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APRIL 14, 2020

This second set of factors will probably be somewhat diminished in the coming years, and investors operating with a FOLD mentality will just be more comfortable investing down the road or in geographies they are already familiar with. Predictably, I think you’ll see investors lengthen their evaluation process for new investments.

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APRIL 6, 2021

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. We continue to believe that NYC is very underserved by seed investors who can lead with high conviction, and we are excited to continue to grow our presence in this fabulous city. Who Are We Looking For.

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JULY 6, 2020

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. We continue to believe that NYC is very underserved by seed investors who can lead with high conviction, and we are excited to double down our presence in New York by adding a new senior associate investment professional to our team. .

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have 5-10 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, and/or investor. You have unbounded curiosity for emerging trends, a love for experimentation, and you’re always eager to dive into new products and technologies before others do.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

These new companies will also all be digital- and technology-first, meaning that their adoption of software and platforms to operate their business (from marketing and customers acquisition to logistics and supply chain) will be quite different from the behavior of traditional brands and retailers. Potential Challenges.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In recent years, cannabis has emerged as a legal industry, and thus, companies operating in this new market have often had to find or build new software stacks in order to operate their businesses. Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry.

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MAY 14, 2015

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. Accidental VC is a series of short posts written by me, Jay Acunzo. Though I never planned it, I somehow wound up working in VC as NextView’s VP of platform.

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MAY 24, 2021

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. We continue to believe that NYC is very underserved by seed investors who can lead with high conviction, and we are excited to continue to grow our presence in this fabulous city. Who Are We Looking For.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In recent years, cannabis has emerged as a legal industry, and thus, companies operating in this new market have often had to find or build new software stacks in order to operate their businesses. Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In recent years, cannabis has emerged as a legal industry, and thus, companies operating in this new market have often had to find or build new software stacks in order to operate their businesses. Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry.

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APRIL 27, 2020

Trying to be transparent has always been a core value of NextView, and we hope that this will help founders and our co-investors better understand how we intend to operate in the early stage ecosystem in the next several years. . Number of Investments.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Although Jack is relatively early in his career, he brings with him a wealth of knowledge as an operator and investor from his experiences at fintech unicorn Better.com, Common Ocean, and Goldman Sachs. He will be based in our office in New York and looking to invest in companies across the US.

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MAY 31, 2023

All of them were in the process of re-founding or were already operating their next startup. Prior to his graduate studies, Ash held operations and leadership roles across startups such as Blue Apron, Peloton, and most recently served as Director of Operations at Burrow. You can connect with him on LinkedIn.

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MAY 28, 2020

Much of the food supply chain has operated the same way for years, and technology has created ample opportunities for innovation and improvement across the entire supply chain. Meat processing companies across the country have paused operations at plants where workers have tested positive for COVID.

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JUNE 7, 2016

Central to any CEO’s job is thinking through strategy and reflecting on operations, as well as communicating these things to various constituents. Just to discuss a few benefits more in-depth… First and foremost, getting into a regular cadence readies the company to think and operate more professionally for later rounds of financing.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

For those of you who don’t know Leah, her career has spanned across journalism, operating at early-stage startups, venture investing, and hedge fund management. In addition to her operating roles, Leah worked on the venture investing team at Slow Ventures, and she began her career in management at Bridgewater Associates.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

Yes, there is certainly risk in this perspective and there is a logical set of reasoning for operating in stealth mode. First, this copycat threat leaves entrepreneurs hesitating to share their startup idea and early experiments.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

But the best founders I know almost always operate as though they have much less money in the bank, and won’t scale burn until they are super confident in their product/market fit. Experienced founders: B2B. For an experienced founder building in B2B, the round to skip is the pre-seed.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Although Jack is relatively early in his career, he brings with him a wealth of knowledge as an operator and investor from his experiences at fintech unicorn Better.com, Common Ocean, and Goldman Sachs. He will be based in our office in New York and looking to invest in companies across the US.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Stephano Kim – SVP Ad Operations and Chief Data Strategist of Turner Broadcasting System (President of [x+1] at the time he first joined our group of advisors). Mike Baker – CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures. The Purpose of Entrepreneur Advisors.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

But secondly, the can play a strategic role in everything from optics (signaling “smart money” is involved to connections to tangible, operational help. First and foremost, angels can provide capital. The key to all fundraising is to find true believers, not convince the skeptics. That’s especially true for angels.

