View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Stephanie is someone that we have known for almost a decade and have respected deeply as a co-investor and collaborator at Uncork. Through all of this, what has been obvious is her hunger to serve founders and desire to work with entrepreneurs to bring about the kind of world changing impact we seek to be a part of at NextView.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have unbounded curiosity for emerging trends, a love for experimentation, and you’re always eager to dive into new products and technologies before others do. You have 5-10 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, and/or investor. You are hungry.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You have unbounded curiosity for emerging trends, a love for experimentation, and you’re always eager to dive into new products and technologies before others do. You act as an “ invited guest.”. You are hungry. About NextView.

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View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

Founders do not have this luxury. Most founders are going through hell right now, and that is not going away any time soon. For investors and founders, the next several years are going to be very different. Pre-seeds will be tougher as investors gravitate more towards proven founders or folks within their existing networks.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. B2B buyers aren’t all-rational, and they will often follow and recommend tools they’ve heard of even if they’ve never used them. Win beyond product : use a powerful narrative, positioning, messaging, content and differentiation strategy. Who is it for?

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B2B Marketing Curation PPC 94

Argona

JANUARY 15, 2024

One such client that requires special mention is a well-known green energy solution provider focused on reducing existing and future ocean waste through its new ingenious product that converts plastic waste into carbon neutral and then to carbon negative using green energy. Why is Argona Partners the Best Company to Work With?

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Partner Technical Review Indianapolis B2B 52

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

To succeed in today’s crowded market, you need to harmonize product marketing and brand marketing. In this article, you’ll learn the difference between brand marketing and product marketing, and how to balance both to stand out above the crowd. Brand vs product marketing: Friends or foe? They rely on each other for success.

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Marketing Product Audience Equity 110

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2023

Strategies For Successful Product Launches written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Mary Sheehan In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Mary Sheehan. She is an accomplished product marketing leader who has held marketing leadership roles at Adobe, Google, and many startups.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

As a seed-stage company, it is understandable to have a nascent (or non-existent) product and a barebone team relative to the great ambition of the company. The “product roadmap”. Enterprise SaaS/B2B software – account executives (AEs) and sales developement reps (SDRs). The “product roadmap”. The “people roadmap”.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But, increasingly, the Apple hype-fests are a marketing—not a product—showcase. For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. Yet while product launches are a risk, they’re not as risky as you think. Image source ).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Johnson, co-founder and CEO of TeamSupport.com. The B2B (business-to-business) industry can be challenging. So what should entrepreneurs entering the B2B industry know? B2B customers are more valuable and more difficult to replace than B2C. The B2B industry does not move as quickly as B2C. by Robert C.

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B2B B2C Entrepreneur Cofounder 219

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

The report was co-authored by Berkeley and Stanford faculty members along with other contributors including Steve Blank , the Sandbox Network and blackbox teams. Founders that learn are more successful. Solo founders take 3.6x more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups.

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Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Cofounder Startup 230

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Luke Campbell – Cofounder. Startup founders should connect with other founders at similar stages to them, and ones who are a few steps ahead.”. ” Abbe Hyde – Founder.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. Examples: Clearslide , Salespatron (I’m a co-founder) and Brainshark. Email/Calling productivity: Help improve first contact efficiency typically while prospecting.

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B2B Sales Technical Review Software Review 48

nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. Ask former co-workers. New Web Order. 5th November 2010. #. Ideas alone are not worth a lot.

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Cofounder Web Founder South Korea 40

techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. guest author.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Ben is a co-founder and executive producer of Storyboard Media, a B2B marketing, and video production firm in North Carolina. What are some of the best pieces of advice for a new product or campaign that you’re trying to run, and how do you amplify those videos? Marketing Podcast with Ben Oliver.

