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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” ” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Airbnb’s availability as a marketplace and its aggregation of substantial consumer demand has actually meant certain forms of lodging have been newly built or converted into rooms for the primary purpose of listing on Airbnb.

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Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds

Startup Lessons Learned

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. Similar mechanisms are at work in the stock market, Google PageRank , and guessing an oxs weight at the state fair. Aggregate results carefully. Not all crowds are wise.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. This is the blog post I needed to read. niners.boi Do you think we can ever take [link] mainstream? link] Hazem Awad An excellent and very practical article.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Great for visualizing work of product development. aggregation. London Stock Exchange. Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement. project management visually see and interact with your work. Kanbanery â?? Simple online team or personal kanban board. LeanKit Kanban â?? Kanban Pad â?? Nice and leanâ?? Banana Scrum â??