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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C. Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B). Network Effect B2B.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that. While its B2B social media team was attracting large audiences in its market, it failed to engage them because it lacked credible, regularly refreshed content. You have to make it easy for them to do so.

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Part 2 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Steve Weinstein and Venk Shukla

Steve Blank

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. — In the next segment, I spoke with Venk Shukla about his journey from bureaucrat in India to Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs. government commercializes science.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network.