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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In alcohol addiction, Monument (a NextView portfolio company) is taking a fundamentally different approach to traditional AA groups by creating a holistic online alcohol treatment program with specialized therapy and medication with physician guidance.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Unlike other accelerators, our focus is not to artificially manufacture fundraising traction around our program but to partner with founders in the messy ideation, validation, and company building that is critical in the earliest stages.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Unlike other accelerators, our focus is not to artificially manufacture fundraising traction around our program but to partner with founders in the messy ideation, validation, and company building that is critical in the earliest stages.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

is an education technology company that partners with top colleges & universities to bring their degree programs and credit-bearing courses online.”. He then said EXACTLY what he was going to be shipping first: A 100% online, fully-accredited Masters in Education degree with the University of Southern California.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

That said, there are many companies that seed funds back that never consider YC, and quite a few great companies do raise money from seed funds before or after the program. And quite a few founders make the choice to do YC first rather than raise a traditional seed or pre-seed round.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Unlike other accelerators, our focus is not to artificially manufacture fundraising traction around our program but to partner with founders in the messy ideation, validation, and company building that is critical in the earliest stages.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Framed another way, it is the ultimate “no-/low-code” tool; and as software eats the world, Generative AI will change how programming itself happens. We are only at the beginning of understanding how Generative AI will change the world as we know it. ” source.

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APRIL 5, 2016

Rachael is enrolled at the Startup Institute , an eight-week program that teaches its pupils the nuances of web development, web design, technical marketing, or sales and account management. Rachael Burger is not interested in stability. She is looking for more than that. .

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MARCH 29, 2016

Founders who start measuring the effectiveness and efficiency of their recruiting programs will see the process is very much worthwhile. Paul English, co-founder and CTO of Kayak and now founder and CEO of Lola , is famous for writing that he aims to hire in seven days from the point of first engaging a candidate.

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APRIL 11, 2016

” Email, same thing, you can dictate, and there are already programs that do this. I mean, one way to minimize the bugginess early is to pre-program it with shortcuts like you’re saying — these would work for lots of apps or at least specific, popular apps until a system learns about you.

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MAY 14, 2015

Now then, back to your regularly scheduled programming about building meaningful businesses and talented teams to actually fill those offices. Bottom line: Looking for office space is never the job of an entrepreneur, so the goal of this post was to help you avoid potential pain by framing the process appropriately.

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MAY 11, 2016

EIR programs are a weird version of this ( and I believe they’re broken ). What’s consistent with all of these ideas is that you can’t force yourself to start a new company. Most repeat founders know this, but they unconsciously put themselves into a situation that is contrary to this fact.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Marlo founders Ankith Harathi and John Keck decided to found Marlo in 2018, after meeting as students in the Harvard MS/MBA Program, where they are completing both an MBA and a Masters in Computer Science.

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JULY 8, 2021

So we made a pre-seed investment in Lula and they also participated in NextView’s virtual accelerator program we launched Summer 2020 as the world went into lockdown. The Lula team took this from an idea to live with paying customers in their first market segment within about 5 months.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

They were wrapping up participation in an accelerator program and Ben was planning to move back to Chicago to build the company there, having previously worked at Groupon before moving on to other tech companies in Asia, as well as a brief time in California. pre-seed round for the company (Hologram was fka Konekt).

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AUGUST 17, 2021

In a way, it was totally undisciplined, because it was a totally new program in the midst of a wildly uncertain time. You need to find ways to allow for unexpected good things to happen. One example of this was the accelerator that we launched in the early innings of the pandemic. But the experiment is looking to be a success.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

They were wrapping up participation in an accelerator program and Ben was planning to move back to Chicago to build the company there, having previously worked at Groupon before moving on to other tech companies in Asia, as well as a brief time in California. pre-seed round for the company (Hologram was fka Konekt).

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AUGUST 17, 2021

In a way, it was totally undisciplined, because it was a totally new program in the midst of a wildly uncertain time. You need to find ways to allow for unexpected good things to happen. One example of this was the accelerator that we launched in the early innings of the pandemic. But the experiment is looking to be a success.

