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. The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators. So what will become of IT?

Romania 77

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Kalghatgi is a recovering engineer with several years of experience in front-end design and development focused on mobile and web UX before completing his MBA at Harvard Business School. Thursday, January 12, 2012. Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. Yavonditte joined Juno Online Services, Inc.

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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. In 2012, finally, we will see the first major crop of Indian entrepreneurs playing on the global stage. Social Contacts. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs. And what do entrepreneurs do?

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Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

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. Traffic Sources > Search Engine Optimization > Geographical Summary.

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Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 159

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship. © 2007-2012, Xconomy, Inc. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›. New York ›.

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San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Thursday, 8 March 2012. The greatest obstacle to starting a tech company in 2012 will be the shortage of entrepreneurial tech talent, says Andy Young, who explains why there appears such a shortage of qualified people around to help you get your idea off the ground – and what to do about it. New technology for enquiring minds.

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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. The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators. So what will become of IT?

Romania 44

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

An irrepressible leader, Alfred was soon promoted to run all of engineering. On the surface, an excellent outcome, but in 2012 Oracle will exceed that number in annual revenue from the BEA product family. In the last decade, the CEO that I admired most was Alfred Chuang. Sometimes only weak-kneed investors can defeat a great CEO.

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Acquisition Cloud Architecture Revenue 78

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

When I first started Version One in 2012 , I wasn’t sure if it would stay a partner firm forever or ultimately evolve into a partnership. She has been managing the day-to-day activities of the fund, while working with our portfolio companies on data and hiring projects. After all, partnerships are hard to grow and can turn messy.

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Silicon Valley Leadership Engineer Portfolio 60

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2012

My friend Chris Moody , President/COO at Gnip , refers to this as the execution phase of a business and there is no better example of execution in our current portfolio than the team at Gnip. They need to stop looking for gold and start mining as fast as possible. Okay, so the Gnip team is getting stuff done, but at what price?

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China Portfolio Product Development Engineer 137

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 22, 2015

Following is a guest post from Zack Rosen at Pantheon about his experience shadowing Jud Valeski, founder and then-CEO of Gnip for a day in 2012. My first time CEO Shadowing: Jud at Gnip in 2012. Foundry Group is a mutual investor of ours, and Jud and I met at an event in Boulder that they organized for portfolio CEOs.

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NDA Portfolio Operations Management 70

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Labels: internet , Portfolio. Portfolio. (3). ► 2012. (1). Monday, February 12, 2007. Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. The videos can be watched at Bessemer Online Marketing Portal (the other materials are not public). Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 8:53 PM. 8 comments: David Dalka said.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. For me Silicon Beach doesn’t quite encapsulate the wonderful, dynamic, creative, large, thriving community that is the 13 million proud Angelinos any more than Silicon Alley captures the bustling 2012 community of New York City.

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Community Los Angeles Startup Silicon Valley 304

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The event will culminate in Demo Day, which is tomorrow, and will see Seedcamp showcase its portfolio startups to a wide variety of professional investors and press. Promising men to let them ‘shop like men’, BRANDiD employs its Masculine Algorithmic Learning Engine (M.A.L.E.) Home on Demand ( HomeOnDemand.co.uk ).

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Startup IP Cloud Algorithm 123

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Antonio has a portfolio of Web-based business process management applications for small businesses with 10-100 employees. Cristina currently has a couple of large customers in pilot mode, and is starting to show metrics on how much improvement IDES can deliver over existing analytics engines.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Most of our portfolio companies are hiring too, so I won’t single any particular one out: 30 To Follow (Being edited on the fly, so not exactly 30 anymore). Hack/Reduce – Big Data Hackspace. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Bocoup - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3.

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Boston Community CTO Hire Cofounder 72

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

" Become.com is a search engine designed to help consumers searching for products on the web. William Smith -- Overview of Become.com [link] Become.com is a comparison search engine designed to help consumers doing product research on the web. Portfolio. (3). ► 2012. (1). Become.com crawls over 3.2 internet. (6).

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Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. Overall, the portfolio value (including realizations) was being held at around 5% below cost. The percentage is the 12/31/11 portfolio value (including cumulative distributions) divided by the called capital. Engineering jobs.

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Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. HBS Angels will likely execute this in 2012. Best Practices in Venture Capital Portfolio Company Value Creation.

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Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

2 Be prepared : When I received my engineering degree, I decided to start in management consulting and began preparing for my interviews. When I first met PeopleDoc CEO Jonathan Benhamou in November 2012, they had just one product, relevant in France. I interviewed with a dozen of firms keeping my three favorites for the end.

