VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

Amazon Corporate Development – Notable acquisitions include Whole Foods ($13.7B), smart doorbell system Ring ($1.2B, 2018) and autonomous mobility technology Zoox ($1.2bn). The Alexa Fund also provides up to $200 million in venture capital funding to fuel voice technology innovation. AI startups in the Alexa Fund portfolio.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

by Kristy Campbell, Chief Operating Officer at Rev1 Ventures. Think of your first B2B web site as one step beyond your elevator pitch. Never lead with your technology—make a brief mention at most. Don’t boil the ocean with flashy technology. You’ve validated your market and designed a minimally viable prototype.

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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. Data from OpenVC shows that VCs typically focus on 2 technology classes. Out of 125 funds in the database, 33 state they invest in 1 type of technology (e.g.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

With his passion for technology coupled with his desire to help others, Mitul graduated with a First Class in BSc in Computer Information Systems and embarked on his journey to help organisations better serve their customers. They provide a hands-on transformation and revenue growth partner for B2B technology companies.

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Transformify

JUNE 20, 2020

Some clients may be operating in one country only (e.g. Germany) while others are likely to span operations across regions (e.g. DACH) or operate globally. Hence, a merchant that operates in the EU and China for example will be looking for a fintech vendor that can provide services across these territories.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

9) Accelerate portfolio company value. See Beyond the Money: Best Practices of Venture Capitalists in Helping Early-Stage Companies Create Value and It’s the People: Improving Private Equity Portfolio Company Valuations by Working with Operating Executives. See my overview of sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

9) Accelerate portfolio company value. See Beyond the Money: Best Practices of Venture Capitalists in Helping Early-Stage Companies Create Value and It’s the People: Improving Private Equity Portfolio Company Valuations by Working with Operating Executives. See my overview of sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 5, 2017

Q1 was a busy time for our firm and portfolio companies, and here’s a brief recap of some of the various news clippings, fundraising announcements, and other happenings across the V1 community. The education technology startup has even more firepower to shake up the textbook publishing and educational content industry.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. Bigfoot Capital. ARR of $500K+.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In short, we’re seeking to invest in early-stage startups that are leveraging digital technologies to improve the health and wellbeing of people and our planet. Consumer and SaaS B2B companies leveraging digital technologies drive a brighter collective future for the health of our planet and the people in it.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

So yeah, I, there there's some confusion around these terms, partner, marketing partnership, marketing affiliate market, and you have influencer and B2B. I, I think there is this convert urgents where affiliate marketing was a model that used technology to, to work with partners at scale. It's also not something.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

On the latest episode of Greymatter, Greylock partners Reid Hoffman and Sarah Guo discussed this process in detail, with a special focus on startups operating in fast-growing sectors like productivity tools and cloud SaaS platforms that power the modern working world. Take B2B companies. You can listen to the podcast here.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Candidates will learn our culture and how to go through steps of sales cycle with Lead Generation, B2B and B2C sales and account management. This cutting edge technology reads thousands of manuscripts in minutes and analyzes hundreds of key attributes. To Apply: Please send your resume to admin@visualsemantics.io

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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 not mainly for B2B companies or later stage companies or anything like that. We kind of bring it all together.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2018

This means constantly looking for improvements to our automation technology, using that automation more, and diligently pursuing excellence for each client’s dream website. New technologies have arrived to make people attracted and much more dependant on them. Thanks to Shawn Moore, Solodev ! #2- 2- Two goals.

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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 ff also provides a suite of financial and accounting services to them, as we do for over a dozen portfolio companies.

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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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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 30, 2020

5/ Alternate use case for a withered technology. Constraints are a virtue – someone will use “old” technology to make something “new” (see the emergence of Nintendo) – interesting thinking for older tech that introduces constraints that end up being benefits. 5/ The rise of operator angels + micro VCs explodes in 2021.

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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. Why did you decide to be an entrepreneur?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2014

A hotbed of innovation and cutting-edge technology, the Far East is an ideal marketplace for tech entrepreneurs with its fast-growing infrastructure, eager investors and high-growth companies, not to mention a very large pool of new consumers. For Asian companies, it’s less of a B2B deal and more of a partnership between individuals.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. All of the people we pitched who became our investors had at least one other portfolio company that was doing something in email. In some cases, product & technology.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. All of the people we pitched who became our investors had at least one other portfolio company that was doing something in email. In some cases, product & technology.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

While this sounds simple, there is a ton of work that goes into helping our portfolio companies get to a successful Series A. Finally, we try to prewire the Series A investment by getting our portfolio companies to meet with the right partners at the right firms early on before they even need money. As they say, the rest is history.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly Gordon is also operating director of Zynga and director at Amazon, both sFund partners.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

One might be autonomous vehicles, which is clearly a transformative technology. 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. What can you do now that you have this piece of technology, but also thinking in terms of emotional attachment?

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entrepreMusings

AUGUST 4, 2012

Aruni joined Bulldog in June 2012 with a background in technology entrepreneurship, B2B sales, consulting, and operations. The 6 basic elements that the course revolves around are: Demand Type, Relative Targeting, Lead Taxonomy, Buying Cycle, Portfolio Marketing, and the Demand Waterfall. Gunasegaram, Account Director.

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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. Bogdanovich, who’s worked with dozens of companies on Salesforce integration and marketing automation, sketched an order of operations for data acquisition and deployment in demand gen campaigns: Bring clean data into the CRM.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. 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. Preloaders.net.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Business Services (B2B). Whats on your technology toolbelt? more in Small Business. Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ » smaller. Software. -

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Having got my first PC from my late aunt when I was 15, I had the comfort of getting used to digital technology. Almost every B2B business extends a credit term to their clients. You could also try a small office at a CBD but have your operating branch somewhere that is cost-effective. Digitize everything. Pay yourself less.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

The Mobile World Congress , possibly the largest International technology conference and definitely the most important mobile conference of the year is taking place in Barcelona this February 14-17. i-nigma was successfully deployed by hundreds of enterprises, among them operators, advertisers, integrators and solution providers.

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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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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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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. Programmed Learning and Educational Technology 18(2), 57-61. Educational Communication and Technology , 35(1), 3-17. Alex Poole. Site français. Definitions.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

People + Process + Structure] > [Data + Technology]. In taking that step, you should not just implement cool technology and do cool marketing, you should also invest in growing the skills, experience of your people and invest in putting scalable structures and processes to take advantage of this next cool thing. Including data.

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