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Looking Back On Our First Couple Years at NextView

Rob Go

One of the earliest things we did at NextView when my partners and I started working together was go away as a team to the New Hampshire mountains. It’s commonly said that the biggest risk facing a new VC firm is disharmony among the partners. At the time, I think we didn’t even had a name for the fund.

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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

Even though I learned a huge amount on marketing, leadership and business development, the whole thing was slowly eating me from inside. The job was building relationships with partners and advertisers and to sell advertising. Partnering for products. I partnered with an expert, a former pro athlete. I was 25 years old.

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

ConversionXL

Leadership thinks it’s spending tons of money; practitioners feel like they have no resources. They also brought in an enabling partner from an outside agency. Join us at Digital Elite Camp in Estonia on June 13–15. Envoy Michelle highlighted what the company was missing by not optimizing their core funnels. The good news?

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric Ries : I appreciate you saying that, and we should certainly reserve a moment to say thank you to all of the spouses and supportive partners that have made possible so much of this relief work that we have been talking about in this series of conversations. So you just shut down the country. I was going to call it an abyss.