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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. What are you working on now?

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Q3 2017 Round-Up: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

For more details, here’s founder/CEO Jevon MacDonald’s blog. We welcomed Gencove , a B2B sequencing company, to our portfolio. If you’re interested in learning more, here’s a post from Gencove founder Joe Pickrell making the case on why it’s time to switch from genotyping technologies to sequencing technologies.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

NVV: Lots of marketers are under pressure to come in and generate demand right away, whether because sales is asking for leads or founders are demanding PR or user growth. Some startups are in stealth mode and maybe branding and beautiful design is important. Those visitors wanted to browse, not get deeper into our site and content.

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What Are the Benefits of Stealth Mode for Startups, Really?

View from Seed

Startups and their founders who claim to be in “stealth mode” prior to launch are such a commonplace part of the startup ecosystem that it might seem odd to question its merits. But it’s important to address this head on and ask: What are the benefits of stealth mode for startups, really? .

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Accidental VC: When Should Startups Announce Seed Funding?

View from Seed

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. In light of that partnership, founders should be proactive about asking them to delay — if that’s your desire.

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boldstart ventures in 2014 – our ethos

BeyondVC

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. finally, this theme is also applicable for b2b. That is pretty self explanatory.

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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. just months after it came out of stealth. We think this gap will reduce dramatically in the next few years.

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