Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.” despite having lots of competitors.

Belarus 107

Belarus Kazakhstan Portugal Accredited Investor 107

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2015

Google’s gross and operating margins improved sequentially in 4Q14, and even as they continue to be lower than when desktop search advertising was at its peak in 2011 and early 2012, TBR believes margin growth is of lesser importance to Google than consistently growing total revenue and gross profit between 10% and 15% year-to-year each quarter.

Advertising 100

Advertising Revenue Mobile Intellectual Property 100

BeyondVC

MARCH 18, 2018

We are thrilled to announce our investment in Snyk, which is a developer-first security solution that helps companies use open source code and stay secure. Our initial journey goes way back as we were investors in Guy Podjarny’s previous company, Blaze.io, which sold to Akamai in 2012. Snyk investor deck late 2015 short from Ed Sim.

Open Source 60

Open Source Security Cofounder Software Review 60

Version One Ventures

JULY 30, 2019

We raised our first fund in summer 2012. It was a $15m early-stage fund that we invested in 20 portfolio companies over the course of two and a half years. We’re now seven years in and the portfolio is maturing. I plotted the return multiples (as of June 30, 2019) for all 20 portfolio companies in the chart below.

Portfolio 167

Portfolio Early Stage Seed Stage Venture Capital 167

Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

3) UI/UX Matters in B2B - For decades, B2B application developers could skimp on innovating in the presentation layer. I hate indulging in wanton portfolio self-promotion, but my partners & I are incredibly excited about these companies and will undoubtedly continue to make more investments in this vein. And Why 20%?

Software 100

Software B2B Silicon Valley Acquisition 100

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Thursday, August 9th, 2012. KPCB, Sequoia) developed their core IT investment practices,” Ocko tells me, “It’s driving the same kind of multi-hundred-billion dollar economic transformation.” The fund views its portfolio startups as fulfilling one of the three layers of the “Big Data stack”: 1.

Early Stage 70

Early Stage San Francisco Los Angeles Southern California 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

New crowd funding platforms on the Internet, like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , as well as the Jobs Act of 2012 , are expected by many to ramp up regular people’s ability to fund new opportunities and kill the need for angel groups. I just don’t see it happening any time soon. Neither does David S. What ends up, usually went down first.

Angel Investor 120

Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor IRR 120

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. We have developed a proprietary machine learning algorithm that assesses the risk and return profile of the business and determines whether to invest in the business. ARR of $500K+.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Version One Ventures

JULY 21, 2020

We raised our first fund in summer 2012. Amazing, mission-driven founders are found throughout our portfolio. We develop our own conviction and are not afraid to lead or invest when others do not. And here’s the official unveiling, with a quick synopsis of our new messaging and the thinking behind it. . We like the non-obvious.

Founder 213

Founder Vertical Differentiation Portfolio 213

YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2015

By the time you realize it’s a bad fit, you’ve lost months of potential revenue stream development. Asif Khan founded Caremerge in 2012 and recently received multi-million dollars in funding, Asif Khan has over 20 years of experience in technology. The right candidate is out there and you’ll find them.

Startup 100

Startup Agile Sales Conversion 100

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. 3) Rebalancing — we rebalance portfolios monthly. Our Story The two of us met at NYU almost 10 years ago.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Austin 48

ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). Professor Harold van Es]: “I am a scientist who has some computational skills in terms of being able to do some coding but we engaged a professional developer to generate a prototype.

Technical Review 65

Technical Review Technology Software Review IP 65

Version One Ventures

JULY 31, 2018

From Day 1, he was dedicated to my personal and professional development. Since 2012, we have made over 40 investments and have been busy building our fund, expanding and deepening our network, and most gratifyingly, working with our portfolio companies in their pursuit to transform their industries and the world.

Hiring 166

Hiring San Francisco Advisory Board Due Diligence 166

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more Marc released Mosaic in 1993.

Romania 77

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

“I realized that nonprofits were struggling with fund raising due to the economic downturn, and they needed a more diversified portfolio for their fundraising. We actually consult with each client, and tend to become an extension of their marketing team or development office.” .” And that’s how WeDidIt was born.

Small Business 142

Small Business Advisory Board Employee Entrepreneur 142

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. Prior to joining First Round in early 2006, Mr. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us as a director in their business development group. through the Yahoo!

Portfolio 122

Portfolio New York Social Bookmarking Philadelphia 122

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

At today's roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe. If you are a content producer or a freemium app or game developer, you would know, instantly, what I am talking about. Social Contacts. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs.

Greece 116

Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

They have data from surveys they did with corporate development officers (e.g. More interestingly Montgomery expect the M&A market to grow to 600 in 2011 and 750 in 2012. Montgomery expects M&A to rebound to the normal recent levels at 450 deals by 2010. The take-away is that the supply of companies out there keeps growing.

