Tue.Oct 11, 2022

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The Next Chapter for NextView

View from Seed

While I walked away from that process with more questions than conclusions, our entire team has emerged from this period hyper-energized for the future. We continue to be committed to the core values of the firm, but also have a vision for how we want to practice our craft differently and with the ambition befitting the opportunity in front of us. To this end, we are excited to announce two big developments for NextView.

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Finding Your Role As An Inclusive Leader

YoungUpstarts

To build a more inclusive and equitable future, leaders in positions of power and influence must play an active role in disrupting the status quo, says Jennifer Brown. The post Finding Your Role As An Inclusive Leader appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Off to the Races with Team Nextview

View from Seed

I became a venture capitalist, specifically a seed investor, to provide early support to the dreamers and builders working to positively change how we live, work, learn, play, and care for our planet and each other. I’ve spent over a decade investing in consumer and B2B companies that do things like expand access to reproductive care and childcare , support the circular economy , enable more seamless payments for small businesses and individuals, rethink mindfulness for the modern world

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Shipping Box Selection Guide: Why Size, Shape, And Strength Matters

YoungUpstarts

When shipping products over long distances, the size, shape, and strength of your shipping box play a huge role in protecting your client's products. The post Shipping Box Selection Guide: Why Size, Shape, And Strength Matters appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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7 Ways to Boost Ecommerce Retention in 2022

ConversionXL

The average ecommerce store devotes more than 80% of its marketing budget to customer acquisition. But getting customers in at the expense of keeping them is the equivalent of filling a leaky bucket : You can keep filling it, but you’re much better off stopping the leak. The more you put into retaining customers, the less you have to worry about acquiring new ones.

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The marketplace’s role in the circular economy

Version One Ventures

Since sharing an update on our areas of interest in climate and energy , we received a lot of feedback and met some great startups. Many of these discussions have centered around the circular economy. Upon reflection, it’s clear that there is synergy between the circular economy and our longstanding focus on marketplaces with their network effects / flywheel effects (we wrote about the strength of network effects in this oldie resource, our Guide to Marketplaces ). .