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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

provide experienced and hands-on mentorship; and offer a growing network of founding CEOs. Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.); This is ironically part of the problem.

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Come Join Our Investment Team in NYC!

View from Seed

You are a native of NYC tech with a strong network. You know the ecosystem and have a network that is additive to the rest of the team. You will spend 60-80% of your time helping identify new investment opportunities and expand NextView’s network and presence in NYC (and beyond). Who Are We Looking For.

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6 Startup Lessons Learned By Passionate Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

I believe in the “ 10,000 hour rule ,” which postulates that the best entrepreneurs put in more hours of relevant work on an idea and starting a business than the rest of us, counting all efforts and restarts. Start today building a bigger network. Success requires a great amount of hard work.

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We’re Hiring for Our Investment Team at NextView’s NYC Office

View from Seed

You are a native of NYC tech with a strong network. You know the ecosystem and have a network that is additive to the rest of the team. . You will spend 60-80% of your time helping identify new investment opportunities and expand NextView’s network and presence in NYC (and beyond). Who Are We Looking For.

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8 Strategies To Capitalize On Untapped Global Markets

Startup Professionals Musings

The idea is to build excellence in one area, and get the rest from the ecosystem. Indeed these principles are good for all startups Connect ideas and networks from around the world. That means they look for focus on a single piece of the value chain, to limit capital required, people, hardware, and complexity.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. Much of network television can cost $100,000 / minute to produce. It’s why many talent agencies or ad networks struggle to get scale advantages.

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8 Keys To Real Innovation Outside of Silicon Valley

Startup Professionals Musings

The idea is to build excellence in one area, and get the rest from the ecosystem. Indeed these principles are good for all startups Connect ideas and networks from around the world. That means they look for focus on a single piece of the value chain, to limit capital required, people, hardware, and complexity.