View from Seed

APRIL 6, 2021

You have unbounded curiosity for emerging trends, a love for experimentation, and you’re always eager to dive into new products and technologies before others do. However, you will serve as a co-pilot on deals with all four partners, across the geographies we cover. You will be based in the NYC office. About NextView.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 31, 2023

You may have already known about the Shopify marketplace and how it is one of the best platforms to make money by selling your products and services online. Shopify is an ecommerce platform where you can sell products and services to customers and store owners. What’s a Shopify Expert? The marketplace is known as Shopify Experts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone. This is the new world of do-it-yourself (DIY) prototyping.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The first is that we are welcoming Stephanie Palmeri as the newest Partner at the firm. Almost all of this increase came from our existing Limited Partners, with a small portion that was made available to new LPs. We make very few investments on a per-partner basis, which is why we are quite top-heavy as a firm.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Hauser Private Equity partnered with the Denver-based private equity firm Revelstoke Capital Partners to make a growth investment in DataLink Fund Solutions, a leading provider of integrated population health management applications. Organic and Inorganic Growth. Digital Transformation.

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View from Seed

JULY 6, 2020

You have unbounded curiosity for emerging trends, a love for experimentation, and you’re always eager to dive into new products and technologies before others do. However, you will serve as a co-pilot on deals with all four partners, across the geographies we cover. . You will be based in the NYC office. About NextView.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 21, 2016

Fortunately, I’ve got amazing partners. As a result, we’ve always been active at moving primary responsibility for a company (which we define as a board seat) between partners. One of the things we do is a full portfolio review. The post Load Balancing Between VC Partners appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 27, 2021

We are looking to bring on board a versatile new team member to support the varied internal operations of the firm as well as collaborate with the partners on our external programs and communications with the broader entrepreneurial community. You are actively engaged in the NYC or Boston tech ecosystem.

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David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

Best Practices in Venture Capital Portfolio Company Value Creation. In addition, in light of increasing competition in the startup funding space, a methodology for helping portfolio companies consistently is a strong competitive advantage. I’ve also posted this at Betabeat.). View more presentations from David Teten.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2022

A couple of weeks ago I was did a fireside chat with Alon Grinshpoon, founder and CEO of Echo3D , a CDN and CMS for 3D content in the cloud and a Remagine Ventures portfolio company, as part of an entrepreneurial finance MBA class in Tel Aviv University. Choose a partner, not just a fund. So choose your partner wisely.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. That way when my partners in are in …. The dialog was great. They told you how much they loved your space.

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Software Review Churn Rate Due Diligence New York 381

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone. This is the new world of do-it-yourself (DIY) prototyping.

Partner 310

Partner Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 310

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have unbounded curiosity for emerging trends, a love for experimentation, and you’re always eager to dive into new products and technologies before others do. We lead or co-lead most of our investments and invest very early…80% of the unicorns we have backed were pre-product at the time of our investment. Who We Are Looking For.

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Technical Review North America Seed Stage Bandwidth 156

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Leveraging Will’s deep understanding of the landscape, the team was able to quickly launch a product that truly resonated with both borrowers and partners. The post Meet Summer: Our Portfolio Company Changing The Student Loan Landscape appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You have unbounded curiosity for emerging trends, a love for experimentation, and you’re always eager to dive into new products and technologies before others do. However, you will serve as a co-pilot on deals with all four partners, across the geographies we cover. You will be based in the NYC office. About NextView.

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Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage Cofounder 120

View from Seed

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Editor’s note: At a recent team meeting at NextView, we looked at the high number of startups we invested in which were pre-product at the time. The question arose: What is a seed VC’s process like when a company is pre-product? A big chunk of our investments at NextView have been made pre-product.

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View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

We can stay busy by expending time and effort supporting the existing portfolio, which is the right thing to do and a good use of time. Like most VC’s, we’ve been engrossed in helping our portfolio company founders navigate these challenging times while thinking through how we will approach this market going forward. Wait and see.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

You will have access to significantly more talent with a wider variety of abilities and more outstanding portfolio cases if you outsource software design to offshore suppliers since the talent pool is greater. The skill set is theoretically considerably broader because the world is much broader than the nation in which your business is based.

