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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

For example, in the case of one recent company that we’ve been working with for the last 7 months, we have sourced half of the new team members for the company, including their CTO, head of marketing, head of customer success, and a talented senior engineer. Belief #4: The Best Way to Spot Outliers is to be Thematic.

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Our Investing Manifesto at NextView

Rob Go

For example, in the case of one recent company that we’ve been working with for the last 7 months, we have sourced half of the new team members for the company, including their CTO, head of marketing, head of customer success, and a talented senior engineer. Belief #4: The Best Way to Spot Outliers is to be Thematic.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

A fortnight ago, Boris interviewed Reed Hastings on his business lessons and experience, but now I’m shaking it up with a look at a 26-year-old founder who is disrupting the mobile and social networking spaces: Kik CEO and founder Ted Livingston. Almost every single person who worked at Kik worked part-time before they came on full-time.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

She is a member of the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network, a Fortune Most Powerful Women attendee, and has received numerous accolades, including being chosen as a Sam Walton Emerging Entrepreneur and American Express. CTO President Obama Megan Smith is an award-winning entrepreneur, engineer, and tech evangelist. As the third U.S.