View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Today Hologram announced their $65M Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global. Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Today Hologram announced their $65M Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global. Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Some of our particular themes and areas of interest include (* indicates a Version One portfolio company): . Some B2B companies: CarbonChain , Plan A , SINAI Technologies , Watershed ; consumer startups: Aerial , Wren ; and negative emission platforms: Pachama , Patch * (read our investment announcement here ).

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Artificial Inteligence B2B Finance Portfolio 88

Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Did anyone have global pandemic on their bingo board? As mentioned at the top I do not know anyone that predicted the global pandemic of COVID19, despite the writing on the wall and the cases growing in China at the time of this post last year. 5/ The rise of operator angels + micro VCs explodes in 2021. No, but close.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. Two of the three have gross margins <50% (AMZN is 40%, AAPL 38%, MSFT 67%) and one has operating profit margins <5% (AMZN 4%, AAPL 22%, MSFT 34%). 2009-2011: Retrenchment.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

This post is part of Accel’s Secrets to Scaling series, where leaders from across our portfolio share their learnings and advice with the next generation of European and Israeli entrepreneurs building global winners. And then you realised that there was a gap for B2B. I had some experience of this from PayPal.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2014

But, in today’s global market, the booming economy, massive population, mobile adoption and growing middle make Asia an attractive—and fully attainable—prospect for virtually any young upstart. However, the bigger surprise may be the way in which Asian companies prefer to operate compared to those in the U.S. 4: Reputation matters.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. Two of the three have gross margins <50% (AMZN is 40%, AAPL 38%, MSFT 67%) and one has operating profit margins <5% (AMZN 4%, AAPL 22%, MSFT 34%). 2009-2011: Retrenchment.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

I did not want them to make the mistake of trying to achieve revolution at the end of the keynote, rather I wanted to give them a path to achieving a global maxima. A typical macro-outcome is an ecommerce order, a lead submitted for a B2B company, a new profile opened by a visitor to a content site, a donation on a non-profit website.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

by Dan Adams, author of “ New Product Blueprinting: The Handbook for B2B Organic Growth “ Maximize shareholder value. The average holding period for stocks in these portfolios is less than 10 months.”. If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times. Dan Adams, president of Advanced Industrial Marketing, Inc.,

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View from Seed

JULY 28, 2015

Even Reebok’s global headquarters is located just outside the city. A culture that accepts risk is also critical because, at the early stages, you are operating with very little data. Everyone knows Fab’s fast rise-and-fall story, but few people talk about B2B companies that raised tons of money and then ultimately failed.

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Boston Marketing Early Stage Startup 120

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

At a previous employer customer service on the phone was a huge part of the operation. Most companies (think any retailer for example) still operate their identities in a silo. Are your little team, or your giant division, solving for the global maxima? Nonline Customer-ID. An improved variation of Login-ID 1st strategy.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Let's go back to our table, and global oil consumption. I've used Sunbursts to do the same with keyword portfolios. The core performance of the current website look like this… While we are applying it to a B2B case, it could just as easily be applied to a B2C / Ecommerce scenarios. Pretend you did not read it.

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Analytics Sierra Leone Channel Conversion 143

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

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. Benhamou Global Ventures. Global Catalyst Partners. Global Entrepreneurship Week.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Prior to AxialMarket, Peter held positions in private equity at SFW Capital Partners and was part of the founding team at Gerson Lehrman Group, where he helped build the firm’s dominant global marketplace for on-demand business expertise. a leading-edge research and development lab in the Millennium Technology Ventures portfolio.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Each account manager should have a portfolio of existing customers, and you should model the expected CMRR from this group net of up-sells and churn. This is a clear example where business-to-business (B2B) marketers need to learn from their business-to-consumer (B2C) counterparts. Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Xing XING – A global networking and contact management site for business professionals. CEOWorld.biz – Global networking for managers, entrepreneurs, and senior execs. b2b CRM – A Web-based CRM that manages contacts, activities, and your sales pipeline, and integrates with Outlook and Word.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

3GVision is the global leader in mobile barcode services that use the camera phone to scan barcodes. i-nigma was successfully deployed by hundreds of enterprises, among them operators, advertisers, integrators and solution providers. Below are the 56 Israeli companies who will exhibit at the 2011 Mobile World Congress: 3G Vision.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

Now, that may end up being a logistics network, that may end up being a kind of transport network in a way that they operate. And the way that Entrepreneur First is finding founders, bringing them together, matching them together, and having that sponsor B2B business ideas. You know, maybe I’m wrong.”

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Legibility is concerned with the very fine details of typeface design, and in an operational context this usually means the ability to recognise individual letters or words. Pingback: Using Typography to Your Advantage | Pros Global TV. Alex Poole. User experience design and research. Site français. Skip to content. Deliverables.

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