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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

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As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. We opportunistically invest in other geographies across the country as well.

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Why Investing in the Everyday Economy Isn’t Just a Consumer Strategy

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And in the entertainment category, our portfolio company TripleLift provides monetization for online publishers through native ad technology. This technology enhances a consumer experience for literally thousands of media properties across the web. Within our portfolio, you’ll see a number of two-sided marketplaces (e.g.

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Nobody Announces Their Seed Round Anymore and That’s a Mistake

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And seed VCs, especially as new firms were being established, were eager to encourage their portfolio startups to plant that flag in the ground publicly. It marks the beginning of the journey with hard work & the real business success to be accomplished ahead, but a milestone nonetheless. Perception is reality in the game of recruiting.

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How to Do Research on VCs (Written by a VC)

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Most venture firms list their portfolio on their website ( here’s ours ) and sometimes talk about their typical investment model ( ditto ). Consult the Interwebs. Practically speaking, that’s of course not possible — we’ve invested in over 40 companies since NextView started in 2010. A Welcome Level of Transparency .

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Announcing NextView Operator Guilds

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When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Building a great product. We want to talk to you! Back to Top).

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4 Dirty Secrets VCs Won’t Admit

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Whether it’s rational or not, it’s really hard to convince an investor that the founders will be great at creating wonderful products if the materials and web presence they put in front of them fall flat. Instead, they just used a page that pushed users to download the app.

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Angel Bootcamp, The Blog Post: A Primer on Angel Investing

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So, if you’ve been a successful internet founder or have launched great web/mobile products, most founders would love to have you in a round even if your check size is small. Outside of Silicon Valley, you can usually get into pretty good deals writing pretty small checks ($10K or so) if you are relevant to the sector you are investing in.