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Director of Platform & Community

Genuine VC

This two-year role is a unique opportunity to work full-time within a venture capital firm, setting and executing on a outward-facing strategy to interface with both its portfolio and the broader entrepreneurial community. Exceptionally high attention to detail. Experience involving business operations and/or project management a plus.

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Are We Entering 2013 in Crunch-Mode?

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The nuance which isn’t being recognized is that most of the companies of this latter profile, while viable businesses, aren’t venture-scale businesses. Businesses which should and do attract venture capital are ones which have the potential to be both high-growth and extremely large.

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The Golden Age of the Boston Internet Entrepreneur

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There is also now a third cohort, though still rare, of awesome people who have had entrepreneurial success experience during the 90’s boom now building truly transformative companies later in their careers who had moved away & returned , who eschewed a venture capital role after a brief stint , or who had been doing it all along.

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NextView Ethos – Tribe

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All venture capital partnerships fall along a spectrum where on one pole are individual contributors hunting on a shared platform, to the other end where the partners act in unison a real team. Lastly, we at NextView consider ourselves to be part of a greater Tribe within the entrepreneurial web and mobile community.

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NextView Ethos – Tribe

Genuine VC

All venture capital partnerships fall along a spectrum where on one pole are individual contributors hunting on a shared platform, to the other end where the partners act in unison a real team. Lastly, we at NextView consider ourselves to be part of a greater Tribe within the entrepreneurial web and mobile community.

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Beer Kegs and the Future of Venture Capital: What It Means for Entrepreneurs

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Last September I wrote a post outlining my view of the venture capital industry: increasingly evolving like the beer industry as it continues to mature. Big Data, mobile, cloud-only are all dedicated sub-sector funds examples I know of in the IT space. Think of it as a hoppy IPA brewery vs. one which focuses on American Ales.

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Seven Coming Digital Uber-trends which Are Ripe for Startup Opportunities

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Being in the venture capital industry, I find that sometimes it is worthwhile to take a step back from the day-to-day to take a look at the large impending trends which are just beginning to affect us. Domestically, we have a growing population of youth who have never known life without internet and mobile phone.

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