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David Beisel’s Perspective on Digital Change

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David Beisel’s Perspective on Digital Change

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It’s currently that time of year when startups are holding board meetings to go over their Q4 results and look ahead to the next twelve months of the new year.  The tricky thing is that for a lot of startups, […]

David Beisel
January 24, 2017 · 3  min.

As we enter 2017 and millions of people received Google Homes and Amazon Dots+Echos as gifts over the holidays, an increasing amount of attention will be placed on Personal Voice Computing.  I’ve recently been on a thematic pursuit exploring this […]

David Beisel
January 4, 2017 · 3  min.

In the three months since I penned my initial blog post on “Ubiquity of Voice and the Venture Opportunity,” I’ve been on a deep dive talking with a wide range of people exploring the “Personal Voice Computing” theme, all the […]

David Beisel
December 12, 2016 · 3  min.

The concept of Product-Market Fit, and the process by which startups find it, has been discussed so extensively within the startup ecosystem that it has its own acronym, PMF. Derived from it has been the similar concept of Founder-Market fit – […]

David Beisel
November 29, 2016 · 3  min.

A couple weeks ago, my partner Rob penned a blog post about the “shape of traction” which really resonated with a number of folks.  The quick summary is that the shape of a startup’s traction (with time/product-quality on the x […]

David Beisel
September 26, 2016 · 3  min.

Voice is everywhere. People have always used their own voices (supplemented with facial and other movement) as the natural UI for real-time person-to-person communication.  However, while human-to-machine user interfaces have changed and progressed through different paradigms over the decades of […]

David Beisel
September 13, 2016 · 4  min.

In my first post in a two part series, I detailed the dynamics in the venture market leading to a current atomization of seed rounds.  Not only has Seed become the new Series A, but the capital path for startups […]

David Beisel
June 14, 2016 · 4  min.

When we first started NextView Ventures in 2010, we did so because we recognized that there was an underserved need for seed-stage capital particularly along the east coast between Boston and New York.  And during that time, the venture market has […]

David Beisel
June 14, 2016 · 3  min.

An intangible and qualitative judgement process is the core of a VC firm’s decision to invest in one startup vs another. My partner Rob Go has tried to deconstruct and demystify this effort and has even created a VC decision […]

David Beisel
May 23, 2016 · 3  min.

Consumers are increasingly purchasing goods and services online which take more than a few minutes of reflection. Items like cars, clothes, jewelry, mattresses, eyeglasses, and even small home renovations are given more consideration because the absolute costs are higher. They […]

David Beisel
February 24, 2016 · 4  min.