View from Seed

JULY 6, 2020

You are intentional about developing a point of view on new sectors that we can learn from. We invest nationally across Consumer and B2B, while most of our investments are based in NYC, SF/Bay Area, and Boston. You have a point of view on emerging technology and business models, and you are not afraid to voice your conviction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The best story I remember related the family impact of devastation wrought by Alzheimer’s disease, leading to the development of a mitigation process, and I am now fully committed to this effort. The words can be simple, like “I was meeting with a customer in Boston,” or “When my home was devastated by a tornado.”

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Today, we are excited to re-release an updated Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech ! I wanted to point out a couple things in the updated guide, but the general theme is that we are simply seeing more, bigger, and better things happening here in Boston. To name a few: 1. More exciting, industry-leading companies.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Boston is a great place to start and build a company. However, Boston is a transient town, especially for the student population that refreshes a large population each year. This guide is designed to help you hit the ground running and is a starting point for your entrepreneurial journey in Boston. Applications due Nov 20 th !

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have developed a depth of expertise in a highly attractive area of investment (eg: digital health, web3.0, While you will be exposed to a broad range of companies, you are expected to develop your own specialization and areas of focus within the firm. consumer, etc.). You have strong points of view and express them with conviction.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 10, 2012

The Developer Bootcamp is designed to help anyone get started coding - and they might even get a job at a startup or tech heavyweight out of it as well. San Francisco-based Developer Boot Camp was an idea that started with a friend in need. You are a developer and you don't know it,'” Bishay said. So began Developer Boot Camp.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Talk about waste.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

We planned to use smart yet inexpensive software developers to build business application software. Dave had been spending most of his time managing the part-time developers, who were primarily working on future products, instead of billing hours to clients. It was gut-wrenching. Dave worried about paying rent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You are intentional about developing a point of view on new sectors that we can learn from. We invest nationally across Consumer and B2B, while most of our investments are based in NYC, SF/Bay Area, and Boston. You have a point of view on emerging technology and business models, and you are not afraid to voice your conviction.

Technical Review 120

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Software developers like to spend time with like-minded developers. As a VC myself, at a New York- and Boston-focused firm, I frequently point entrepreneurs to the same resources. Beyond (potential) customers, publicly visible analysts, and consultants, consider placing industry leaders who are a “reach” on your list.

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View from Seed

JULY 5, 2022

I’m Connor Cash, the founder of Caesar and I grew up outside of Boston but currently live in DC! One hour I’m deep into product development, the next I’m thinking about our hiring needs and recruiting, to the next on a sales call. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? And your least?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The Customer Development process is the way startups quickly iterate and test each element of their business model , reducing customer and market risk. The first step of Customer Development is called Customer Discovery. There’s Always One in Boston. “Is Is there a salesperson in Boston?” VP of Sales – “Sure.”

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Students will even receive a minor in entrepreneurship as they develop their own business plans. Boston University Business Incubation. Boston University Business Incubation. At Boston University, there’s an incredible array on business incubation opportunities. Harvard Innovation Lab. Innovation Depot.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Two years ago Jeff Bussgang lamented about “Lost Generation” of entrepreneurs which I think is especially acute here in Boston. I was in my early 20’s just barely out of school when four of us (peers) started Sombasa Media (aka BargainDog ) here in Boston beginning in 1998. My own personal story fits in with this narrative.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

it’s still an important tool in societal development and user retention. For example, Beantown looks to data analytics jobs Boston police can rely upon to determine where in the city crime occurs for officer distribution. Data analytics keeps developers on top of ever-changing markets. Increased Data Analytics in Jobs.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

School of Webcraft : Mozilla Foundation’s School of Webcraft is a peer-powered school that offers free web development education. Webmonkey : On Webmonkey, you’ll find tutorials for everything from building your first website to developing with HTML5. Although courses aren’t free, the books are.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 24, 2014

The New Boston. NCWIT ayah bdeir coding girls littlebits software development space' Agent Cubes-in-a-box. Globaloria. AppInventor. The post Resources for Girls Learning to Code appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

I developed a list of questions to ask you next time we speak?—?especially Frankly, it’s the life of ANY executives with whom you want to sell product, do a business development deal with, execute M&A, a journalist you want to write about your company?—?anybody. New York, Chicago, Boston, etc. A few weeks have slipped by.

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Software By Rob

MAY 3, 2010

A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup&# → Catch Me at the 2010 Business of Software Conference in Boston Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. I will be speaking at the 2010 Business of Software Conference in Boston this October. Stay Small.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The best story I remember related the family impact of devastation wrought by Alzheimer’s disease, leading to the development of a mitigation process, and I am now fully committed to this effort. The words can be simple, like “I was meeting with a customer in Boston,” or “When my home was devastated by a tornado.”

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Elevator Pitch Technical Review Boston Sales 211

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

As seed funds have raised larger and larger funds, more have developed the muscle around issuing term sheets and “leading”. We have offices in New York and Boston, are quite active in the SF Bay area and see significant activity from the diaspora to and from these human capital centers.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Boston, Massachusetts. Boston has recently been announced as the best American city in which to launch a new company. But why is Boston so good for business? As the city has suffered from economic lows in its history, it has now developed a very self-sufficient culture. What better for a thriving startup scene?!

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

To this end, we are excited to announce two big developments for NextView. With Stephanie on board, we are now one of the very few bi-coastal seed funds in the industry, and all of the partners have led investments in NY, Boston, SF, and many other emerging ecosystems even before the pandemic.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. Internally to our portfolio, platform means developing “products” to help our portfolio companies get from zero to one on their most critical seed stage priorities.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. Internally to our portfolio, platform means developing “products” to help our portfolio companies get from zero to one on their most critical seed stage priorities.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Leading global management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has announced the opening of its first-ever Center for Business Excellence, right here in Singapore. “More importantly, we work with clients to institutionalize lasting capabilities for developing talent.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

But I would point out that these days there are really talented tech developers & teams everywhere. Eric Paley , managing partner at Founder Collective , told me that they had implemented a city-wide program in Boston to help local university students get internships at local tech startups. Here are mine: 1.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms. Convenience First and foremost, you must decided whether to work with individuals or development companies. Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP).

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The Austin-based company, formerly known as Klaris Diagnostics, plans to use the funding to develop its Digital Culture technology, a rapid bacterial identification, and susceptibility testing platform. million award from CARB-X, a nonprofit based at Boston University. […]. The funding includes a $6.8

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 1, 2008 Test-Driven Development as andon cord You cannot control what you cannot see, and the hardest part of managing software projects is that the final product is so intangible. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

You would have to spend millions of dollars hiring software developers, renting real estate, buying hardware, etc. Until relatively recently, the capital requirements of technology businesses were quite large. just to build a product which you could then start selling (and in reality test whether there was a market at all).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2019

Management consulting firms, such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, and Bain, exist to solve business problems. Compared to novices, experts are overconfident in their ability to understand problems outside their expertise, leading them to develop worse solutions. . First, develop a well-specified statement of the problem.

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