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Announcing NextView Operator Guilds

View from Seed

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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5 Ways To Make Sure Your Online Store Is Holiday-Ready In 2014

YoungUpstarts

If you own a retail store, now is the time to evaluate the 2013 holiday season and start thinking about how you can prepare your business in the months ahead for an even more successful holiday 2014. Here’s a quick guide to making sure your store is holiday-ready in 2014. Freshen up your website.

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Building A Business Operating System

Feld Thoughts

Ben Huh, the founder/CEO who I adore and love working with, send out a powerful email about how he’s approaching Cheezburger’s next stage of growth, and how he’s thinking about building the business operating system. I’m kicking off the process of building the business Operating System for Cheezburger.

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Five Ways to Prepare for the 2014 E-Commerce Season

YoungUpstarts

That’s why it’s a good idea to take stock of your e-commerce operation now to make sure you’ll be prepared when the shopping season is in full swing. The e-commerce shopping season kicks off in earnest on Cyber Monday, which will fall on December 1 in 2014. Make sure your store can handle traffic spikes.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

It is one of the primary reasons Sam was able to accomplish so much in 2014 because he could focus his time on what really mattered. We hired Steve Pease to run finance and then eventually all operations and it has transformed how we operate. I’d like to give you some actual examples and also talk about the role they play.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. In class six we discussed unmanned systems and autonomy and how the advent of these weapons will change operational concepts and the face of war. Our guest speaker was General John Raymond , Chief of Space Operations.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 3

Steve Blank

John Mearsheimer, “ Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West’s Fault: The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin ” Foreign Affairs , 2014. Slide 13, Dmitri Trenin from the Carnegie Center points out that the 2014 Ukrainian crisis was the Rubicon. Peter Crowley, “ Book Review: Stephen Kotkin’s Armageddon Averted ” Inquiries Journal , 2010.