VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Below are some of the noteworthy highlights from the report: The number of companies funded raised: 68 Israeli high-tech companies raised capital in the third quarter of 2010, compared to 60 in the preceding quarter and 55 in the corresponding quarter of last year. See the full report: Israel MoneyTree™ Report Q3 2010.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. What are Early Stage VC’s Really Asking? Reply Charlie Crystle , on April 8, 2010 at 12:31 pm Said: brilliant post. thanks for the reminder. Thanks and keep up the good work!

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Great stuff. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. Good stuff from Jason.

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View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

In a few months, we are likely to see the annual Forbes Midas list of top performing early stage VC investors. Interestingly, it looks like the Midas List skipped 2010 and changed methodologies considerably in 2011, so you’d need to wait until 2021 to do a true look back.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Competitors: Knewton.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In 2010, LiveOak Venture Partners saw a vast opportunity in the Austin and Texas market for early stage technology entrepreneurs. The post LiveOak VP and Telestax Discuss Early Stage Technology Investing in Austin on the Ideas to Invoices Podcast appeared first on SiliconHills.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2012

billion raised in 2010 and almost double from the $1.12 In 2011, Israeli venture capital funds invested $525 million in Israeli companies, an increase of 42% from 2010, and a rise of 28% from 2009 levels. First investments by Israeli VC funds accounted for 31% of their total investments, compared to 29% in 2010 and 2009.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. A fund size of $25 – $100 million in normally an “early stage&# fund that is likely to do seed investments and/or smaller A round investments.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

As such, Top Hat can provide key lessons for early-stage companies: 1. Back in 2010, the team tried approaching university administrators to get them to adopt their platform. They took an innovative approach to distribution.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

In 2010 it got worse with an Act in parliament about the Monitoring of Foreigners’ Corporate Acquisitions. You find early stage employees expecting to work normal hours, to get paid a regular salary, and not asking or expecting equity. Instead the business press dumped on the founders for “selling out.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company. If you’re not a founder (by choice, timing or temperament,) you may be an early employee or a later stage startup employee. This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 12, 2011

Investment research firm CB Insights has released its end-of-year report for 2010, which finds both the fourth quarter and the year overall ending strong. Over 50% of the deals in Washington were in early-stage companies, and almost 60% of the deals were to Internet firms. Early Stage VC Grows.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The funds with sophisticated non-venture center outbound origination programs were almost all able to raise funds equal or larger than their preceding fund in the economically challenging period 2007-2010. Some early-stage startups are a luxury good; some investors will pay a premium for perceived exclusivity. 2009) [ii].

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

I see a lot of early-stage entrepreneurs waste too much time chasing money rather than figuring this out first. Reply Amit , on January 22, 2010 at 11:34 am Said: Great article! Reply Knowtu » links for 2009-11-03 , on November 3, 2009 at 5:05 pm Said: [.]

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Ive personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g., Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

This could also be the signature investment for CRV’s Max Gazor, who joined the firm a bit after 2010 and has quietly been making great enterprise picks.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Steve Blank « SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent and Values Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an Undisclosed Location » 17 Responses Michael F.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . However, only recently have early-stage companies started to use this model at any scale. . So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Filed under: SuperMac | Tagged: Early Stage Startup , Steve Blank « There’s a Pattern Here SuperMac War Story 2: Facts Exist Outside the Building, Opinions Reside Within – So Get the Hell Outside the Building » Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Nothing I couldn’t fix. I took the job.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I think Customer Development (iterative model) helps by putting a strong thought in the mind (at a very early stage) that you could be wrong unless the customer agrees; this helps the mind to be more receptive. The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part 3) (steveblank.com) [.]

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Joseph has more than 20 years of strategic, operational and senior management experience in business ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity backed assets and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Prior to Redbeacon, Ethan worked at Google as Product Manager for Image Search and Google Video.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:39 am Said: [.] Reply Matt Doman , on January 27, 2010 at 2:57 pm Said: This obviously seems like a clever and indirect jab at your former boss. Victus Spiritus , on September 22, 2010 at 5:32 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Reply Dan Hodgins , on November 13, 2009 at 1:12 am Said: Hi Steve, Just listened to your “Retooling Early Stage Development&# for about the 10th time tonight as I was cleaning my room. Reply Javier Rincón , on July 13, 2010 at 2:10 am Said: Very insighful post. This is my new favorite post on your blog.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2012

billion raised in 2010 and almost double from the $1.12 In 2011, Israeli venture capital funds invested $525 million in Israeli companies, an increase of 42% from 2010, and a rise of 28% from 2009 levels. First investments by Israeli VC funds accounted for 31% of their total investments, compared to 29% in 2010 and 2009.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Here’s a slightly perverse scenario… Acme Ventures starts out as an early-stage VC investing in US-based IT companies. But usually what makes a VC partnership great in its early days doesn’t easily translate into other new strategies down the road. they generate $400M in proceeds from that $100M).

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

are much softer and much, much harder to measure (or believe) in a very early stage startup. Reply Max Marmer » Blog Archive » Market Evolution: The Special Case When a Startup Has No Market Risk , on July 1, 2010 at 12:58 am Said: [.] We’ll talk about how to reduce risk in each type of market in the next post.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Angel investors are generally former entrepreneurs and/or executives, who invest in privately-held, early-stage companies. Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2010: A Market on the Rebound”. Relatively untested early-stage ventures are less predictable and more prone to failure than established companies.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 24, 2014

I believe this was in April 2010 and if memory serves me correct it was an event hosted at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos by Sand Hill Angels , where Vinod Khosla gave a talk. No, not that kind of non-verbal gesture. I was relatively new to the investing world at the time having started K9 Ventures just a year before in April 2009.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2021

In general, open rates and click-throughs have decreased 45% since 2010 as users have become fatigued by email marketing and more concerned about their privacy. However, the data that we’re seeing in the early stages confirms our hunch that prioritizing customer support over email marketing was the right decision for our business.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Some five years into an early stage technology company, I found myself, an experienced technology manager, as a CEO in search of competent manufacturing. In 2010 it was 4%.(1) In 2010 it was 4%.(1) Thanks Pamela. Where is the innovation workforce? – Dr. Pamela A. Menges 2 Feb 2013.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

Leadspace was founded in 2010 and maintains offices in both San Francisco and just outside Tel Aviv in Hod HaSharon, Israel. An early stage B2B technology startup may appear insufficiently large or well-resourced to sustain an international presence, but taking this step early can help overcome many challenges young companies face.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

This could be useful information for those that want to get involved with a early stage start-up and want to evaluate it but not necessarily for funding. These questions I know will be on top of the list that VC’s will ask.&# What are all the important questions that a VC will or should ask?

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). We’re just a little start-up with a big, big dream…We’ve just launched [link] in December 2010. You can sometimes attract capital from farther away but typically harder to do at early stage.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Filed under: Marketing , Technology , Venture Capital | Tagged: Steve Blank , Venture Capital , Entrepreneurs , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « Customer Analytics – From Those Who Should Know SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot » 14 Responses Michael F.

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