Wed.Jan 27, 2021

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We’re Hiring a Platform and Operations Associate at NextView

View from Seed

With the recent announcement of our fourth fund , we are expanding the team at NexView with a new Platform and Operations Associate. This role will be virtual through the end of the pandemic, but will ultimately be based in either our New York or Boston office. From the beginnings of NextView, we have had a commitment to being high-conviction, hands-on, seed stage focused investors.

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How to Make an Immediate Impact With Your Startup

The Startup Magazine

It is the hope of every startup to make an immediate impact so that you can quickly start to bring in as much money as possible and start to make your mark in the industry. Unfortunately, there is no recipe for success and you often hear of startups failing in the early stages after failing to hit the ground running and encountering financial issues.

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The Anti zoom

VC Cafe

2020 was a good year for Zoom. Now synonymous with video-conferencing, the company-name-turned-verb stock peaked in October 2020, a market interpretation of how the Zoom Boom has defined the daily lives of many millions throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. Video calling apps have become an almost fundamental part of our lives, the closest we’ve reached to in-person, human interaction.

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The Best Software to Grow and Support Your Vacation Rental Business

Up and Running

Vacation rental businesses are in a time of cutting back and building up. The more software you can introduce to streamline processes and cut back on people costs, the better. Now, there aren’t too many SaaS tools out there specifically targeting the hospitality industry. But, those that are will be in this article. . We’ll also explore those SaaS tools outside of the hospitality “box,” that will most certainly help excel your vacation rental business.

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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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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their One Prediction for Business in 2021

Hearpreneur

The business landscape is always changing which leaves uncertainty in different industries. Business owners are optimistic that 2021 will see better days, especially with the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines. The new normal might see a return of business and provide better opportunities for people to explore. Here’s what entrepreneurs predict for business in 2021. #1- The rise in the 3-2-2 workweek.

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Announcing NextView IV

View from Seed

We are pleased to announce that we have closed on NextView IV. This is a fresh $100M fund with the same high-conviction, hands-on seed strategy that we’ve been pursuing since the start of NextView over 10 years ago. $100M is a meaningful increase from our $50M third fund, though it’s still quite small in the grand scheme of venture, especially amid the recent wave of late stage financings and SPACs.

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How to Make Your Business More Flexible

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Did you know that the flexibility of your business plays a huge role in determining whether you will stay competitive and relevant in today’s world? According to research, 89% of companies have recorded an increase in their retention rates due to their flexible work options. Below are a few things to consider in your quest to make your business more flexible.

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The Analyst Cam: IT Central Station on B2B buying trends

deal architect

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. I have had several industry analysts join me in my Burning Platform series over.

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5 Ways To Get Involved In The Real Estate Industry

YoungUpstarts

The following paths in the real estate industry typically involve a low barrier of entry and can lead you on the path of a fulfilling career. The post 5 Ways To Get Involved In The Real Estate Industry appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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False Reassurance

Feld Thoughts

The Covid crisis has generated an extraordinary amount of what I like to call “false reassurance.” Consider how many times you heard something general like the following some time in 2020. Everything is going to be ok. We will get through this pandemic. Things will go back to normal. You’ll look back on this as a unique time in your life.

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What Good Is It To Be Engaged With Your Team If You Can’t Be Productive?

YoungUpstarts

Cynthia Spraggs, author of "How to Work from Home and Actually Get Sh*t Done" shares some tips on how you can remain productive and produce results in this unprecedented time. The post What Good Is It To Be Engaged With Your Team If You Can’t Be Productive? appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Explore Common Digital Marketing Mistakes that Every Business Must Avoid

The Startup Magazine

The digital space seems to be constantly changing and expanding with time. Hence, businesses must employ creative and unique marketing techniques for attracting the right audience in the online or digital space. As per the Huffingtonpost.ca , several businesses are constantly employing digital marketing stratagems for attracting new online leads, visitors, and customers.