Technical Review 241

Technical Review IPO Southern California Venture Capital 241

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

20 of the Best Photoshop Tutorials of August 2012 – [link]. Common portfolio mistakes (and how to fix them) – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. The Law on Fonts and Typefaces: Frequently Asked Questions – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

Monday, January 16, 2012. As Techcrunch announced earlier today, Accel led a $10m round in the company to help them develop their service across all Europe. Portfolio. (3). ▼ 2012. (1). Cracking The Code. BlablaCar - Travel Revolution. Blablacar is one such example of innovation: with a fast growing community of 1.6m

Software Review 95

Software Review Europe Technical Review Spain 95

Gust

JULY 12, 2012

I enjoyed giving a short interview on BBC radio the following morning, after which a dozen Halo members participated in a workshop I led on portfolio strategy and post-investment relationships. These efforts were organized by Merit Imala and the Arengufond Estonian Development Fund team.

Community 121

Community Estonia Ireland Finland 121

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? What is the risk-benefit calculus for developing and protecting proprietary technologies vs. buying or licensing them (“ build vs. buy ”)? What kind of advantage will this create vs. our competitors ? Barriers to entry ? Is there anything we can do about it?

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Thursday, 8 March 2012. The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. But if tools are plentiful and costs resemble rounding errors, what stands in the way of the would-be entrepreneur of 2012? They tend to have a multitude of side projects, Github portfolios and hacking workshops on the go at once.

Cofounder 43

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Coder 43

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

TradeHero , developed by Singapore-based tech startup MyManisku, is essentially a stock market simulation app for mobile devices that draws real-time data from 14 stock exchanges, 45,000 global securities and 1,300 currency pairs and allows users (gamers?) to simulate trades in game form.

Stock 187

Stock Singapore Marketing Mobile 187

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

VP of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship. President and CEO, Complete Genomics. Dan'l Lewin. Ben Elowitz. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Drew Senyei. Dean Kamen. Ken Nisbet.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more Marc released Mosaic in 1993.

Romania 44

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ).

Leadership 161

Leadership LP Venture Capital Silicon Valley 161

David Teten

JULY 17, 2012

If you’re interested in learning more about venture capital, or our fast-growing portfolio of tech startups, consider applying below. Meet and learn from leaders in the startup and VC communities, including CEOs from our portfolio. a Computer Science / Developer Intern. Read about our previous interns: Spring 2012.

Venture Capital 114

Venture Capital Portfolio Community Developer 114

Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Social as a Service: If you are a SaaS application there is an increasing portfolio of services that you can plug into your application to bring social capabilities as a layered service. ″ smartphones to 7″ tablets, and sub 4″ smartphones will co-exist as separate UX development paths. ″ and larger displays.

PPC 32

PPC Social Network Mobile Campaign 32

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

UX Study The State Of E-Commerce Checkout Design 2012. September 4th, 2012. Feedback from those who use the checkout process are only several degrees of separation from those who design and develop it. Portfolio Design Study: Design Patterns. September 4th, 2012 7:05 am. September 4th, 2012 7:21 am.

Design 98

Design Software Review HTML Technical Review 98

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2011

Rutgers’ Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (CUEED) , has announced a partnership with a minority-run early stage venture capital firm, H360 Capital , and NJIT’s Enterprise Development Center (EDC) , to attract technology companies to Newark, New Jersey.

North Carolina 145

North Carolina New Jersey Partner Charlotte 145

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

When Avi Networks founders Umesh Mahajan, Murali Basavaiah, and Ranga Rajagopalan first came to Lightspeed in 2012 with their vision of bringing the benefits of a hyperscale approach to application delivery and layer 4-7 services, it made perfect sense to us. Monolithic approaches to application delivery simply don’t work anymore.

Architecture 113

Architecture Stealth Agile Distribution 113

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

They did development in SF and had the ad sales team in NY. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. We made a commitment at Upfront to help our portfolio more by investing more in our team, our platform and by bringing on more operational expertise.

Partner 340

Partner Los Angeles South Africa Cap Table 340

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

The next day, Rand led a full day offsite for a number of CEOs in our portfolio. I often develop deep personal relationships with the people I work with which can be challenging when businesses struggle and difficult decisions have to be made. We invested in Moz in April 2012. Go read it now – I’ll wait.

Denver 195

Denver Leadership Portfolio Metrics 195

99u.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Sure, you may need developers and designers, but how about experts on your industry or people with relationships with certain prospects that you cant afford to hire? Career Development. Skill Development. Web Development. Why You Should Treat Your Freelance Portfolio Like a Stock Portfolio. Online Portfolio.

Turkey 40

Turkey Dilution Portfolio Exit Strategy 40

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

May 16, 2012. Opportunistic VC investors focus less on developing very specific theses and more on cultivating a deep, rich network around the entire firm. Sometimes we develop themes on our own and then pursue investments based on that thesis. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

Seed Stage 124

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Like everything in life, you want a balanced portfolio (left). Multi-channel attribution was the flavor of the month for every month in 2012. And just as in 2012 magic pills will be scarce, FUD will be plentiful, and vendors will promise the moon. What other sources are big for them? A very bad thing. That changes things, right?

Analytics 159

Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 159