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DECEMBER 4, 2019

One or two of the best companies may continue to appreciate, but most of a VC’s portfolio has probably been realized, written off, or has maxed out its value. The longer the portfolio maintains the same value without distributing back cash, the worse the fund’s ultimate IRR. How Have the More Recent Vintages Performed?

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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.

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Cofounder Software Review Portfolio Technical Review 194

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Historically, the healthcare market has been regional, limited by the in-person nature of care delivery. Telemedicine is game-changing as it opens up the possibility of addressing a national market, so long as you have a network of providers licensed to practice in specific states. Scalable Go-To-Market .

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Vertical Software Review Portfolio Demand 156

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

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. We have a high-conviction, hands-on approach to seed investing.

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Technical Review North America Seed Stage Bandwidth 156

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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. We have a high-conviction, hands-on approach to seed investing.

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Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage Cofounder 120

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AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. New funds have formed, old market leaders are gone or walking dead. But the reality is that the more interesting the market, the more likely there is to be rapid and unpredictable change. Patience is a virtue.

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IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 205

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AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. New funds have formed, old market leaders are gone or walking dead. But the reality is that the more interesting the market, the more likely there is to be rapid and unpredictable change. Patience is a virtue.

IRR 156

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 156

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AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. New funds have formed, old market leaders are gone or walking dead. But the reality is that the more interesting the market, the more likely there is to be rapid and unpredictable change. Patience is a virtue.

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IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 136

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JULY 31, 2014

More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. These two marketing and publishing platforms, respectively, allow for a more intimate relationship between creators and their audience. We opportunistically invest in other geographies across the country as well.

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Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

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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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Seed Stage Boston Early Stage Portfolio 120

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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 ).

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Boston Early Stage Portfolio 120

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APRIL 2, 2024

But market forces continued to drive these industries to evolve in similar ways. VC’s across the board have generally upped their game and are much more involved in the startup ecosystem and with their portfolios. In retrospect, this was to be expected as any competitive market matures.

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Merger Non-Compete Early Stage Venture Capital 343

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APRIL 2, 2020

Last week we held a virtual “Lunch and Learn” with Melody and Lee where they had a discussion about what they’re seeing in the market in a covid-19 world, made some predictions about where we are headed in the next couple of weeks to months, and took some questions about the state of VC funding.

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Partner Marketing Portfolio Early Stage 156

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Read materials ahead of a meeting, particularly with portfolio companies. The markets aren’t really fair, which is a bummer. It’s just the kind of things that it seems pros tend to do: Pro Investors: Show up on time and at least admit fault if they are late. Are present with founders. Not distracted or unfocused or on their phones.

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Cap Table Florida Portfolio Founder 166

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MARCH 15, 2018

Instead, we look for large market opportunities first , and very often those come about because of some technology-enabled shift. Markets pull technologies towards solutions. We look for large markets in which there are opportunities to drive meaningful change. You can look to our portfolio for some examples.

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Technology Artificial Inteligence Marketing Vertical 120

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JUNE 24, 2020

After operating quietly for the past year, our portfolio company Jumbo made a couple big announcements yesterday, including the launch of Jumbo 2 as well as their $8M series A financing led by Balderton Capital. Personally, I am not a zealot about privacy.

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Portfolio Internet Business Model Finance 227

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

It showcases our personality, while simultaneously showcasing the accomplishments of our portfolio. It’s easy to focus on the accolades and accomplishments of today, but what did the NextView portfolio companies look like when they first started their journeys with us? The new website is colorful, it’s exuberant.

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Seed Stage Portfolio Curation Vertical 296

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MARCH 11, 2020

Seed stage companies will mostly face questions around the team and market. This includes things like: Making intros to portfolio companies that are potential customers. When a founder is raising money, he/she should expect that any serious investor will conduct some level of due diligence before getting to yes.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Seed Stage 279

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

It’s often a good idea for founders to find a way to build something and get some early market validation before raising outside capital. Is there founder/market fit? How far is the company from product/market fit? What evidence do we have that their proposed product will be close to product/market fit (PMF)?

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Product Startup Early Stage Seed Capital 120

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

They make room for exceptions, and they are very sensitive to when things change in the market. – Discounting entire market segments because they are too hard to make money (eg: music. Seek high-slope founders with great FMF (Founder/Market fit) and FGTMF (Founder/GoToMarket fit). Except… Chewy). Except… Spotify).

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Early Stage Florida Deal Flow Venture Capital 120

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

It showcases our personality, while simultaneously showcasing the accomplishments of our portfolio. It’s easy to focus on the accolades and accomplishments of today, but what did the NextView portfolio companies look like when they first started their journeys with us? The new website is colorful, it’s exuberant.

