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Why Entrepreneur Advisors Matter

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We frequently tell entrepreneurs that advisors who are just names on a page are kind of a waste of time. So if they’re not just names on a page, how are these entrepreneur advisors involved with us at NextView and our portfolio companies? The Purpose of Entrepreneur Advisors​.

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Why Entrepreneur Advisors Matter

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We frequently tell entrepreneurs that advisors who are just names on a page are kind of a waste of time. So if they’re not just names on a page, how are these entrepreneur advisors involved with us at NextView and our portfolio companies? The Purpose of Entrepreneur Advisors?.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

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The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US.

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Microsoft, Near Death, & Enterprise Cloud

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Names like Stephen Elop of Nokia, John Donahue of eBay, and internal candidates (Satya Nadella, Steven Sinofsky, et al) are mentioned. Want names? A bunch of people smarter than me about enterprise cloud could probably gin up even more names than I did in thinking about this for 60 seconds.

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Objective Logistics & Keeping Things in Perspective ? AGILEVC

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Objective Logistics is taking a pretty sexy approach to a less than sexy, yet massive problem… namely how do you optimize the scheduling of service industry workforces. NextView’s most recent investment was announced last week , and we’re excited to be investors in Objective Logistics.

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Hardware, IoT, and the Long Arc of the Internet

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You can probably think of household names in each of those categories. So heretofore the overwhelming majority of internet innovation has focused on the “digitization” of the world’s information, commerce, and social connectivity.

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Hardware, IoT, and the Long Arc of the Internet

Agile VC

You can probably think of household names in each of those categories. So heretofore the overwhelming majority of internet innovation has focused on the “digitization” of the world’s information, commerce, and social connectivity.

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