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North Carolina Video Customer Technical Review 98

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Traction is a biweekly podcast where founders share the creative or unusual things they did during the seed stage to make early progress. Founders from LinkedIn , DraftKings , General Assembly , The Muse , Behance , InsightSquared , and more have appeared on the show. How did both these companies come into being at the same time?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. Any entrepreneur yearns for revenue streams but if the product is not ready, the offering is shifting, the budget for an industry leader is not there or the appropriate management support is not in place, hiring salespeople can be a waste of limited resources.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, 8 have been pre-product or pre-seed style rounds. And by early, we mean pre-traction.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2019

by Caroline Pegden, co-founder of TempaGoGo. One of the biggest problems facing any entrepreneur is how to convince people that your idea, product or service is as great as you personally believe it to be. Every founder has a good story to tell! Read the Rubric. Most importantly, be sure of the deadline.

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Technical Review Startup Balance Sheet Early Stage 147

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

If we’re a B2B company selling into brick-and-mortar retail environments, and we’re looking to find an audience of retail executives, we’ll start with a simple Google search. The audience size identified is encouragingly large, and the frequently used phrases and words (brick mortar, retail, founder) align directly with our target audience.

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Reputation Audience Management Social Media 134

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Hologram is also an example of a B2B platform company, of which we’ve invested in many over the years here at NextView. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

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Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 177

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 19, 2019

A startups seeds are sown and sprouted either because the founder(s) have come up with a unique solution with a product (like a software or a physical product) or service. Usually, a product or service is to erase a complicated problem. But, in the last 10 years, the best talent has been limited to corporations.

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India Startup Cofounder Software Review 131

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Hologram is also an example of a B2B platform company, of which we’ve invested in many over the years here at NextView. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

Chicago 156

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

When researching a new product, buyers use 10 or more channels to interact with companies. If you’ve ever received an email with personalized product recommendations or a retargeting ad on Facebook for a product you left in your cart, that’s omnichannel marketing in action. What is your customer looking to achieve?

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need. The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. In this workshop, Fraser, Founder/CEO of LUXr and Klein, Director of Product & UX at One Jackson will offer practical techniques for getting and using customer feedback.

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Lean Cofounder Analytics Startup 154

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. Growth hacking is about caring for and optimizing the user experience to build trust and keep customers using your product. Take the documentation productivity platform, Swimm.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Alternative Capital. “

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As startup founders ask themselves this question, some of the answers might be specific to their product: i.e. we should improve our onboarding, change our freemium model, etc. Or Briga, Co-founder and CEO of Novos.gg. We co-develop our product with our community. ” Paul Graham, Ycombinator.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Arrive to the market too soon and there’s no demand for the product. In a recent TED talk , Idealab founder Bill Gross talked about how Airbnb likely wouldn’t have taken off if not for the recession: People were strapped for cash and were therefore more willing to rent a room in their home to a stranger.

Startup 120

Startup Cofounder Software Review Sales Cycle 120

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Hologram is also an example of a B2B platform company, of which we’ve invested in many over the years here at NextView. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

Chicago 136

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 136

Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Jump forward 16-17 years, through numerous mergers, sales, wins and losses, and our current agency, HUB, is going strong, powered and pushed forward by that original desire to do a good job, create sustainable digital products and generally make a difference. 9- Providing Legitimate B2B Customer Data in the Era of Mistrust.

Entrepreneur 135

Entrepreneur B2B Database Technical Review 135

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Inside the Mind of a Technical Founder | OpenView Blog by Larry Kim – crowdspring.co/1u7Fz1b. 5 Signs You’ve Got the Wrong Co-Founder – crowdspring.co/1u17ovZ. 12 Qualities To Look For In A Co-Founder – crowdspring.co/1m97mzy. What’s the Best Time to Send Email Newsletters?

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Lightspeed Venture Partners

AUGUST 17, 2014

CEO and co-founder Vincent Yang, a mathematician by training, had built a system while he was at Summit Partners, a private equity firm, to comb the Web looking for investment opportunities. We are looking forward to helping EverString in their quest to disrupt the world of B2B demand generation.'

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B2B Revenue Private Equity Artificial Inteligence 96