ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Honeywell CEO Dave Cote also cautions against shortsightedness during economic downturns: I’ve been a leader during three recessions and I’ve never heard a management team talk about how the choices they make during a downturn will affect performance during a recovery. Managing the means of production to fit the circumstances.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

2) New market (less common form, examples are Lyft and eShares) and 3) New business model (least common, non-K9 portfolio examples are PriceLine and SolarCity). Another company which is going to have widespread impact is eShares, eShares is going to change the way the private companies manage their equity.

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San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

You can read it in VCs discussions about hedge fund managers, activist investors or the need to have dual-share voting structures. Today I called it, “our own little VC led, portfolio-by-portfolio company version of RIP Good Times from 7 years ago.” I put up this slide as part of my discussion. Others will follow.

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Burn Rate San Francisco Private Equity LP 150

Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

A strategy for meeting these investors in Austin is to figure out the board schedule of their portfolio companies, as they they will likely travel here for those meeting. This list is venture funds that have invested in two or more Austin-based companies over the past two years. link] Click here to download a PDF with all of the tables above.

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Venture Capital Austin Texas Private Equity 54

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 20, 2014

But the USV Opportunity Fund was the first time, at least in the post 2001-Internet bubble cycle (or last decade, if you want to put it that way) where an early stage firm created a separate fund to invest in late stage rounds of their existing early-stage portfolio companies.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. Why should VCs be any different?

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2016

To build up your portfolio and client base, you may want to start with a site like Upwork (and check out my article on using Upwork to find great freelancers —it’ll give you insight into what to do, and what not to do!). Maybe you’ve worked as a hiring manager for years, and you know exactly what employers are looking for.

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Design Demand Finder Cost 60

Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

Now personally responsible for the aforementioned massive risk, Alfred volunteered to leave his position as Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer to be the General Manager of the then tiny Weblogic division in the crowded, nascent Application Server market. outcome, go about starting a new company?

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2016

While I’d been a partner in Mobius from the beginning, I hadn’t really been engaged in managing the overall firm. My whole world blew up in 2001. My portfolio melted down with the bursting of the Internet bubble. I had my office and a small team in Boulder. I did my deals.

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San Francisco Internet Portfolio New York 108

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 20, 2014

But the USV Opportunity Fund was the first time, at least in the post 2001-Internet bubble cycle (or last decade, if you want to put it that way) where an early stage firm created a separate fund to invest in late stage rounds of their existing early-stage portfolio companies.

Early Stage 108

Early Stage Later Stage Syndicate Syndication 108

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. What Do VC’s Do?

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

The owner was not equipped to manage people. 3 – Google Regional Sales Manager. Before starting Badger, I worked at Google as Regional Sales Manager. Sales Account Manager. Sales Account Manager for a leading NYC based StartUp. Thanks to Natalie Harper, Harper PR. #3 Image Credit: Steve Benson. 4 – Sr.

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Entrepreneur Investment Bankers PR Social Media 48

Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We often think we can change people, even managers. I had a business in the portfolio doing fairly well. Further, they went into fundraising and basically were focussed on completely different things as opposed to this one company in their large portfolio. This cost me money! A lot of it! We never led rounds.

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Technical Review Europe Portfolio Germany 76

Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

When I first heard about VC firms in the late 1980s, and my first company (Feld Technologies) started writing portfolio management software for some Boston-based VC firms, many of them had funds with SBIC leverage, although even by the late 1980s this was changing and many of them had shifted away from the SBIC. .”

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SBIC Venture Capital Colorado SBA 142

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

What guidance for your portfolio companies? I think every company’s portfolio is different, so they’re all different sizes, different stages, different geographies, different cash positions, and different market leadership positions. . I will say the one thing we tell all our portfolio companies is to get fit and lean in.

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Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001.

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Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. They had a great managment team, A list VCs, great technology, excellent sales traction and market leadership in a very exciting space. Also, because I have equity in multiple tech start-ups I gain portfolio diversification benefits (meaning Im more likely to get lucky).

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Equity Technical Review San Jose Stock 40

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. Kupietzky held a variety of management roles in marketing, sales and product management at world-class technology companies: Digital Insight (Intuit), Loudcloud/Opsware (Hewlett-Packard) and Siebel Systems (Oracle).

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Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

Agile VC

JULY 19, 2012

Back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, a flood of LP capital was coming into the VC asset class given the strong returns of the mid-late 90s tech boom/bubble. Though there might have been short term benefits to continuing to manage this fund, the long-run success of CRV would be hurt by doing so ( there’s an HBR case on this ).

