David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

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View from Seed

JUNE 11, 2015

Developing Your Product Behind Scenes. Founding teams can be flexible in the design and development timeline of their product with less immediate worry about being imitated (great ideas always spawn competitors in the longer run) and less pressure about release date. The two main benefits are: 1.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? With enough resources, products can always be copied. It’s tough to compete on product alone and you’re likely to see diminishing returns. Studies show that only 5% of B2B buyers are ready to buy.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Internet-connected computing is an innovation wave on par with a few historical developments of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Conventional wisdom has it that the internet is towards the end of this cycle — and many VCs are on the hunt for the next platform, whether it be blockchain, or AI, or synthetic biology, or what have you.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Sablotsky continued her professional career as Vice-President of Portfolio Development for Jacobs Investments, LLC. Her responsibilities included: strategic counseling, business modeling and deal negotiation for the various for medical startups in the portfolio and is a limited partner at NGT3 Medical Accelerator in Israel.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The Internet also seems to have gifted us with lower barriers to entry. For products that are truly unique or world changing, there’s still a need for discoverability. You need to be good with one thing- creating and managing your product portfolio. Leave it to them to work their magic. In Summary.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Examples of such companies in our portfolio include WHOOP , which delivers personalized health insights via a wearable device, Devoted Health , which assists seniors in accessing Medicare Advantage, and Mighty Health , which helps individuals find a healthier path through coaching.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

It affects even B2B companies because ultimately most must sell to companies who sell to consumers and if they suffer they cut back on suppliers. Check out this interesting piece on PEHub talking about how Stanford is discreetly looking to sell it’s asset portfolio ! Consumer spending is where I’m dubious.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram is a leader in enabling large-scale connectivity of internet of things (IoT) devices, across the globe with 400+ wireless carriers, all through a robust but easy-to-use API. Hologram is also an example of a B2B platform company, of which we’ve invested in many over the years here at NextView.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 1) Market fund. 2) Raise capital. 6) Negotiate deal.

Private Equity 60

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram is a leader in enabling large-scale connectivity of internet of things (IoT) devices, across the globe with 400+ wireless carriers, all through a robust but easy-to-use API. Hologram is also an example of a B2B platform company, of which we’ve invested in many over the years here at NextView.

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Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 136

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

Moreover, the indicators that show founders are ready to take on new capital in order to progress to the next phase of company-building – be it hiring, expanding into a new market, launching a product or more – can vary from company to company. If you already have customers, it makes it easier to validate your value prop and initial product.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Time to set real goals, iterate through real product pushes, craft real go-to-market strategies, make real introductions to downstream investors, the list goes on and on. Consumer and SaaS B2B companies located anywhere, but should be focused on redesigning the Everyday Economy within the U.S. Who We Are.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

IdN Motion Gallery on Pratt Portfolios crowdspring.co/1OaQlOL. Logo for B2B buying group crowdspring.co/1UxyZgU. The Internet of Way Too Many Things nytimes.com/2015/09/06/opi…. The Push Pin Pantheon – Print Magazine crowdspring.co/1iji3ii. A Smart New Tool to Demystify the Design Process crowdspring.co/1JzZ4Xt.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

Consumer and SaaS B2B companies located anywhere, but should be focused on redesigning the Everyday Economy within the U.S. Everyone in the NextView partnership has deep operating experience as founders and operators scaling high-growth internet companies (e.g. Who we are. LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, Blue Apron). We’re upping our offering!

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Because people live, shop, and buy in real time, Monetate products enable e-commerce web sites to market in real time. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. " "Hit it."

