View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 136

View from Seed

JULY 19, 2019

All early stage venture firms essentially look at some weighting of team, market, product, and traction. And additionally, my partners and I use other, more differentiated, lenses like asking if a startup has an “ unfair distribution advantage.” Go (re)read that post.

Boston 149

Boston B2B Early Stage Portfolio 149

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

We did that for six years, and then we decided we would move to Boston because … This is where my marketer brain kicked in. I was like, “There are not a lot of the type of church that we are at out there in Boston. ” Lance Cummins: So I literally moved my family, my three kids and my wife and I, to Boston.

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Audio Boston Video HTML 57

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. 6:00 – 7:30).

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

In addition, I think that a “peace treaty&# between early-stage investors and startup companies on standard terms (at least at a term sheet level) is a step in the right direction. I suspect that this seems reasonable if there is basically no due diligence due to the early stage of the companies. (By Legal fees.

Finance 70

Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2023

Key Takeaway: While significant progress has been made in AI, we are still at the early stages of it’s development. It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the eighth. Kenneth Wenger (04:32): You know, that's a great question because I think we are actually very early on. That's right. That's all they're doing.

Artificial Inteligence 64

Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Algorithm Networking 64

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. But all things are never equal.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. They just dont need another authority figure in their life. Dont confuse passion with volume.

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San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

When anyone can work from anywhere, they don’t evenly distribute across the country. After an exhaustive search, they narrowed it down to three finalist cities: Austin, Boston and Raleigh. He was the first institutional investor in Facebook and also an early-stage investor in groundbreaking companies like Etsy, Spotify, C3.AI,

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Silicon Valley Austin Texas Raleigh 100

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Conventional wisdom dictated that they made reckless investments in very early-stage ventures mostly doomed to fail. Deductions like this are problematic because early-stage venture investing does not happen in an efficient market. The distribution of returns from the different U.S. Only they’re not. and the U.K.,

Angel Investor 152

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Andy is a global thought leader in remote work, telecommuting, and distributed workforces having served as CEO of Crossover and Sococo and on the board of Texas Central, our new bullet train. Bob invented Ethernet, founded 3Com (revenues of $5.7B), was the Editor of InfoWorld magazine, and was a venture capitalist at Polaris in Boston.

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Austin Texas Cofounder Los Angeles 110

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government 36

Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

I think we are *on our way down* as an early stage startup hub unless we start to fix some of our problems around here. Other cities that I like are LA (basically my backyard), Boston (oldie but goodie), and ATL. Many startups these days are using a distributed model successfully. Documentation?

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Silicon Valley San Francisco Portugal Ireland 48

Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

I think we are *on our way down* as an early stage startup hub unless we start to fix some of our problems around here. Other cities that I like are LA (basically my backyard), Boston (oldie but goodie), and ATL. Many startups these days are using a distributed model successfully. Documentation?

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley San Francisco Portugal Ireland 48

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US. they generate $400M in proceeds from that $100M).

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Conventional wisdom dictated that they made reckless investments in very early-stage ventures mostly doomed to fail. Deductions like this are problematic because early-stage venture investing does not happen in an efficient market. The distribution of returns from the different U.S. Only they’re not. and the U.K.,

Angel Investor 103

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

But whether you are trying to build daily, habitual products for business users like Slack or InVision or trying to reach truly mass market consumers like Wayfair, Jet, or Chewy, there is someone in the Guild who has faced this challenge at the early stages of a business and at scale. Mike Volpe, CMO at Cybereason. Back to Top).

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Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

Campus Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Each has a unique place and role to play in improving the early stage ecosystem, as was well argued by Jonathan Wegener. I have been lucky enough to be involved in both Seedcamp and Techstars Boston, and to see how these two initiatives deliver value in different ways.

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Incubator Boston Early Stage Programming 37

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

If you live in a major hub of VC - e.g., Bay Area, Boston, NYC, LA - it’s easier to tap into your local resources to help augment your understanding, but there are a lot of smart people with great ideas in other parts of this country and globally for whom access to information is just not as available. No need to name names.

Lean 108

Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

View from Seed

MAY 27, 2015

But we noticed that while the information in these podcasts is interesting, many are often far removed from the actual day-to-day challenges of very early stage founders that are just trying to go from nothing to something. We find that these are great, and I personally listen to many of them. Thanks for listening!

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Early Stage Non-Compete Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Do we believe “startup-driven” innovation (innovation that comes from relationships with external, early-stage companies) should be part of the corporate innovation portfolio? Acquiring a growth-stage private startup can provide a faster ROI at lower risk than the acquisition of an early- stage startup.

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Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage 120

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

The Food+City Challenge Prize is an international competition among early stage business startups encouraging innovation in the urban food system. Finalists addressing issues such as storage, distribution, packaging, waste, and more, will compete for up to $50,000 in prizes. Date: Tues March 13, 2018 Time: 9:30 AM?

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Mexico Silicon Valley Texas Austin 48

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

It’s a management and engineering consulting company in Boston. I moved from Boston to San Francisco and ended up at oDesk for about five years in a variety of different roles. So it’s a powerful tool for social proof and distribution and evangelism. I had a great time there for four years. This is incredible.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Venture Capital San Francisco Boston 60

Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

But we noticed that while the information in these podcasts is interesting, many are often far removed from the actual day-to-day challenges of very early stage founders that are just trying to go from nothing to something. We find that these are great, and I personally listen to many of them. Thanks for listening!

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Early Stage Non-Compete Silicon Valley 28

Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

But we noticed that while the information in these podcasts is interesting, many are often far removed from the actual day-to-day challenges of very early stage founders that are just trying to go from nothing to something. We find that these are great, and I personally listen to many of them. Thanks for listening!

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Early Stage Non-Compete Silicon Valley 28

Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

Despite all the best intentions, an early-stage company that needs someone to start in June probably won’t start hiring until the last week of May. We decided to take a risk and pursue a path of running private betas and launching simultaneously in three cities: New York City, Los Angeles, and Boston.

New York City 48

New York City New York Los Angeles Startup 48

Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

Despite all the best intentions, an early-stage company that needs someone to start in June probably won’t start hiring until the last week of May. We decided to take a risk and pursue a path of running private betas and launching simultaneously in three cities: New York City, Los Angeles, and Boston.

New York City 48

New York City New York Los Angeles Startup 48

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Mokady believes that partnering with a Boston-based VC would have helped CyberArk address its talent problems more effectively because the VC would have vouched for the company. These are also questions that will concern late-stage investors who provide the companies the opportunities to scale and, eventually, go public.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Other cities like New York, Boston, Seattle, LA and Austin TX also have pretty strong startup communities. Height has a pretty tight, normal distribution. I’m sure some of you are thinking “that’s all great – but I live in the middle of nowhere and none of those resources are available to me.&#

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Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 66