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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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Fred Wilson has been a venture investor and director in Return Path since 2000, first with Flatiron Partners and then with Union Square Ventures. Here are a few tips for ending up with the best long-term partner as an investor. Look for VC portfolios that have a lot of “like” companies (B2B, B2C, media, tech, etc.).

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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. High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Tech stack. Crunchbase.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2018

A name is a label by which animate or inanimate things are called or referenced. When we think about names, pictures or qualities are evoked from the good to the grotesque. Therefore a good business name and slogan are key. Your business name is as important as a good business tax regimen. So, WHAT’S IN A BUSINESS NAME?

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Pradeep explained the details last week on the Forward Partners blog , copied below. We define that broadly to include any consumer facing business where there is a clear transaction/purchase and B2B companies that sell to ecommerce companies. Three examples from our portfolio: Thread.com is a free personal shopping service.

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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 10, 2022

Our program goes back to basics in the most important, effective, and meaningful ways : weekly one-on-one time with partners, hands-on mentorship from experienced advisors, small and selective cohort sizes, and zero demo days or distracting demo day prep involved. ” – Rob Go, Partner . ~~~. Who we are.

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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. At the time, I think we didn’t even had a name for the fund. It’s commonly said that the biggest risk facing a new VC firm is disharmony among the partners.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

Increase your premium pricing Referrals also allow you to diversify your pricing portfolio and charge a premium for your product or service. This approach was very direct and as a result, the customer had an easy time connecting my client to the names on his list. Use them as a resource and leverage their insight. Buy the workbook.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. In this episode, I talk with the Founder and Chairman of Acceleration Partners, Bob Glazer, about why diversifying your marketing strategy with other channels — like partnerships — is the way of the future.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

My partners and I wanted to peel back the curtain slightly for those of you who’ve been following our progress, and also acknowledge the help and support numerous folks have provided as we got this new VC firm off the ground. Just under half our portfolio is B2B in nature, slightly more than half is consumer-facing in some way.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

While there’s nothing wrong with trying to guest post on larger sites, if you don’t have a large portfolio of quality content, it can be a struggle to break through the noise. Check in within your current circles (partners, SMM followers, etc.). Run a quick competitor analysis to find partners’ (and rivals’) guest posts.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

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. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Portfolio. (3). Online marketing changed it.

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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. My partner David wrote yesterday in greater detail about some of our learnings from co-habitating with pre-seed companies. You can find that here.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It starts with having the right data in the system,” noted Kamil Rextin, who wrote about B2B attribution. Unless there’s a clear framework in place,” Rextin cautioned, “You’ll end up with a giant glob of names and companies with all kinds of job titles because someone left it as an open text field rather than a drop-down.”.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

We wholeheartedly believe in the potential of each company we select; the smaller batch size allows the NextView partners, who possess deep operating and founding experiences at companies like LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, and Blue Apron, the space to spend meaningful one-on-one time with each founder every single week. This is true.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Peter Lehrman, CEO, AxialMarket Daniel Confino, Founder, MergerID ( a Financial Times business) Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners. His professional career has been substantially dedicated to building high-value technology-powered B2B marketplaces where many thought they couldn’t exist.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

These startups completed an intense 10-week program featuring hands-on, personalized engagement from NextView partners to push the company forward, peer communications, expert education sessions, advisor introductions, and more. THE GOAL : The culmination of this accelerator program ISN’T a demo day or a big show.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Many of them are often struggling with funding, user engagement and discoverability, if I had to name the top three concerns. You need to be good with one thing- creating and managing your product portfolio. They are your partners. I connect with a lot of entrepreneurs and Startups on an everyday basis.

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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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David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2020

Household names like traffic app Waze ( 150 million users, acquired by Google for over $1 billion), Shopping.com (acquired by eBay for $634 million ), and Viber (over 650 million users ) are all Israeli companies. Disclosure: ff Venture Capital, where David Teten was previously a Partner, was an investor in CyberX.

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Rob Go

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. My partner David wrote yesterday in greater detail about some of our learnings from co-habitating with pre-seed companies. You can find that here.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

What you deem as success creates an incentive for an individual employee, the group/division, your company’s partners, to behave in a certain way. For The New Yorker they can easily tie to my name, address, credit card and a more. Nonline Customer-Name-ID. Likelihood to repurchase , took a painful hit. Truly omg coolness.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Business Services (B2B). Comcast Corp.,

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. “Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. However, we’d argue that for most smaller managers who are not brand names, it’s better to be highly identified in your niche than being a generalist.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. pic2world provides customers with three products such as commercial tour guide, tour contents exchange community, and automatic tour photo naming management.

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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. Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Eventbrite.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 14, 2018

That’s I think the big thing that we focus on, is doing account management, and doing all of the process steps to connect you with a good designer to actually deliver both a good initial project, and then really be more your design partner over a period of time. Then colors and topography.

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