Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2014

And similar to before, they join our portfolio that is dominated by SaaS (i.e. Our other portfolio companies have also done well growing their businesses, enabling 11 of them to raise new rounds. We participated in these follow-on deals to further support our founders. Front Desk , Top Hat ), marketplaces (i.e. Figure 1 ).

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” Not only do SEO and CMS skills stand out on a resume, but they can also be demonstrated in a portfolio to further impress recruiters. Analytics is critical for growth.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 78

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s Many founders confuse the two as they both involve lots of numbers. When to make your first analytics hire.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. The speed and accuracy of research will be vastly improved with the application of big data and analytics. Think of big data-driven research as the backend of analytical information processing, and Robo Advisors as the front end delivery mechanism to salespeople and their clients.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2024

Calling Israeli startup founders in Interactive Entertainment, AI & Gaming! At Remagine Ventures , we’re always on the lookout for visionary founders building the future of interactive entertainment and gaming. If you’re an Israeli startup founder raising a pre-seed round in these spaces, we want to hear from you!

Artificial Inteligence 141

Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Startup Vertical 141

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Profiles of founders and advisors add credibility. Google Analytics provides free tools and the training to use them. Invest an hour a week looking at competitors’ web sites or viewing web designers’ portfolios. How is your solution different from competitors? Never lead with your technology—make a brief mention at most.

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www.jonsamsel.com

MAY 12, 2011

Jon Samsel Social media, SEO, marketing and writing Home Bio Books Portfolio Login A Framework for Web Analytics On May 10, 2011, Heardable’s CEO, Jon Samsel, was asked to speak at the Jamba Juice Digital Marketing Summit in Emeryville, California. Guest speakers included reps from Google, Manatt, Twitter, Facebook and Heardable!

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. .

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. Two Sigma Ventures.

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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. When we took the poll itself, one founder said: “This is a great idea. We would have loved to have it when we were getting started.”

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Early Stage Boston Portfolio Silicon Valley 246

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In addition, we typically ask portfolio companies to report on the following non-financial metrics: Universal Metrics. Lean Analytics recommends this set of metrics for some of the major categories of startups: Create a management dashboard. A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. * Users/Customers.

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Metrics Analytics Balance Sheet .Net 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Some VCs have identified a number of new advantages that distinguish them in the marketplace: – Portfolio acceleration. I saw “ portfolio operations ,” i.e., levers to enhance the operations efficacy of portfolio companies, become a standard part of the private equity toolkit. – Portfolio company diversity.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Some VCs have identified a number of new advantages that distinguish them in the marketplace: – Portfolio acceleration. I saw “ portfolio operations ,” i.e., levers to enhance the operations efficacy of portfolio companies, become a standard part of the private equity toolkit. – Portfolio company diversity.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. There are currently over 20 squads, across products and focus areas from APIs to analytics.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. Half our portfolio is consumer. On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Biggest Advice I Give to Portfolio Founders? But when a fund writes checks into a portfolio company it typically “reserves” money to invest in future rounds. We of course need to understand markets and market dynamics but many people understand this from an analytical perspective.

Marketing 263

Marketing Valuation Churn Rate Balance Sheet 263

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. Boston Hardware Startup Meetup – Meetup organized by the founders of BOLT.

Boston 71

Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

– Austin Hill , co-founder Blockstream (FPV’s newest portfolio company). The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Hunter Walker

MARCH 25, 2015

Firm founder Kirsten Green has an amazing analytical mind combined with empathy for the consumer. How do you convey to founders why your backgrounds are valuable to them? HW: What’s a favorite question you ask founders during your “get to know you/due diligence” process? EK: It’s a great question.

Naming 48

Naming Technical Review Early Stage Green 48

ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). Completely unrelated to CVF’s investment, Deb Eichten, who is on the staff at Entrepreneurship at Cornell, recently interviewed the founders of ATC. So, the following fits into both of my professional worlds (Cornell and CVF).

Technical Review 65

Technical Review Technology Software Review IP 65

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. Using Balsamiq instead of SnagIt, Website Optimizer over just Google Analytics and FTP). Another area where founders sometimes spend too much time is accounting.

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Warrant Germany France Cost 333

ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

As with analytics or SEO tools, there are a lot of options to choose from. As founder Haradhan shares : “[WordPress is free and open-source software, and also every WordPress developer already make some functional themes and plugin which things make our some works effortless.”. Why choosing the right CMS is so important.

Software Review 91

Software Review Technical Review Hosting SEO 91

Version One Ventures

JULY 23, 2013

There’s no shortage of advice out there for startup founders. But since entrepreneurs are usually the best qualified to give fellow entrepreneurs advice on how to deal with the challenges of the job, I’ve asked several portfolio founders to share the invaluable lessons learned from their own journeys. Rick Perreault, Unbounce.

Founder 126

Founder Metrics Hiring Early Stage 126

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Founders Den co-founder and angel investor Zachary Bogue has joined forces with seasoned big data VC Matt Ocko , Metamarkets founder Michael Driscoll and Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross to launch Data Collective , the world’s first Big Data-only early stage investment fund. .” → Learn More. More on TechCrunch TV.

Early Stage 70

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Dave Tisch, Founder & Managing Director, TechStars NYC. Dave Tisch is Founder and Managing Director of TechStars in NYC and is an angel investor through the BoxGroup. Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. Mike Yavonditte, CEO, Hashable. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

Portfolio 122

Portfolio New York Social Bookmarking Philadelphia 122

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico). Add this new model to the mix. 13mm in Series B.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. The firm, Correlation Ventures, is using predictive analytics technology to tilt the odds in its favor. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Salon FG Bankrupt to Billionaire with SBA Administrator Linda McMahon & Headspring CEO Dustin Wells In business?—?as

Technical Review 58

Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 5, 2014

Our portfolio company Lost My Name found when they pitched their magical children’s book to the Dragons whilst I was away on holiday last week. You can see the relevant section of the show in the YouTube clip below with realtime analytics super-imposed in the corner of the screen. Portfolio Uncategorized'

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Naming Portfolio Valuation Analytics 129

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” often referred to as business analytics?—?is Creativity is also a must for product managers.

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Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

The first is around health care products and services that augment physicians’ standard of care by using modern software, analytics, and sensors. Many of these founders are creating businesses that are an ambitious blend of data, software, and services. 3) Health Data Applications.

Vertical 120

Vertical Stealth Portfolio Seed Capital 120

thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

– Austin Hill , co-founder Blockstream (FPV’s newest portfolio company). The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required.

Kenya 40

Kenya United States Global Cofounder 40

The Startup Toolkit

MAY 8, 2012

I suggest the following: Learn enough html/css to build a personal portfolio site. Buy a domain name and a hosting service and put your portfolio up at a real address, using git. Attach google analytics to your site. Add it to your portfolio site. Make it look nice. Start using github and put your code there.

Bootstrapping 55

Bootstrapping Technical Cofounder HTML Dividend 55

Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. familiarity with use of social media on a corporate level, as well as experience with SEO best practices, designing landing pages, and website analytics tools (Google Analytics).

Semantic 48

Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

Then from the mid 2000s, value add began moving beyond the partner to the firm as VCs began employing people who’s full time job was helping their portfolio. The most common strategies are to provide networking services and content to portfolio leaders so they can be more effective in their jobs. . Building platforms.

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Portfolio LP Venture Capital Partner 84