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In this story-driven show from seed-stage VC NextView, tech startup founders, executives, journalists, and investors share how they gained initial traction against the odds. Every startup he...
After our first year of The Idea Maze, we wanted to share five key takeaways that we have distilled from these converations. Listen now to h...
Hello Traction Listeners! Did you know we have another podcast, The Idea Maze? Hosted by Nextview Co-Founder Rob Go, each episode gives us a...
In a very special episode of Traction, we sit down as a team and discuss the new mission of the firm and talk through B2C and B2B examples o...
On the podcast today, NextView cofounder Rob Go sits down with Andy Rachleff, VC veteran and the president, CEO, and executive chairman of W...
Today, Samantha Howe of Grove Collaborative shares her in-depth knowledge of a massive trend in marketing: working with influencers. You'll...
On the show today, Fareed Mosavat shares his experiences on growth teams for Slack, Instacart, and RunKeeper. We learn from his approach but...
Today's episode features a fast-rising company led by Shan-Lyn Ma. Her startup, Zola, is changing the way people purchase gifts for brides a...
Wayne Chang and Jeff Seibert are the cofounders of Crashlytics, which Twitter acquired in 2013. Today, as angel investors, they see dozens o...
Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown are entrepreneurs, growth experts, and co-authors of the book Hacking Growth. Today, we talk about this notion o...
Christina Sass is co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that locates, trains, and staffs world-class engineers in Africa for hire by tech...
Will Ahmed is the CEO and co-founder of WHOOP, a fitness tech startup working with high-performance athletes. Their users include LeBron Jam...
Ellen Chisa is VP of product at Lola, a travel company combining the human element of travel agents with smart technology. While some entrep...
Adam Marchick, CEO of VoiceLabs, sees the disruptive force on the horizon that is voice technology. Whether it's voice-based apps or voice i...
Chad Laurans is the CEO of SimpliSafe, a large and growing tech company located in the Boston area. Years ago, in the span of 30 days, three...
Dan Reich is the CEO and co-founder of Troops, a company bringing artificial intelligence to your sales team's workflow, right in Slack. (Di...
Kristen Craft is VP of business development and marketing at Ovia Health. For this episode, Jay sat down with Kristen while she was head of...
Mike Russell is the CEO and co-founder of Paintzen , a NextView-backed company based in New York. Over the last couple years, they've experi...
This episode features two concerned and proactive members of New York's tech-startup community laying bare the facts and solutions to the pr...
This episode features two veteran marketers going deep into the ins and outs of building an initial marketing team from scratch. On the show...
When you hear "brand marketing," what do you think about? Maybe big brands, big budgets, or even big wastes of money and time as a startup,...
In this episode, we mix things up. Jenny Jao of Harvard Business School digs into the making of Traction with host Jay Acunzo. How does it f...
What does the evolution from founder to CEO look like? And how does an entrepreneur balance working IN the business early to tinkering ON th...
Today, we talk to startup legend and self-made millionaire, Matt Ruby, founder of Vooza -- thought leader, disruptor, and the next Steve Job...
In this episode, Danielle Morrill, the CEO and co-founder of Mattermark, shares her company's origin story, including how they created an ad...
NextView's NYC podcast rolls on with NYC-based principal and host Tim Devane. Today, Shai Goldman, one of the most active community builders...
Rob's recent Shape of Traction blog post explores a big problem in gaining initial traction. You can find the post below, as well as David B...
In this episode of Gotham Alpha, AngelList's Eli Bronner joins NextView principal Tim Devane to discuss NYC Tech's growth and energy, why he...
In Part 2 of our series of episodes with Reboot, Jay plays skeptic to Dan Putt's insistence that you should actively work on communication a...
What happens when you and your co-founder experience conflict or strife but don't address it up front? When something festers and is ready t...
NextView's Rob Go talks with Yoav Shapira, a longtime tech leader in the Boston startup community. Yoav was first employee at CarGurus, a fo...
In the second episode of our NYC Tech-focused series, NextView principal Tim Devane and VP of platform Jay Acunzo talk about the tech compan...
Startups are exciting for any number of reasons, not least of which are all the fresh new ideas for products and various approaches to doing...
Go inside the thinking behind a $16B startup -- worth more than Twitter, Pinterest or Dropbox as of this recording. Today's guest, Jesse Mid...
In the first episode of our NYC Tech-focused miniseries, NextView principal Tim Devane and VP of platform Jay Acunzo talk about the biggest...
Oli Gardner is the co-founder of Unbounce, a platform that helps you build, test, and optimize landing pages to convert customers. Today, he...
Last time, we heard from a CEO about how startups can sell to big brands and enterprises. This time, Angus Davis, the founder and CEO of Ups...
The prospect of selling a new product from an "unproven" business into a large corporation can seem daunting. But startups launch all the ti...
Oh what's in a name? Your startup's name and branding become objects that represent your passion, pride, and determination. But startups cha...
NextView's Rob Go, Tim Devane, and Jay Acunzo break down the key findings, themes, and stories from the firm's new report, The State of NYC...
When looking back at the seed stage of their companies, lots of guests on Traction will cite the same regret: "I wish I started content mark...
There's no denying the sheer creative power of the internet, but too often, it turns into a race to the bottom -- more clicks (and therefore...
Justin Robinson, co-founder of mobile startup and liquor delivery app Drizly, talks about some of the ridiculously non-scalable things they...
Hilary Mason, founder at Fast Forward Labs and Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, debunks some of the myths around startups bein...
Ben Einstein, Founder/Partner of BOLT, an early-stage VC investing in hardware startups, shares the stories of several connected devices and...
Sandi MacPherson, Founder of Quibb, a private community of tech tastemakers sharing professional content and discussions, tells the story of...
In this episode, Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of Duck Duck Go and author of Traction, the book (no connection to this show), shares the story of bu...
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Danielle Morrill, CEO of Mattermark -- In this episode, Danielle shares her company's origin story, including how they created an addicting,...
NYC's Vin Vacanti of Yipit -- In this episode of Traction, we tell the story of Vin Vacanti , co-founder/CEO of Yipit (daily deals aggregato...
Scott Belsky -- co-founder/CEO of Behance. Brand. Mission. Emotion. These are things that, perhaps surprisingly to some, are still not widel...