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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. Accelerators provide these teams with technical and business expertise and connect them to a network of other founders and advisors. Carlos stirred his coffee. Accelerators don’t sound like a fit for where I am at in my career,” he offered. “I

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We are Adding a Principal to Our Investment Team

View from Seed

You have 5-10 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, and/or investor. You have a deep desire to hone your skills as a venture capitalist and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. You will be based in the NYC office but will be able to pursue investments across North America.

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Q4 2020 Portfolio Review

Version One Ventures

Pienza , a Seattle based B2B startup studio led by Bizible founder Aaron Bird, raised $5.1M. . For a second consecutive year , Jobber was named one of the fastest-growing companies in North America on Deloitte’s 2020 Technology Fast 500. . Jam raised a $3.5M seed to Figma-tize product collaboration. Product news.

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Is North America Still a Startup Heaven?

The Startup Magazine

The form of companies dominating the startup scene changes , new types of startup founders appear, different partnerships are created, and new, powerful innovation hubs emerge. But, what does this mean for the North American startup landscape? North America is not just about Silicon Valley. in this field has plummeted.

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2021: The Version One year in review

Version One Ventures

We have seen more and more interest from people working in tech to become founders and pursue their passion with their own start-ups. Our North Star remains to invest in mission-driven founders at the earliest stages. Raising capital may be easier than ever before, but building a generational company hasn’t gotten any simpler.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Because of this, we are a multi-geography firm, and will invest in all the core innovation centers in North America.

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[Singapore] Location Based Marketing Association Launches Local Chapter

YoungUpstarts

“It promises to be… the start of a new, collaborative era for those working in Asia’s LBS space,” asserts Christian Geissendoerfer, founder of hyper-local mobile ad network YOOSE , and one of the founding members of LBMA Singapore.

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