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JUNE 24, 2020

The company created this video to share their vision as they launch version 2: We all know that our data is strewn about the internet in ways that we can’t keep track of or even understand. The mission of Jumbo is to give consumers control of their privacy and data and restore peace of mind.

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MARCH 11, 2020

They have probably done one or two meetings and some cursory internet research but are only 5-20% likely to actually invest. For me, it looks something like this: The first layer of diligence happens when an investor is early in their process, but intrigued.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

It seems as though in many categories, especially in consumer internet space, a handful of startups pursuing quite similar or even apparently identical ideas launch within months of each other. Another d2c gourmet pet food company ? Another full-stack short-term rentals startup ? Another affinity-based co-working space?

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AUGUST 17, 2021

I remember when I first started NextView and I was giving a talk to an audience in Boston about innovative new consumer businesses and internet business models. Some folks in the audience jeered because I was young, inexperienced, and hadn’t been an investor when the internet bubble burst.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Elon’s original vision for X.com was to usher in an era of internet-enabled financial services (retail banking, payments, simple stock trading), thus displacing the slow moving incumbent banks that were uninterested in innovation in the late 1990s. The Missionary.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

As a testament to their power, within only two weeks of launching, the latter has taken the internet by storm, accumulating thousands of users in that time frame, as well as rumors of significant funding. The output from visual generators Dall-E , Midjourney , and most recently, Stable Diffusion , has been nothing short of incredible.

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APRIL 11, 2016

And that portion of overall internet users is much bigger now than ever before. It’s not smarter or dumber, but it’s because Siri can answer with five different links and they have blurbs — it’s on your phone, it’s connected to the internet.

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JANUARY 21, 2016

Today’s guest, Tony Haile, makes me hopeful for the future of all things created for the internet. There’s no denying the sheer creative power of the internet, but too often, it turns into a race to the bottom — more clicks (and therefore more clickbait), more pageviews, more impressions, more ads.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Today, we discuss how Chad built an Internet of Things-like product before that phrase existed, before the hype helps your marketing or fundraising, and before anyone was thinking about the connected home. The companies that should serve them well in those moments were anything but helpful, comforting, and simple to work with.

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

We learn what commonalities exist among founders who are redesigning that economy, and the NextView partners share their perspectives on the next big wave of internet innovation. Plus, we share some news about the future of the show. Listen now or subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Stitcher , SoundCloud , or Google Play.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

More Things became Internetted of. A lot has changed since 2013. More Snaps were Chatted. And, apparently, more Lyfts were Ubered. Yup — tech moves insanely fast. That’s why it’s important to stop once in awhile and examine the glue that makes it all hold together as you careen down the road to world domination.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

For example, Facebook was an application enabled by the internet, but its social graph and reach became a platform for customer acquisition, personalization, and other applications that were built upon it. Generally, we have been largely application-focused investors at NextView.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

I could hear the internet nodding in violent agreement. I sent a tweet out last week that elicited quite a few responses from both founders and investors: seed funds that don’t invest pre-traction =. — Rob Go (@robgo) November 4, 2019. I thought I’d share a few additional thoughts on what may be driving this.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

While internet disruption has transformed most facets of everyday living, one of the last to really be redesigned has been the home. It’s interesting to note that Home Depot is a $180B retailer that has not seen significant threat from internet disruption. Source: Google Finance).

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram is a leader in enabling large-scale connectivity of internet of things (IoT) devices, across the globe with 400+ wireless carriers, all through a robust but easy-to-use API. Today Hologram announced their $65M Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

We’ve shared our thoughts on how the internet and associated digital technologies are creating massive shifts in home , apparel , and other categories. As you may know, NextView now has a thematic investing focus on the redesign of the Everyday Economy. Next up is the topic of work and money. What’s Next for Work & Money?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

I think of two general buckets of known ‘wake-up words’ that will drive a voice user’s product and services bias: Established Internet Brands Today: Sort of like the Sticky Note, we recall certain brands as representative of an entire sector of product or service: Uber and Seamless have held this metonymy distinction.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram is a leader in enabling large-scale connectivity of internet of things (IoT) devices, across the globe with 400+ wireless carriers, all through a robust but easy-to-use API. Today Hologram announced their $65M Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram is a leader in enabling large-scale connectivity of internet of things (IoT) devices, across the globe with 400+ wireless carriers, all through a robust but easy-to-use API. Today Hologram announced their $65M Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

A lot of great startup advice is often shared on the internet, but I find that this area is under-represented relative to how important it is. https://blog.kissmetrics.com/26-customer-development-resources/. https://www.quora.com/What-are-your-favorite-methods-for-doing-problem-interviews-during-Customer-Discovery.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

Web3, a new blockchain-based era for the Internet, is the closest that players have come to “ownership.”. Since then, consoles, computers and mobile devices have continued to redefine the gaming experience and power dynamic between creators and players. Historically, gamers do not own their games, their progress, or their time.

