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Flowchart: How a Seed VC Makes Investment Decisions
Ed. note: In 2013, Rob Go published a flowchart articulating his VC decision making process. Below, we’ve updated that graphic with new information in order to stay current and provide more context and...
View ArticleWhat Is Venture Debt and How Should Startups Use It?
There’s been a lot of digital ink spilled around the various types of capital available to startups today. At NextView, for instance, one of our more popular posts centers on atypical seed rounds to...
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How to Approach Your First Board Meeting After Raising Seed Capital
There’s a saying among VCs that the first board meeting after a new round of funding is when the skeletons come out of the closet. During the preceding pitch process, even founders who are highly...
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VC Partner Sweet Spot: The Always-Sometimes-Never Rules for Pitching the...
For entrepreneurs setting out to raise a round of VC financing, with some diligent research, it’s reasonably straightforward to put together a list of target firms to pitch. Start with the firms of...
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Accidental VC: When, Exactly, Should Seed-Stage Startups Look for Office Space?
Accidental VC is a series of short posts written by me, Jay Acunzo. Though I never planned it, I somehow wound up working in VC as NextView’s VP of platform. As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed...
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7 Founding Sins Seed-Stage Startups Should Avoid
Over the past few years, I have been involved with and close to a number of both successful and unsuccessful startups. To me, the most exciting (and most perilous) times in a company’s lifecycle are...
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Introducing Traction, the NextView Podcast: Creative Ways Startups Find...
Today, we are excited to announce the launch of our new podcast TRACTION. On the show, we’ll explore and share the stories of all the creative, unusual, and clever ways that entrepreneurs find early...
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Infographic: Must-Listen VC and Startup Investor Podcasts
Seemingly overnight, podcasts are exploding — as are blog posts that claim, “Podcasts are exploding.” Last week, NextView announced the launch of our new show, Traction, exploring the creative and...
View ArticleTraction #4: Chicken, Egg, Or Farm? An Unusual Launch Problem (Brad...
Traction is NextView’s twice-monthly podcast sharing the stories of creative and unusual ways entrepreneurs gain initial results. Everyone likes to say that startups should do things that don’t scale,...
View ArticleWhat Are the Benefits of Stealth Mode for Startups, Really?
Startups and their founders who claim to be in “stealth mode” prior to launch are such a commonplace part of the startup ecosystem that it might seem odd to question its merits. But it’s important to...
View ArticleFounder Superpowers: Areas Where Top Entrepreneurs Can Be Truly Exceptional
Ask any VC what they look for in an investment opportunity, and they’ll tell you that the people are at the top of their list. Extraordinary companies can’t be built without extraordinary...
View Article5 Questions VCs Never Answer, Answered by a VC | #BOSSOI
Editor’s note: Local tech media company BostInno (a division of the American City Business Journals) hosts an annual Boston State of Innovation conference. Leading up to the event, they published an...
View ArticlePlaying Startup
I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. It has an impact at an individual level, a company level, and an ecosystem level. This is not an...
View ArticleTraction #5: How One Journalist Broke into Tech & Rocketed to the Top in Just...
Traction is NextView’s twice-monthly podcast sharing the stories of creative and unusual ways entrepreneurs gain initial results. Everyone likes to say that startups should do things that don’t scale,...
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“Seed Is the New Series A” – Making Sense of the Confusion
A few weeks ago, Manu Kumar wrote an excellent post detailing the current state of the seed financing landscape. Read it – it’s excellent. I agree with most of the things that Manu wrote, and I’ve been...
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The Story of a Google-Spurning, Cancer-Beating, Bowtie-Wearing, Bootstrapped...
To our listeners: THANK YOU! We recently learned that Traction was featured on the iTunes New and Noteworthy list, and it’s all thanks to your ratings, listenership, support, and feedback. For those...
View ArticleAccidental VC: When Should Startups Announce Seed Funding?
Accidental VC is a series of short posts written by me, Jay Acunzo. Though I never planned it, I somehow wound up working in VC as NextView’s VP of platform. As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed...
View ArticleTraction by a Thousand Cuts: How The Muse Scrapped to 4 Million Visitors...
The NextView podcast Traction shares the incredible stories of the creative and unusual things entrepreneurs did to make initial progress in an important area of their businesses. You can listen on...
View ArticleWhat Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech...
On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers,...
View ArticleWhat Makes a Great Consumer Startup Marketer?
While the startup environment in Boston has vastly improved over the last several years, I continue to hear the sentiment that it’s really tough to build a great consumer startup in Boston. This is...
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