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

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs. Patent trolls purchase portfolios containing patents and sue companies for infringing them. Lightspeed is in the business of encouraging entrepreneurship. Patent Trolls.

Convertible Security 100

Convertible Security IP Technical Review Software Review 100

View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

The reasons are fairly obvious: It’s easy to reference them and understand their track record; they’ve made a ton of mistakes already that they have hopefully learned from and are unlikely to make again; they are probably more adept at raising and managing capital, which reduces financing risk down the road, etc.

Founder 159

Founder Cofounder CTO Hire Early Stage 159

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

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

High Road Capital Partners Deal Sourcing Keynote. Fitzsimmons, High Road Capital Partners. Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Panel 1: Creating The Right Deal Flow — Creating & Managing Sustainable, Replicable Strategies. Tye, Edgeview Partners LLC Harold J.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Every year Upfront Ventures surveys Limited Partners (LPs) who are the main source of capital that invests in VC funds and thus the main source of capital that goes to startups to get an early-warning sense of the year ahead, leaving aside any Black Swans. Note that all of these names were not started in Silicon Valley.

LP 286

LP Silicon Valley Venture Capital Startup 286

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This post was originally published on the personal blog of NextView founding partner Lee Hower. Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds. Endowments.

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. You'll be responsible for the successful management of the sales organization in order to meet the objectives of the Company. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. You make it happen.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TECHSTARS AUSTIN AMOS SCHWARTZFARB REVEALS DETAILS ON SEPT. Austin-based author, tech investor and Managing Director of Techstars Austin Amos Schwartzfarb reveals details for the launch event for his new book “Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Start-Ups,” published by Wiley.

Austin 48

Austin Management Los Angeles New York City 48

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner. President and CEO, Complete Genomics.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). The actual partners of a VC firm (GPs) will typically invest a minimum of 1% of the total size of their fund,* though frequently this percentage is substantially higher (especially in many of the best funds). Endowments. new buildings, etc).

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Asset management also shows the traditional earmarks of an industry ripe for disruption — most obviously, unhappy customers and extremely profitable incumbents. Despite this, it’s hard to think of good examples of disruption to asset management in the classic, Clay Christensen sense.

Management 114

Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m an Ashley Mayer superfan so beyond the affinity, have been fortunate enough to also bring her into Homebrew as an advisor to our portfolio companies, and invest in Coalition , a venture firm she founded along with three other amazing female operators. We had overlapping circles and then became friends. Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

IPO 91

IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 91

David Teten

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. From the point of view of a limited partner, the great challenge is scaling the business. We have eight full-time employees and 5,000 square feet of office space to help our portfolio companies.

Early Stage 148

Early Stage Private Equity Portfolio Aggregator 148

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&# What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 225

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 225

OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By aggregating and anonymizing thousands of data points across hundreds of private companies, we hope to (for the first time ever) provide CEOs with a very real, in-the-moment look at how their board today stacks up against others in similar cohorts. VC partners will be able to see patterns across the entire portfolio. .

Aggregator 71

Aggregator Portfolio Networking Design 71

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. We do this by combining elastic cloud computing abilities, powerful and efficient service management tools, and a wide range of enabled experiences – far exceeding video streaming. Craze - Company Website.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners. Department of Defense along with the European Space Agency (ESA) all have adopted the TRL to manage their complex projects.

Oakland 329

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 329

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Task Management. Project Management Tools. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Private beta invitations & management: Prefinery. Scanning / Document Management. Project Management tools. Part 4- Closing.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In conversation with a16z managing partner Jeff Jordan (and former CEO of OpenTable and former GM of eBay among other things) — so, from all sides of investing, operating, life — Annie shares tips for decision makers of all kinds making decisions under uncertainty… really, all of us. Jeff: Yeah. That resonates a lot.

San Antonio 36

San Antonio Aggregator Jordan Stock 36

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories.

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By aggregating and anonymizing thousands of data points across hundreds of private companies, we hope to (for the first time ever) provide CEOs with a very real, in-the-moment look at how their board today stacks up against others in similar cohorts. VC partners will be able to see patterns across the entire portfolio. .

Aggregator 48

Aggregator Portfolio Networking Design 48

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Brazil is Israel’s largest trade partner in Latin America. The British mobile payments and messaging aggregator will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket US mobile transactions hub. Amdocs is an Israeli founded provider of software and services for billing, customer relationship management (CRM) and operations support systems (OSS).

OTC 68

OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

At Risk – Usually starts with a firm beginning to see challenges in large portions of its portfolio, or in keeping the partnership together, or in the viability of the firm’s core strategy as broader markets start to shift (e.g. Well first it’s worth understanding the distinct phases of exactly how a VC firm dies.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. This is one book-end of the cycle.

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! This is a significant guidance revision, which shows the current focus and mindset of the management of these companies.

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Google buzz Advertise Network Blippr iPhone App Mashable France MashDeck Twitter App Mobile Site Social Media Events Twitter Guide Book Facebook Guide Book Partners App Development WordPress Expert Rackspace Hosting MaxCDN Content Delivery Dynect Managed DNS ConVerdge Communities About Us Submit a Tip!

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 4, 2020

ones will create benefits for both countries and the world at large, and Joe is extremely well-suited to manage this cross-cultural effort. Increasing cooperation and collaboration between U.S. companies and U.K. And I have gotten to know Joe as a friend after he moved to Silicon Valley last year.

United States 28

United States Silicon Valley Artificial Inteligence San Francisco 28

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. Monday, February 04, 2008.

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Ceedo Technologies – Founded in 2005, Ceedo AppCenter allows fixed and mobile operators to deliver PC software applications over the web to the subscriber’s desktop, to manage those applications remotely and us the platform to provide additional services direct to the PC. A turnkey solution based on a fully telco-grade platform.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

The first internet wave managed to solve pretty well the "Where to buy" problem, with sites like Kelkoo , Shopzilla , NextTag , PriceGrabber, or Shopping.com. Cornerstone on Demand is a fast growing Learning and Talent management company based in Los Angeles. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Portfolio. (3).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. These mutual funds “mark-to-market” every day, and fund managers are compensated periodically on this performance.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Editor’s note: Robert Wiltbank, PhD , is a professor at Willamette University, where he and Wade Brooks run an angel investing fund managed by second-year MBA students. Second, a portfolio of investments, even in angel investing, is a great approach. When you aggregate all of the data, these angel investors (across the U.S.

Angel Investor 103

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. The company has just missed its quarterly revenue forecast.

Metrics 55

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

To learn more about the CAC ratio and CLTV, you can read Philippe Botteri’s white paper “CAC Ratio - One Number to Manage your SaaS S&M Spend” also available at www.bvp.com/saas. Together, CMRR, Cashflow, Churn, CAC, and CLTV make up the “5 C’s of SaaS Finance. Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

He or she doesn’t have a “day-job” but spends all of his or her time in evaluating new investment opportunities or working with portfolio companies. They are still individual investors, they invest on a full-time basis as professionals, but they have funds with Limited Partners. 1-2 per partner. <$50K in aggregate.

Preferred Stock 125

Preferred Stock Seed Stage Incubator Early Stage 125