View from Seed
OCTOBER 5, 2016
What about the second cousin who is a startup lawyer? The more verticalized your startup’s offering, especially if the venture is B2B, the more opportunity there is to identify industry insiders who will care about your company. But don’t just stop at nuclear family or close friends. Affinity by personal background.
View from Seed
JUNE 22, 2016
Editor’s note: The NextView team periodically holds internal “shootarounds,” where we discuss a startup topic or trend and try to make sense of it for everyone involved: entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers. CyPhy Works in Boston is a good example that DOES refer to robots and robotics for instance. So how do you invest behind that?
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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 4, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. But startups rarely have either luxury. Key-based partitioning.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
I had last been in Chapel Hill on a winter’s day in 1986, traveling with the VP of Sales of our new supercomputer startup, Ardent. We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs. We were sitting in our cheap hotel room when the phone rang.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 23, 2011
Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. What gets you interested in a startup? (16:35-19:35). 6:00 – 7:30).
Genuine VC
JANUARY 23, 2012
And along the way we’ve met with or observed a larger number of seed-stage startups attempting to start them. What are the best practices for going from zero to sixty with a marketplace startup? Often this focus can be on a specific geography or vertical. Piggyback off an existing marketplace.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 5, 2009
Managing these situations is hard for any company, but potentially lethal for a startup. There are just so many ways for a startup to fail. Managing these situations is hard for any company, but potentially lethal for a startup. There are just so many ways for a startup to fail. Take your typical scalability bottleneck.
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