Version One Ventures

APRIL 5, 2017

Q1 was a busy time for our firm and portfolio companies, and here’s a brief recap of some of the various news clippings, fundraising announcements, and other happenings across the V1 community. Clio was named Employer of the Year and Figure 1 won the award for best social impact. Fundraising News. Portfolio companies in the news.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

While we’re ready to look ahead and embrace 2017, here’s a quick recap of the major activity across our portfolio last quarter. Frank + Oak (who was named innovator of the year by Canadian Business) announced the launch of its 50/50 Founders’ Fund , in partnership with General Assembly. Welcome back! Portfolio companies in the news.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

According to tech recruiters , 2019 has brought a handful of tech jobs to the forefront, such as cyber security engineering, AI/machine learning and data scientists, to name a few. By 2017, the tech industry in Toronto became one of North Americas fastest growing tech market, per a CBRE 2 018 North American Scoring Tech Talent report.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

In that time, I’ve been consistently delighted by the support and enthusiasm of the Austin startup community. but more importantly there’s a community that wants to support and see others succeed. General Partners Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp are fixtures in the startup community, and especially in driving forward female entrepreneurship.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2017

Fast forward to 2017 and a lack of diversity in the workplace remains an issue. This gargantuan figure does not even include Asians, the LGBT community or Native Americans, to name a few. by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting , and author of “ Sales Recruiting 2.0:

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. Since basis of the company was to create, track, and report out on metrics it fit with the theme and the name, hence, CHICAGO MetricsR.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Marvel’s fascinating turnaround story is no less than a heroic action story where the protagonist flips the scales at the last moment and arises like the phoenix, just like the many superheroes it helped become household names. This raised the company's name, despite all controversies. Thanks to Ryan Niddel, Ryan Niddel Strategies ! #9-

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., Let’s take a look at some of the best U.S.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

In under 3 years we have been able to scale our business to 7+ figures, we started our food truck manufacturing company Dec of 2017, Trailer King Builders, and were on a mission to help entrepreneurs become financially independent with their foodtruck. After years of consistent hard work, we now have a strong community of 50,000 readers.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 2, 2017

Where do you see Platinum Rapid Funding Group going in 2017? By the end of 2017, we foresee associating with a lot more industries and businesses. In the future, you may see us associate a bit more with the bigger brands or more established names. And Beyond? We’ve just started – 2012 was just five years ago.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

” If your company isn’t ready to run its own online community, there are many other ways to bring customers into the fold. Consistency starts with a strong business name for your beauty brand and continues with a great logo, website, and your other marketing materials. They are ultimately trusting their friends.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., with their startups growing by 81.2

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Most significant indicator of this growth is the fact that many of the startups on the list have raised next round of funding with the total funds closed above $50 Million just in 2017. Funding and Updates June 2017 was good for both Manoj Saxena led AI startups, CognitiveScale and SparkCognition which had the lions share of the funds raised.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1- Initials of a longer name. With a different business model, we wanted a name that didn’t sound like areal estate brokerage.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2023

Conover didn’t just observe – he became part of the community. After Amy and I bought a place there in 2017 and started living there part-time, I read a few books about the history of Aspen. The names of the restaurants are different, but the feel of the town and surrounding area is the same.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Muun found a market need but failed to compete with bigger names that provided customers with authoritative content and resources. In 2017, the brand invested again in a redesign to distance themselves from incoming competitors. It defines what you want to communicate to your audience and in what form. Image source.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Successful businesses that give back to the community, and it’s all on brand. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Niche hashtags for existing communities, fields and industries are great choices. If your business serves a unique niche community, follow popular influencers in that community and track what hashtags they use. — crowdspring (@crowdspring) July 10, 2017. Others use the same hashtags to classify similar content.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Why Building Community Is Harder Than It Looks written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. This past month I was able to experience community in its most potent sense on two separate occasions, and I came away with an important insight about building community. This one isn’t so much a community as it is a force.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

16:24] What type of networking have you found the community responds to? [18:16] Alice started back in 2017. We've been this blend of community and a technology platform and we'd often get bucketed very much into one or the other. And so it's how do we kind of layer technology to support the community in meaningful ways?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

The most underrated piece of marketing advice is that you’ve got to name something,” Drift’s Dave Gerhardt told Leadfeeder. “If If you don’t name something, then it doesn’t become real.”. By September 2017, Drift had gotten closer, but a ”conversation-driven” platform, Gerhardt conceded , “sounds like a bunch of BS and jargon.”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Why Building Community Is Harder Than It Looks written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. This past month I was able to experience community in its most potent sense on two separate occasions, and I came away with an important insight about building community. This one isn’t so much a community as it is a force.