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Cofounder Limited Partner Early Stage LP 193

37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Browse by visual style, portfolio, budget, and geographic location. I was initially unfamiliar with project management software, and the name helped me understand why exactly I should give basecamp a shot. It manages and sends mailing lists: Interactive Mailinglist (interactive because of the company name being interactive studios).

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Product Name Naming Product Software Review 44

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 25, 2003

Another data point that I look at is how the fund’s 30+ portfolio companies are performing. We have a number of companies in the Enterprise IT space selling security, storage, network management, wireless, and other related software. Some companies are performing extraordinarily well and others are close to budget.

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Forecast Software Review Portfolio Security 60

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The data says otherwise) it was indicated that, according to global investment firm Cambridge Associates, the failure rate for startups has not exceeded 60 % since 2001, based on the monitoring of venture capital investments of 27,259 startups between 1990 and 2010. Data Says Otherwise. Why do so many companies fail?

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Venture Capital Cofounder Finance United States 77

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. As many of your listeners may know, there was an incredible piece published by a gentleman from Founders Fund, discussing Tiger [Global Management] and how they’re focused on the speed and scale business. On Sushi and VC.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Kathy has been VP and trustee of the Licensing Executives Society (LES), and was president of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) from 1988-90. In the average VC portfolio … 1 in 10 companies (they invest in) will turn out to be a big hit.

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Government Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Silicon Valley 120

Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

No manager in their right mind would fire the technical lead of a big software project. And if your manage isn’t in their right mind, it’s probably time to find another job. If you were a manager forced to layoff 10% of your team, who would you let go? Start a MicroISV Build it or buy it , it doesn’t matter.

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Programming Technical Review Software Review RSS 30

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

But, at least twenty graphic design firms from around the world have proven to be the best in their field, with gorgeous portfolios filled with impressive clients and prominent design campaigns. It also has online services its created, including Ballpark (an invoicing app), and Flow, (a project management app). Frog Design.

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San Francisco Design New York City New York 86

Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2019

As a Wharton graduate student, I had a unique opportunity to crowdsource company name ideas for Mansa Tea when the professor of my Brand Management class suggested using my startup as a classroom exercise. To my luck I did manage to find many of them available. The year was 2001. This was 2001, when almost nobody was on the Web.

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Naming Entrepreneur Southern California Video 113

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Active angels invest in a diversified portfolio of 10 or more companies, usually spreading their investments over a few years. In the end, such a portfolio might yield the angel investor a total return on investment of 25% per year or more. A local network of angels is critical to achieving a diversified portfolio.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. But the short answer is that the best intro is from a portfolio company of that VC or by other entrepreneurs whom that VC respects. People who manage processes make more sales. Call it your functional pie chart.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2010

At the time (2001), digital cameras were very much maligned by “real photographers&# , and certainly by the general public. Within a year, I had a large format camera of my own, a growing portfolio, and a long list of tricks he taught me from his years in the art show business. I was hooked. And maybe some bad humor too.

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Java Product Software Developers Software Development 66

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. Notes: Only for IT & related sectors.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Receive and manage newsletters. Mark Siegel, managing director at venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, which has managed more than $4 billion since 1976, said its a matter of supply and demand.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

million for the year, which is the first time it has been below $5 million since 2001, a sign that capital efficiency will be even more important than it has. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. billion to $5.5

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28

VC Cafe

JUNE 8, 2010

J erusalem Venture Partners successfully raised $25 million for an annex fund to strengthen the portfolio companies in the Israel-focused JVP IV which closed in 2001. The aim of the fund is to support existing investments by “enhancing their business propositions&# and preventing premature sales in a downturn. Will it work?

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Warrant IPO Portfolio 75

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

To date, no one has managed to provide a conclusive answer to this issue. 2001 ; Tullis et al., Nor have they managed to make their work sufficiently known in the typographic community ( Spencer, 1968, p.6 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Alex Poole. User experience design and research. Site français. Skip to content.

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Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I’m a big KISS fan, so in the 1980s when I was also in a local rock band in Cleveland, we needed an entertainment agency to manage the band. Of course we were too young and stupid to actually know how to go about hiring one, so I created my own and called it Eisen Management Group. including leaders of our portfolio companies.

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Saba currently works as the operations manager (Sumo) at AppSumo. In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. Carbonmade helps over 100,000 people create online portfolios that require zero HTML skills. Photo by earthlightbooks. This is a guest article by Saba Younus.

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Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Salary 78