View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

We can stay busy by expending time and effort supporting the existing portfolio, which is the right thing to do and a good use of time. Founders do not have this luxury. Founders do not have this luxury. Most founders are going through hell right now, and that is not going away any time soon. Wait and see.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You have a deep desire to learn the venture capital business and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. However, you will serve as a co-pilot on deals with all four partners, across the geographies we cover.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund. As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio.

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Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Mitul’s passion to excel and customer focus have been built into the core values and mission of Citius Partners. They provide a hands-on transformation and revenue growth partner for B2B technology companies. Each engagement is personally undertaken by their founder and principal, Mitul. Key Career Highlights.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 30, 2022

The thing about mission-driven founders, though, is they continue to build even during market uncertainty. As Version One turned 10 last month, we reflected about how lucky we are to work with incredible mission-driven founders – and challenging times like this bolster our gratitude. . and Renewable Energy Group joining the round.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

You’re in discussions with strategic partners and potential beta customers. Think of your first B2B web site as one step beyond your elevator pitch. Profiles of founders and advisors add credibility. Call out strategic relationships with business partners, research institutions, or industry groups. Keep it simple.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2022

We recently wrote about why we’re so excited about Bikky and Abhinav Kapur (a mission-driven founder!). . Headout is partnering with @FlixBus to bring exciting offers and adventures to travelers across Europe. Inflection launched “ Inflection for startups ,” free B2B marketing automation. And they’ll be coming to Phoenix soon.

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Portfolio Phoenix Portland Europe 60

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. Bigfoot Capital.

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

by Marc Pitart, founder and CEO of onlineresume.us. However, it is important to check the portfolio of the program and see how many companies from your industry have participated. On the other hand, if the program’s portfolio demonstrates that they worked with quite a few companies in your field, you are good to go.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

We are holding our second open office hours for solo founders of ecompanies in the commerce ecosystem on 19th Sept. Pradeep explained the details last week on the Forward Partners blog , copied below. Are you a solo founder with an idea? We can help develop and validate the idea, build a product and find a co-founder.

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Partner Founder Cofounder eCommerce 112

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Here are some of the most memorable highlights for us in 2015: New portfolio companies. This year, we welcomed five new companies to the Version One portfolio: Headout : an on-demand marketplace for tours, activities and experiences. Portfolio Summary and Investment Focus. eSports, and virtual reality. . Angela & Boris.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Studies show that only 5% of B2B buyers are ready to buy. At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. It helps them audit existing content portfolios (blog posts, landing pages, etc.) CXL’s founder, Peep Laja, has a specific “reason why” his company Wynter exists.

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Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

But for B2B sales, meeting people in person is often mandatory. They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Tech stack. Today, I do this manually.

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Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

We’ve also proven that giving new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a dedicated, hands-on chance leads to follow-on funding and additional accelerator success across the board. What happens when you give new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a real chance during a time of economic uncertainty? .

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Topics we covered: B2B Companies You haven’t seen the full extent to how the correction is going to affect you. 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. Paying close attention to the psychology of founders.

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Marketing Valuation Churn Rate Balance Sheet 263

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. We’re backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Silver Lake Partners, and individual investors like Ron Conway, among others.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

For several months now, my partners and I have spent a lot of time talking about why we’re investing in the Everyday Economy. Through all of those posts, we’ve received one common question from founders: Are all Everyday Economy startups consumer-facing? Types of B2B Everyday Economy Companies. The answer is no.

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

of teams’ online pitch decks and recorded videos, as well as loved the dozens of second-round video conversations which we had with Founders working on quite compelling startups. Many of these Founders we wouldn’t have had an opportunity to connect with if we hadn’t launched this program.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

One of the earliest things we did at NextView when my partners and I started working together was go away as a team to the New Hampshire mountains. I’m thrilled by the companies we are investors in, as well as the founders that lead them. OUR PORTFOLIO. I’ve done little portfolio overviews from time to time.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

How much do startup founders pay themselves—and other questions you were too afraid to ask crowdspring.co/1LMkRhy. Why It’s Safe for Founders to Be Nice crowdspring.co/1ECx3Sm. The Power of Partnering Up … Instead of Down crowdspring.co/1ECxIDo. IdN Motion Gallery on Pratt Portfolios crowdspring.co/1OaQlOL.

