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David Beisel’s Perspective on Digital Change
David Beisel’s Perspective on Digital Change
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It’s extremely rare that a startup begins with just one person. Less than 5% of all NextView portfolio companies began with a sole co-founder, as opposed to a founding team. And while there is something special about the initial group […]
The bulk of written guidance for VC fundraising meetings is centered on the very first meeting: how to get it, how to prepare a pitch deck, how to run the meeting, etc. But then the tactical advice stops. What about the rest of […]
It is the one message-space on your phone that you always pay attention to: SMS text messages. Not just “messaging” broadly, as there are numerous apps where people send and receive communications & messages. Couple that noise with the flurry […]
In the past few weeks there have been numerous product announcements in the voice computing space from big players like Amazon and Google. It appears as though a key part of the strategy for these platform companies is to foster a rich […]
For me, the most exciting time to become involved in a startup is the very earliest of stages, when there is a vision and promise of what could be. Pre-product-market fit. Pre-product, even. That’s exactly when I met Zach Sherman […]
TL;DR: After a dozen years, Boston Innovators Group as we know it is sunsetting, but I will be regularly creating new, focused events to contribute to the ecosystem. The first event focused on voice computing will be held on June […]
Last week, I gave a talk at Voicecamp, a program produced by our friends at Betaworks for early-stage companies building voice-based products. Fahim Abouelfadl and Matt Hartman, who are producing the accelerator and are deep in the voice computing space, asked […]
The entire NextView team are personally subscribers to MealPal. Why? Because the consumer value-proposition for urban professionals in cities like Boston and New York is so strong. A subscription plan, the weekday meal service MealPal offers both the convenience of […]
We have an Amazon Echo in the NextView Ventures office. Every day I say “good morning” and “good night” to it, and I ask Alexa for my flash news briefing when I walk in the door if I missed it […]