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Looking Back On Our First Couple Years at NextView

Rob Go

Late last week, I wanted to take a step back and review what has transpired the last two years. Some of our most interesting companies have originated in places like Estonia (GrabCAD), Croatia (Farmeron) and Omaha (SkyVu), although all have either moved or have a significant presence in a major tech hub like SF, Boston, or NY.

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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. I had a degree in Information Technology, had worked as a web developer, tech support guy, account manager, sales person and a marketer. The rent was due. I was 25 years old.

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

ConversionXL

Go beyond standard sources of voice of customer data ; better options are: Interview founders (the original “customers”); Thank-you page surveys; Usertesting.com; Mine sales calls; Mine support tickets; Mine Facebook comments ; Mine online reviews. Decision making: What is the technical complexity and debt you’re adding?

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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

It turned him instantly from an education technology expert--his day job is as VP of Growth at Course Hero--into a leading voice for how to move forward. So you learn to really look at the data and also in tech, you also know this, it's very, very hard to figure out the truth from the information you get, the signal from the noise.