NextView Ventures
also referred to as: nextview
39 statements across 5 episodes · 9 bullish · 7 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement May 11, 2015 by Jay Acunzo · said 47 times in 10 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (31), Rob Go (6), Lee Hower (6), Jonathan Abrams (3), Eric Paley (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 12 mentions in 1 episode
2018 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: How To Think About Founder-Category Fit, Why The Biggest Opportunities Are In Category Re-Architecture & What Can Be Done To Increase The Amount of Women In VC with Nadia Boujarwah, Founder & CEO @ Dia & Co
- 20VC: What John Doerr Taught Me About Great Investing, Why Not All A Rounds Are Post-Traction and Why Despite Overfunding, There Is Still Gaps In Venture Financing with Trae Vassallo, Founding Partner @ Defy.vc
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 19 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode
- 20VC: Why Valuation Is Of Critical Importance At Seed, How To Understand Innovation Cycles & Having 3 CEOs and Burning $10m a Month with Lee Hower, Co-Founder @ NextView Ventures
- 20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- 20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- 20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 11 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about NextView Ventures, oldest first
May 11, 2015
Seven of NextView's Top Ten Blog Posts Were Published the Prior Year
“So I launched it in July of 2014. If you look at the report from last month, so we're recording this in May, so if you look at April of 2015, of the top 10 most highly trafficked blog posts, About six or seven of them. I think it was seven of them were publish…”
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May 11, 2015 positive
Startups Should Prioritize Content Problem-Solving Over Custom Blog Design
“Rather than go run out of the gate, create some custom, beautiful blog, better is just use out of the box tools, you know, WordPress, Squarespace, whatever, and just really focus on what you're putting out the door. And for a company, it should be matching, ba…”
May 16, 2016 negative
Go: Raising excessive money pre-PMF hurts focus and breeds overhead
“There seems like there's no downside to raising more money, but there actually is. And the downside is actually around a lack of focus scrappiness And over investment in overhead before there's really the sort of core machinery to support it.”
May 16, 2016 neutral
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May 16, 2016
Go: VC reputation is defined by rejected or failing founders
“The most important aspect is, you know, what do other founders say about you? And not just what do other founders in your portfolio that are the best performing founders, right? Because like every company that's doing great, the, their investors spend a lot of…”
May 16, 2016
Go: 30% dilution pre-PMF hurts founder leverage in future rounds
“Like selling a third of your company before product market fits seems pretty painful. Versus trying to sell, you know, 15, 20% of the company for less money, but getting you to a point where you have a lot more leverage the next time you have to go to raise, r…”
May 16, 2016
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Mar 8, 2017 negative
Hower: No 'subprime model' exists in venture capital due to power laws
“There's no subprime model to venture capital investing, right? You can't invest in the mediocre companies at a cheap price and produce a good outcome because the distribution of outcomes is a power law. It's not a normal distribution.”
Mar 8, 2017 negative
Lee Hower: High valuations without progress create severe overhangs
“At any point in, in the life cycle, You can create a valuation overhang where if a company raises capital at an exceptionally high valuation and can't hit value accretive milestones along the way to merit that, that valuation, they put themselves at a challeng…”
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Jun 23, 2023
NextView Signals Fund Timelines to LPs 18 to 24 Months Ahead
“Typically a year, you know, if I think about like our timing, if we're looking to do a first close in say Q one of a given year, we are probably giving pretty clear indication of where our timeframe is at least like 18, if not 24 months before that.”
Jun 23, 2023 neutral
NextView Launched via Minimum Viable First Close Before Institutional LPs
“You basically find the people who are willing to say yes and just trust you. You try to tally up as much as possible, preferably enough to do a minimum viable first close, close that capital, get into business, and allow yourself time to be able to cultivate t…”
Jun 23, 2023 positive
Jun 23, 2023 bullish
Jun 23, 2023 positive
Rob Go: A Base of Small LP Checks Creates an Anti-Fragile Fund
“I generally am a believer in like building an anti-fragile LP LP base. And so in a weird way, like, even though I said earlier, I really, you know, I don't mind concentration. I also don't mind a lot of small checks if you can handle it from a timing standpoin…”
Jun 23, 2023
NextView Ranks Portfolios Quarterly to Prevent Hype-Driven Follow-On Decisions
“We basically do a ranking of the portfolio every quarter from a perspective of where we want to deploy or follow on capital. And we do that because we want to make the decision apart from a financing opportunity, right? Because what ends up happening is when s…”
Jun 23, 2023
Rob Go: Single Mega-Funds Create Worse Alignment Than Separate Opportunity Funds
“I think the third is like, there's an alternative, which is we just raise a bigger fund overall. But I think everybody kind of loses in that case, right? Because, you know, it's hard to deploy that much money. The fees effectively are higher if you don't do, b…”
Jun 23, 2023
Jun 23, 2023
NextView Intentionally Uses Incomplete Data Rooms to Test LP Engagement
“We have since changed that where we do have a data room, but the data room is a preliminary data room and it is intentionally incomplete. And the reason it's intentionally incomplete is I want to see an LP. If we offer the data room, I want to know they looked…”
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