View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

Still others point to the collective sensibility and logic of New Englanders as an operating philosophy. Half our portfolio is consumer. Here’s Mike’s comment: Boston’s B2C problem is one of values. To become a truly special consumer tech community, Boston needs more pillar B2C companies.

Boston 120

Boston Cofounder B2C PR 120

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.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. 9% (1 / 12).

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

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.

IPO 202

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

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.

IPO 100

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

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.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Acquisition Naming 60

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.

Analytics 143

Analytics Sierra Leone Channel Conversion 143