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Director of Platform & Community

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We are looking for a passionate, outgoing, and talented individual embedded within the local Boston entrepreneurial community to facilitate information sharing between NextView portfolio companies, spearhead community-building & outreach efforts, and help promote our firm. Effective writing skills with established body of work.

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Startups Seeking Sherpas

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After we sold our startup Sombasa Media just over a dozen years ago, I embarked on two distinct “journeys.” Startup founders similarly look to bring in outside help with both formal and informal advisors into the orbit of their companies. The second was a trip where we hiked the “ Inca Trail ” in Peru to Machu Picchu.

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Excited to Co-Found a New Micro VC Firm

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I believe that the company is dramatically changing the face of women’s-focused media with an authentic & powerful community of bloggers, and I am happy to continue to be a part of that endeavor as it grows. In addition, I will also continue to independently operate the Web Innovators Group.

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Four Branches of the Green Web

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From my perspective, it’s worth exploring the role of digital media in this movement. Providing an aggregated trusted source of useful information. Startup sites like TreeHugger (which also has a site called Hugg , a Digg for environmental news) offer news, culture, and instructive information.

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Seven Coming Digital Uber-trends which Are Ripe for Startup Opportunities

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And so I thought it would be good post to highlight what are some very important uber-trends which starting to emerge in the digital media space. Mobile consumption of information. Location-relevant information ubiquity is dauntingly exciting. The long-tail of video content will be wagging.

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It's Always Sunny on the Web

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While the web started with people passively receiving content from AOL, it soon transitioned to people hunting for information with Google. There is certainly a natural progression of the web as a media outlet and how we use it – we first learned to receive information with this new medium, then we learned to look for it proactively.

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It's Always Sunny on the Web

Genuine VC

While the web started with people passively receiving content from AOL, it soon transitioned to people hunting for information with Google. There is certainly a natural progression of the web as a media outlet and how we use it – we first learned to receive information with this new medium, then we learned to look for it proactively.

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