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The Next Chapter for NextView

View from Seed

As always, we are grateful for the partnership of all of our Limited Partners who entrust us to be good stewards of their capital in both good markets and bad. While some of our prior funds are still quite early, we were able to take advantage of the attractive market conditions in 2021 to deliver significant liquidity back to our investors.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

Fred Wilson was his lead investor. I was the lead investor for Veripost. They were bashing each other over the head in a non-existent market as the Internet bubble began collapsing. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

Fred Wilson was his lead investor. I was the lead investor for Veripost. They were bashing each other over the head in a non-existent market as the Internet bubble began collapsing. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

As the former CEO of a professional expert network , I’m a firm believer in the value of speedy access to relevant experts. I was excited to see that GLG (formerly Gerson Lehrman Group), the industry leader, is now offering a professional network service geared to the needs of the startup community: GLG Share.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

But in practice, these phenomena create a tremendous volume of startups, which investors then have to filter. Most investors rely on their network of colleagues and service providers to source investments. Out of 5,923 investment professionals in our dataset, 916 (15.5%) were focused primarily on origination and marketing.

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Sharp Elbows Among Seed VCs

View from Seed

Today, we are seeing less syndication of seed rounds and sharper elbows among many of the funds in the market. This post will try to describe why this is happening and what repercussions are for founders and investors. Similarly, the seed market is beginning to look like this too. These two forces go hand in hand.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising.