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Why This Startup Teaches Everyone to Code + a Framework to Find a CTO

View from Seed

Everyone knows startups should do scrappy things that “don’t scale” — this show explores what those things actually are. In the 10th edition of Traction, we hear the story of Vin Vacanti , co-founder/CEO of Yipit.com (daily deals aggregator) and YipitData (analyzes web data for institutional investors).

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

View from Seed

2019 is off to an exciting start for IPOs of VC-backed startups. Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. I believe this was primarily because public market investors believed there was some chance that these high profile consumer companies would be once-in-a-generation type companies.

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

Agile VC

2019 is off to an exciting start for IPOs of VC-backed startups. Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. I believe this was primarily because public market investors believed there was some chance that these high profile consumer companies would be once-in-a-generation type companies.

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Why This Startup Teaches Everyone to Code + a Framework to Find a CTO

View from Seed

Everyone knows startups should do scrappy things that “don’t scale” — this show explores what those things actually are. In the 10th edition of Traction, we hear the story of Vin Vacanti , co-founder/CEO of Yipit.com (daily deals aggregator) and YipitData (analyzes web data for institutional investors).

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2012 Recap and Final Close at $19M

Version One Ventures

and Canada… with startups in the Bay area, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, Portland, Seattle, Toronto, and Vancouver. Our original target was $10M, so I’m extremely grateful at the confidence our investors placed in the fund.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. 2) Market . 4) Originate investments.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

The only problem that faces startup investors now is how to mine this new data layer efficiently to increase returns.”. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. 1) Market fund.