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Offshore Software Developers Software Development Software 158

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Most firms have “associates” and “partners” and some have an additional role called a “principal.” Usually there roles are a combination of: Deal sourcing for partners. Deal support / analysis / quant / legal for deals a partner is seriously considering. Portfolio community building.

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Jordan Technical Review Portfolio Partner 365

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

The Innovation Portfolio. Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. acquire startups for their teams (and discard the product). buy out another company’s product line for the product.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 5, 2013

As I’ve written before here at Forward Partners we work with entrepreneurs to help them launch and scale their companies in two different ways. We think about ecommerce in the widest sense, including innovative product companies that sell direct and businesses building new ways to buy things online.

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Partner Software Review eCommerce Due Diligence 117

View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund. As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 30, 2022

Shellworks , one of our newest portfolio companies, raised $6.2 Product launches . Jobber and Thumbtack are now partners to help home service businesses. Lolli continues to partner with big brands like CVS and Safeway, etc. As always, to keep up to date with our portfolio companies, follow us on Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

You company is the product and you’re selling an equity ownership in your company but much more broadly you’re selling trust & confidence that you’re going to build something enormously valuable and that you’re going to be enjoyable to work hand-in-hand with over the coming decade of each other’s lives. How many partners are there?

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Technical Review Due Diligence Partner Term Sheet 314

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

After years of trying to persuade Kara Nortman to become a partner at Upfront Ventures I can officially announce now that she’s joined us effective immediately. It is rare to find somebody who matches exactly what I’m looking for in a partner so when you find it you act: Academic rigor (Princeton undergrad, Stanford MBA).

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By contrast, they backed 620 funds in the last three months of 2021 First time fund managers hit hard: In 2022, limited partners backed 141 funds run by first-time managers, a 59% decline from the prior year and the lowest number since 2013 How does the constrained LP environment manifest for funds and startups?

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Institutional Investors 215

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In a regulated market, the government controls how products and services are allowed to enter the market, what prices may be charged, what features the product/service must have, safety of the product, environmental regulations, labor laws, domestic/foreign content, etc. In the U.S. But startups? telephone service.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2018

Prepare for the Short- and Long-Haul with Your Product Offerings. The company has seen cases where a safer substitution in a plant’s cleaning products just a week prior had prevented a worker from experiencing severe burns to the face and loss of vision during an accident. Taylor’s experience is great insight for you.

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Marketing North America Green Software Review 147

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The most poignant of these challenges was the quest for capital partners, which was not just about securing capital but about finding collaborators who were willing to believe in the vision and commit to the long-term journey. Beyond providing capital, private credit firms often engage in strategic partnerships with their portfolio companies.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Bankruptcy Intellectual Property 158

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In part, the email read: “Everyone at PayPal should use our products where available. Should an investor really be expected to use the 10, 15, or 20 products in his or her portfolio? As an investor, using a portfolio company is easier when dealing with consumer apps and companies. I say absolutely. Related articles.

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Portfolio Product Vertical Email 156

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. It’s by far the longest time I’ve spent working on any one thing, and I feel very blessed to have been able to work with my partners, colleagues, founders, and collaborators. Patience is a virtue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Jeff Bezos , CEO of Amazon, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Silicon Valley Portfolio 342

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce that we have added Greg Bettinelli as a partner at GRP Partners. Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

My good friend Alexander Osterwalder , the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations of the Lean Methodology) has written a playbook (along with his associate partner Tendayi Viki ,) From Innovation Theater to Growth Engine to explain how to build and implement repeatable innovation processes inside a company. .

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Portfolio Business Model Metrics Programming 374

Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2022

Here are some of the many (public) highlights across the portfolio. . Product launches. Shippo announced Shippo for Platforms , a new product launching with Shopify as their first platform partner. Spring is here, and we’re well into 2022! As always, there’s never a dull moment in the Version One family.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 30, 2021

Here are just some of many activities and accomplishments in the V1 portfolio during the past quarter…. Shippo raised a $50M round led by Bessemer Venture Partners at a $1B valuation. . We have been active investors in DeFi for almost three years now and you can read about why we’re thrilled to add Defined to our portfolio. .

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