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Make a Living, Not a Life: Inside WeWork’s Seed Stage with Jesse Middleton [Traction #23]

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Today’s guest, Jesse Middleton, is a co-founder of WeWork Labs, the company’s global startup incubator, and currently the head of WeWork X, which includes Labs and also the new WeWork investing and M&A activities. Jesse was also among the first to join the co-founders of WeWork when it started.

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Back to The Future: Power of SMS-Native

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Even more forward-thinking for an online retailer is the service Jetblack , one of Walmart’s incubations under Marc Lore, a “personal shopping service over text message… [in which consumers] simply text your shopping requests to Jetblack anytime day or night and consider it done.”

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Bitcoins & Benjamins: The Future of Work & Money

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Quilt (a NextView portfolio company incubated in our Boston office) recently launched a fully digital life insurance product that approves policies in just 15 minutes. For example, historical life insurance policies require a doctor’s visit or blood work as part of the underwriting process (which can take 4–8 weeks to complete).

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City Made: Why NYC Is A Great Place To Be An Entrepreneur

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Walk into any startup space – incubator, MeetUp, venture office, company office, co-working space, lab, or school – and you’re more likely to be offered coffee, a desk, and a wifi password than shown the door. Most everyone will find time for coffee with most anyone else, no agenda required.

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City Made: Why NYC Is A Great Place To Be An Entrepreneur

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Walk into any startup space – incubator, MeetUp, venture office, company office, co-working space, lab, or school – and you’re more likely to be offered coffee, a desk, and a wifi password than shown the door. Most everyone will find time for coffee with most anyone else, no agenda required.

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HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program

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It is also a unique opportunity to contemplate start-up ideas with professors who are top thought leaders in their fields, leverage b-school resources to incubate ideas, and find co-founders.

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The Investment Memo

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However, given that NextView invests in companies that range from incubated ideas that are pre-launch/pre-product/pre-seed to companies that are raising seed rounds but have already progressed into product market fit and are establishing revenue channels, financial metrics can be detailed or non-existent.