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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . See Beyond the Money: Best Practices of Venture Capitalists in Helping Early-Stage Companies Create Value and It’s the People: Improving Private Equity Portfolio Company Valuations by Working with Operating Executives. 5) Manage deal flow.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . See Beyond the Money: Best Practices of Venture Capitalists in Helping Early-Stage Companies Create Value and It’s the People: Improving Private Equity Portfolio Company Valuations by Working with Operating Executives. 5) Manage deal flow.

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Our Investing Manifesto at NextView

Rob Go

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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How and Why the NextView Everyday Economy Accelerator is Different

View from Seed

This initial wave of applicants resulted in the selection of six initial Accelerator participants – female & male founders at startups hailing from the Bay Area to Miami to Alabama to Boston, ranging from b2b SaaS offerings to consumer services… all transforming people’s everyday lives.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 1) Market fund. Accompany focuses on this use case.

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What Does a Demand Generation Manager Do? (And How to Become One)

ConversionXL

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Only around 10–15% of B2B leads turn into paying customers, and it’s because tactics optimizing for the early stages of the funnel only cater to early-stage goals. Very few, if any, of these interactions are with a sales rep.

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