Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need. The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#.

Technical Cofounder 333

Technical Cofounder Early Stage Startup Silicon Valley 333

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry. Dispense’s software helps large, multi-state cannabis operators manage online and offline ordering by granting these businesses greater control over customer interactions, in addition to streamlining their operations.

Cofounder 202

Cofounder B2B Early Stage Software 202

nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. Ask former co-workers. New Web Order. 5th November 2010. #. Ideas alone are not worth a lot.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Web Founder South Korea 40

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Dispense is a B2B software company, focused on transaction software specifically designed for the cannabis industry. Dispense’s software helps large, multi-state cannabis operators manage online and offline ordering by granting these businesses greater control over customer interactions, in addition to streamlining their operations.

Cofounder 156

Cofounder B2B Early Stage Software 156

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

Chicago 177

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 177

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

Chicago 156

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

Chicago 136

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 136

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. ARR of $500K+. Decathlon Capital.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Muun found a market need but failed to compete with bigger names that provided customers with authoritative content and resources. One neglected its positioning by failing to target the biggest pain point, and the other failed to build a brand that its customers could trust above the other major players.

Marketing 110

Marketing Product Audience Equity 110

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

View from Seed

JULY 17, 2019

Although you still hear stories of investors that require founders to move to SF, it’s more likely these days that investors see a winning business outside of the Bay Area as a positive, given the costs and competitive pressure in that local market. How should a founder go about it? But doing this takes extra work.

San Francisco 243

San Francisco Cofounder B2B Seed Stage 243

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 1) Market fund. Pitchbot.vc 3) Originate investments.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute. It sounds interesting.

Management 150

Management Product Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 150

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

You’re obviously not showing charts of user growth, number of customers, or revenue. But even as a concept stage company there are ways to show progress with your business. One of our portfolio investments, a B2B SaaS company, was a pre-product startup at the time of the seed round. B) Post-Product Companies.

Seed Stage 149

Seed Stage B2B Seed Capital Revenue 149

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2017

by Karla Friede, CEO, co-founder, and member of the Board of Directors at Nvoicepay. Earlier this month, my co-founders and I raised our sixth round of venture capital funding for Nvoicepay. My success was much higher with people who really understood the market dynamics and the opportunity in B2B payments.

Cofounder 100

Cofounder B2B Early Stage Venture Capital 100

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

According to Hugh Mason, co-founder and CEO at JFDI.Asia , around the world accelerator programs like theirs are evolving as a consistent way to direct innovation, teach entrepreneurship and manage the risks involved. “Early-stage business is becoming less of an art and more of a science,” he adds.

Singapore 157

Singapore New Zealand Malaysia Vietnam 157

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Marketers raise brand awareness to capture leads that are handed to sales teams to convert into customers. Only around 10–15% of B2B leads turn into paying customers, and it’s because tactics optimizing for the early stages of the funnel only cater to early-stage goals.

Demand 95

Demand Management B2B Campaign 95

View from Seed

JULY 28, 2015

I spent some time with both Janet Holian, the former CMO of Vistaprint, and Jason Robins, co-founder and CEO of DraftKings, to try and figure out what was in the special sauce at Vistaprint that led to such effective internet marketing leaders. You don’t really know how customers are going to respond to your product over time.

Boston 120

Boston Marketing Early Stage Startup 120

Hippoland

DECEMBER 16, 2016

About Pedro (from his personal website pedrosorren.com & his words): Pedro Sorrentino is a Venture Associate at FundersClub, focused on early stage and series-A investments. In his first 12 months as a VC Pedro sourced 9 deals for FundersClub with founders from 5 different countries.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Accredited Investor B2B Cofounder 48

Rob Go

JULY 18, 2019

Although you still hear stories of investors that require founders to move to SF, it’s more likely these days that investors see a winning business outside of the Bay Area as a positive, given the costs and competitive pressure in that local market. How should a founder go about it? But doing this takes extra work.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Cofounder B2B Seed Stage 48

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2019

Transcript of Marrying Content with the Customer Journey written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He is the founder and CEO of Vertical Measures. About two years ago we came up with this idea for the book around the customer journey. How would you describe the customer journey? Back to Podcast.

Customer 61

Customer Search Vertical Early Stage 61

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The past year was a wild ride for startups and founders, giving a whole new meaning to the ”rollercoaster” aspect of being an entrepreneur. Before product-market fit… just care about speed of iteration according to your customer feedback. Patrick Collison , self-made billionaire founder of Stripe. Team, product, market.

Founder 187

Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. However, figuring out the way your startup should make money could be challenging, especially for us left­-brained founders. It just so happened that I became the CEO of a B2B tech startup. Step 1: Figure out the LTV (customer lifetime value).

Belarus 137

Belarus Viral Channel Startup 137

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. TRANSCRIPT. Why is your thing radically different?

Cofounder 69

Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. TRANSCRIPT. Why is your thing radically different?

Cofounder 69

Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

The Next Web

JULY 8, 2013

I recently stumbled upon this great read by Sam Altman, the co-founder of Loopt, and number 10 caught my eye: “ Growth solves (nearly) all problems.”. My startup reached product market fit, meaning that customers love our product and we are actually producing value for them. So far we have raised $2.3M Setting goals.

Advisory Board 128

Advisory Board API Cofounder PPC 128

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

For this reason, we’re excited to announce that we have closed on NextView’s $50M third fund, with a mission to champion founders who are redesigning the Everyday Economy. . There are countless B2B startups that are enabling this digital transformation and how consumers experience the Everyday Economy.

Seed Stage 273

Seed Stage Portfolio Cofounder B2B 273

VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2021

VC Cafe: What’s the best advice or practical tips you have for founders with regards to marketing and branding at seed stage? This can be really hard for early stage startups, but it means the difference between being good or being great. And running fast as an early stage start-up is so important.

Marketing 179

Marketing Early Stage Seed Stage 179

VC Cafe

MARCH 28, 2011

Its CEO, Ron Gura, was a mentor at Seedcamp Tel Aviv 2011 , an early-stage micro seed investment and mentoring programme. Ron Gura, co-founder and CEO of The Gifts Project, believes his B2B platform solves this problem. The Gifts Project is a social ecommerce platform enabling group gifting.

Widget 97

Widget eCommerce Early Stage 97

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. of venture capital deals.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Venk Shukla has worked in numerous early-stage companies as an executive, investor, board member, or advisor.

Channel 120

Channel India Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley 120

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Accel Euroscape: The 100 most promising Software-as-a- Service companies in Europe and Israel -This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. Take Denmark, where the passion of Peter Holten Mühlmann has made Trustpilot the online standard for customer experiences.

Europe 48

Europe Artificial Inteligence Vertical 48

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. Startup Culture Lessons From Mad Men - OnStartups , July 26, 2010 The following is a guest post by Brian Halligan who is my co-founder and CEO at HubSpot (which means he gets to do most of the really hard work). Customer Care Today.

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. Browse companies on AngelList , Made in NYC , Startup Genome and your local co-working spaces and create a short list of the ones you like.

Naming 84

Naming Startup Social Media RSS 84

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. .”

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53