Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

This initial wave of applicants resulted in the selection of six initial Accelerator participants – female & male founders at startups hailing from the Bay Area to Miami to Alabama to Boston, ranging from b2b SaaS offerings to consumer services… all transforming people’s everyday lives.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 1) Market fund. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. This particular company, as a B2B SaaS business, would definitely benefit from driving traffic to convert into subscribers or leads on their email list.

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Startup PR Cofounder Stealth 120

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

I’m moving out of an operational role. That show daily turned into the Red Bull, which now has two million subscribers and then all the videos and the syndication and they’re having The New York Times and Wall Street Journal pay them money for some of their content. Robert Rose: Yes, Joe. They wanted to do a show daily.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

In this case, the intermediate milestones were (1) recruiting a technical co-founder and a team member who could help handle the regulatory challenges, (2) strike a partnership that would be critical for the company to operate, and (3) create more definition around the initial product offering.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Finance Founder Syndication 120

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Only around 10–15% of B2B leads turn into paying customers, and it’s because tactics optimizing for the early stages of the funnel only cater to early-stage goals. Very few, if any, of these interactions are with a sales rep.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 28, 2016

In this case, the intermediate milestones were (1) recruiting a technical co-founder and a team member who could help handle the regulatory challenges, (2) strike a partnership that would be critical for the company to operate, and (3) create more definition around the initial product offering.

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Cofounder Finance Founder Syndication 28

Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

Initially focused on dairy & livestock operations, Farmeron’s system takes in data from a myriad of sources from farm production systems (e.g. automated milking machines that spit out data) to veterinary data (e.g. age, weight, immunization, breeding status, etc) to inventory management info (e.g. feedstocks).

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

2) Vast Human Capital Outside Our Walls - Rob, David, and I all try to draw on our experience as founders, operators, and investors in software & internet companies both in looking at new startups and forming investment themes. A good example of that is our theme around the consumerization of business software.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

They picked online, because signing up online B2B partnerships is quick, easy and capital light. Canadian operator Rogers filed to become a bank last year. Why would they even mess up with NFC when there’s not even a common standard for that? Enough said. What about Jumio? What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). The pipeline of companies in registration has continued to grow. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. The process is called mass syndication, or a party round. The “official” date is June 9 th , 2006 — for those that are curious about such things). In other words, the future of financing is continuous funding, not discrete.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217