Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

Since the field’s estimated beginnings in 2009 , subsegments like “feminomics” and “inclusive finance” have spun off, but at it’s core gender lens investing is: incorporating gender as a factor to guide investment strategies. There is also much progress to be made in the standardization of gender lens investment criteria.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

million portfolio. In 2009, Tim started Investimonials, LLC, which was essentially a TripAdvisor for the finance industry. He founded the Timothy Sykes Foundations which is partnered with Make-A-Wish Foundation. Karmagawa has so far built 70 schools in some developing countries and the plan is to build 1000 schools.

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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). As an entrepreneur at heart, I often innately grasp the potential of entrepreneurs and ideas that I meet with.

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Transformify

JULY 25, 2016

This is worth recognising if there are more positive developments. We had contemplated very seriously the not unlikely prospect of a vote to exit and consequently we placed a number of hedges in the portfolios that we manage for St. Consequently, the portfolio strategy will not change. James’s Place.”

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

As Techcrunch announced earlier today, Accel led a $10m round in the company to help them develop their service across all Europe. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Portfolio. (3). ► 2009. (9). Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 12:17 PM.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

First Round became a very active investor in consumer internet and e-commerce, on a rather lean investment budget, with several notable exits (including Mint.com to Intuit in 2009 for $170M). Now this might sound like a minor development, but actually it’s something that is changing the entire playing field.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. These local governments financially supported the startups because, by locating in these zones, the new ventures were seen as contributing to local economic development. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2013

“People and machines are producing valuable information that could enrich our lives in so many ways, from pinpoint accuracy in predicting severe weather to developing customized treatments for terminal diseases, says Boyd Davis, vice president and general manager of Intel ‘s Datacenter Software Division.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

” And just – you develop a pattern over time that no matter how many times I try to say no to you, I can’t. Because I’m going to say no to you, and the guys you want to hire from Facebook are going to say no to you. ” “Okay, well you can be an operating partner or a venture partner.”

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99u.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Founded in 2009, the 99U takes its name from Thomas Edisons famous. Sure, you may need developers and designers, but how about experts on your industry or people with relationships with certain prospects that you cant afford to hire? Jeffrey Bussgang General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, Author of "Mastering the VC Game ".

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

This is a guest post by Jeff Jordan, General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. The name was shortened to “Airbnb” and they launched their website in 2009. I joined eBay in 1999, early in its life, and had the privilege of witnessing and contributing to the development of one of the most iconic e-commerce businesses.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Collectively they have $850M in capital in their most recent funds: [link] Both Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners have filed regulatory documents associated with new fundraising efforts in 2017 so we should all look forward to announcements from them on successfully raising new funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Carmen was the first CIA executive to envision many of the applications now used by CIA analysts, including online production, collaborative tools, and Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki developed by Don Burke and Sean Dennehy. In 2009, Don and Sean won a Service to America Medal. Anyone can just edit?”

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

Today I own and manage a company specifically designed to help people grow their portfolios. I founded SilkRoll in 2015, I spent 10 years developing my style and taste in fashion while working around the world as an investment banker. 9 – Developing an Entrepreneur Program. 13 – Real Estate Development Industry.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2019

As a case in point, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta published a graphic indicating that stock prices plunged 50% from the high to low between October 2007-March 2009. There are many different investment vehicles you can add to your portfolio. If you don’t want to take on all the risks on your own, partner up with others.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. These local governments financially supported the startups because, by locating in these zones, the new ventures were seen as contributing to local economic development. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Steve my name is Donald xx, and I’m the head of external affairs of the CIA’s venture capital firm and we’d like you to keynote our conference.” And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.” They had developed ultrasonic receivers and ultrasonic jammers and physical countermeasures.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 21, 2010

Although you probably think of financial portfolio when I mention diversification, there are other areas where diversification is desirable. The fact that a personal experiment fails or is delayed is no big deal, the fact that someone relies on a deadline and quality that you can influence is different. For example, diversification.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

