Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Many readers know that at Upfront Ventures that’s precisely what happened at our own firm in 2011 when our founding partner and my co-Managing Partner, Yves Sisteron, asked me to lead the daily management of our firm. He did what every LP did, looked at returns, talked to portfolio companies, talked with our competitors and so forth.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

This 1-minute video shows exactly what Invoca does. The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. And while this data is from mid-2011 I can assure you that data is not going down. They have grown at a 200% CAGR over the past 4 years. THE FULL STORY. There are 2.9 billion by 2014.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I love this video: everything you need to know about online advertising! Portfolio. (3). ► 2011. (2). Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Sunday, November 07, 2010. A Quick & Funny Summary of AdTech. Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 5:29 PM.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

The first step is to devise a system that helps you to understand a worker’s skills; this can be via a survey, a quiz, or by requiring some other documentation such as a portfolio or resume that demonstrates their abilities. Related posts: The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011. Photo: Clive Power.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 10, 2009

that I would write and produce three songs about my experience with United Airlines and make videos for each to be viewed online by anyone in the world." Since then, the video has been viewed more than half a million times and is a hit with the media. LOL Well done video. Have you seen this video on Irvin Leroux - [link].

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 23, 2008

This video is a very smart viral marketing initiative from Cardo Systems , a provider of bluetooth headsets and it reached more than 6m eyeballs (this number includes the different versions of the video as well as the videos of people trying the experience to show it is a scam!). Portfolio. (3). ► 2011. (2).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. A 2 minute iPhone video from your CEO would have such a bigger impact than a highly manicured campaign or corporate sounding email. By 2011, we had 50 customers; today we have over 2,000. He continues: It’s OK to continue to operate.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

A funny video of Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle on Cloud Computing. Portfolio. (3). ► 2011. (2). Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Thursday, October 08, 2009. Laughing Out (c)Loud. Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6).

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ). Most indices are cap-weighted - more in line with a concentrated portfolio (i.e. startupcto

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. It’s also worth noting as data would suggest from this SVB venture funding report, lower costs to build tech & operate businesses implies the possibility of lower loss ratios in portfolios. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Portfolio. (3). ► 2011. (2). As we get close to the end of the year, I thought it would be interesting to put together a post on how to approach the 2010 planning. Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6). McKinsey highlights. (1). Online Gaming. (1). sales and marketing. (10). Small and medium businesses. (2). software. (10).

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 18, 2018

CardMunch was acquired by LinkedIn in 2011; within months of launching its product. The app is so simple that you don’t need to even watch a video, so we didn’t make one (yet!). Nelson and I have also known each other for a while as I’ve tried to recruit him into other K9 portfolio companies from time to time.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire just released its report on angel funding activity for the first half of 2011. Well, the study estimated that 26,300 entrepreneurs received angel funding during the first half of 2011. And the news is.good! billion, an increase of 4.7 Such a list doesn't exist.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

The videos can be watched at Bessemer Online Marketing Portal (the other materials are not public). Labels: internet , Portfolio. Portfolio. (3). ► 2011. (2). Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 8:53 PM. 8 comments: David Dalka said. Interesting to see VCs looking at this issue. How does one contact you Phillippe?

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David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

As an alternative, entrepreneurs have been using crowdfunding sites like Indiegogo , one of our portfolio companies, to raise money for their companies through online donations. The company has experienced extraordinary growth: in March 2011, it had funded around 20,000 campaigns in 159 countries. Start now! *

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

Andy Brown , Chief Technology Officer, UBS Tim Lyons, Senior Vice President, Technology Innovation Portfolio, Bank of America. Video platform that works well inside the enterprise, but doesn’t require $500K telepresence rooms, but allow a lot of mobility / flexibility. Formerly MS IT department. 15 yrs at MS.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 5, 2007

This video from Blueprint Ventures will give you good insights! Portfolio. (3). ► 2011. (2). Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Friday, January 05, 2007. VC lifestyle. How does the lifestyle of a VC look like? Happy New Year 2007! at 11:33 AM.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The team of 8 web designers and coders have launched the public beta in May 2011. Their templates are best made for users who are trying to show-off a portfolio, or present information in a simple, yet classy manner. IM Creator is a freemium service: you can design a website and host it for free, with zero advertisements. mo or $5.95/mo

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Another telling example, is when back in 2011 eBay acquired a 2-year-old recommendation engine startup , Hunch for $80 million. In the case of content sites (news sites, video portals) other factors, such as time spent on page or percentage scrolled, or seconds watched (of a video) can also be important popularity factors.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 18, 2015

In 2011, the company began franchising in an effort to expand beyond our New Jersey footprint. This system allows us to create electronic portfolios and track developmental milestones for each child. Tell us about the history of the franchise and how you have been involved?

