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Why Entrepreneur Advisors Matter

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When Rob, David, and I started NextView nearly five years ago we thought it was important to enlist a small group of talented entrepreneurs as we built and helped our portfolio over time. So if they’re not just names on a page, how are these entrepreneur advisors involved with us at NextView and our portfolio companies?

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Why Entrepreneur Advisors Matter

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When Rob, David, and I started NextView nearly five years ago we thought it was important to enlist a small group of talented entrepreneurs as we built and helped our portfolio over time. internet sectors that we focus on here at NextView? advice and mentorship to founders in the NextView portfolio. At their core all of ?the

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Hardware, IoT, and the Long Arc of the Internet

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How does physical stuff fit in with NextView’s investment thesis focused on the internet and the broad innovation wave it represents? For starters we take a very, very long term view of internet innovation (more on this below). The internet as we know it is 20ish years old.

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Hardware, IoT, and the Long Arc of the Internet

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How does physical stuff fit in with NextView’s investment thesis focused on the internet and the broad innovation wave it represents? For starters we take a very, very long term view of internet innovation (more on this below). The internet as we know it is 20ish years old.

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First Mover Fallacy

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While our portfolio at NextView is roughly equally weighted to consumer facing and B2B companies, it seems that for consumer companies in particular being first mover confers little benefit and the drawbacks probably outweigh whatever weak advantage might exist.

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Making Good Decisions Still Means You're Sometimes Wrong.

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In NextView’s case that’s seed stage internet and software companies. I’ve always respected Bessemer for publishing their “ Anti-Portfolio ” on their website. ” And the honest answer is “not at all.” ” Our job as VCs is to source, select, and win the best investment opportunities.

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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

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In the software an internet space a number of companies obviously had strong public offerings (LinkedIn, Yandex, Pandora, RenRen, et al). Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. September 15, 2011. The IPO market, she is a fickle mistress. In the first half of 2011, the IPO markets were looking strong for VC-backed companies.

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