Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
With all these considerations, I recommend the following steps and considerations for investors newly interested in startups: Build a balanced investment portfolio. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Start in a business domain you know well.
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. This is a great example of why data businesses have substantial moats.
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David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
DECEMBER 8, 2010
Social Media based Discovery Traffic Breaks Out. The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. However, the emergence of social media in the past few years has created a new web where people are the nodes, connected through the social graph. Are you ready? *A
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
With all these considerations, I recommend the following steps and strategies for any investors newly interested in startups: Build a balanced investment portfolio. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Start in a business domain you know well.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 4, 2011
One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? You Manage What you Measure. Sure, but will they still be using it in a year? In 6 months?
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
With all these considerations, I recommend the following steps and considerations for investors newly interested in startups: Build a balanced investment portfolio. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Start in a business domain you know well.
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