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JANUARY 24, 2018

We’re calling them NextView Operator Guilds. . The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. The post Announcing NextView Operator Guilds appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Or, if you can’t skip a round, when should you try to work extra hard to minimize dilution and when should you be prepared to take more dilution for the right partner/situation? Also, the benefit of raising a pre-seed from great partners probably outweighs the cost. Founders with limited experience. Experienced founders: B2B.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Examples include pop-up retail experiences like what Bulletin is doing, or efforts by large brands to partner with startups like 19 th Amendment to experiment with different direct-to-consumer models. Potential Challenges. The era of traditional, brick and mortar retail is over, but a new era is being built as we speak.

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MARCH 24, 2021

7 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in VC Pitches and How to Fix Them “Different partners in a VC firm are different. How Decisions are Made After the Partner Meeting “The lead partner might also be using this opportunity to dive deeper into areas that you might not have had the chance to cover during the first/second meetings.

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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. To do so, the partners started their search in earnest in March and finalized paperwork in June.

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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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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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JANUARY 10, 2022

Our program goes back to basics in the most important, effective, and meaningful ways : weekly one-on-one time with partners, hands-on mentorship from experienced advisors, small and selective cohort sizes, and zero demo days or distracting demo day prep involved. ” – Rob Go, Partner . ~~~. The programming.

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JUNE 10, 2020

The NextView Accelerator Doesn’t Operate in Strict Cohorts. . Most accelerators operate in class cohort “batches.” But the emphasis of our program is the direct one-on-one interaction with NextView partners to help push the company forward. These engagements don’t need to be constrained to a strict timetable.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

But the language of “I support you” is a promise that if we do make the investment, we support the company and the lead partner as though we were a 1 or 2 vote. An investment can get through even if there are 3 “I support you” votes among the partners. We actually vote twice during a deal process.

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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. As a community, we need more of these stories worth celebrating. We need more Rachael Burgers. * * *. How to Land the Perfect Startup Job.

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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. We couldn’t be more excited to be partnering with the Opus team to become the training and upskilling companion throughout the lifecycle of every frontline employee.

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MAY 18, 2016

Some VCs also use board observer roles as part of the “apprentice” model for younger partners and principals, where the senior partner takes the board director role but has a colleague participate as an observer. In subsequent rounds of VC funding, for instance, additional investors may seek/require a board seat.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This tends to be how endowments and large foundations operate, for example. They are generally committed to early-stage venture for the long term and are focused on whether they believe that we’d be great stable partners and that our performance will persist over multiple market shifts and economic cycles.

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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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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. Enter the Kudzu.

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JULY 24, 2015

Still others point to the collective sensibility and logic of New Englanders as an operating philosophy. We pulled together a lineup of A-list speakers, healined by TripAdvisor CEO Steve Kaufer, Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah, and Spark Capital founder and partner Bijan Sabet, among other very talented entrepreneurs and thinkers.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

We are very excited today to announce that Melody Koh is joining NextView as a Venture Partner based in our New York office. For those of you who don’t know Melody, she was an early member of the team at Blue Apron, joining the company as their first PM and eventually going on to lead their product, design, and analytics teams.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

To round out the founding team, Julie brings an extremely complementary experience in operations from Jet.com and eos products. We feel fortunate to have the opportunity to partner with Fatma and Julie in this journey, and we can’t wait to see what’s to come. . We were excited to be the first to say yes and lead the $2.6M

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JANUARY 5, 2021

I’ve had the privilege to work with many great entrepreneurs, both in my operating days at the start of my career and over the last decade plus on the VC investing side. And if we’re investing in the company, it then impacts how I might be most helpful as a thought partner to the entrepreneur depending on their archetype.

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JULY 11, 2019

It will be hard to predict exactly what this will mean for the way these markets operate. We are grateful to Michael and his team for having the trust in us to be his partner in this business from the beginning. Otis hopes to change all of these things. It’s very early days for Otis, but we are so excited for the road ahead.

