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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented. As I wrote about in my post on Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing , this is painful and you must have a diversified portfolio to practice angel investing and actually make money. It is just four-years old?—?for

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Seeking CEO+Cofounders for Spinoff of VC-Backed Startup, W. 36th St.

David Teten

alongside our team and a few other portfolio companies, but will move out as the company grows. Head of Engineering: Strong experience with B2C businesses. Since 1999, our partners have made over 150 investments in over 55 companies. If the answer is yes to any of these, you should keep reading.

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Denouement

View from Seed

2009-2011: Retrenchment. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. Roughly 18-24 months ago, people started to revisit the question of unit economics… what is the underlying profitability of a B2C transaction or a B2B SaaS contract once all the appropriate costs are factored in. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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Denouement

Agile VC

2009-2011: Retrenchment. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. Roughly 18-24 months ago, people started to revisit the question of unit economics… what is the underlying profitability of a B2C transaction or a B2B SaaS contract once all the appropriate costs are factored in. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Each account manager should have a portfolio of existing customers, and you should model the expected CMRR from this group net of up-sells and churn. SaaS products don’t pull through large stacks of hardware boxes and software licenses so they’re not very attractive to traditional independent software vendor (ISV) partners either.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

For the third consecutive year , VC Cafe puts the spotlight on the Israeli companies exhibiting in the MWC 2011 event. Interested to meet any of these companies face to face at the WMC 2011? Below are the 56 Israeli companies who will exhibit at the 2011 Mobile World Congress: 3G Vision.

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