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APRIL 27, 2020

We can stay busy by expending time and effort supporting the existing portfolio, which is the right thing to do and a good use of time. Like most VC’s, we’ve been engrossed in helping our portfolio company founders navigate these challenging times while thinking through how we will approach this market going forward. Wait and see.

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MAY 24, 2021

You will spend the rest of your time working alongside the partners throughout the investment process – analyzing investment opportunities, assisting in market research and diligence, and post-investment portfolio support. You will be based in the NYC office. About NextView. We have a high-conviction, hands-on approach to seed investing.

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JULY 31, 2014

More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. The above outline opens a window into the ideas crossing multiple investments within our recent portfolio, as well as where some of the next additions will likely originate. Recent Investment Themes. What’s on the Horizon?

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Although Ginny is new to the team, she has many connections to the NextView family, as she started her career at our portfolio company Shareaholic , and worked closely with both Jay Acunzo (our first head of platform) and Joe Chernov (the VP of Marketing at our portfolio company Insight Squared ).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Although Ginny is new to the team, she has many connections to the NextView family, as she started her career at our portfolio company Shareaholic , and worked closely with both Jay Acunzo (our first head of platform) and Joe Chernov (the VP of Marketing at our portfolio company Insight Squared ).

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JULY 14, 2020

Today, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Opus , announced its rebrand as well as their $2M seed round. These companies have long had ongoing training needs to ensure that their employees stay safe and keep performance up, while legacy learning management systems are marred with low engagement in this employee segment.

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APRIL 26, 2018

Not only will she assist portfolio companies in 1:1 consulting sessions , but she will also be leading our first-ever Hiring Bootcamp. The full-day bootcamp will give portfolio founders, senior execs, and hiring managers real tactics and hands-on practice building out recruiting machines at their organizations.

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JUNE 5, 2018

Last week, we hosted our very first portfolio-only Hiring Bootcamp in NYC, led by NextView’s talent advisor Kristen Caldwell. Measure and manage your recruiting effort like a marketing/sales funnel. Without metrics you cannot manage (and improve). Intense discussion on what are the right metrics to track around recruiting.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Seniors are often the target of financial fraud , and there are shockingly few software driven tools to help protect and manage the financial wellbeing of our elders. Integral to the team is also Gabe Paley, who leads growth and is also a multi-time NextView portfolio alum.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

This is a major reason NextView offers its portfolio startups free sessions with talent specialists — former in-house recruiters with experience at high-growth tech companies who are able to improve a founding team’s hiring process and efficacy early on.). To people and culture management in general?

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JANUARY 11, 2021

The majority had dedicated more time to guiding the portfolio companies through the pandemic. . While always core to diligence, social validation behind a business and management team became even more critical determinants of fit. Communication with management teams has become higher touchpoint, shorter form, and more transactional.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

After building NextView for almost 10 years now, I’ve been having more conversations recently with first time managers looking for some tactical advice. Our second cohort of new institutional LPs were largely folks who had studied our space closely and had a concerted focus on finding new seed specific managers.

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MAY 11, 2016

The reasons are fairly obvious: It’s easy to reference them and understand their track record; they’ve made a ton of mistakes already that they have hopefully learned from and are unlikely to make again; they are probably more adept at raising and managing capital, which reduces financing risk down the road, etc.

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AUGUST 13, 2014

Pros of taking their angel money include the feeder system to venture financing of the next round and the vast network of portfolio CEOs which can be tapped into for connections and help. 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.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

This B2B startup allows homeowners and small business property managers renting out their properties on sites like Airbnb to get paid early. In a similar fashion, while we’re investors in consumer subscription meal service MealPal , we’ve also backed Upserve , a front-of-the-house restaurant management platform.

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JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. Half our portfolio is consumer. On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit.

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MARCH 29, 2018

This could include areas like mental health (as in our portfolio company 10% Happier ), dental health (such as Smile Direct ), nutrition and exercise, pain management, and other areas that impact the everyday life of tens of millions of people. 3) Health Data Applications.

