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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund. As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

Founders seem to take for granted exactly how in demand a good programmer is. Simultaneously, founders tend to take for granted how in demand bad programmers are too. There is a huge demand for programmers in America – good and bad. The old rules of supply and demand should apply in this case, but they don’t.

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Hire a Recruiter.Now

Seeing Both Sides

CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. With the inflow of real-time information and people coming at you from all sides and demanding your attention (employees, investors, customers, etc), it's hard to find enough proactive time in the day.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

The demands of the role often add up to a full schedule that can drive even the best product managers to lose sight of their market and their customers. often referred to as business analytics?—?is I pitched potential teammates to join me, investors to fund us, businesses to partner with us and customers to use us.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. Properly handling risk management, decision making and cost control demands flexibility and advanced planning.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

As someone who asked this question myself at one point, and someone who started one of the many websites specifically to address this issue, please pardon me and allow me to be blunt by translating this into engineer speak. I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective.