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VC Paradox: The Best of Times & Worst of Times (Part I)

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In the past few weeks, we’ve seen extremely positive headlines about the surge in VC fundings like “ Venture Capital Hits Highest Level Since Dot-Com Bubble.” along “… with seed-round venture capital hit[ing] an all-time high ” [According to CB Insights ]. It must be the best of times for the industry with $8.1B

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Fellow VCs: Here’s Where to Invest $1B+

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in capital. Notable names like BirchBox, Blue Apron, Cloudflare, and Rent the Runway were launched by these MBA grads. Take that as a proxy, and it’s fairly safe to project that the HBS classes from 2012 onwards will likely raise a $1B in venture capital over the next few years.

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Introducing the NextView Talent Exchange: Connecting Top Talent to Startups

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One of my first mentors in venture capital explained to me that the key role of a VC is to “aggregate talent.” While many job boards or VC programs surface information, they then leave it to candidates or companies to reach out cold, perhaps by dropping a name the other side might know.

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Officially Launching NextView Ventures

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Last summer, I along with my partners announced that we were forming a new micro venture capital firm. At that point, Rob Go, Lee Hower, and I possessed a shared vision and a newly minted name, but were still in the process of forming our approach.

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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. It’s these and the other many smaller but impactful things we do to contribute which lead us to consider ourselves part of the greater Tribe.

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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. It’s these and the other many smaller but impactful things we do to contribute which lead us to consider ourselves part of the greater Tribe.

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NextView's New Office View

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It fits in with my blog post last year about our approach to venture capital. For example, when you visit, you’ll notice our conference rooms are named after microbreweries (e.g. We’re not a typical venture firm , so we weren't looking for a typical office and location. Not typical.