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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund. As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B). Network Effect B2B.

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Why You Should Be Doing Product Discovery

YoungUpstarts

by Nick Frandsen, co-founder and managing partner at Dovetail. For a B2B product, this means figuring out what kinds of businesses are suited for your product. Nick Frandsen is a co-founder and managing partner at Dovetail. Dovetail designs, builds and invests into fast-growing technology companies. It’s genius!

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

CTO, Modcloth – San Francisco, CA (corrected from e-mail version) Remember that girl from back home? The ideal candidate has experience with eCommerce systems, emerging mobile and social technologies, as well as RoR. Interested candidates should e-mail keyhirewire@firstround.com with "Modcloth CTO" in the subject.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

That said, we tend to be very flexible on syndication to bring on great partners, and have collaborated with terrific partners like our most frequent co-investors Founder Collective, Accomplice, LHV, Softech, and others.

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Our Investing Manifesto at NextView

Rob Go

That said, we tend to be very flexible on syndication to bring on great partners, and have collaborated with terrific partners like our most frequent co-investors Founder Collective, Accomplice, LHV, Softech, and others.

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Ionic Security Raises $9.4m from Kleiner Perkins, Tech Operators, ff Venture Capital

David Teten

Ted Schlein, general partner at KPCB , and Tom Noonan, partner at TechOperators , will join the board of directors. I met Adam Ghetti , Founder/CTO, at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York in early 2012 at Union Square Ventures. This is the second ff VC company that KPCB has invested in, after Klout.).

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Among other corporate positions in my career, I have been a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Research Engineer for small private companies, and also some Fortune 500 and even Fortune 10 companies. This bill will NOT affect our company.