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JULY 9, 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. Be sure you have an honest and direct discussion with your lawyers, who should be viewed as true partners who understand these things.

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JUNE 13, 2019

The company launched in 2011 and then was acquired by PetSmart for over $3 billion in 2017 (PetSmart itself owned by PE firm BC Partners), but Chewy is now preparing for life as a standalone public company. First, on an operating cashflow basis Chewy has been CF positive in some of the recent years. Conclusion.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

For most of my career, I’ve served startups and early-stage companies as an operating executive or advisor. Do you need highly skilled functional managers or do you need a true partner? someone to be that true partner). This is why I encourage almost every startup founder to find a partner or a cofounder.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

– Pitch Decks (two styles + walk-throughs from the partners). – Board Decks (two styles + walk-throughs from the partners). – Accidental VC: recurring article sharing lessons overheard inside a VC’s office from a startup operator. Example Pillar Resources: – Traction podcast. – NextView blog.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

It’s completely unique and so special across a number of dimensions, which is why my partners and I just had to be part of its story. Rather than launching others’ brands, they’re completely transforming the business to launch and operate their own. Pattern Brands is and will be an exceptional company.

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APRIL 2, 2015

And since I’m an operator, not investor, I recognize just how valuable all the casual, daily discussions inside a VC’s office can be to fellow operators and entrepreneurs. Something NextView partner Rob Go said the other day really stuck with me: “A little design goes a long way.” But not so fast.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

This is the way my partners and I tend to operate in our initial meetings, too, whether we’re being pitched or raising money ourselves. As you flip through the slides which we’ve created, look for the call-outs from my partners and I to inform your own versions. Usually, a more human interaction works better. Some Context.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

On Wednesday, my partner David wrote about how we’ve been using our office space (and network and other resources) to support pre-seed companies. My partner David wrote yesterday in greater detail about some of our learnings from co-habitating with pre-seed companies. You can find that here.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

We wholeheartedly believe in the potential of each company we select; the smaller batch size allows the NextView partners, who possess deep operating and founding experiences at companies like LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, and Blue Apron, the space to spend meaningful one-on-one time with each founder every single week.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

These startups completed an intense 10-week program featuring hands-on, personalized engagement from NextView partners to push the company forward, peer communications, expert education sessions, advisor introductions, and more. WHERE : This acceleration program is entirely virtual from application through selection and participation.

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MAY 29, 2019

This segment of the market is basically mirroring other segments of the venture ecosystem which has operated this way for some time. The first is that I think the operating model of many funds will be stressed by this change. Some funds have elevated or hired junior professionals to “partner” titles to try to address this.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Similarly, the capital-efficiency to date is taken as reflective of inherent in the business itself and operating mindset of the team, rather than as the amount of capital used for discovery of product-market fit that is decoupled from the efficiency post-traction.

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JULY 28, 2015

A culture that accepts risk is also critical because, at the early stages, you are operating with very little data. Early stage companies also often will exhaust early channels that work, or are working in channels that are evolving much more quickly. So being able to create experiments is critical. You have no clue about tons of things.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

And if you just want to learn about different types of angels and what motivates each, my partner David has written about that before here.). This is sometimes really tough for former operators. A Primer on Angel Investing. Why Invest? Seed investing is a fun way to stay actively engaged in the startup ecosystem.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

And if you just want to learn about different types of angels and what motivates each, my partner David has written about that before here.). This is sometimes really tough for former operators. A Primer on Angel Investing. Why Invest? Seed investing is a fun way to stay actively engaged in the startup ecosystem.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

And while the NextView partners served as the editors and directors of the project to ensure its usefulness to founders, I wanted to share a few of the more surprising or alarming lessons and trends I witnessed after spending weeks of my life staring at actual pitch decks from dozens of startups to inform our templates. .”

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