Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2013

Venture capital dispensed quarterly to startups actually declined again in the first quarter of 2013 to $6.3 VCs are finding that they don’t need the “large” funds of $100M to $500M to support a portfolio, if they focus on early-stage startups. billion, the lowest quarterly total in more than two years.

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Gust

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Until mid-2013, the USPTO still operated on the doctrine of “first to invent,” rather than first to patent. I’m a big supporter of building and protecting a portfolio of real intellectual property, and maximizing your startup’s valuation, but it shouldn’t be just a legal game. Valid patents have been overturned by unpatented prior art.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

———– What’s striking about Fast Company’s 2013 list of the world’s 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. Here’s Ron’s blog post. As such, discovering a new business model is inherently risky, and is far more likely to fail than to succeed.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 21, 2012

But in the enterprise, the rapid growth of mobile has caught many companies off guard, which is why I predict that we’ll see more companies form to address enterprise mobility as well as more M&A in the space in 2013. A Lightspeed portfolio company. Follow us on Twitter @lightspeedvp. *A

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In 2013, 298,800 angels invested in 70,730 entrepreneurial ventures, according to the 2013 Angel Market Analysis by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. Angel Investment Activity, 2002-2013. Of course, investing in a diversified portfolio is a significant time commitment.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

We’ve been investing in cryptoassets since 2013. 3) Rebalancing — we rebalance portfolios monthly. He co-founded the first angel investor group in the Bitcoin space, BitAngels , in 2013, which grew to over 500 members globally. But we never lost the finance bug. The fund returned ~8x in 24 months.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

A lot has changed since 2013. Last year, NextView co-founder and partner David Beisel asked our portfolio startups which service providers they use to make up the nuts and bolts of their businesses, which he published as the first edition of a potentially recurring resource. More Snaps were Chatted. More Things became Internetted of.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

Last week, I shared how between 2011 and 2013, Sequoia Capital invested approximately $60 million in WhatsApp – the instant messaging subscription service bought last month by Facebook for $19 billion. And how Sequoia’s return on that $60 million was close to $3 billion, or more than 50 times its original investment.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Twilio became a popular perk for Techstars companies globally over the years and many other Techstars portfolio companies use the product extensively. 10: PillPack (2013). Techstars funded PillPack as part of the Techstars Boston Accelerator in 2013. 11: DataRobot (2013). 4: Zipline (2011). The Not-Quite-Yet Unicorns.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

She has been named Chicago Business Journal Woman of Influence (2016), the National Association of Women Business Owners’ Woman Business Owner of the Year award (2015), the Small Business Administration’s Small Business Person of the Year award (2014), and Enterprising Women’s Enterprising Woman of the Year award (2013).

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In fact, a recommendation from a founder we passed on is one of our best performing portfolio companies! as our portfolio shows ). And of course, a special thank you to Boris for seeing something in me and giving me a chance back in Fall 2013. Be a generalist and a specialist.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

from 2000 - 2013, there is simply less money to go around. Why has this happened? What should we do about it? Well, first of all with overall GNP growth rate being cut in half, from averaging 3.6% annually from 1982 to 2000 to 1.8% gotomeeting.com/register/700618554 read more.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

50 Beautifully Simple Portfolio Websites For Your Inspiration – crowdspring.co/18GaqJP. 50 Beautifully Simple Portfolio Websites For Your Inspiration – crowdspring.co/18GaqJP. Flat, Mobile, Responsive: Fresh JavaScripts and jQuery Plugins Made in September 2013 | noupe – crowdspring.co/18Gazgi. 18GgP5M.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

2013 has proved to be a wild year. 2013 was the year of wearable devices and physical products. So with the wild ride of 2013 I had thoughts about what made me thankful this year. I know your 2013 success will lead to more sustained travel in 2014. eCommerce was battered this year. I feel confident in our 2014 plans.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 31, 2017

At IPO only 7 of 39 companies that have gone publics since 2013 had positive EBITDA. And as a rule of thumb for businesses in our portfolio we target payback periods of 12 months or less. Companies that scored between 20% and 40%, 5.3x, 0%-20% 3.8x and below 0% 1.9x. Healthy SaaS companies balance growth and profitability.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The VC game is one of portfolio management. Meaning there needs to be a sizeable enough portfolio for VC backing to make sense. As an entrepreneur, you need to understand that you are not invested in the portfolio. For an investor with a solid portfolio, it usually works out okay in the end.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

140 Quirky and Serious Free Fonts of 2013 | 1stwebdesigner - crowdspring.co/1gqp3Ey. Design Tips for Building an Exquisite Portfolio - crowdspring.co/1gqnM0o. 140 Quirky and Serious Free Fonts of 2013 | 1stwebdesigner - crowdspring.co/1gqp3Ey. 30+ High Quality Ribbon Fonts To Enhance Your Design - crowdspring.co/19h9jyI.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 28, 2020

Uber has lost $38 billion since 2013 and yet still has a market valuation of around $60 billion. Even though Tesla makes terrific cars (and has a wider portfolio) – its valuation is seriously inflated. People, careers and especially corporations. – GM $ valuation per car = $5k. – Ford $ valuation per car sold = $17k.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 24, 2014

