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The Market Is Hot for Code Climate, NextView’s Newest Investment

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Chad is the CEO of thoughtbot, a consulting firm that makes web + mobile apps for early-stage startups. I shared a link to Code Climate with a number of CTOs/VPs of Engineering in my network, both inside and outside the NextView portfolio, just asking for their quick opinion.

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A Special Web Innovators Group Next Monday – Mobile Growth Masters

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For us at NextView Ventures , we see this transitioning happening first-hand in our portfolio. So in putting together the program for the upcoming Web Innovators Group event on this Monday June 24th, I wanted to add something beyond the typical format which addressed this issue. I’ll leave that to the analysts. And more analysts.

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Start Your Marketplace Engines

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At NextView Ventures, we have a number of companies in our portfolio which are “marketplace” businesses, where buyers and sellers meet to exchange a good or service. And along the way we’ve met with or observed a larger number of seed-stage startups attempting to start them.

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Director of Platform & Community

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We are looking for a passionate, outgoing, and talented individual embedded within the local Boston entrepreneurial community to facilitate information sharing between NextView portfolio companies, spearhead community-building & outreach efforts, and help promote our firm. Compensation will be competitive based on experience.

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NextView Ethos – Tribe

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That means that even when an investment decision itself is contentious, once a company becomes part of our portfolio, all of us act in 110% support of it regardless of how we felt about the original selection. We are instead a Tribe with equal common interest of striving to help make each one of our portfolio companies a success.

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NextView Ethos – Tribe

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That means that even when an investment decision itself is contentious, once a company becomes part of our portfolio, all of us act in 110% support of it regardless of how we felt about the original selection. We are instead a Tribe with equal common interest of striving to help make each one of our portfolio companies a success.

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Authenticity is Experience

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People ask us at NextView all of the time: “What is the typical profile of an entrepreneur in your portfolio?” That perspective goes a very long way into creating a service which can be truly transformative yet integrated in how people inherently interact with the web. The answer, however, doesn’t fit into a neat soundbite.

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