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Community Hosting Leadership Naming 60

Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 12, 2017

11 Tips for Health Coaches to be more Profitable in 2017, written by Amber Dugger. Secondly, having a compelling name that is descriptive and conveys what your client is going to get out of it is key to bringing in more revenue (and therefore, more profits) into your health coaching business. Amy Lippman. Maya Gaddie.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 16, 2017

For me, 2017 represents a chance to take what I have learned and apply it both in the private sector (to help pay for my daughters’ college tuition and future weddings) but also in nonprofit sector as a volunteer to help pay forward much of what I have benefited from over the years. I hope you will join me.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 12, 2017

11 Tips for Health Coaches to be more Profitable in 2017, written by Amber Dugger. Secondly, having a compelling name that is descriptive and conveys what your client is going to get out of it is key to bringing in more revenue (and therefore, more profits) into your health coaching business. Amy Lippman. Maya Gaddie.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 12, 2017

11 Tips for Health Coaches to be more Profitable in 2017, written by Amber Dugger. Secondly, having a compelling name that is descriptive and conveys what your client is going to get out of it is key to bringing in more revenue (and therefore, more profits) into your health coaching business. Amy Lippman. Maya Gaddie.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 17, 2018

On a cold morning of March 2017, I recall my pap’ driving me to Charles de Gaulle airport in France and us talking about catching horses with a lasso, ending each discussion there with a western inspired punchline and then a look at the desert around me. As of September 2017, Austin only ranked 33rd in median rent price nationwide.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2018

million people – over double the number in 2017. Adults tend to frequent the same places every day, namely the traditional office set-up. The result is a form of isolation – from community, information and trends. Those co-use office locations will be the work base for 3.8 Empowerment. Empowerment.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., with their startups growing by 81.2

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. Namely, windfall revenue from oil means that the Texas taxman does not collect personal or corporate income taxes (on the state level). Let’s have a look at what early stage founders can expect in terms of oxygen.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). Well, for instance, the most powerful iMac Pro released in 2017 gives only 22 TFLOPS. The majority of the largest known prime numbers are Mersenne primes.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

In 2017 we began inserting an “Inclusion Clause” into our term sheets because we believe that the culture one establishes at the earliest stages of one’s business will set out the course of how it will grow and develop. Thank you to Hamet Watt for being such a positive leader in the African American community?—?I

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 8, 2019

I loved the fact that they put the pricing of their marketing consulting services right there in the open and had cute names (and icons) for them like “Jumpstart,” “Catalyst,” and “Department.” Long story short, I invented my own similar packages named “Jumpstart,” “Pro,” and “Domination” with similar icons. Sorry, John. Look familiar?

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Austin Startup

MAY 9, 2018

Charity: water works with local NGO’s on the ground to deploy capital and resources to directly impact those in need in rural communities. I reached out to Umesh directly in the middle of 2017, to see if I can get my hands dirty (literally) and offer some direct on-the-ground assistance. Please send it to me over DocuSign.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

Today we send out an inspiring notice about a young leader in the startup community who is truly making a difference with his high energy in bridging startups with investors and selfless pursuit of innovative solutions. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (PRWEB) JULY 12, 2017. We wish him all the best and continued success.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2017

I recommend you start with a Limited Liability Corp (LLC) and a winning name. For all these reasons, I recommend that you limit your idea discussions to friends and potential customers on social media, and wait until you have a viable solution before broadcasting your funding needs to the investment community.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Collectively they have $850M in capital in their most recent funds: [link] Both Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners have filed regulatory documents associated with new fundraising efforts in 2017 so we should all look forward to announcements from them on successfully raising new funds.

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