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Europe France API Viral 48

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

For company with complex UI or usability issue, you might also want to add a small incentive to reward the sales of training module as this will impact churn, but this should be short term fix as your engineering team works hard to improve the product. Portfolio. (3). ► 2012. (1). Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 11:17 AM.

Software Review 91

Software Review Clawback Sales Salary 91

Rob Go

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In our own portfolio, we’ve made a few investments here. But there is another major force around the engineering of physical products becoming much more software-like. So, it’s with a lot of enthusiasm and optimism that we enter into 2013 after what for us was a pretty successful 2012. Bonus: Convergence of physical and digital.

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B2B Internet Vertical Early Stage 62

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

“Content marketing attracted 12% of marketers’ budgets in 2012 & more than half plan to spend more this year” – crowdspring.co/18qdqKa. 40 inspiring portfolio pages | Design Reviver – crowdspring.co/1btPnx2. Great piece on cycling in Netherlands — education, policy, urban engineering.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

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. Updated July 10, 2012, 7:57 p.m. 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%

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The basic components are obvious: talented founders, great engineers, angel money, venture capital, access to larger corporates (for business, funding & talent), great education / research (for IP breakthroughs) and a sufficient ecosystem of mentors, advisors, executive coaches and mavens. Welcome to the future.

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Silicon Valley Kansas City Startup Venture Capital 390

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It Will Be Harder Than the Pentagon Thinks , Considering Military Culture and Values When Adopting AI, Swarms of Mass Destruction , Joby Aviation raises $590 million led by Toyota to launch an electric air taxi service , Linking combat veterans and Valley engineers.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. The First Taste Engine. Jinni is a Taste Engine.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

21 Creative online portfolio sites and applications – [link]. 10 Things Clients Look For In a Design Portfolio – [link]. EURO 2012 soccer logo: A wonderful exercise in graphic design excess - [link]. Startup Priorities: Is Design More Important Than Engineering? Showcase of Hotel Website Designs - [link].

Social Media 77

Social Media Small Business Design Media 77

VC Cafe

JUNE 1, 2011

Broadcom is acquiring an expert team of engineers focused on security&# – BroadcomConsumer device chip maker Broadcom has acquired Tel Aviv-based security software maker SC Square for $42 million. The Japanese government has expressed its intention to increase generic penetration to 30% by 2012. “With SC Square Ltd.,

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Switzerland Japan Technical Review 79

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

with the portfolio to show for it. And then Rafa Pereira, our Director of Software Engineering, really pushed us to embrace OKRs three quarters ago. John Doerr credits it as the main practice that has made Google so successful since near the beginning, as well as many of his Kleiner Perkins’s other portfolio companies.

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Founder Cofounder Software Review San Francisco 51

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

As an engineer by heart, I have a deep passion for creating new things that people would find value. In 2012 I sustained a spinal cord injury, and discovered the world of neurological physical rehabilitation. All in all, I started Steve’s Goods to get the medicine to the people. And so far, it’s working. Photo Credit: Raihan Masroor.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review LLC Software Review 128

David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

Our research indicates that for these social media-savvy funds, their visibility to investors and potential portfolio companies more than makes up for whatever competitive edge they lose by giving outsiders insight into their activities. in August and September 2012 over the two preceding months. Site traffic increased by 6.5%

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Private Equity Social Media Equity Media 114

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

As I review our startup portfolio at Hurt Family Investments, the companies that are doing the best have a founder-CEO that really focus on selling. Every other role, such as the head of engineering, is functionally focused. io , where I’ve been writing about primarily entrepreneurship since 2012.

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Las Vegas Green Sales 48

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES 2-YEAR MODEL FOR BUDGET 2011-2012. The Israeli Cabinet approved Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz’s proposal to continue with the biennial state budget model in 2011-2012. Ratiopharm, a privately-owned subsidiary of German holding company VEM, was founded in 1973 and has annual sales of about $8.6

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OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

September 19, 2012, 9:32 p.m. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Engineering & Accounting Svcs. Copyright ©2012 Dow Jones & Company , Inc. See a sample reprint in PDF format. Order a reprint of this article now.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

K9 Ventures

MAY 2, 2012

And yes, in 2012, we all still mostly schedule meetings via email. It’s possible that with time to reverse engineer the complicated heuristics I use to optimize my calendar, a human assistant may indeed be able to relieve me of this work. One of the downsides of being an investor is that you spend a lot of time in meetings.

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Email Portfolio Database Video 80

K9 Ventures

MAY 2, 2012

And yes, in 2012, we all still mostly schedule meetings via email. It’s possible that with time to reverse engineer the complicated heuristics I use to optimize my calendar, a human assistant may indeed be able to relieve me of this work. One of the downsides of being an investor is that you spend a lot of time in meetings.

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Email Portfolio Database Video 80