BeyondVC

MARCH 18, 2018

Our initial journey goes way back as we were investors in Guy Podjarny’s previous company, Blaze.io, which sold to Akamai in 2012. In a little over two years, Snyk has gone from “founder market fit” to “product market fit” and this new round will allow the company to build out is product offering and expand its Fortune 500 customer base.

Open Source 60

Open Source Security Cofounder Software Review 60

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. .” These days I find myself doing less. Not less work but fewer “things.”

Software Review 150

Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Thursday, August 9th, 2012. Founders Den co-founder and angel investor Zachary Bogue has joined forces with seasoned big data VC Matt Ocko , Metamarkets founder Michael Driscoll and Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross to launch Data Collective , the world’s first Big Data-only early stage investment fund. .”

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. It doesn’t seem to matter what the founders’ projections are, or how fast they believe they will turn profitable.

Angel Investor 120

Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor IRR 120

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Tech Channels ▾ Cleantech ›. Innovation Report Shows San Diego Added 695 Tech Jobs at End of 2011. San Diego’s Free EvoNexus Tech Incubator Gains Qualcomm Expertise. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. You technically have more gas left but you never know if some unexpected circumstance causes you to run out of gas.

Burn Rate 383

Burn Rate Balance Sheet .Net Valuation 383

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is a guest post by Christian Gheorghe, founder and CEO of Tidemark. Technological revolutions follow a similar psychological dynamic. In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. It’s a start, a work of art. People, people we are the same.

Romania 77

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. I make the most of this time by listening to my favorite tech and venture podcasts. Recent guests: Heidi Roizen (Mobius), Philip Rosedale (Linden Labs) and the founders of Meebo. Portfolio. (3). ► 2012. (1). In search of Europe's next tech stars.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Technology San Francisco 48

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Dan Frommer, in Moneyball for tech startups , interviewed Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, Paul Graham and Ben Horowitz on the topic. And given that four of the most important tech investors in the world seem skeptical of it, if someone can figure out a good formula that works, they may be able to exploit it". ► 2012. (1).

Technical Review 38

Technical Review Early Stage San Jose Angel Investor 38

David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

Both founders and researchers in healthcare are spending far too much of their energy in areas where they’re not going to make maximum impact. Source: AON Hewitt 2012 Health Care Survey , based on World Economic Forum data. Healthcare founders are being rational in an irrational system. Diseases with strong lobbies (e.g.,

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Technical Review Non-Compete Philadelphia 60

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

was a great outcome for the company (kudos to Josh James, their visionary founder & CEO!) On the IPO front, LogMeIn made the news, being one of the few tech IPO on the NASDAAQ in 2009. (1). Portfolio. (3). ► 2012. (1). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review IPO Cloud 48

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is a guest post by Christian Gheorghe, founder and CEO of Tidemark. Technological revolutions follow a similar psychological dynamic. In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. Public Enemy, Fight The Power. Marc released Mosaic in 1993.

Romania 44

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

UX Study The State Of E-Commerce Checkout Design 2012. September 4th, 2012. This has lead to a massive checkout database with 508 checkout steps reviewed, 975 screenshots, and 3,000+ examples of adherences and violations of the checkout usability guidelines. User Experience. UI Design. E-Commerce. WP Word Press. Essentials.

Design 98

Design Software Review HTML Technical Review 98

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Updated July 10, 2012, 7:57 p.m. WSJ Classroom. My Journal.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Geoffrey Arone , the founder of FLock, who is now an Entrepreneur-In-Residence in our Menlo Park office, mentioned this company to me and I thought it was worth writting a post about it. Portfolio. (3). ► 2012. (1). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. software.

Software Review 48

Software Review Viral Media Marketing 48

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Bessemer was also heavily represented with David Cowan , managing partner and co-founder of VeriSign ( see his post about the event ), Rob Stavis , BVP’s New York-based managing partner who led our investment in Skype, Byron Deeter , partner and founder of Trigo and our COO/managing partner Ed Colloton. Portfolio. (3).

Software Review 48

Software Review SEM Marketing Las Vegas 48

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Of course, rigorous diligence is performed, the team is challenged, and assumptions are tested. I started thinking about this yesterday when Jeff Fluhr, founder of Stub Hub spoke at my San Jose State class. I liked the founders and considered making a personal investment, but ended up passing. ► 2012. (1).

San Jose 31

San Jose Technical Review Venture Capital Angel Investor 31

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. I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship?

Government 146

Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Tech. September 19, 2012, 9:32 p.m. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., » More.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Potential partnerships with media and telecom giants make it attractive enough though, and hopefully there will be cross polination between the Israeli startups and the great tech cluster in London.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

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. If the CEO is also a founder of the business, then they embody the American dream. io , where I’ve been writing about primarily entrepreneurship since 2012.

Las Vegas 48

Las Vegas Green Sales 48

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

These are good things to think about and companies to study as we move back from consumer to Enterprise in the tech cycle. And so we think that the model flipped to a model where, today, where the most interesting and advanced new technology now comes out for the consumer first. Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. Exactly right!

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year. The rest is history!

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 31, 2012

Top cities for technology start-ups – [link]. Founder Market Fit – [link]. How Much Information Should you Give VCs for Due Diligence? 75 Professional Free Fonts from 2012 to Spice up Your Typography – [link]. 75 Professional Free Fonts from 2012 to Spice up Your Typography – [link].

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Technical Review 91

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). This invite-only event for our portfolio companies and close friends of the firm was designed to be fairly intimate and interactive. Labels: Portfolio , SaaS , software.

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2012

5 Key Talents of Successful Startup Founders – [link]. An Analysis Of Navigation In Portfolio Websites – [link]. 7 Great Books by TED 2012 Speakers – [link]. Disruptions: Time to Review F.A.A. Why Youth Has An Advantage In Innovation & Why You Want To Be A Learn-It-All – [link].

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

I encourage startup founders or anyone interested in social commerce to read it: [link] When you think about Big Data Applications (a term coined in 2012 by Raj De Datta in this TechCrunch article ), Bazaarvoice is one as Raj points out in his article. 8, which was released earlier this week. I’ve also heard BDAs called SaaS 3.0

Networking 48

Networking Fractional CTO CTO Hire B2C 48

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Tools for Hackathons – added Dec 2012. Girls in Tech. Ad Serving Technology. Analytics review â?? Seed Startups. Wireframes. Mockingbird.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53