Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Both venture firms sought my advice for their portfolio companies. I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. It was a long way from Ellis Island.) Would you mind sharing them?

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Our firm has a portfolio of companies across a broad range of markets and the way we look at it is pretty simple – the deals fall into two types: those with customer/market risk and those with invention risk.” Reply Alpha Testing « Two Sixes Blog , on July 5, 2010 at 7:04 pm Said: [.] The real risk in markets like Web 2.0

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. 3) Rebalancing — we rebalance portfolios monthly.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma. Discuss.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

With COVID raging at the beginning and end of the year, it is all the more amazing what our portfolio companies have accomplished the last twelve months. 1/ We started @boldstartvc in 2010 w/ $1m. 1/ We started @boldstartvc in 2010 w/ $1m. 2021 Recap. Sending and from the boldstart team at the end of a challenging 2021.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Driven by strong customer demand for its award-winning identity governance solution, SailPoint achieved record growth in 2010, with revenue up 200% over 2009. The fourth quarter of 2010 was the company’s eighth consecutive growth quarter, highlighted by a record number of new customers.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. So Diego did what only a hacker who loves music can do — as a side project he built a search engine for MP3s – (2look4.com) In March, 2010 Diego and I reconnected.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. So Diego did what only a hacker who loves music can do — as a side project he built a search engine for MP3s – (2look4.com) In March, 2010 Diego and I reconnected.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

Mid- to large-size companies can also benefit from the lean methodology and one way to do so is by actively leveraging crowds of workers: designers , software engineers , testers , writers , customer support people , customers, market researchers , and dozens of other groups via the Internet. This 10-year project invites consumers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico). Read more: TechCrunch.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 23, 2011

I’m pleased to announce the developer launch of K9 Ventures’ portfolio company, card.io (pronounced card-I-O). Mike showed me a prototype of their app in October, 2010. Brent, the founding engineer of card.io It’s been a busy week folks! As the name suggests, card.io It was one of those “duh!”

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

You are the engine of our future, after all. The market sucked until around 2010 when everyone and their sister decided they wanted to create an accelerator too. Now is the time for you to adapt, to show your strength. Use your advantages. Do more faster. Emerge stronger. You can do this. We are all rooting for you to do this.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

From the middle to 2005 to early 2010 the business was break-even or better every quarter. So I was thrilled to find CleverPet , an AI game for dogs made by animal behavioral scientists and electrical engineers. Now it’s time for the Finance, Portfolio and Expansion teams to take over. It just took another 1st place at CES.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

publicly and privately lament “my portfolio is hurting…” Mark Suster over at Upfront has a great deck on this. Startup salaries — especially on the engineering side — are at near record highs. This is going to be painful for those companies forced to operate businesses with cash balances like 2010 and cost structures like 2016.

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www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Nov 22 , 2010. The second bracket is Director level managers and key people (engineering and design superstars for sure). The third bracket are employees who are in the key functions like engineering, product, marketing, etc. Musings of a VC in NYC. MBA Mondays Archives. Next Post Prev Post. Employee Equity: How Much?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Talking to potential customers and competitors customers. Bring your questions.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

However after Sequoia and Ron Conway announced their investment in YC in 2009 , and after YC alumni DropBox and AirBnb raised capital on billion-dollar valuations in 2010-11, the program quickly became the gold standard among early-stage startup incubators. Why should VCs be any different?

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. He tells me the firm has made 21 investments since mid-2010, and Correlation now has more than $165 million under management. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Labels: internet , Portfolio. Portfolio. (3). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Monday, February 12, 2007. Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. The videos can be watched at Bessemer Online Marketing Portal (the other materials are not public). at 8:53 PM.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

With Airbnb’s IPO, I thought the time was right to take a look back at the past decade (Greylock led Airbnb’s Series A in November 2010) and reflect on what I learned from the journey. This is going to be a drag on the portfolio, this is going to be a waste of time.”. HOW GREYLOCK INVESTED IN AIRBNB.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Real-time search engine. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. iAd platform was formally launches in July 2010 as part of iOS 4. But it’s a real phenomenon.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 16, 2021

ZPEG Engine - ZPEG.com San Antonio’s Grain4Grain has turned brewer’s spent grains into nutritious and protein-rich flour. According to Pitchbook, Capital Factory has been the most active, early-stage investor in Texas since 2010. About Houston, TX Houston is the fourth largest, and the seventh most diverse city in the U.S.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Vivek Wadhwa of Singularity University in California studied more than 500 American high-tech and engineering companies with more than $1m in sales. The Kauffman Foundation’s most recent study of start-ups discovered that people aged 55 to 64 accounted for nearly 23% of new entrepreneurs in 2010, compared with under 15% in 1996.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Founded in 2010, we have backed 27 awesome teams including Indiegogo , divide.com , goinstant (sold to salesforce), blaze.io (sold to Akamai), Plain Vanilla Games (quizup), rapportive (sold to LinkedIn), and klipfolio. While this sounds simple, there is a ton of work that goes into helping our portfolio companies get to a successful Series A.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

2010 Top 10 Small Business Trends. December 2010. Also, because I have equity in multiple tech start-ups I gain portfolio diversification benefits (meaning Im more likely to get lucky). Posted by: Atlanta Search Engine Optimization | April 16, 2008 at 07:38 AM. Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force. Disclosure Policy.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

" Become.com is a search engine designed to help consumers searching for products on the web. William Smith -- Overview of Become.com [link] Become.com is a comparison search engine designed to help consumers doing product research on the web. Portfolio. (3). ► 2010. (5). Happy New Year 2010! internet.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

So even as he worked full-time as an aerospace engineer, he’d work on BlogFrog. Banks decided to leave his aerospace job, and in 2010 teamed up with blogger and veteran marketer Holly Hamann to bring BlogFrog to another level. The BlogFrog concept was born. He tested it on his wife’s blog, and it became a hit.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

For company with complex UI or usability issue, you might also want to add a small incentive to reward the sales of training module as this will impact churn, but this should be short term fix as your engineering team works hard to improve the product. Portfolio. (3). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

Most of these funds are <$100M, with the majority of them being clustered around the $40M mark (that’s the point where the fund economics start to work in terms of management fee and ability to take a meaningful stake in portfolio companies). Top engineering talent today has a bimodal distribution.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

As he grows, he can simply focus on increasing the restaurant portfolio and getting more corporate clients. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

You could argue that the recent companies are too early, so I''ll take that challenge and compare it with my own portfolio. My own track record as a VC across First Round Capital and Brooklyn Bridge Ventures actually starts in January of 2010, *after* the Airbnb class of Winter 2009.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, April 17, 2010 Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Hear the CEO of KISSmetrics give a sneak preview of what hell be presenting at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23 (were less than a week away!): Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 8, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, April 8, 2010 Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets Simulcasting in twenty cities worldwide leads todays news for the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. Discounted Tickets As part of their sponsorship, Baseline is offering discounted tickets to their portfolio companies.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. Update 03/12/2010: Vivek Wadhwa pointed out that the Startup Visa is something the Kauffman Foundation has been looking into for a while, possibly pre-dating PG’s blog post.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The market is crowded, but Stathis has a critical mass of traffic and transactions, as well as a large portfolio of car rental companies providing data to make the service viable. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. The business is effectively a Hotels.com of car rentals. Roundtable photo by Jim Linwood.

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Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. It was founded back in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks , which is also a great place to visit for startup advice.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. She has a masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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