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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. My partners and I at NextView know we’ll be wrong a decent chunk of the time, especially as seed stage investors. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl.

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The End of ?Internet? Companies ? AGILEVC

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The End of “Internet” Companies. Al Gore's 2012 Induction to the Internet Hall of Fame. I’m not sure whether it’s 10 years from now or 50 years from now, but at some point in the medium to long term future we’ll cease talking about “internet” companies in any meaningful sense.

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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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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. Consumer internet plays in Canada are rare, and finding a VC willing to give you the cash to scale is even more so.

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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). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. September 15, 2011. The IPO market, she is a fickle mistress.

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Revenue = Product Market Fit

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We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses. You will be benchmarked on revenue and paying customers when you seek Series A funding… conceivably even at seed stage. But B2B startups need to take a different tack.

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