Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

And to be clear I split my time between Boston, New York, and SF and I’ve seen this across a broad swath of startups and individuals… both outside NextView’s portfolio and occasionally within it. And a lot of big, meaningful companies have been created just in the last couple years which is nearly unprecedented.

Startup 188

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 188

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

I saw Bitcoin as a new paradigm in computing, creating digital scarcity where something digital couldn't be copied and you could only transfer its value or symbolic value. I looked for places to meet other people who thought Bitcoin was cool and found the first ever conference in New York. How did Kraken come about? ?

San Francisco 62

San Francisco Europe New York Cofounder 62

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

New Use Cases. Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. You would end up with dramatically more rides – and that is exactly what is happening. Transporting kids.

San Francisco 111

San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

And to be clear I split my time between Boston, New York, and SF and I’ve seen this across a broad swath of startups and individuals… both outside NextView’s portfolio and occasionally within it. And a lot of big, meaningful companies have been created just in the last couple years which is nearly unprecedented.

Startup 120

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 120

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

And to be clear I split my time between Boston, New York, and SF and I’ve seen this across a broad swath of startups and individuals… both outside NextView’s portfolio and occasionally within it. And a lot of big, meaningful companies have been created just in the last couple years which is nearly unprecedented.

Startup 100

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 100

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there!

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y. The Single Biggest Reason Most Entrepreneurs Fail in 2014 – crowdspring.co/1jzW3Oy. A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y.

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. He already had two exits before he created Justcall, selling his last business to The New York Times. They landed their first customer the following March.

Sweat Equity 78

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 78

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. He already had two exits before he created Justcall, selling his last business to The New York Times. They landed their first customer the following March.

Sweat Equity 50

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. RigUp was founded by Xuan Yong and Mike Witte in Austin, Texas in March of 2014. As a result, productivity naturally improves.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Kate is now a product leader at Shutterstock in New York City. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices. The results of Alex’s experiments and early successes gave Alex the confidence to propose to the BBC leadership a new product vision and strategy which she called “BBC Out Of Home.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

Trillion dollars in 2014 , and is only expected to grow in coming years, delivering results that use the visitor’s “local language” will become increasingly important. If our eye first lands on the image, we can see where in New York, this hotel is located. Star rating of this hotel. Conclusion.

Search 107

Search Design eCommerce Technical Review 107

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

In fact, there are over 250 founders from the HBS classes between 2008 and 2014. Harvard MBA Startup Founders: 2008-2014. As for location, most are in North America, and not surprisingly, they are disproportionately located in Boston and New York (39%). As in all things startup-related, the distributions are not even.

North America 120

North America Founder Cofounder San Francisco 120

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Thanks to Joe Silverman, New York Computer Help ! #3) After managing a distribution center where I sold vinyl to record stores (my first client was Asheville’s own Harvest Records), renting the farmhouse was about becoming self-sufficient. 2014, Believing in me, I took a leap starting my own company.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

AJ: Back in 2014, Reserve had to decide whether to run our private beta and launch in just one city, or to come out swinging in multiple metros. But there’s only one New York City in the world. Culture is important everywhere, but at a startup, particularly one with distributed teams, it’s paramount.

New York City 48

New York City New York Los Angeles Startup 48

Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

AJ: Back in 2014, Reserve had to decide whether to run our private beta and launch in just one city, or to come out swinging in multiple metros. But there’s only one New York City in the world. Culture is important everywhere, but at a startup, particularly one with distributed teams, it’s paramount.

New York City 48

New York City New York Los Angeles Startup 48

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 One-and-a-half years after founding the company, Yaron moved to New York and discovered that consumers, rather than banks, were the primary customer of BillGuard’s service, which helps customers identify fraudulent credit card charges. billion, compared to just $1.2

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Scale Horizontally (or “scale out”): Add more nodes to a system, such as adding a new computer to a distributed software application. My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). Techstars Mobility (Detroit). Techstars Berlin (Berlin).

South Africa 70

South Africa Vertical Los Angeles Minneapolis 70

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Having founded and published the internationally distributed indie magazine INTERLUDE, and toured extensively as a live music production professional, she enters the venture investing world from an unconventional path. He also leads the efforts for Comcast Ventures consumer seed and frontier tech investing in New York City.

Technical Cofounder 48

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 48

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We launched Fundera in February of 2014 this year and it’s been a wonderful experience helping small businesses ever since we started. We’re building a True SaaS company in Boise, Idaho, not in Silicon Valley or not in New York. You can kind of think of it like a kayak for small business. Thank you Jared.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95