View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

With the news of our most recent $100M fund , NextView is looking to add a new member of our investment team based in New York. If you or someone that you know might be a great fit for this role, please apply here. Since we first opened our New York office back in 2015, we have steadily increased our presence over the years. Roughly 40% of our investments are in the region, including TripleLift (recent $1.4B buyout announced by Vista), Attentive (recent $470M series E), and Parsec (recent $2

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Up and Running

MAY 26, 2021

Ensuring that your company runs effectively and remains productive is just as important as generating revenue. In fact, providing the tools necessary for you and your team to stay productive can directly influence how well your business performs and grows. . While you may jump to providing better equipment or introducing time management systems, one area that is often overlooked is your human resources department.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

In the last post , we started with this chart, and we focused on RPA (the bright blue at the bottom of the bar chart), the most explosively growing enterprise software category I’ve ever seen. In this post, we’ll focus on Intelligent Process Automation?—?that middle dark blue series of data in the bar chart. I’m going to talk about the market dynamics for Intelligent Process Automation, but first let’s take a moment to understand why this software is valuable for the companies that buy them. the

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 23, 2021

As a business manager or owner, one of your key duties is to oversee employees. You want to ensure their performance rises to their potential. A good employee will have much more to offer your company. It could be their perceptions, strengths, skills, ideas, or even unique gifts. Your ultimate goal is to get the best out of your employees for maximum performance and benefit to the company.

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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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The Startup Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Over the last few years, remote working and flexible hours have become more and more popular in companies worldwide. With the global spread of COVID-19 in 2020, however, work-from-home and remote working became the new norm, with lockdowns and restrictions forcing people to stay at home and continue working. With this immense change to the working environment came vast changes and challenges to the engagement, communication and working ethic of employees worldwide.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. He spent a few years working at the tech startup SpeedDate before following through with his original plan, after which Udemy went on to be enormously successful. When his mother became ill and Eben spent some months accompanying her to doctors in order to get the right diagnosis and treatment, he had a realization that led him to his true mission.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 27, 2021

The year 2020 brought about large amounts of change for the world and its economies. Not only did the coronavirus pandemic force nationwide lockdowns, but it also had a ripple effect on business and the way we as people do things. Suddenly, working remotely became the norm, and transacting online went from an occasional occurrence to almost daily. Industries that spent most of the time in the background suddenly came into the limelight, bringing about new business opportunities for entrepreneurs

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. The culture is driven by the 20-something irreverent founder with huge technical chops who in a “David vs. Goliath” mythology take on the titans of industry and wins. It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 24, 2021

Team Salto in their Tel Aviv office Around 10 years ago, I was lucky(!) enough to have the task of configuring Salesforce for our London team. While a great tool for many organizations of all sizes and across all industries, “lightly” customizing Salesforce for Accel’s internal use cases was neither a quick nor fun experience. Far from it. Fast forward to today, and the pain point is still here, but we now have a technology team to implement and run our tech stack, which includes, Salesforce, Ne

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2021

Based on my experience with startups, trust is the most valuable asset you can have, especially when asking people to step into the unknown by funding your innovation, by joining your team, or just buying your new product as an early customer. You need to understand the unfortunate fact that, due to the realities of life struggles, trust does not come by default from anyone these days.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 27, 2021

It is crucial to secure your business , no matter its size. Business security will secure your belongings, data, and private information that you cannot afford to be misplaced or stolen. For small businesses, it can be difficult to implement all security measures due to budget and team size. But, it is important to protect your business. Thus, here are the most affordable and necessary measures your small business should take to protect itself.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2021

by Carrie Bohlig and Craig Clickner, authors of “So You Want to Start a Side Hustle“ We were not going to create the life of our dreams by focusing exclusively on our 9-5 careers. While we enjoyed being a preschool teacher and commercial banker, respectively, we did not love the limitations these jobs came with. […]. The post The DOs And DON’Ts Of Moderate Entrepreneurship (AKA Side Hustling) appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets (Committee on Financial Services) hearing on “Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and the Need for Investor Protections” May 2021.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2021

Whether it’s a business or personal interaction, multiple studies show that as much as 70-93% of the communication is nonverbal. That means that people addicted to text messages, twitter, and email may be sending less than half the message, and receivers often misinterpret even that half. Yet the use of SMS text messaging for all purposes, including business, has grown consistently worldwide since it was introduced 25 years ago, to an estimated 2.5 trillion/year for business alone, according to

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 26, 2021

Targeting the right audience plays a significant role in expanding your market share. The main objective of marketing is to portray relevant information to the right potential customers. Using the best strategies to reach your potential buyers will increase traffic. Concurrently, you’ll attain a competitive advantage, thus maximizing your profits.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2021

Fundraising is one of the primary methods where nonprofits can gain revenue. If fundraising activities are launched in a proper and timely fashion, nonprofits can grab the attention of potential donors and entities. The post Nonprofit Fundraising Ideas appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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deal architect

MAY 27, 2021

In the 47th episode of the series we have Patricia Harris of Workday Workday has coined a new category, Enterprise Management Cloud and is distancing itself from the ERP moniker. Makes a lot of sense to highlight their cloud and.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2021