My partner Ross Kimbarovsky and I wanted to help people from around the world access creative talent and help creative from around the world find new talent. I was proud of my performance and our rocket ship trajectory, but internal politics and personalities led to a division between the owner, me and a third equity partner.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

I believe I am qualified to talk about this as I spent ~6 years at Google in strategic partnerships (commerce), as head of Campus London (Google’s first physical startup hub), Head of Google for Entrepreneurs Europe (now called Google for Startups) and eventually general partner for Google Ventures. M&A – Acquisitions.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 28, 2010

K9 expects to be an active investor in portfolio companies and will typically make only 4-6 new investments per year. No distributed teams, and no outsourced product development. The first closing for the fund was held in Q2 2009. Hyper Local : Entire team must be local to the San Francisco Bay Area. Twilio (Seed and Series A).

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Meanwhile my partner was in heaven working with his newly hired group of game designers directing and producing our first games. No, not really, but my partner owns the studio and tells me it’s spectacular and everyone will love it. Go spend some time outside the building talking to potential distribution partners.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kupietzky has served as CEO and Director of Oversee.net since 2009. 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.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

Thursday, January 22, 2009. Thanks for sharing Sophie Dupont Business Development Director SD-Efficiency Paris - France. Just stumbled upon your blog as I'm working on developing my companies Saas comp plan. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Portfolio. (3). ▼ 2009. (9). Newer Post.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

In particular, partners will need to: - develop integration capabilities to be able to deliver solutions with good economics - adapt their sales process to be able to articulate a clear business value to line of business managers (instead of IT managers) - Adapt the marketing materials (webminars, events.) Portfolio. (3).

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K9 Ventures

JULY 5, 2011

I’m pleased to announce that K9 Ventures’ portfolio company BackType (@ BackType ) has been acquired by Twitter. I was first introduced to Christopher Golda at BackType in 2009 (Thanks @ fbishara ) as a “highly technical team” — something I look for. I’ve been a fan of what Posterous has built and like Sachin’s approach.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

million in Series A funding to develop management solutions that help secure open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl (LAMP), and accelerate enterprise adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Gazzang, Inc., the cloud infrastructure software company, today announced it has secured $3.5

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

My partner in Menlo Incubator , Gary Kremen , and I had a recent debate on which one of us hates convertible debt more. However, using portfolio theory, your losers are going to far outnumber your winners, so taking half or more of the gains out of the winners will have a big impact on the overall returns. ► 2009. (7).

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

If you were a “with it” VC you needed to have a “Content&# or “Multimedia&# company in your portfolio to impress your limited partners – educational software companies, game companies, or anything that could be described as content and/or Multimedia. You mention above being on both sides of a reality distortion field.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Although Learning Management is old news, Talent Management represents a broader set of emerging functionality around internal employee management and development, and has come to define the broader category which is also known as Human Capital Management. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Portfolio. (3).

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

France has proven its ability to develop innovative internet models Over the past three years, we have invested over $60 million in French technology start-ups with Showroomprive (number 2 in Europe for online private sales), BlaBlaCar ( Covoiturage.fr Why should they be penalised in such an arbitrary way? So why twelve years?

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 27, 2018

Partners network Keith Krach, who joined the board of the company in January 2010, was appointed CEO the following year. During his tenure from 2011 to 2017, Keith developed a set of partnerships with most of the relevant leaders involved in software productivity and transactions, including Microsoft, SAP, Salesforce and Comcast.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Companies like Microsoft have developed subscription-based licensing contracts without a SaaS delivery model and SaaS companies are selling multi-year contracts for their services. Requires more capital because: - It is harder to develop for many new factors like tenant data isolation, user management, subscription services, etc.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Peter Lehrman, CEO, AxialMarket Daniel Confino, Founder, MergerID ( a Financial Times business) Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners. David Weild IV, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market Mr. Weild is the founder of Capital Markets Advisory Partners.

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