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Sector: B2B On-Demand. B2B on-demand is the perfect combination between two of our existing portfolio strengths: The fact that half of our investments are business-focused startups, and our expertise with consumer on-demand services like Paintzen , TaskRabbit , and Scratch. Sector: Insurance in the Internet Age.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Sector: B2B On-Demand. B2B on-demand is the perfect combination between two of our existing portfolio strengths: The fact that half of our investments are business-focused startups, and our expertise with consumer on-demand services like Paintzen , TaskRabbit , and Scratch. Sector: Insurance in the Internet Age.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

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. A Stroll Through Our Portfolio. Stage: Pre Product: 12. Live Product, Pre Revenue: 6 1/2.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

From B2C to B2B. Why can't they build their own store, newspaper, library, product catalog, ad experience and so much more in six clicks? You are welcome to look at any random product, but let's look at the All-Clad d5 Stainless-Steel French Skillet. We will look at many different examples. From bras to dresses.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consumer Products. Paper & Forest Products. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. INTERNET BUSINESSES. Business Services (B2B). General Internet. - Chemicals & Allied Products. Fabricated Metal Products. Food and Kindred Products.

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View from Seed

JULY 28, 2015

In other words, some of the best marketers in modern consumer internet startups are exactly the type of people that Boston has in spades. What Actually Makes a Great Consumer Internet Marketer? You don’t really know how customers are going to respond to your product over time. So I wanted to understand this more deeply.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Eloqua is bringing this revolution to the B2B marketers by providing on-demand applications and best-practice expertise for B2B marketers to execute, automate and measure effective marketing programs that drive revenue.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

We also invest only in software & internet enabled businesses. And we invest in US-based startups, primarily on the US east coast though we’ll consider other parts of country on a selective basis (roughly 15-20% of our portfolio is in the SF Bay area).

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

But the foundation to any company's success is to ensure that there is an attractive product/content for audiences to engage with in each of the three stages: See – Think – Do. This fact is patently clear when you visit any product page on their website. No more Product-centric pimpy ads in the See stage.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

It’s some combination of great teams , attractive markets , and promising products. As a seed fund, we tend to layer in “ capital efficient beginnings ” to the mix given our investing model and belief about the best way to build internet and software businesses. But this time, I gave a different answer.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 18, 2018

That means the next year or two will likely bring some blockbuster mergers and acquisitions as companies determine how they can mesh their services and products with others’. The Internet of Things has already seen some notable acquisitions, including SmartThings , Nest , and Dropcam.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

At NextView, we spend a substantial portion of our time trying to help our portfolio companies prepare for growth as “venture scale” businesses. 5) Plausible monetization – If you’re an e-commerce or B2B SaaS company, it’s harder to raise a Series A as a pre-revenue company.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 10, 2012

As the first wave of the internet has come into some level of maturity, we’ve seen that most of the opportunities that have gotten us excited have been in “High Friction Categories.” These are areas that have historically seen much slower adoption of technology and much less leverage from the internet. Ubiquitous computing.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Like SaaS products themselves, we now intend for these laws to be periodically refined through major releases to reflect the changing landscape of the SaaS world. Cracking The Code. Friday, October 10, 2008.

Software Review 48

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

If you have read anything I've ever written, you know that I obsess about ensuring every view I have, every portfolio of segments I have, every dashboard I create, every incentive-structure conversation I lead, every business strategy I help craft has to have the three elements that form an end-to-end view: Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 9, 2011

This means that they can’t hope to base a business on marketing cool, cutting-edge products, or towards the consumer market rather than the B2B (business-to-business) market. Or, just as bad, the prospective buyer can live without the product or service comfortably for a prolonged period of time.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

And the way that Entrepreneur First is finding founders, bringing them together, matching them together, and having that sponsor B2B business ideas. In fact, when you look at it, you say, “Ok, well, what are the early-stage consumer internet investments?” Let’s think about a network of biases, one you’ve said something about before.

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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. Great for visualizing work of product development. agile product management. Kanban Pad â??

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

eXpireTrack – Track and plan for the date that products are to expire. Gretastudio – Create on-demand presentations for your company’s products, record training and e-learning materials, or other types of presentations that require audio or video content. carbonmade Carbonmade – A free online portfolio showcase.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Aerotel Medical Systems is a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. Craze Productions. For mobile backhauling applications, FibroLAN is now offering the Falcon SE product line.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

So with that, and that’s at all levels of the organization, that’s consumers, that’s B2B clients, they don’t know where to look, they don’t know who to trust. Ron Tite: I think that what it is, is it gives them the opportunity to diversify their portfolio in a way that still reinforces their brand belief.

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