Oncologists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center are using IBM’s Watson to provide chronic care and cancer treatment diagnostics (Cohn, 2013). The underlying technology drivers are artificial intelligence and robotics, with artificial intelligence having by far the greater impact in the short term.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). After months of travelling and talking with farmers and agronomists, Greg and Steve determined that there could be a viable business opportunity with Adapt-N ; they ultimately decided to launch the company in November 2013.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 26, 2012

That’s why ReadWrite turned to famous and fearless tech prognosticator Paul Kedrosky , a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation , focused on entrepreneurship, innovation and the future of risk capital, to ask him his predictions for the startup world in 2013. Kedrosky predicts the talent gap will be closed in 2013.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

Pantheon is one of the Silent Killers in our portfolio – and I’m immensely proud of the progress they are making and excited about their future. Date: Thursday, July 18, 2013 2:19:42 AM. Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.” From: Zachary Rosen. To: Pantheon Staff.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 8, 2014

It’s been a yearly tradition for me to share a semi-quantitative view into our portfolio at NextView. Three years ago, I published our first “Stroll through the portfolio” and I’ve published updates each year in January. Here are the posts from 201 1, 201 2, and 2013. What Was New In 2013.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 12, 2020

She first emailed me in January 2013, I was an early investor in her first fund, and have tried to be available anytime she’s reached out. I’ve committed to Arlan to get to know her portfolio better and try to be helpful with some of them. Arlan is also outstanding. I’ll own that.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

And if you don’t hit one or two right, you end up with a mediocre portfolio. Like VC platforms, these funds could potentially be either as price-insensitive and/or provide more value via portfolio and market insights than a typical seed fund can. A lot has changed since when I wrote my first check in 2013.

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Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 31, 2013

2013 has been a very special year for me. Thanks to my team at Portfolio for believing in me and Body of Work. And so like we did in 2009 , 2010, 2011 and 2012 please raise your fists in the air and celebrate these amazing people who rolled up their sleeves, faced their fears and shipped something meaningful in 2013.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2017

One of the reasons I launched FuturePerfect Ventures in 2013 after 20 years in the tech industry was that I strongly believed we needed more women with decision making power on the VC side of the table to find and collaborate with the best entrepreneurs.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 3, 2021

Or you could, of course, use this OKR template from Homebrew portfolio company Coda. This post updates a version I wrote in 2013. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs. In Q4 teams also set metagoals for the next year. Now we have software startups who have basically built their business around OKR-style planning! Notes and More.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 20, 2016

Building on his success, Chande went on to co-found Clearbell Capital in 2013, which has now grown to a small but perfectly formed team of around 25 employees, as well as five partners – including the senior partner Manish Chande himself. 40% of their portfolio is office properties, with 19% industrial buildings.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 10, 2015

Our early stage fund Homebrew debuted just two years ago in early 2013 but already I’ve witnessed a dramatic change in how BigVC thinks of seed. In 2013 BigVC was putting small checks to work in lots of companies for a variety of strategic motivations (marketing, first looks at promising startups).

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Rick Perreault of my portfolio company Unbounce recently called my attention to an interesting comparison between two SaaS models: Hubspot & Moz – A Tale of Two (Very Different) SaaS Business Models. million from 2009-2013. million from 2009-2013. Moz spends $131 to acquire a new customer. Hubspot made $161.8 Moz made $72.5

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K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

It’s 2013. K9 News Portfolio Company Coin credit card hardware Kanishk Parashar Karthik Balakrishnan payments' We have a super computer in our pockets (or purses), but the way we pay for things hasn’t changed a whole lot. Yes, we don’t carry a lot of cash any more, but we all carry multiple credit cards.

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Haystack

JANUARY 20, 2019

That escalation from $25K back in 2013 took a little over four years. As a result of going more slowly, I had the time to make a few mistakes to learn some lessons, but the mistakes were never too big to leave a massive crater in the total value of the portfolio.

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The Next Web

MARCH 28, 2014

The meteoric rise of Bitcoin’s value—from a low of $13 to upwards of $1000 in 2013—caused the general public to take notice of this cryptocurrency. Last year was truly the coming out party for Bitcoin.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

The next day, Rand led a full day offsite for a number of CEOs in our portfolio. But by mid-year 2013 things were not going as planned. Shortly after, he acknowledged his depression in his post at the end of 2013 when he wrote Can’t Sleep; Caught in The Loop. Go read it now – I’ll wait.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The megatrend that Mike Maples and others have discussed is fairly similar to where I think we sit today at the cusp of 2013. In our own portfolio, we’ve made a few investments here. So, it’s with a lot of enthusiasm and optimism that we enter into 2013 after what for us was a pretty successful 2012. Beware the series A crunch.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2014

Our strategy isn’t to necessarily be contrarian but we decided there were certain verticals that we weren’t going to pursue in 2013. Not Understanding Portfolio Management. Second, they often attracted purely opportunistic founders who lacked the mission-driven mindset we wanted. For example, food delivery.

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