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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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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

term has evolved to become muddled since I first read what analysts in 2011 meant by it. When we consider investing in SaaS startups at Hurt Family Investments (34 SaaS startups and counting in our portfolio ), we always look for natural network effects. I’ve also heard BDAs called SaaS 3.0 although the SaaS 3.0

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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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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. Rad Data Communication. Traffix systems.

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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. If the answer is yes to any of these, you should keep reading. Initially you will likely be working out of our co-working space on West 36th St.,

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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. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Consumer Services (B2C). "Were just getting more light on the entrepreneurial process," he says. But the company began to struggle after its relationship with Yahoo Inc.