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JULY 11, 2019

On Tuesday, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Otis, came out of stealth and announced its public launch. Otis is founded by Michael Karnjanaprakorn, and is focused on creating a marketplace that enables fractional ownership of culturally relevant assets. Otis hopes to change all of these things.

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

We’ve blogged before about valuing founders who have determinist thinking (particularly with respect to product designers & managers ). Here at NextView and within our portfolio, that’s the expectation until circumstances tell us otherwise. 2) be audacious enough to do something. Startups are difficult. But assume success?

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.) What percent of your time do you spend head-down coding versus managing or scoping product or talking to customers? If I want to reach out to the marketing manager for Android Wear, for instance, the guy is there to help me do my job better. office, right in the heart of MIT.

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MARCH 15, 2018

You can look to our portfolio for some examples. 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.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Forum’s software makes it easier for professional facilitators to host virtual sessions, manage scheduling, and process payments, and the marketplace model enables facilitators and group members to come together from all across the globe.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

But even at the Partner-level, the amount of transition in Venture Capital is much more than you perhaps would expect… especially in a business which should have a long term orientation with portfolio investment-hold periods and Partnerships lasting more than a decade. So why is there so much turnover in Venture Capital? Title subtleties.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

But cannabis retailers have their own unique set of needs in facilitating customer transactions, both managing online and offline interactions, as well as ensuring compliance with the regulatory requirements of this ever-evolving new category.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Building a great product. We want to talk to you!

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AUGUST 5, 2014

Our operations manager Rob notes that he wouldn’t have been able to get a pup without this flexibility. Portfolio' Remote Work Policy: Our employees work remote when it makes sense for them, personally and professionally. Generally, folks head into the office 3-4 days per week as a result.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

But cannabis retailers have their own unique set of needs in facilitating customer transactions, both managing online and offline interactions, as well as ensuring compliance with the regulatory requirements of this ever-evolving new category.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

In its first two decades, the internet brought significant change to many aspects of personal finance — particularly retail banking, retail brokerage and asset management, payments, and consumer lending. Digital Insurance. Even in prosperous nations, many government-funded retirement savings systems are under financial strain.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

But cannabis retailers have their own unique set of needs in facilitating customer transactions, both managing online and offline interactions, as well as ensuring compliance with the regulatory requirements of this ever-evolving new category.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

These partners are probably inundated with new deal flow, are managing some high-fliers in the firms portfolio, and are probably just starting to take on a leadership role in fundraising and firm management. For these folks, the question will be around whether you will get prioritized.

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JUNE 30, 2022

AB: I am currently reading Monkey Management by Jan Roy Edlund. AB: Least: Time flies when you’re working hard (and having fun!). RH: What show are you watching right now/what book are you reading right now? Would you recommend it? . When someone sees you in the hallway and says “do you have a second?”

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MAY 12, 2015

Even if a firm’s members are almost all titled “partner” externally (and not other gradations like Managing Director), some partners are still more equal than others. When founders in our portfolio at NextView go out to raise a Series A, these are some of the things we talk about. Always consider tenure at the firm.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Similar to Product Managers, a strong Analytics hire requires a diverse set of skills. What to look for in your first analytics hire.

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MAY 11, 2020

As they were conceiving of this business based on Mike’s own experience with medical treatment for managing alcohol, we were captivated by the opportunity to partner with them again. Rounding out the founding team is Amit Klein who provides tech and software product leadership after various stints at Nexar and Samsung.

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JULY 8, 2021

Lula is an insuretech company, building an API based platform to help companies obtain and manage insurance policies in a fully integrated software suite. We couldn’t be more thrilled for co-founders Michael and Matthew for this next phase of building the business with substantial additional backing.

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JUNE 17, 2015

I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights. And to be clear I split my time between Boston, New York, and SF and I’ve seen this across a broad swath of startups and individuals… both outside NextView’s portfolio and occasionally within it.

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JULY 28, 2015

I recall that when I was a management consultant at The Parthenon Group, a pretty analytical place, one of my friends in our associate class was clearly the most analytical one in the bunch. The key is finding people (and sources of talent) that tend to deliver the individuals that are 10X more effective with analytics than their peers.

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