Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need. The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#.

Technical Cofounder 333

Technical Cofounder Early Stage Startup Silicon Valley 333

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. A major reason for incorporating is to have the founders assign their IP to the company; it is far easier for a business to contract with a startup when the IP is owned by one entity. Incorporation also protects the founders from a liability standpoint.

Convertible Security 100

Convertible Security IP Technical Review Software Review 100

David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. There are 1.4m-1.6m

America 144

America DC Startup Aggregator 144

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

And so they’re typically not necessary, nor sufficient conditions, to being or even becoming an exceptional Founder. Some founders actually keep two lists, one of both categories. A record of not just who is in a Founder’s orbit, but who could be an integral co-Founder, peer/partner, or early team member.

Cofounder 194

Cofounder Aggregator Matching Founder 194

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. We think coaching is a key lever for doing this, with our own team or through outside partners. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

Hence, a Singaporean founder will find it easier to execute in the 3rd key market that is the MENASSEA region (Middle East, North Africa and South/Southeast Asia). In this case, I urge founders to start in the US first (i.e. If you need to partner with other businesses to reach customers/users who are consumers.

Singapore 178

Singapore Technical Cofounder Product Marketing 178

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

” From the hyperbolic Jason Calacanis weighing in that “The petty VC’s did everything to deride [Naval, the co-founder of AngelList]” as though the industry was collectively s g its pants that AngelList was going to put us out of business. founder fighting. strategic direction. and much more.

Syndicate 356

Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Early Stage 356

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

million, and we can write as little as $250k or as much as $15 million in our first check (we can follow on with $50 million + in follow-on rounds) We build a portfolio that is diversified given the focus areas of our partners. The outcome of this is that each partner does about 2 new deals per year or 5.5 We do other things, too.

Bankruptcy 294

Bankruptcy Bridge Financing Portfolio Angel Investor 294

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. partners and now principals making investments that number is the right-sized fit for our firm.

Software Review 150

Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2020

If you are a venture capitalist, I strongly encourage you to join the Valence Funding Network to provide Black founders with direct access to VCs. Valence launched our beta platform to provide a digital home for Black talent to connect, access opportunities, and aggregate their power. I’ve joined along with a number of my peers.

Networking 167

Networking Silicon Valley Cofounder Aggregator 167

David Teten

JUNE 14, 2011

I am delighted to announce that I’m joining ff Venture Capital as a Partner. In addition, Michael Yavonditte , CEO of Hashable , is joining as a Venture Partner. I’ve known John Frankel , the firm’s founder, for a year and a half. I’m honored to be the second partner since the firm’s founding.

Venture Capital 122

Venture Capital Technical Review Early Stage Portfolio 122

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In other words, they’re telling companies that, in order to get next round funding, they’re somehow supposed to stay the same fast growers they were before the tech downturn, but just do that longer and get to higher aggregate revenue and performance numbers. Maybe the middle ground is not putting away your experiments.

Lean 159

Lean Aggregator Portfolio Revenue 159

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

“I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining [New Firm] as a Partner where I will continue to invest in great Founders across the industries I care about.”. “I In any professional service industry, there is natural shuffling in the junior roles, as the race up the pyramid towards a Partner title is like musical chairs.

Venture Capital 204

Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We first met co-founders Brennan Spellacy and Aaron Grunfeld in March. We also believe that defensibility comes with the aggregation and “digitization” of quality supply. Patch is partnering with the best carbon removal developers and the latest negative emission technologies to build a network of low-cost, impactful projects.

API 182

API Aggregator Cofounder Demand 182

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Rick Boerebach is a co-founder of ZEEF.com , a curated link directory built by passionate experts. Who should look into finding affiliate marketing partners? Next to finding partners, affiliate marketing networks also do the technical part of tracking leads, so you don’t have to implement this into your website yourself.

Affiliate 134

Affiliate Revenue Internet Marketing 134

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. Our customer engagement has been solid, as has our engagement with partners.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Founder Saudi Arabia Cofounder 128

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2020

Sometimes, if you seem well connected to other founders or VCs, that will get you a meeting—because you don’t want to miss something everyone else has seen. On one hand, you could complain about this as bad VC behavior, because wasting a founder’s time is a mortal sin in Startupland. VCs take a meeting just to learn about an area.

Bandwidth 153

Bandwidth Deal Flow Later Stage Aggregator 153

View from Seed

JANUARY 7, 2020

About a year ago, my partner David Beisel talked about how seed fundraising is no longer a local game , and that the best entrepreneurs seek out the best investors for them outside of their home market. NextView, First Round, Collaborative Fund, Founder Collective, etc.) There are a good number of seed firms (e.g.

