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Why This Startup Teaches Everyone to Code + a Framework to Find a CTO

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In the 10th edition of Traction, we hear the story of Vin Vacanti , co-founder/CEO of Yipit.com (daily deals aggregator) and YipitData (analyzes web data for institutional investors). Why Vin decided to pivot the business (read: launch a second startup) and what he learned going from B2C to B2B.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

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Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. . That said, we tend to be very flexible on syndication to bring on great partners, and have collaborated with terrific partners like our most frequent co-investors Founder Collective, Accomplice, LHV, Softech, and others.

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

View from Seed

Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. Fairly frequently public market investors believe that a new consumer company is “the next X”. We first saw this with Twitter in 2013 when they went public and many (both retail & institutional investors) believed that company might be the “next Facebook”.

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

I’ve also presented at a range of industry conferences on how institutional investors can use professional networks for research , origination , market research , and value creation. We’re not mainly for B2B companies or later stage companies or anything like that. David Teten: How do startups sign up?

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Looking Back On Our First Couple Years at NextView

Rob Go

9 that are B2B. About 75% of the portfolio companies that are at least 6 months old have successfully raised series A’s from good institutional investors at a nice valuation step-up from our initial investment. In only a handful of cases has there been significant traction prior to our investment.

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

Agile VC

Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. Fairly frequently public market investors believe that a new consumer company is “the next X”. We first saw this with Twitter in 2013 when they went public and many (both retail & institutional investors) believed that company might be the “next Facebook”.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Kyle Dunn, CEO, Meyler Capital , says, “Investors should focus on building a large audience within a CRM system (having the ability to categorize your different constituents); communicate consistently to that audience; and implement an automation platform that can leverage lead score to profile interest. Deer Isle Group has built the D.I.G.