Genuine VC
JULY 19, 2010
Micro VCs will continue to come in many flavors with slightly different strategies, but there are a few distinctive defining characteristics: On a per partner basis, each investor is investing less than $25M in any given fund. The capital deployment velocity is notably higher than a traditional 1-2 investment per partner per year.
Genuine VC
MAY 5, 2015
Rather, we’ve heard time and again just how difficult it is to find exceptional operators — those all-important “doers” that are integral to making things really happen — a senior front-end engineer, a tactical online acquisition marketer, a phenomenal designer, and so on. But it seemed like it wasn’t enough.
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Genuine VC
OCTOBER 18, 2011
This issue matters more in a larger partnership, as diffusion of responsibility of who leads an investment becomes more dispersed and placed solely on the shoulders of one specific partner. The solution to the buy-in problem is to spend as much time with multiple partners throughout the fundraising process and afterwards.
Genuine VC
JANUARY 22, 2014
My partner Rob wrote bit more on his blog about our motivations for adding our first new team member at NextView Ventures — a Director of Platform and Community. Strategize new project initiatives based on top-level firm goals, set priorities, and manage towards operational completion. Exceptionally high attention to detail.
Genuine VC
FEBRUARY 12, 2012
Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example. CONS: No value-add subsequently, and can potentially needlessly interject into operations or future financings that are destructive for the company. The Domain Angel.
Genuine VC
JULY 8, 2010
In addition, I will also continue to independently operate the Web Innovators Group. My new partners, Rob Go and Lee Hower , and I are very enthusiastic about starting our new firm, NextView Ventures. The next gathering to be held on September 13th, and I’ll post the registration page soon.
Genuine VC
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
All five of them (Authentic, Blank Canvas, Golazo, Invited Guest, & Tribe) we’ve listed on our website since it went live a little more than a year ago, and my partners in recent blog posts have discussed in more detail two qualities of our Ethos, Invited Guest and Golazo. At NextView, we aim to be on the far end of the latter side.
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