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What Intrepreneurs Actually Do For A Company

YoungUpstarts

With today's constantly changing business landscape, particularly in technology, organizations require that individuals take up responsibility and initiative to solve problems on their own. Enter intrepreneurs. The post What Intrepreneurs Actually Do For A Company appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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How Understanding Perceptual Sets Can Make You a Better Marketer

ConversionXL

Why do some ads perform better than expected? Why does an ‘ugly’ CTA sometimes convert better than one that is professionally designed? Understanding perceptual sets and how they affect our behavior and decisions can give you better insight into improving and optimizing your marketing strategy. . ( Image source ). How many legs does the elephant have?

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Single Handle Every Task

YoungUpstarts

By focusing clearly on your most valuable task and concentrating single-mindedly until it is 100 percent complete, you actually shape and mold your own character, argues Brian Tracy. The post Single Handle Every Task appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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4 Top Reasons a New Computer Should be on Your Business’ To-do List

The Startup Magazine

Computers are a newly essential piece of equipment in any and all business environments. Some might say that they are more important than a pen or paper in the modern world. Having any old computer isn’t enough in the modern business landscape – for a company to stay competitive and maintain maximum efficiency, businesses need up to date computers. But, as it is such an investment to stock up an office with new computers, many businesses are dissuaded from taking the plunge and investing the cap

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3 Business Lessons You Can Learn From The Bamboo Tree

YFS Magazine

When I heard the Chinese bamboo story, I immediately noticed the powerful principles embodied in the bamboo tree as it relates to business.

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Returning to Events – Prizes to Give Away That People Won’t Throw Away

The Startup Magazine

At some point soon, in-person events will come back. In-person events can have many benefits, including the ability to get together face-to-face and give away useful marketing swag. Of course, if that swag ends up right in the trash, then it is not going to be particularly useful. Thankfully, there are plenty of prizes you can give away that people won’t immediately throw away.

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Three Ways to Adapt Your SEO Campaign Amid Covid-19

YFS Magazine

COVID-19’s dramatic impact on consumer mobility, search behavior, supply chains, and consumption habits is undeniable.

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Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Everything Boards Need to Know

Board Effect

It seems that with every day that goes by we’re hearing more and more about issues in the media related to cybersecurity—particularly cybersecurity issues in healthcare. Unfortunately, much of the information is so highly technical that it’s difficult for board members to make reasonable sense of it, let alone make informed decisions about how to apply that information to their organization in a meaningful way.

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Growing Your Business With Integrity and Kindness

Duct Tape Marketing

Growing Your Business With Integrity and Kindness written by Kyndall Ramirez read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Sarah Santacroce. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Sarah Santacroce. She’s setting out to change the marketing paradigm. For 12 years, she was running a successful LinkedIn consulting business, which inspired a great deal of the work that goes then into the gentle marketing revolution.

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Behind The Pricing Curtain of a Digital Experience

Austin Startup

We are cross-posting this as a Medium story in hopes that the transparency about the cost of a digital experience can help others. For many planners, the pandemic has been a crash course in learning a new way to put on events and activations. As we’ve written before, there’s been a deluge of information on HOW to put on a successful digital event (some of which we’ve written)?

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Nomadory CEO Says Trade Shows Face Reckoning Post Covid-19

YFS Magazine

Post-COVID-19, the reality for trade shows has radically shifted as businesses question the value of trade shows.

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what makes clubhouse great, and what might cause its demise

VC Cafe

Last week, Clubhouse became the most downloaded app on German iOS, reported Sifted. The buzzy app, that only launched in April 2020 as the pandemic was hitting the US, reached Unicorn status last week with fresh $100M round led by A16Z and has gone from an invite-only insiders chat for Silicon Valley founders and VCs to early adopters everywhere in Europe.

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Innovation 101

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Kick Start Ideas That Lead to Growth. Three Hour Virtual Training, February 5th, led by Innovation Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Dodge the Pitfalls & Establish an Innovation Cycle. There are more pitfalls in an Innovation Initiative than the moon has craters. Getting started is challenging because there is a great deal of conflicting advice in the form of books, consultancies, methods, and anecdotal stories.

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