Most entrepreneurs expect to face the “normal” challenges of starting a business, which include finding the right opportunity, building and executing a winning plan, and financing their venture. But many forget the pitfalls associated with traditional business jobs which can apply even to the smartest and most dedicated people running their own business.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 25, 2021

As society becomes increasingly dependant on technology to perform daily tasks from the moment they wake up each day, companies have become reliant on this same technology to reach their clientele. Businesses need the internet to reach audiences and have, therefore, increased the demand for digital marketing experts to get the word out about everything they can offer to their target audiences.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2021

Life and working in the business world can be hard at times. If you wish to thrive in life and in your career then you should consider applying these tips and focusing on the right areas that will have the biggest impact on the outcome. The post How To Thrive In Life And In Business appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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deal architect

MAY 24, 2021

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Ben Pring of Cognizant makes a repeat appearance, this time giving us a sneak preview.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

Anyone who works with entrepreneurs will tell you that all are different. Some are really inventors, who view the challenges of building a business as a necessary evil. Others are really marketers out to make money fast, and believe that they can entice customers to any offering. Some just want to change the world and make it a better place. But none have any lock on success.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 25, 2021

If you wish to run a healthcare business, it is always beneficial to be prepared for the landscape to change at short notice. Between governmental changes and technological advances, it is possible to find that you will suddenly have more, or less, regulation to deal with. You may find that some practices which were lauded as “the future” not so long ago are now obsolete due to a breakthrough in medical science.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2021

Law firms, just like any other business sector, need proper promotion for exposure in the marketplace. Digital marketing can help promote your law firm. The post 6 Amazing Ways To Promote Your Law Firm Through Digital Marketing appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 24, 2021

Six months ago I wrote When The Big Companies Show Up about Sony releasing their first holographic display and what I thought about that development, given my role as an investor via Foundry and board member in the 40-person purveyor of fine holographic interfaces in Brooklyn called Looking Glass. In that post, I wrote: “When I ponder my life in 2040, I am confident that I will not be spending 12 hours a day in videoconferences on a 2D display.

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Steve Blank

MAY 24, 2021

Register Here. In 2020 over 1,000 educators joined us online to learn and share how to teach during the pandemic. Now we’re heading back into the classroom and the world has changed. What is the “new normal” for Lean Education? Will using video to “get out of the building” still play a role? What roles do diversity, equity and inclusion play in future syllabi?

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2021

If you are thirsty enough to set up your food delivery business, this blog will quench your thirst with essential insights. Firstly, you must understand the need to enter the food delivery industry. Though many business ideas are on par with the food delivery business, the scope and profit involved in food delivery services are unmatchable. Create an App Like UberEats.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2021

For investors who own bonds and stocks, investing in commodities can be an ideal way to balance and diversify. The post Are We In A Commodities Golden Age? appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2021

Most of the quotes we discuss in The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche we found by reading his work, but a few are well-known lines that you may have heard before. This is one, used in our chapter “Monsters”: He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 28, 2021

We are very happy to announce our seed investment into Defined , a programmable data platform for decentralized finance (DeFi). We led the $2.5m round with participation from Mark Cuban, Balaji Srinivasan, Tiny Capital, Compound, Inflection, Portico Ventures, Capital 6, Rasool Rayani, and Kamunting Street Capital. We have been active investors in DeFi for almost three years now, with investments in Uniswap , Opyn and Nexus Mutual , and are thrilled to be adding Defined to our portfolio. .

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2021

Do you hear that? Ping-Pong. Ping-Pong. That’s emails getting dropped into inboxes every millisecond. According to Statista, there were 319 billion emails sent yesterday. There will be 319 billion emails sent today, tomorrow, and every single day this year. Next year that number will go up to 333 billion daily emails worldwide and by 2023 that number will be 347 billion daily emails sent. .

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2021

Whether you’re redesigning your office space or building your startup office from scratch, use these tips and ideas as a guide for creating the best workspace design for your startup. The post 6 Tips For Designing A Startup Office appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Owning your own business is financially rewarding if you do it correctly. Getting started is one of the hard parts. You can take out a personal loan , but do you really want to start a business by going into debt? There are plenty of other financing options to launch your new venture. Before you look into alternative financing, it’s important to have the right mindset.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 25, 2021

Knowing my background in philosophy, Brad Feld and Dave Jilk recently invited me to contribute a foreword for their new book, The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors. It’s now available andI highly recommend it; click here to get your copy. Here’s the foreword I wrote for it. Nietzsche is a troubling and troublesome philosopher.

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Up and Running

MAY 24, 2021

You’ve come up with an innovative idea that has the potential to transform your industry. Maybe you have already landed VC funding or other types of investment and you have some runway. But then again, you could still be building out the fundamentals of your business and aren’t at that point yet. Either way, you will need a budget-friendly office that accommodates your team size while still helping to drive the business forward. .

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2021

Using the services of a recruitment agency can help your business in various ways. This article explains why you need to work closely with a recruitment agency. The post Reasons Why You Might Need Building A Close Relationship With A Recruitment Agency appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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