New York 207

New York Boston Marketing Aggregator 207

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Having recently addressed founders in my chapter “Be Coachable,” allow me please in this essay to address this matter to you providers of help. As you probably know, I prefer advising founders in long, immersive engagements. If you want to share your wisdom to founders, you have many avenues that do not require prior Freudian training.

Incubator 48

Incubator Vertical Deal Flow Technical Review 48

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It proved to be fortuitous because it allowed me the time & space I needed to get to know tons of founders and VCs and to hone my craft. The first check I wrote was just over 10 years ago into a company called Invoca who just announced a new $56 million in funding led by Scott Hilleboe at HIG Growth Partners. Over the past 2.5

IP 223

IP Intellectual Property IRR Cofounder 223

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. Led by General Catalyst with participation by co-founders Steve Hafner & Paul English.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

For the first time, it partnered with AngelList to help create an open application process. In terms of diversity, seven companies in the new class have at least one woman founder. Not bad considering that founding partner Dave McClure has been adamant about supporting non-US startups and recently acquired the Mexican.VC

Founder 136

Founder Brazil Latvia India 136

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As David Sacks from All in put it: On aggregate, a lot of funding was also deployed to startups in the application layer – investing in founders leveraging generative AI to either solve narrow tasks, or bring automation to tasks to reduce costs, increase accuracy, speed etc.

Generative AI 78

Generative AI ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 78

Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

Ask the Users Startup Accelerators: Bundled and Unbundled Over the past several years, accelerators have emerged as a powerful filtering and signaling mechanism in early-stage startup ecosystems, allowing high-potential young startups to connect with investors, advisors, and other strategic partners far faster and more efficiently than before.

Dilution 48

Dilution Startup Technical Review Equity 48

The Next Web

APRIL 24, 2014

Google Ventures partner, Digg, Milk, and Revision3 co-founder, and raccoon enthusiast, Kevin Rose sat down with The Next Web co-founder Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten at The Next Web Conference Europe today. He said, “You might. This story continues at The Next Web. Entrepreneur Events Google Insider Next Conference tnw-europe'

San Francisco 136

San Francisco Europe Cofounder Aggregator 136

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

The closing panel on Day 1 felt like the start of a witty punchline, “A startup founder, a government official, and a venture capitalist walk into a room…”?—?what This layout allowed founders to interact directly with stakeholders and potentially draft memorandum of understanding (MOU) commitments right then and there.

SBIR 48

SBIR Government Venture Capital Startup 48

Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. Plus, my partners and I saw entrepreneurs repeatedly starting from square-one each time, which just didn’t seem efficient if we could help in some small way.

Early Stage 246

Early Stage Boston Portfolio Silicon Valley 246

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2014

Recognizing the problem, a number of startups and accelerators in Malaysia have banded together to create Launchpad , an online service that aggregates and provides information on startup internship positions in Asia to help graduates and students to decide which jobs are the best fit for them.

Malaysia 186

Malaysia Matching Asia Thailand 186

Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, founders of Maternova. I was fortunate enough to speak with co-founder Allyson Cote, and hear the Maternova story, as well as some of its exciting plans for the future. 90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Sweat Equity Social Media Business Model 60

Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Yes, I disagree with aspects of their content policies (and occasionally wince at the arguments they make to defend said choices), but the company founders fundamentally want to see writers do their best work and make a great living in the process. Consider me a fan of Substack. Getting creatives paid is a mission I’ll always support.

Semantic 72

Semantic API Aggregator Partner 72

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. My boss, Jen Grant , was an incredible manager, and Aaron Levie, the co-founder and CEO, was a fantastic partner on all things communications. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

IPO 91

IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 91

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2017

by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. Again, look for errors and report any you spot to the agency and to the business partner that might have made the erroneous report. When it comes to small businesses, debt is not uncommon. Nor is it uncommon for a small business to have only one debt.

Small Business Administration 145

Small Business Administration Finance Aggregator Small Business 145

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. I believe the real value of an incubator is in the relationships you can build there, with peers as well as domain experts, investors, and potential strategic partners. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

Incubator 247

Incubator Silicon Valley Startup Small Business Administration 247

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

I had met Brendan that past Spring when I had just left Insight Data Science and he was at Greylock Partners. Over the next two weeks, I set out to build my own Mattermark / CBInsights by aggregating the APIs of Crunchbase, AngelList, and Twitter, as well as any other relevant datasets I could get access to.

Seed Stage 127

Seed Stage Later Stage Algorithm API 127

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

VC Adventure

APRIL 30, 2020

We will continue to aggregate learnings as we expand the network and try to use them to both influence policy as well as to accelerate and expand our ability to help businesses that continue to struggle through the Covid-19 induced economic crisis. Seth Levine is a partner at the Foundry Group. Please join us by registering at [link].

Small Business 79

Small Business SBA Colorado Finance 79