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Overall, the portfolio value (including realizations) was being held at around 5% below cost. Term Sheet. Fear & Greed. Mutual Funds.

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genuinevc.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Masthead portfolio company NewsGator has pursued the latter approach (with both their corporate and founder ’s blog, among others ), which I believe has significantly benefited the company. February 25, 2011 |. February 28, 2011 |. MBT Lighting is excited to introduce the new 2010-2011 mbt m.walk shoes Catalog!

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 26, 2012

According to their research, 2,283 companies received seed funding over a 5-quarter period beginning Q3 2011. For those who haven't already left this post to catch the latest YouTube cat video, let me see if I can bring these divergent opinions together. Sarah, of course, responded with Jason is Wrong.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He created Wallstrip, and more than 400 original web video shows, which was purchased by CBS Corp. and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011). Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. Vukajlovic was born in Germany, grew up in Serbia and studied in the US and London.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

An MVP tree has three main components—customer archetypes, jobs to be done, and execution—and we’ll walk you through them step by step with a case study of Roku, a former portfolio company we’ve been fortunate to see execute from a $20 million first VC round to what is now a $50 billion public company. (To Sales channels.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% Video | Mossbergs Mailbox.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The thesis of our current business model (startups are all about testing theses) was that there was a need for video producers and content owners to make money from their videos, and that they could do that by charging their audience. Video producers are afraid of charging for content, because they don’t think people will pay.

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

Photo and video start-ups accounted for 29 percent of mobile funding dollars. Now Owned by LinkedIn, Digg’s Patent Portfolio Was All About Its Social News Interface. Latest Video. Financial News. Virtual Stock Exchange. WSJ Classifieds. WSJ Classroom. AllThingsD. Enterprise. Conferences. View by Writer. Liz Gannes.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow? 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. All rights reserved.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

It’s well-known—and we ourselves have been publicly frustrated —that white men tend to dominate the speaker rosters for tech and entrepreneurship conferences, not to mention the portfolios of many entrepreneurship programs. So video was much more important to us than writing, but we couldn’t assess it blind.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. We do this by combining elastic cloud computing abilities, powerful and efficient service management tools, and a wide range of enabled experiences – far exceeding video streaming. Interested to learn more?

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

However, as we soon discovered, many of these firms were forced to hoard capital for existing portfolio companies and focus most of their time and energy on deciding which ones deserved these reserves. ► 2011. (7). Tuesday, January 20, 2009. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Older Post. Twitter Updates. Blog Archive.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This matches the test subject’s behavior we observed during the checkout usability test back in 2011. Portfolio Design Study: Design Patterns. See the video in this article on how perfume.com’s approach confused some test subjects: [link]. Portfolios. Related Articles. A Small Study of Big Blogs. Advertising.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

So my co-founder, Amit Vij, and I built a new database from the ground up, centered around massive parallelization combining the power of the GPU (typically used to quickly process and generate graphics in video games) and CPU to explore and visualize streaming and historical data in space and time—an approach that we then patented.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

See the June 2011 edition after the jump. “With the establishment of the new R&D center, we will be in a better position to build a close relationship with the Israeli technology community and identify new technologies that could become part of our portfolio,&# said GE Global Research VP for Advanced Technologies Michael Idelchik.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 10, 2007

Well, it is basically the mix of a video iPOD, a smart phone, a camera and an internet browser. So, you can listen to music, watch videos, take pictures, look at pictures and slide shows, make calls, browse e-mails and calendar, send pictures, access Google map and weather information, and browse the web. It is the 2.0

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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. Most Popular Video Feed. "Were just getting more light on the entrepreneurial process," he says. But the company began to struggle after its relationship with Yahoo Inc.

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