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M We champion founders redesigning the Everyday Economy , and to many, that brings to mind consumer businesses in particular. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

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JULY 8, 2021

Today Lula announced its $18M funding round led by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures. We couldn’t be more thrilled for co-founders Michael and Matthew for this next phase of building the business with substantial additional backing. I first met the Lula co-founders in Boston about 2 1/2 years ago, at the very end of 2018.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M We champion founders redesigning the Everyday Economy , and to many, that brings to mind consumer businesses in particular. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Though, this article is not a reflection on the fundamentals of unicorns—rather, I am using them as a proxy for situations in which founders have executed on big ideas. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns. Key Insights. as ranked by U.S.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Marlo founders Ankith Harathi and John Keck decided to found Marlo in 2018, after meeting as students in the Harvard MS/MBA Program, where they are completing both an MBA and a Masters in Computer Science.

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APRIL 11, 2016

” Email, same thing, you can dictate, and there are already programs that do this. I mean, one way to minimize the bugginess early is to pre-program it with shortcuts like you’re saying — these would work for lots of apps or at least specific, popular apps until a system learns about you. It’s starting to tip though.

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APRIL 26, 2018

When I came to NextView, this is also the pillar of our Platform programming that I immediately gravitated toward. The full-day bootcamp will give portfolio founders, senior execs, and hiring managers real tactics and hands-on practice building out recruiting machines at their organizations.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

This means that we have resisted the temptation to create a “pre-seed program” or some structurally different approach to investing in different sorts of companies. As a founder, you and your team are building value every day, but there are certain step-function moments where the value creation significantly increases.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

The round was heavily oversubscribed so the founders could choose their investment partners, but the founders decided to include NVIDIA a strategic investor. Probably the most common critique of corporate VC programs is that comparatively few endure across decades.

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JUNE 5, 2018

We launched the Hiring Bootcamp to equip portfolio founders and hiring managers with the best practices around building a hiring machine , so they can maximize their chances of getting the best talent into the door efficiently. The quest for building such hiring machine is universal across companies at various stages.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

With three accelerator cohorts under our belts and 17 graduated teams to turn to for feedback, we’re more confident than ever that our white-glove approach has lent itself well to the kind of program our industry was lacking. Read on to learn more and decide whether this is the right program for you.

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JUNE 23, 2022

Founder: Dennis Chim. Get to know the founders. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. . I switched career fields at the last minute and ended up serving as an Air Force engineer where I worked on a few drone programs. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? And your least?

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In fact, the Founders, Bianca Padilla and Jonathan Magolnick , met on their own personal journeys to find a way to provide better care for their loved ones. Soon the Carewell family was born with the first version of the site entirely coded with Bianca’s self-taught front-end programming skills.

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MAY 2, 2019

There may be some twists and turns along the way, like a bridge or seed extension, but I think something like this is plan A for most founders. Unless a founder has angels interested who are not really price sensitive, a founder might find themselves selling a pretty big chunk of their company for not that much money.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

Through all of those posts, we’ve received one common question from founders: Are all Everyday Economy startups consumer-facing? The answer is no. In a similar fashion, while we’re investors in consumer subscription meal service MealPal , we’ve also backed Upserve , a front-of-the-house restaurant management platform.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Go-to-Market Guild.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

These startups completed an intense 10-week program featuring hands-on, personalized engagement from NextView partners to push the company forward, peer communications, expert education sessions, advisor introductions, and more. THE GOAL : The culmination of this accelerator program ISN’T a demo day or a big show.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Some go as far as stating, flat out, that MBAs don’t make for good founders. So we decided to study one program in particular: Harvard Business School. Harvard MBA Startup Founders: 2008-2014.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

And food is a key part of our lives that’s being reimagined by adventurous founders. And features like “guest book” personalization and loyalty programs can delight the consumer with their dining experience. How Can Food Be Reinvented?

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APRIL 18, 2018

In this role, you will manage several of our current founder-focused initiatives (e.g. create and edit content for our Medium publication, spearhead our events series, run portfolio-specific programming, etc.), as well as developing new ways for us to proactively engage with the founder community. 1-4 years out of college.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

We like to joke that VCs often advise founders to focus on being great at one thing but rarely heed that advice when it comes to their own seed investing. Also on the investment team side, we were pleased that the last three checks we wrote in 2015 were all to companies based in Boston and New York led by female founders.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

You might be able to build a reasonably successful business by spotting a hole in some market somewhere, but it’s much more likely that outlandish success will be won by founders (and, really, people ) who are authentically interested in solving a problem. Maybe you struggled with something in a former job or as a consumer.

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