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JULY 8, 2021

So we made a pre-seed investment in Lula and they also participated in NextView’s virtual accelerator program we launched Summer 2020 as the world went into lockdown. The Lula team took this from an idea to live with paying customers in their first market segment within about 5 months.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

They were wrapping up participation in an accelerator program and Ben was planning to move back to Chicago to build the company there, having previously worked at Groupon before moving on to other tech companies in Asia, as well as a brief time in California. pre-seed round for the company (Hologram was fka Konekt).

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AUGUST 17, 2021

In a way, it was totally undisciplined, because it was a totally new program in the midst of a wildly uncertain time. You need to find ways to allow for unexpected good things to happen. One example of this was the accelerator that we launched in the early innings of the pandemic. But the experiment is looking to be a success.

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JUNE 5, 2018

Keeping that in mind, we designed the program in such way that later-stage portfolio companies such as Dia&Co and MealPal could gain insights alongside younger ones such as Voodoo Manufacturing , ExecThread , and Virgent Realty. The quest for building such hiring machine is universal across companies at various stages.

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APRIL 26, 2018

When I came to NextView, this is also the pillar of our Platform programming that I immediately gravitated toward. Without the right team in place, it’s much harder to build great products, find customers, and not run out of money in the process.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

Probably the most common critique of corporate VC programs is that comparatively few endure across decades. The same cannot be said of corporate VC programs, many of which come into being during bullish periods in capital markets but then wane when capital is scarce or when corporate leadership or priorities inevitably shift.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

With three accelerator cohorts under our belts and 17 graduated teams to turn to for feedback, we’re more confident than ever that our white-glove approach has lent itself well to the kind of program our industry was lacking. Read on to learn more and decide whether this is the right program for you.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

Consumers at an Upserve-powered restaurant won’t ever know it, but their restaurant experience will be dramatically better because of online ordering , loyalty programs , and a personalized menu & experience — all facilitated by Upserve.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Soon the Carewell family was born with the first version of the site entirely coded with Bianca’s self-taught front-end programming skills. In fact, the Founders, Bianca Padilla and Jonathan Magolnick , met on their own personal journeys to find a way to provide better care for their loved ones.

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JUNE 13, 2019

While slightly more flexible than a simple monthly subscription (autoship customers also can make ad hoc purchases), the program lets consumers set recurring purchases for consumables they continuously replenish. Customers in the autoship program generated roughly 66% of Chewy’s revenue in 2018.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

This means that we have resisted the temptation to create a “pre-seed program” or some structurally different approach to investing in different sorts of companies. But let’s make this more concrete in the context of an entrepreneur raising a round: How NextView Approaches Pre-Seed Rounds.

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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. THE GOAL : The culmination of this accelerator program ISN’T a demo day or a big show.

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging.

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JUNE 23, 2022

I switched career fields at the last minute and ended up serving as an Air Force engineer where I worked on a few drone programs. So in college, I studied aerospace engineering, joined Air Force ROTC, and eventually was accepted by the Air Force to go to flight school upon graduation.

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MARCH 22, 2016

Will the average person care which language you wrote your program in? It could be the tough story of child loss that led you to develop an app that monitors sleeping infants, or how your childhood struggle with dyslexia spurred you to write a program that helps others with reading disabilities. As with No.

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MAY 2, 2019

The downside is that YC is itself quite dilutive, the program itself may not be a great fit, and there are many many companies out of your batch that won’t be one of the anointed winners. This creates a stamp of credibility and may help you raise your next round on amazing terms if you are one of the most desireable companies at demo day.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

And features like “guest book” personalization and loyalty programs can delight the consumer with their dining experience. Analytics, payments, and point-of-sale features give restaurants owners core functionality to running their business efficiently.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. And they tell us over and over again that they just care about four things: Hiring and developing a great team. Building a great product. Getting more customers. Not running out of money.

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APRIL 18, 2018

create and edit content for our Medium publication, spearhead our events series, run portfolio-specific programming, etc.), In this role, you will manage several of our current founder-focused initiatives (e.g. as well as developing new ways for us to proactively engage with the founder community.

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