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We’re Hiring for Our Investment Team at NextView’s NYC Office

View from Seed

Since we first opened our New York office back in 2015, we have steadily increased our presence over the years ( Melody joined us in 2017 and Dorothy in 2018), and now roughly 40% of our investments are in New York. You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You are hungry.

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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

Today we’re announcing that my partner Kara Nortman is becoming Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to welcome her to her new role. and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. So mostly we just had to listen to customer feedback from founders, VCs and LPs.

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Why More Funding Won’t Magically Fix Your Startup

Mucker Lab

This post originally appeared in TechCrunch back in 2015, written by our co-founder and managing partner Erik Rannala. We believe the message applies as much today as it did in 2015 when it was published. --. Hire the wrong people. Bad hiring decisions are often a symptom of premature scaling. It’s an art.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. . – Hire more Partners.

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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. SMBs no longer have to choose between hiring an in-house data science team or off the shelf enterprise analytics software. The digital revolution is disrupting the traditional business model for small and medium businesses (SMBs). In 2016, SMBs used an average of 4.8

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5 Ways To Be A Leader In Social Commerce

YoungUpstarts

by Tal Segalov, CTO & co-founder of Mintigo. Last year, Twitter announced that it would unveil its Buy Button in the first quarter of 2015, cementing the role social commerce will play in the way businesses must market their products to consumers. Hire the right marketing team.

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Your 2015 guide to summer reading for startups

The Next Web

Nah, usually in the beginning, things like PR are done by the co-founders or whoever else has time. This one is from the founders of 37signals and speaks of their own experience building a remote company that’s responsible for such products such as Basecamp. And that’s who the audience for this book is.

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