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Why Your Startup's Name Matters

mashable.com

Why Your Startup’s Name Matters. October 3, 2012 by Cezary Pietrzak. You can read his thoughts on startup marketing at www.cezary.co. You can read his thoughts on startup marketing at www.cezary.co. Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. Like Tweet. Choose Wisely.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

For those of us that have been working in the startup and technology space for at least the past 10 years, these addresses mean two things. Despite that data, we don’t compete in one of the largest opportunities (in terms of sheer number of people using the product) that the startup and technology world has to offer. 1 Hacker Way.

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2012 Recap and Final Close at $19M

Version One Ventures

While crunching the data and reflecting on the past year, it’s clear that 2012 was busy. Here are some of the more interesting details to share about our activity in 2012: Version One invested more than $2.5M and Canada… with startups in the Bay area, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, Portland, Seattle, Toronto, and Vancouver.

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

View from Seed

2019 is off to an exciting start for IPOs of VC-backed startups. Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional.

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

Austin Startup

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. I think any SaaS startup would be wise to identify if their B2B market has a natural network effect to tap into.

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Denouement

View from Seed

Like many things in life, the VC/startup ecosystem is one of cycles. But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. 2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling. 2009-2011: Retrenchment.

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The Consumerisation of Enterprise IT is now the Standard

VC Cafe

I was reading the book “Super Founders” by Ali Temaseb in which he breaks down the data behind billion dollar startups. The consumerisation of enterprise was a big investment trend in 2011-2012. “Toys” are new startups attacking a narrow or unattractive segment of the market. What changed since 2012.

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