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Small Business Design Syria Social Media 48

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period. The pressure to protect portfolio startups seen as potential fund returners will be profound.

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Founder Technical Review Down Round Liquidation Preference 173

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. 2) B2B startups have high margins. B2B companies can have great unit economics.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. 2) B2B startups have high margins. B2B companies can have great unit economics.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2014

by Jay Eum, co-founder and Managing Director of TransLink Capital. However, aside from the geographic challenges, pursuing new business opportunities in Asia takes careful planning, a clear understanding of cultural nuances and an experienced and engaged partner to help you establish a presence on the ground. 4: Reputation matters.

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Asia Japan Marketing Cofounder 191

Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

As a founder, it feels like a long time, but it’s really a blip on the radar in the scheme of things. This is why I’ve made a habit of profiling our portfolio quantitatively and why we write summaries announcing pretty much all of our new investments. So, here is our annual quantitative summary of our portfolio.

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Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. 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. 1) Manage the firm .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

A couple years ago, my partner Lee penned a blog post about the milestone benchmarks for startups raising a Series A round of financing. For B2B startups especially, revenue is the best signal of product-market fit. Just plow ahead blindly and hope for the best? Generate Real Revenue.

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Seed Capital Metrics Cofounder Revenue 212

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. He is also the Co-founder and Chairman of BrandCycle. 9:14] How do I find partners? [12:58] 12:58] Is there an example case on finding partners that you’d like to go through with us? [15:43]

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Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 90

View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

It’s a common question that every VC fields from founders — and founders field from other founders, and marketers field from founders, and PR people field from founders. Be sure you have an honest and direct discussion with your lawyers, who should be viewed as true partners who understand these things.

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Startup PR Cofounder Stealth 120

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven.

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Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

David Teten

APRIL 22, 2013

I couldn’t be more excited to share that one of our portfolio companies, Ionic Security (formerly Social Fortress), has raised $9.4 Ted Schlein, general partner at KPCB , and Tom Noonan, partner at TechOperators , will join the board of directors. (This is the second ff VC company that KPCB has invested in, after Klout.).

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Venture Capital Security Operations Atlanta 114

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

We have over 20 years of experience backing bold founders with big visions. BOLDstart helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round. Many of our portfolio companies in BOLDstart II reflect this theme such as Truly Wireless and handshake.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Over the last couple years at Sputnik ATX venture-accelerator, I’ve noticed that there are certain not-so-obvious ways in which founders are tested by investors. Sometimes it’s clear to the founders that they’re going up in flames. The thing is, the founders who don’t make it don’t know what they don’t know. Here they are: 1.

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Guinea Founder Venture Capital Reputation 62

View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

On Wednesday, my partner David wrote about how we’ve been using our office space (and network and other resources) to support pre-seed companies. As a founder, you and your team are building value every day, but there are certain step-function moments where the value creation significantly increases. You can find that here.

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Cofounder Finance Founder Syndicate 120

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

IMO Bessemer is perhaps the most emblematic firm of thematic investing… all the investment professionals in the firm from senior partners to more junior staff team up in small groups to construct “ roadmaps ” of the themes in which they intend to pursue investments, which are then articulated more broadly within the firm.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

In addition, Amazon launched two dedicated funds: Alexa Startups – The Alexa Startups team engages founders and investors through startup programs, business development, and technical support. AWS Marketplace Startup Program – the ‘app store’ for B2B startups who are interested to sell their product to AWS customers.

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174