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

So the average entrepreneur’s biggest sell is to get a developer plugged into a different “internet of people” than Google can. The people at Google can help you get better at being at Google, but the truth about the entrepreneurial community is that it helps you get better at being in the world.

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MARCH 15, 2018

For example, NextView-backed managed marketplaces like CarDash and Renoviso provide compelling internet-enabled services to connected customers driven by market opportunity. Markets, though, aren’t always well defined. In fact, some of the best companies help create and define a new market.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

Everyone in the NextView partnership has deep operating experience as founders and operators scaling high-growth internet companies (e.g. Consumer and SaaS B2B companies located anywhere, but should be focused on redesigning the Everyday Economy within the U.S. Who we are. LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, Blue Apron).

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APRIL 21, 2015

I guess I don’t think I appreciated how being mission-driven is really important, and if you look at how you’re able to grow, attract employees, attract customers, it all comes down to mission — in our case, to build a better internet.

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MAY 14, 2019

As a founder with that kind of experience, you are likely to find that a lot of the typical advice for startups on the internet isn’t quite applicable. We’re also seeing a wave of folks who were not founders, but were star players among the first 25 folks at a unicorn company also starting new companies.

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AUGUST 13, 2014

Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example. Cons of an investment from a Super Angel include potential lack of “value-add” because his or her time is spread so thin amongst many portfolio companies. The Domain Angel.

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DECEMBER 4, 2014

For most software and internet startups, the hard IP coming in isn’t usually an issued patent, which is obviously different for biotech or other kinds of startups. Sometimes a portion of founders’ equity splits are attributed to “who came up with the idea” or to actual IP that’s brought into the business at inception.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

You’d think food would be completely transformed once the internet became big … right? In its first couple decades, the internet didn’t really affect our eating lives. Internet entrepreneurs are redesigning what we call the Everyday Economy — the things people experience every single day of their lives.

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MARCH 29, 2018

Increasingly, we find that consumers are taking their health outcomes into their own hands, armed with the multitude of information on the internet and an increasing awareness that 95% of what influences healthy living happens outside of the doctor’s office. The second area is direct-to-consumer health products and services.

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JULY 28, 2015

In other words, some of the best marketers in modern consumer internet startups are exactly the type of people that Boston has in spades. What Actually Makes a Great Consumer Internet Marketer? Additionally, all of them were younger than me (mid-20s to early 30s). Clearly, being analytical isn’t all there is to being a great marketer.

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MARCH 16, 2016

How about Jana , which brings internet access to the developing world and boasts 30 million global users? These companies have a long way to go until global dominance in many cases, but they are all growing, hiring, and strengthening the local community right now. Want businesses with massive reach and international presence?

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AUGUST 6, 2019

My partners and I have been vocal that the next 25 years of the internet will be about transforming people’s everyday activities, with areas like food, housing, apparel, health, and transportation being overhauled in light of ubiquitous software, data, and connectivity.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

MBA Unicorns Weigh Heavily Toward Software, Consumer Internet, and E-Commerce. Unsurprisingly, software, consumer internet, and e-commerce companies make up the significant majority of MBA unicorns. Consumer Internet: Dianping (Wharton), Delivery Hero (Vienna), Houzz (Tel Aviv), and GrabTaxi (HBS). UCLA Anderson).

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Internet-connected computing is an innovation wave on par with a few historical developments of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Conventional wisdom has it that the internet is towards the end of this cycle — and many VCs are on the hunt for the next platform, whether it be blockchain, or AI, or synthetic biology, or what have you.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

WHO WE ARE : Everyone on the NextView team has deep operating experience as founders and operators scaling high-growth internet companies (e.g. No startup relocation, temporary or permanent, is necessary or requested. LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, Blue Apron), and being hands-on investors is part of our core DNA.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

So, if you’ve been a successful internet founder or have launched great web/mobile products, most founders would love to have you in a round even if your check size is small. Outside of Silicon Valley, you can usually get into pretty good deals writing pretty small checks ($10K or so) if you are relevant to the sector you are investing in.

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