Rob Go
In search of things new and useful.
In search of things new and useful.
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Despite rumors that the VC business slows down in the summer, we’ve had one or our busiest periods in quite a while. During June, July, and August, we’ve closed 4 new investments and several follow-ons, with a number of companies […]
I’m trying something new and journaling in public. To read those posts, go here: https://www.notion.so/nextview/Rob-s-Public-and-kind-of-random-Journal-ec147146809547e0adb255c80ab58deb Thanks!
As ugly as the Covid-19 pandemic has been, one of the beautiful things I’ve seen has been the amount of energy and resources that people have contributed towards trying to help those in need. There have been many terrific […]
This is a post about raising a Series A from an investor that is not based in your home city. Let me preface this by saying that if all things were equal, you would probably prefer to have a local […]
I was very pleased to see that “This is Us” was nominated for 11 Emmy’s and that Sterling Brown won the award for Best Actor in a drama series. This is Us was my favorite show in the last year […]
As the atomization of seed has become more mature, it is increasingly clear that history is repeating itself. What I mean is that the things that played when seed VC became institutionalized is beginning to happen in the pre-seed market. […]
Recently, I’ve been spending a fair bit of time with a number of the new early-stage investors in Boston. There are a lot of new folks in the space. Just last week, Axios announced that Stephen Marcus is raising a fund […]
One question I know investors sometimes ask founders is “what are your valuation expectations for this round?” It’s a tricky question to answer because you kind of can’t win either way. If you say something that is around market, you […]
A big chunk of our time as VC is spent on internal discussions about companies we are looking at. We believe strongly that when making investment decisions, it’s important to score opportunities quantitatively but make decisions based on conviction. What […]