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(First Annual?) List of Go-To Early-Stage Service Providers in the NextView Ventures Boston Portfolio 9 Jul 2013 | 03:57 pm
Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. The goal was to assemble data in order to share it back to our...
A Special Web Innovators Group Next Monday – Mobile Growth Masters 18 Jun 2013 | 08:38 pm
Mobile is changing the world. As a startup-tech industry, we’ve been talking about it coming right around the corner for well over a decade. And now, it’s actually happening. Really happening. I am no...
Our Investment in tapCommerce is the Real Deal 11 Jun 2013 | 04:39 am
It isn’t a secret that there is a huge platform shift underway as consumers transition from the desktop web to mobile + tablet devices. Yet when you look at actual the figures, it’s truly astounding: ...
Myth Busters: Debunking Seven Conventional Wisdom Maxims of Venture Capital 20 May 2013 | 05:44 pm
Compared to most other areas of finance, venture capital is practiced as more of an art, as opposed to a science. For that reason, it’s often said that VCs learn the business best through an apprentic...
Driving to Conviction (Not to a Term Sheet) 29 Apr 2013 | 05:25 pm
Posts in the blogosphere, conversation on panels of/about VCs, etc. all talk about the best way for entrepreneurs to optimize their fundraising process with the end-goal of receiving a term sheet. It’...
Startups Seeking Sherpas 4 Apr 2013 | 07:25 pm
After we sold our startup Sombasa Media just over a dozen years ago, I embarked on two distinct “journeys.” The first was a month-long 1500+ mile cycling trip from the southern tip of England to the n...
Why I Like Our Investment in Triple Lift 5 Mar 2013 | 04:01 am
The web has become increasingly visual. Of course the same broadband penetration trends which catapulted the rise of online video over the previous decade also empowered delivery of image-heavy web pa...
Back to School – VC Homework Assignments 11 Feb 2013 | 06:06 pm
VCs like to give out homework. They won’t call it that, though. But rather they use words like “diligence” and “information requests.” Just like in school, the homework can actually be productive, as ...
Do Startup Location Matters Even Matter? 22 Jan 2013 | 07:10 pm
About a year ago, I wrote a post about how office space is the face of a startup – it communicates both an outward message and provides insight into what’s going on underneath, as the physical environ...
Are We Entering 2013 in Crunch-Mode? 3 Jan 2013 | 05:00 pm
Happy New Year and welcome to 2013. According to all of the blogosphere chatter over the past month, seed-funded internet startups are entering this year gearing up for the now-near-infamous Series A ...
