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Our Newest NextView Team-Member: Jay Acunzo

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This is a major step forward for NextView as we continue to focus on helping our existing portfolio, as well as proactively contribute to the larger Boston (and New York) entrepreneurial community. Although the idea of venture firms developing a platform (i.e.

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Do Startup Location Matters Even Matter?

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View NextView Ventures New York Portfolio Companies in a larger map So what’s the takeaway here? Again, with one exception, all of the startups in our portfolio are one east-west block from Broadway, running from 30th street through the Flatiron to just south of Union Square.

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Officially Launching NextView Ventures

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And given dynamics in the digital media space, we think that (especially along the Boston to New York corridor) there is a market need for a funding source like ours for early stage entrepreneurs. The three of us are looking to work with entrepreneurs to build industry-changing transformative businesses.

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To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows

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We’re coming up on our 5th birthday; we have ~250 employees with offices in New York, SF, and London; we have contracts with 70 large customers, including most of the biggest in our space; our investors are [three top Silicon Valley firms].But By almost any measure, [our company] is doing phenomenally well.

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Are We Entering 2013 in Crunch-Mode?

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Then not every newspaper needed to be as large as the New York Times or required the capital to do so. But as the printing technology improved dramatically, the ability for publications which served smaller and smaller niches became increasingly viable.

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Seven Lessons I've Learned Organizing Events

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It’s been personally fulfilling to start something which begun as a small informal gathering grow into a real component of the local startup scene (and now drawing people from New York and Washington DC). I had no intentions of becoming a large event organizer (nor do I now have aspirations to become one more than I have).

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Seven Lessons I've Learned Organizing Events

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It’s been personally fulfilling to start something which begun as a small informal gathering grow into a real component of the local startup scene (and now drawing people from New York and Washington DC). I had no intentions of becoming a large event organizer (nor do I now have aspirations to become one more than I have).