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A Year in Review: 2016

Version One Ventures

Mattermark (a portfolio company) looked at the matriculation rates for a class of startups. Likewise, early-stage investors may not appreciate just how much follow-on support their portfolio companies will need. So, how have Version One portfolio companies done in this environment? 2016 for Version One companies.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. And what happens is you have a lot of people that are either engineering or non-engineering that end up in PM roles that can’t think across the whole thing… “. You have a company called Oblong (in your portfolio) which is a Minority Report type company.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. So what will become of IT?

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

Secondly, the driver of returns for the funds raised in 1978 – 1981 was not their underlying portfolios, at what stage, or in what industries they were built. By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.” Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market. This isn’t correct either. A good example is Symantec.

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An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis

David Cohen

You are the engine of our future, after all. This recession lasted until 1994. We are all rooting for you to do this. You are the employers of tomorrow. In the early 1990s, we were in a recession triggered by reduced defense spending at the end of the cold war, the 1990 oil price shock, and a savings and loan crisis.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. The engine at the core of that growth was a highly advantaged customization offering that took years and years for Dell’s competitors to figure out.

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The Story of How/Why K9 Invested in Pragli

K9 Ventures

In CS147 one of the video we showed to the class was the Sun Starfire concept video that was produced in 1994. HiHello has a remote team of engineers – in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and California. The seeds of this were sown decades ago when I was TAing CS147: Introduction to HCI at Stanford with my Ph.D. advisor Prof.

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