This is a guest post from Ivan Kirigin, CEO of YesGraph and formerly product and growth at Dropbox and Facebook. While a lot of effort has gone into building Dropbox’s Twitter following and marketing machine over the years, Ivan was kind […]

Dharmesh Shah knows a thing or two (or three … or 100) about startups and marketing.

As the VC seed market has institutionalized, especially over the past five years, there has emerged a prototypical seed round profile:

Raising capital is really difficult, no matter what people say about the influx of seed and early-stage dollars into the startup eco-system. I know very strong entrepreneurs that need to grind really hard to get seed rounds done, so I […]

This post was originally written by InsightSquared, a NextView portfolio company. The original can be found here. This post explores some of the critical data that seed-stage startups should consider using as they seek future rounds of funding from VCs.

“We are pretty sure that all the investors here are human beings.”

When raising a round of seed venture capital, founders often focus the bulk of their time and energy on securing meetings and nailing their pitches — and rightfully so. It’s absolutely critical to secure that first interested party in order […]

On June 12, NextView co-founder and partner Lee Hower sat on a panel at Boston’s State of Innovation. This is a quick recap of the discussion between notable VCs and founders around town.

A sampling of recent news from our portfolio and the NextView Ventures team.

This post was originally written by Shareaholic, a NextView portfolio company. The original can be found here. This post explores the reasons why they killed traditional press releases and ends with the playbook they use instead.