SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Creating Incremental Strategic Value - Ask the Angels , June 17, 2010 We can easily overlook the level of demand pull when we are assessing strategic value. Will you negotiate million dollars rounds of financing with cool VCs? People tend to overvalue past investments when making forward-looking investment decisions.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Starting in three cities - Tel Aviv, London and Boston - at almost the same time helped, but can you walk us through how you thought about building a global company from day one? The company started as a two-headed monster, evolving into three and four heads with Ottawa and Boston. What have you learned from it?

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Just take any week of venture financings these last few years and you will find that almost all of the companies funded to be cloud-delivered software businesses. Apperian (Boston, MA), Maker of mobile applications - $500 thousand. DiJiPop (Providence, RI), Provider of on-demand shopper marketing platform - $1 million.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

One of our recent investments, offered by Founder Collective (FC) – an eight-year-old manager with offices in Boston and San Francisco – is an excellent example of what we look for when we invest in funds offered by other managers. In general, these investments were rarely competitive at the time of their first financing.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

One of our conclusions was that VCs get better returns when they invest outside of the traditional geographic hotspots of New York, Boston, and the San Francisco Bay Area. We have seen this first-hand, with some of our best investments being located outside of the hub geographies, e.g., Cornerstone On Demand in Los Angeles.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›. Our Events ▾ 6/14/12 · Boston. Boston Events ›. Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

I was in Boston, working for the first time in venture capital as an analyst for this guy who was incredible and an amazing mentor. There were none in the firm, so I remember asking him if he knew of any general partners who were women in the Boston area. I've been in venture now twice. That was what I worked on in the initial days.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’m just pointing out my gut feel for approximate ranges of deals that I’ve seen with Silicon Valley having the highest valuations, NY / LA / Boston / Boulder / Seattle having valuations in a slightly lower range but comparable and sometimes significantly lower prices in markets that don’t have a healthy venture market.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

. – Indiegogo.com is a crowd-funding platform allowing contributors to empower hundreds of thousands of inventors, musicians, do-gooders, filmmakers – and many more – to bring their dreams to life. – Clarity.com proactively advises you on managing your personal finances efficiently. Goldman Sachs bought Clarity for ~$100m. .

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

It describes the product/service, who is it for, what channel sells/deliver it, how demand is created, how does the company make money, etc. For example, the Boston Consulting Group 2 x 2 growth-share matrix was an easy to understand strategy tool – a market selection matrix for companies looking for growth opportunities.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Examples of how security measures will step up to keep pace: Imagine a self-destructing Word document that deletes after viewing, the automatic revocation of access to content after a certain time period or documents that demand verification upon each opening. . Madhan holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering from Boston University.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Since leaving GrubHub, he founded Fixer.com, an on-demand handyperson service focused on social impact. He founded fixer.com and on demand, handy person service focused on social impact. So I started in 2002 and in 2006 we took financing in. Mike Evans (20:00): So Fixer is an on-demand handy person service.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Startup accelerators: There are more of them – and more demand to land a spot within one – than ever before. I have been a part of both Startup Chile and now TechStars in Boston. In particular, use your accelerator to help you set up your accounting and finances. – Stephanie Kaplan , Her Campus Media.

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Agile VC

MAY 27, 2016

If there’s a liquid supply of cars that can operate autonomously, one needn’t own a car… you could simply summon one on-demand from a fleet run by [Uber, Google, Apple, Ford, etc] and pay per use or subscription or whatever economic model emerges. And for those with certain transportation needs (e.g.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2020

I want to be better prepared when customers ask for specific brands or categories for help like Alexa ask Nestle for an oatmeal cookie recipe or Who is the best branding firm in Boston? This year my goal is to give up more control, better define processes, and bring in remote talent to scale with demand. 16- Two goals. Arrington, Sr.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston. Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 28, 2013

