Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Years earlier, he had founded Bikky after being inspired by his mother-in-law and the New York City restaurant she’s owned and operated for over 20 years. This helps restaurants operate more profitably through higher customer retention, frequency, and lifetime value. The secret to her success?

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Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

Today, I’m thrilled to publicly announce NextView’s Talent Exchange, a program helping both top talent and NextView-backed startups connect with each other more easily, beginning with Boston companies (which make up just over half our portfolio). Below, I’ll quickly explain the genesis of this initiative and share a few more key details.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. This also should lower the failure rate of our companies. - Providing standardized operational support for portfolio companies. What was striking was what an attractive asset class it was.

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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. How do you think the world operates?

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 16, 2017

George Psiharis (the awesome VP of Business Operations at Clio ) reached out with a great suggestion: connect the data teams across our portfolio companies with the goal of building a peer network to share best practices, and together push the bar on data science innovation.

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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. A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. What Do VC’s Do?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

In the letter, Buffett advised, “Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio’s market value.” You can have the best operations. In fact, Buffett has said his favorite holding period for stocks of outstanding companies is “forever.” Think Wang.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

I didn’t set out to write a book but as we looked around the market for an operational playbook for sales, we couldn’t find one, so I tapped into my 20 years of sales experience and my network so that we could create a valuable resource for founders everywhere,” said Schwartzfarb.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Our digital platform (ICAS®) is designed for healthcare operators on a mission to modernize the way they design, build and operate their healthcare facilities. This way we can make sure that we deploy a targeted approach that will not disrupt the customer’s operations.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We believe this way we can extrapolate insights for our particular business model (portfolio operator VC fund) previously missed out.”. We make heavy use of Slack both internally and with our portfolio company founders for messaging and task progression. How can accelerating portfolio company value be aided by use of software?

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Peter Cohen www.saasmarketingstrategy.com David Skok Peter, this is a great point, and one which has led to many long discussions with my portfolio companies. aggregate pipeline created in a given week) could be altered reflexively by their measurement -- a sort of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for high-velocity sales.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Image from Sequoia Capital presentation.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

The outcome in either scenario is a restructuring of the organization that is exquisitely geared towards taking advantage of portfolio optimization. You can even get great first-step guidance about how to rebalance your portfolio from that last column. Related implications of what you want to do in-house vs. out source to an Agency.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Staying on the buyers’ lists is based on how well you conduct yourself in the diligence processes, “beauty contest” Banks are aware of your funding situation and your portfolio / investment thesis. Intermediaries.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Image from Sequoia Capital presentation.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Some VC firms have eschewed taking direct investments from public pension funds, as state laws now sometimes require these pension funds to publicly disclose information about their investments that VCs consider sensitive, confidential info, like fund-level returns or individual companies in the portfolio. Endowments. new buildings, etc).

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Some VC firms have eschewed taking direct investments from public pension funds, as state laws now sometimes require these pension funds to publicly disclose information about their investments that VCs consider sensitive, confidential info, like fund-level returns or individual companies in the portfolio. Endowments. new buildings, etc).

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. If you over-fund the industry, aggregate returns fall. And the SPV has the added risk that is has no portfolio diversification or “look-back” feature to provide downside protection.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

At my firm, ff Venture Capital, we’re trying our part to rethink how the industry works, and also actively looking for opportunities to invest in companies creatively disrupting this sector, e.g., our portfolio companies Addepar and Indiegogo. In aggregate, angels are significant investors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

2:17) Some of the teams and projects Sam has been impressed with and how inspired he's been by the way the biotech industry has pulled together and operated with newfound speed. (6:56) All the other things that matter, aggregating talent, getting people to care, all of that stuff that's hard in a boom and easier now.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Like Edison and the lightbulb, like Gates and the pc operating system, I would launch a revolution that would transform society while bringing me wealth and fame. Look carefully at most hyper-local sites and see just how much posting is really being done, especially by members of the community as opposed to be the sites’ operators.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Applicaster helps content owners, broadcasters, cable companies and mobile operators of all sizes deliver innovative and profitable mobile broadcast experiences. Applicaster - Company Website. Betterview - Company Website.

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Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The British mobile payments and messaging aggregator will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket US mobile transactions hub. The joint OpenMarket-MX Telecom business will provide a hosted platform to extend mobile payment and messaging capabilities through an integrated network and product portfolio.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents. TenantWIZ – A property management program for vacation homes that works whether you own a single property or a large hotel or condo operation.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

BeyondVC

MARCH 2, 2006

As we all move forward with our web-based operations, it is clear that scaling the back-end infrastructure still remains a formidable challenge. Think about Zillow , Technorati , and services like Indeed which are dynamically driven services based on aggregating, crawling, and filtering millions of pieces of data. as a few examples.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Each account manager should have a portfolio of existing customers, and you should model the expected CMRR from this group net of up-sells and churn. It really does add a lot of overhead cost and operational complexity that is hard to absorb unless the business is at scale…meaning typically $2M++ of CMRR. Portfolio. (3).

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 29, 2017

Others are looking for baseline information on operational expenses (i.e. Mission : To provide answers to those questions that founders/operators frequently ask their investors and peers, and to replace anecdotes with data-supported answers. 2: Privately held operational. 4: Publicly available operational.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

i-nigma was successfully deployed by hundreds of enterprises, among them operators, advertisers, integrators and solution providers. This highest quality of the traffic information, never achieved before, together with the perfect applications generate significant revenues for the operator and maintain customers’ loyalty.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. Paglia, Pepperdiine’s Denney Academic Chair and Associate Professor of Finance. A few more stats make that picture look worse.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

In many respects, the service is similar to the way Angel Groups operate, or at least the way Sand Hill Angels, where I was a long time member does. Individuals can make smaller investments in a number of companies, gaining portfolio diversification benefits.

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Accredited Investor SEC Cap Table Angel Groups 42

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC News : Dow Jones financial information service provides unparalleled reporting and analysis of the entire global venture capital industry, from fundraising developments to financings, liquidity events to people moves and other key developments at venture capital firms and portfolio companies in every industry and region. aggregation.

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