Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Summer is always the time when large numbers of new participants in the tech ecosystem arrive and start to get their bearings. 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 number each year. The Grand-daddy.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? In its first full year of operation, VCAP attracted 159 applicants.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . When we started the firm, we were also more narrowly focused geographically due to our smaller team and network.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. Our portfolio companies value us as sparring partners.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Companies today are hindered with difficult to use, siloed business systems that fail to simplify communication around processes and improve how businesses operate. Every year, companies lose 20 to 30 percent in revenue due to inefficiencies. Some examples may include: Automotive – managing parts and/or suppliers.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

And while the NextView partners served as the editors and directors of the project to ensure its usefulness to founders, I wanted to share a few of the more surprising or alarming lessons and trends I witnessed after spending weeks of my life staring at actual pitch decks from dozens of startups to inform our templates.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud). On question #1, we see good indicators that folks are leaving.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My Is that when it became big?

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2015

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. The lead time to landing your office can be surprisingly high, particularly in denser startup ecosystems like ours in Boston.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The venture capital industry is continuing its evolution from an upside-down pyramid (typically 3-10 Partners, plus some administrative support) to a traditional hierarchical pyramid. The median VC reviews 87 opportunities before making 1 investment. Detailed due diligence. Profiled initially. Target Selected.

Private Equity 114

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). And if you just want to learn about different types of angels and what motivates each, my partner David has written about that before here.). This is sometimes really tough for former operators. A Primer on Angel Investing. Why Invest? Don’t be allured by seniority.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). And if you just want to learn about different types of angels and what motivates each, my partner David has written about that before here.). This is sometimes really tough for former operators. A Primer on Angel Investing. Why Invest? Don’t be allured by seniority.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

He is co-leader of the McKinsey Digital Practice, a senior partner based in New York, and a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council, the firm’s board of directors. Key Takeaway: Digital transformation requires organizations to rewire their processes and operations, leveraging new technologies to achieve value. That's right.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. 26 Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the oldest venture capital practice in the United States, today announced the closing of a $350 million supplement to its current fund family, BVP VII, which closed in June 2007. 2009 Bessemer Venture Partners. Friday, February 27, 2009.

Software Review 48

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

Management 85

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

3- Due to financial difficulties in my family. I started my business when I was forced to drop out of Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA due to financial difficulties in my family. So I got to work and jumped in on starting my business, TTYL—a tech-free community. 23- Help businesses with compliance operations.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2011

But, then so do the Bay Area, New York City, the Boston 128 corridor, and for that matter Houston and Dallas. As Kleiner partner Mary Meeker so nicely summed up recently , mobile is the “it&# Internet trend of the moment. I mean, I could argue that a PC bus is a platform, every bit as much as an operating system is a platform!&#

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

AdExchanger just posed an interview that I did with them that touched on some of our ad-tech investments as well as our overall investment philosophy. Unlike many venture capital firms that invest in certain geographic regions or specific technologies and sectors, Foundry Group’s investing activity is largely driven by a thematic approach.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . When we started the firm, we were also more narrowly focused geographically due to our smaller team and network.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2010

The question is whether you are born with innate entrepreneurial talent or whether you can be taught to operate like an entrepreneur. Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, Jason Calacanis , founder of Mahlo.com, and Mark Suster of GRP Partners, have all weighed in on the nature side – you’re born being an entrepreneur or your not.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Although they focus on initiatives that leverage technology, they engage in a wide spectrum of cross-sector collaborations with for-profit, government, and non-profit institutions. As we’ve evolved, we’ve focused on more on initiatives that leverage technology. How we embrace technology for good. 3 specific issues: 1.

America 144

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Many believe that their margins will erode from 40-50% over time due to competition, merchant fatigue, or other factors. The folks at Yipit did a detailed analyis of the Boston data and concluded Groupon’s model is deteriorating there. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the eighth. Every year inbound brings together leaders across business, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and more. It's a technology that you're reading about. That's right. Are they using it on their phone?

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

Famed technology investors like Vinod Khosla and Ron Conway have taken this approach, with personal investment positions in literally dozens (if not more) of companies. Becoming a Limited Partner Investor in a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund. Building a Portfolio One Company At A Time. Joining an Angel Group. So What To Do?

Private Equity 63

Private Equity Technical Review Silicon Valley Los Angeles 63

Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

Famed technology investors like Vinod Khosla and Ron Conway have taken this approach, with personal investment positions in literally dozens (if not more) of companies. Becoming a Limited Partner Investor in a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund. Building a Portfolio One Company At A Time. Joining an Angel Group. So What To Do?

Private Equity 63

Private Equity Technical Review Silicon Valley Los Angeles 63

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

She is a leading venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, where she mentors tech startups and helps them go public. She is the CEO & General Partner of the investment firm Street Global. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the eighth. That's right.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Technology Technology Home Online Business Tools Security Phones & Mobile Gadgets Tech Tips Technology The Future of Facebook -- Streaming Live Now. Product Reviews Mindjet Connect Helps Small Businesses Visualize and Manage Projects. Branding From Entrepreneur to Icon in Five Steps.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

As she recalls, "once we as a team and ecosystem of stakeholders got our plan together--and a big part of that was our incredible school partners, who said, 'We are going to feed as many kids and families as we can,'-- within a week, we were building at light speed what would be the next iteration of Revolution Foods and our feeding system."

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Most startups operate close to themargin of failure, and the distraction of having to deal with clientscould be enough to put you over the edge.

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www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

The only science and technology-focused comprehensive university located between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Harrisburg University’s academic mission is to create, to attract and to expand economic opportunities in the region. Think of it as “shared office space meets incubator meets entrepreneurial club-house.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

I’m your host, Marcus, and today we’re talking to Josh Breinlinger, who currently works as a senior associate at Sigma Partners, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park. It’s a management and engineering consulting company in Boston. So, first of all, thank you, Josh, for being on the podcast today. . Marcus: Okay.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Suffice to say that our partners, vendors, and most importantly regular mainstream customers all found the idea disturbing. peer review is NOT working. Read your forums, many "trolls" that were "fired" remain due to the friendships they bonded with people, not because they want to cause you hell personally.

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