For NAV — Partner Profile: Scott Johnson

NAV, a venture capital firm, asked me to help them rebrand (they'd formed as a merger) and let entrepreneurs get a feel for whether NAV might be a fit for them as an investor. So I made:

  • Craft — an intro to the firm.
  • Five startup stories — each about a company NAV invested in.
  • Seven partner profiles — through the words of their colleagues and the entrepreneurs. →

I had interviewed many venture-backed startups as a Forrester analyst, worked at several before that, and become an entrepreneur myself when I started Upland, so I understood the startup world — not just the business but the emotional undercurrents. That helped me tell their stories and made this a really engaging project to me.

This video about Scott Johnson is one of the seven profiles of NAV partners:
John Backus • Thanasis Delistathis • Todd Hixon • Scott Johnson • Geoff Mamlet •
Steve Marcus • Tim Rowe.

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