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Seed Stage Portfolio Curation Vertical 194

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MARCH 3, 2016

Editor’s note: We’ve seen a lot of demand for content marketing talent in our portfolio, including the need for freelancers and consultants. We reached out to a veteran content marketing consultant who works exclusively with startups to help. How to Hire a Content Marketing Consultant for Your Startup.

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Hiring Marketing Startup Portfolio 120

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JULY 17, 2019

There may be many fewer series A investors in your home market than elsewhere. The quality, network, or experience of your local investors is likely fairly different from those in other markets. The risk tolerance or expected pricing of investors in your home market may be markedly different from investors in other markets.

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San Francisco Cofounder B2B Seed Stage 243

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JULY 21, 2022

Rachel Hodes (RH): What problem exists in the market that your business is trying to solve? . On the other side of the market, traditional creative industries like these exploit emerging talent and pay them pennies for their labor. This is an untapped market of “gig-focused creators”. ” – Melody Koh.

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Early Stage San Francisco Michigan Portfolio 156

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MAY 11, 2016

This is driven by either boredom or fatigue around the areas where they’ve built a business in the past, or else the founder knows too much about the market they are coming from. Knowing all the challenges and warts of a market or problem makes it hard to dive back in that second time. 3: Re-calibrating to a new stage and time.

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Founder Cofounder CTO Hire Early Stage 159

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Nicole most recently comes to us from SmartBear Software , where she was responsible for the launch and marketing for an entire product: overseeing activities like PR, creative, content creation, and social media engagement. We want to help founders both inside and outside of our portfolio with the things which we think matter most: 1.

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Portfolio Boston PR Social Media 120

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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. At NextView, we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about various personas of the Everyday Worker, and we have always felt that there is an opportunity to leverage technology to broaden access for mass market workers.

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Portfolio Leadership Metrics Employee 177

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JULY 28, 2015

The narrative I often hear goes something like this: “Consumer companies are all about great marketing, and Boston doesn’t have enough great consumer marketers.”. I asked the former Director of Growth at LivingSocial — who also runs a large startup marketing meetup in New York — to recommend three rising stars in that city.

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Boston Marketing Early Stage Startup 120

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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. The Hiring Bootcamp is something we plan to continue offering as part of our Platform resources for portfolio companies.

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Hiring Portfolio Metrics B2C 120

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Last week, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Ten Little , came out of stealth and announced its public launch. . children’s shoes market is a $10B market, but it’s not just about shoes. To round out the founding team, Julie brings an extremely complementary experience in operations from Jet.com and eos products.

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Finder Stealth SMS Portfolio 156

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Team: We tend to think of a team similar to the concept of founder/market fit. The second dimension of team/market fit has to do with actual capabilities. We invest at the seed stage, and so product/market fit is always a significant risk. For us, we tend to take a portfolio approach at the way we evaluate this sort of risk.

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Seed Stage Early Stage Founder Portfolio 254

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JULY 19, 2019

All early stage venture firms essentially look at some weighting of team, market, product, and traction. has become a mantra here at NextView over the past few years after we were introduced to the concept by one of our portfolio CEOs. In the past, we’ve created and published a flowchart on how we think through these factors.

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Boston B2B Early Stage Portfolio 149

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

We are proud of the investments we have made in this space thus far, including TenLittle which is focused on personalized and predictive commerce for busy parents as well as Bobbie which provides a best-in-class, Organic, FDA approved formula that is a healthy alternative to the existing duopoly in the market.

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Acquisition Portfolio Technology Founder 227

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JULY 24, 2015

Some say it’s a marketing and story-telling problem. Half our portfolio is consumer. The tweet that really spoke the most truth to this discussion (just check the replies for proof), was from Mike Troiano, a well-known marketer and CMO of Actifio, which is considered to be IPO-bound in the next year or two.

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Boston Cofounder B2C PR 120

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. in our portfolio. Foster product development and marketing which creates organic (or somewhat organic) user traction. The mean Series A size was $5.2M. average versus $4.9M

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Startup 333

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

They need to show their clients that their fees are justified in a market where it takes a long time to show outperformance. If you are raising money for a strategy that is in a relatively new and very trendy market segment, Fund of Funds are more likely to be intrigued. Some LPs are buying access to direct investment opportunities.

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LP Customer Early Stage Portfolio 309

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The first is that it solves an important societal problem in the market of elder care, which is one sub-theme that we have been pursuing for some time. Integral to the team is also Gabe Paley, who leads growth and is also a multi-time NextView portfolio alum.

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Cofounder Portfolio Business Model Finance 156