Seed financing grew from 89 fundings in Q1 2009 to more than 500 in Q3 2012. That means there are a lot more seeded startups out there: an excess demand for a limited supply of Series A financings. As an example, Version One has more than 50% of its funds reserved for follow-on financing.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 24, 2018

Our clients serve very diverse industries – eCommerce, manufacturing, software development, energy, printing, finance, healthcare – which means that no two days are the same. Like most entrepreneurs, I think I’m probably the worst, most demanding boss I’ve ever had. I really love that. Photo Credit: Anna F.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Each of these three concepts demands extensive consideration in the specific context of the project and the organization as a whole. Cost The most talented technical candidates do demand higher hourly rates, but as indicated already, their expertise reduces risk and the number of required project hours.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 79

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

INTRODUCTION This past fall, I attended the 20th annual Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA) conference in Boston, one of the best business school conferences in the world and the largest gathering of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) graduate business school students in the world. getting stuck inside four walls.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2014

I’ve known Joe for a while – we met through Techstars Boston, where he’s been a great mentor and very active angel investor. He’d gotten a random note asking about his valuation when we invested relative to another financing that was just announced. When we made our investment, the company got about 3.5x

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Trading and finance. Massachusetts, Boston. There is no lack in demand for graduates specializing in statistics. Because big companies can have so many products released, it would be impossible for all of the products to be tested individually. This is where statistics come into play and make a role for a statistician career.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. It allowed me to assess the market demand for that offline product before I had the final product baked. On-demand utility pricing for services (aka "cloud computing").

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. Typically, when a young company gets financing and begins to hire, they seek to leverage the network of the founding team and their investors. Immediately.

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Hiring Software Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley 44

David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I also suggest look at the UAE-Israel Technology & Finance Community/Mailing List. Phoenix will act as a platform to channel Gulf investment into OurCrowd’s 220 portfolio companies, building on the pent-up demand in the UAE for opportunities in the thriving Israeli start-up scene. I thought others might be interested in my list.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Fortune Magazine and Boston Consulting Group just teamed up to create their inaugural " Fortune 50 " list. So companies ranked high on the Future 50 like Tesla, Facebook, and Netflix, driven by the great market bullishness for electric vehicles, social media, and on-demand entertainment respectively, score very high by this measure.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

Your friends who go to work in management consulting or finance will have their job offers locked down nearly a year in advance, whereas you may be interviewing well after graduation. Coming out of school, you should have the wisdom to know that you’re not expert enough in any area to demand that you do one thing and one thing only.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

Your friends who go to work in management consulting or finance will have their job offers locked down nearly a year in advance, whereas you may be interviewing well after graduation. Coming out of school, you should have the wisdom to know that you’re not expert enough in any area to demand that you do one thing and one thing only.

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Rob Go

MAY 5, 2014

It’s extremely common for me to talk to an entrepreneur that has tons of demand for their round, but is actually looking for someone to lead, set terms, and be the anchor investor in a $1-$2M seed round. How do they do it? Three things. Leadership. The seed stage is filled with folks who follow.

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Babbling VC

MARCH 31, 2011

They may set as a prerequisite for financing that you relocate the business to the Valley. Again, it's no different than if you were going there because of an investor's demand that you relocate. Most likely you are still early stage and are about to get funded by a US VC. Your exit is there.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Last week''s successful IPO of e-commerce giant Wayfair (market cap $3B) and this week''s impending IPO of Hubspot (if it prices in the range, market cap $600m) has many in the Boston tech community celebrating. Be clear that the end goal was never an IPO - that is merely a financing event, a means to an end. They demand results.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Among those: plentiful financing and nerds , a culture that celebrates both failure and success, and an ethos of openness and sharing. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? What is customer development? Amazon PostRank

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Now we see weird case of designer from Nigeria collaborating with APP developer from Romania building a product which Intellectual Property is registered in Netherlands and LLC registered in Boston. You see the business of innovative solutions does not include services or products that are demanded by the market. Why do you need Help?

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