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. While there was an occasional bad apple, the public markets rewarded companies with revenue growth and sustainable profits. What Do VC’s Do?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

But I thought I’d use the situation to talk more broadly about some PR lessons you might learn for your own business and also incorporate some situations I’ve faced recently with some portfolio companies. But if you’re going to say something controversial make it about the market you serve. You just burned a story.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

I’ve been asked by portfolio companies and plenty of others about how they should be changing their strategy given the stock market pullback and what they’ve been hearing on “VC twitter”. Ok, so if you’re a fundable company, you’re a fundable company—great big market, relevant team, solid plan. The incentive is too strong.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

A few years back I blogged about the hard data behind venture outcomes and the challenge of creating a venture portfolio that produces strong returns. Correlation reran the data and produced some compelling data demonstrating that the market surges we’ve seen recently haven’t translated to meaningfully higher venture returns.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. Reid Hoffman. we had no revenue.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In 2013, 298,800 angels invested in 70,730 entrepreneurial ventures, according to the 2013 Angel Market Analysis by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. Source: Center for Venture Research – Angel Market Analysis Report. Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2011: The Recovery Continues”.

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

QUESTION: Should I send out market research surveys prior to approaching an investor? A simple online search should reveal your investors interests as well as the portfolio of companies that he/she has invested in. In 2004, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman launched Reddit. Market Share and a Competitive Advantage. “We

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Will Quist did a great job of explaining this market rhetoric in this thread. The three-question framework goes as such: Q: How much tech-related market cap will be created in the next 10-20 years? So, on one hand, the market see ms like a total frenzy these days. However, I am not sure that is the case with VC.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Will Quist did a great job of explaining this market rhetoric in this thread. The three-question framework goes as such: Q: How much tech-related market cap will be created in the next 10-20 years? So, on one hand, the market see ms like a total frenzy these days. However, I am not sure that is the case with VC.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

Pantheon is one of the Silent Killers in our portfolio – and I’m immensely proud of the progress they are making and excited about their future. I spent a year on the Dean campaign Web Team during the presidential campaign of 2004. Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I changed that quickly when the market shifted and I had to lay off more than 80 people – many of whom were friends. I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. I felt like I had survived The Great Depression and I never wanted to go there again.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

The best VCs are the ones that balance their optimism, vision and enthusiasm for startups with realism based on very real constraints (the primary one being his/her own time, but also includes market development and exit timing). Too many pivots, and you can lose the market opportunity, even with the greatest idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2015

It was part Silicon Valley insider and part marketing huckster. Each company claims to represent a unique and earth-shattering opportunity with a proven team, proven tech­nology, and proven market. Experts say our market will be fifty billion dollars in five years." All we have to do is get one percent of the market."

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. You have a company called Oblong (in your portfolio) which is a Minority Report type company.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

The financial markets quickly gave up more than a trillion dollars. One in 2004 and one in 2006. The market sucked until around 2010 when everyone and their sister decided they wanted to create an accelerator too. The market was back! I’m not talking about the short term opportunity to take advantage of market conditions.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Slack Fund (founded 2009) – with a market cap of $12 billion, Slack Fund is an $80 million fund, investing dollars for equity to startups developing on the Slack platform. Their portfolio includes Messari, Opensea.io, and Celo. Okta Ventures (founded 2009) – Okta has a market cap of $16 billion. Startup Funds.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

According to a 2003-2004 U.S. We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode). At the front of the office, we’re creating an office map showing the names of our portfolio companies, and the photos of the employees that work at each.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Will Quist did a great job of explaining this market rhetoric in this thread. The three-question framework goes as such: Q: How much tech-related market cap will be created in the next 10-20 years? So, on one hand, the market see ms like a total frenzy these days. However, I am not sure that is the case with VC.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

At NextView Ventures, we have a number of companies in our portfolio which are “marketplace” businesses, where buyers and sellers meet to exchange a good or service. Brute force a mini-market and expand. And along the way we’ve met with or observed a larger number of seed-stage startups attempting to start them.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While institutional LPs know big changes are happening, most focus too much on 1) increasing/decreasing fund size or 2) marketing + branding as the major trends. These two divergent groups have optimized for very different market conditions and behaviors. This is a long piece, so if you’re not a fan of inside baseball, skip it.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

An industry organization like the Wi-Fi Alliance did not fit into the traditional ATI portfolio model, but both organizations saw from the start the mutual benefit that would come from the Wi-Fi Alliance residing within ATI. They thought the market could be significant if IEEE 802.11 device compatibility was established.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2010

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. By 2003, I entered my first show and in 2004 I had a full-fledged business running. Their product love blinded them to the fundamental shift in the market: Java was free.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Maybe they never thought about product-market fit. Every VC will tell you that they will take meetings with 100% of the companies that their existing portfolio founders recommend.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

At Risk – Usually starts with a firm beginning to see challenges in large portions of its portfolio, or in keeping the partnership together, or in the viability of the firm’s core strategy as broader markets start to shift (e.g. Well first it’s worth understanding the distinct phases of exactly how a VC firm dies.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Media & Marketing. Marketing & Strategy. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Marketing Services. » More. Loading… Business.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

After buying our first home in 2000, I realized how great the housing market was, saw how everyone else was buying up houses for little or no money down to rent them out and started to do that myself. By the year 2004, I had somewhere around 12 rentals. Things were going really well, and I was loving life.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06. Intermix had acquired their previous online marketing startup, ResponseBase, and they remained a cohesive group.

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

And while the cost of not adapting to the digital era is likely to be extinction, it seems as though every day I see yet another story of a large legacy market leader who is, to put it bluntly, Kodaking. Facebook’s market capitalisation is (as of today) $122b while Kodak had a market value of only $28b at its peak.

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Revenue Technology Portfolio Demand 79

thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

New funds have popped up in increasing numbers over the last few years – but I saw gaps in the market that needed to be filled. There is still a lot of work ahead, but the market has been overwhelmingly responsive to the original thesis. And…I wanted to have fun and work with great people while doing so.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The product/service did not satisfy any need in the market. It is fundamental that during the market research process, you observe if what you have in mind can solve some substantial problem in it. Having a poor marketing strategy. Marketing is the friend we often underestimate.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

New funds have popped up in increasing numbers over the last few years – but I saw gaps in the market that needed to be filled. There is still a lot of work ahead, but the market has been overwhelmingly responsive to the original thesis. And…I wanted to have fun and work with great people while doing so.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

He then led the growth of the domain services division, expanded into the aftermarket business and built Oversee’s owned and operated portfolio of domain names into one of the worlds largest, firmly establishing the company as a leader in Internet real estate. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

However, Israeli companies historically did not focus on marketing to their immediate neighbors. Founded by Nechemia (Chemi) Peres and Assaf Shariv, Amelia is uniquely positioned to leverage Middle East markets amidst a dynamic political environment. Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow.

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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. Loading… Markets. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Marketing Jobs. Market Data Center. Create a profile for me in the Journal Community.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I left a great job, Director of Marketing for Snapple, to start my own speaking business. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. It was through marketing my business idea that I was offered to head a new organization, Immigrant Women in Business, but my gut told me not to do it.

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BeyondVC

AUGUST 5, 2009

My first post about portfolio company Visible World and the future of television advertising was in October 2004 ( see here ).

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