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JULY 15, 2020

Companies that are largely in R&D phase can operate business as usual, assuming there is capital to fund the company for 18-24 more months. Some companies that were looking great may now be facing existential risk because of the industry in which they operate. I think every investor has some of these.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Although Jack is relatively early in his career, he brings with him a wealth of knowledge as an operator and investor from his experiences at fintech unicorn Better.com, Common Ocean, and Goldman Sachs. He will be based in our office in New York and looking to invest in companies across the US.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making. These are operating metrics because they are not part of GAAP financial statements, even though they are critical for everyone from the CEO to marketers and PMs to make data-informed decision on a daily basis.

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APRIL 27, 2022

We were extremely impressed by Joe and his co-founders Bo and Megan when we first met them – they are a great combination of seasoned operators who have helped scale companies from 0 to 100, with directly relevant domain experience from FutureAdvisor, BlackRock, Unison, and Goldman Sachs.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Airbnb’s bookings have rebounded to roughly 70-80% of what they were in 2019 pre-COVID whereas global hotel companies like Marriott and Hilton are operating at roughly 35-40% of where they were in fall 2019. But even with this profitable Q3, on a trailing twelve months (TTM) basis Airbnb has a GAAP net loss of >$1 billion.

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JUNE 10, 2020

The NextView Accelerator Doesn’t Operate in Strict Cohorts. . Most accelerators operate in class cohort “batches.” So in this blog post, we wanted to expand upon three aspects that aren’t typical to the usual Accelerator model. .

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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.

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APRIL 5, 2016

NextView partner David Beisel recently published a comprehensive ebook for structuring your startup job search, intended for frontline operators and executives alike. How to Land the Perfect Startup Job.

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MARCH 1, 2016

As an adult, I know the world operates on story first and logic second. Tiny Speck decided to sunset Glitch and began winding down its operations. As a child, I believed logical arguments were enough to convince anyone of anything. The truth only matters for good stories, but most people don’t know how to tell them.

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JULY 24, 2015

Still others point to the collective sensibility and logic of New Englanders as an operating philosophy. Co-founder and COO Paul Liberman helped the audience look under the hood in how they operate with such a data-obsessed tilt: . Some say it’s an investor problem. Some say it’s a marketing and story-telling problem.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

Dorothy will be based in our New York office and will be focused on expanding our relationships with high-potential founders and operators in the New York startup community. I’m very pleased to announce that Dorothy Ren has joined the investment team at NextView!

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APRIL 21, 2015

As an engineer at Boeing, I had no idea how the company I worked for really operated. Do you find yourself hiring operators or PMs with that background? Poort (Rescale): Most important to my personal development, HBS was extremely helpful in building confidence in myself.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Some of these initiatives are focused solely on our portfolio which we’ve been public about, like our Operator Guilds – groups of product and go-to-market experts sharing their time & expertise to support our portfolio company founders and key operators.

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JULY 14, 2020

A certified ESL instructor who has been on the frontline herself in numerous kitchen and operational roles, she knows both training delivery and her audience intimately well. This allowed them to design a conversational-based learning experience that is enthusiastically received by both the frontline workers and their managers.

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MAY 18, 2016

Because of our seed-stage focus and our experience as founders and operators, we feel we can offer the greatest impact to startups as investor directors in the early years of their life. In subsequent rounds of VC funding, for instance, additional investors may seek/require a board seat.

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