Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Three revolutionaries will replace the current IT dictators: Cloud , Mobile and Social. While the cloud concepts first emerged in the late 1990s, the technology only recently matured to the point where it is poised to break the chains of handcrafted infrastructure and enterprise application software. On-premise Cloud.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented. As I wrote about in my post on Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing , this is painful and you must have a diversified portfolio to practice angel investing and actually make money. and negative?—?voice

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View from Seed

MARCH 15, 2018

The business model may be either consumer-facing or business-facing , but if the audacious venture succeeds, the end result is that some aspect of people’s lives will be different than before. . You can look to our portfolio for some examples.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

With a bigger focus on platforms in the “Cloud” by companies like yours, what are your expectations for this in the next year to 18 months? The “Cloud” is an example of how quickly this industry evolves. The “Cloud” is a fairly disruptive model and it will take people time to understand how best to adapt to it and benefit from it.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Three revolutionaries will replace the current IT dictators: Cloud , Mobile and Social. While the cloud concepts first emerged in the late 1990s, the technology only recently matured to the point where it is poised to break the chains of handcrafted infrastructure and enterprise application software. So what will become of IT?

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A few days ago, Bessemer West Coast SaaS Practice - David Cowan , Byron Deeter and myself, hosted a CFO Dinner for our SaaS portfolio at John Bentleys in Redwood City. Cloud Computing. (1). Portfolio. (3).

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

You Can’t Be a Wimp—Make the Tough Calls | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/H4gLnT. The Future of Business Models Will Be Centered on Crowds - crowdspring.co/16aTTiD. “Investing early & often in customer success is essential to keeping a fast-growing SaaS business’s momentum.”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Remember, a year from now no one wants to be the CEO of a company out of business whose lament is, “I did what the board told me to do.”. This plan has three parts: Pivots to your new business model, changes to your operating plan, and what initiatives you save for the recovery. What does your board suggest?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

You’re asking the same type of questions about the use case but you don’t have to bet the entire business model on it. If your challenge at the moment is lead generation, I’d suggest building side tools that are in your space and that would draw in the right type of people.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

While Ive made at least my share of mistakes taking equity in lieu of pay, I continue to see this as a key part of my business model. Also, because I have equity in multiple tech start-ups I gain portfolio diversification benefits (meaning Im more likely to get lucky). AOL, Tech Crunch and What Selling Your Business Means.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

These partnerships may take the form of Proof of Concept projects with startups, getting to know VC firms and their portfolios, and familiarizing themselves with university groups doing research in the established strategic problems. (It In exchange, the startups provide companies with their disruptive ideas, technologies and business models.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Small and Medium businesses have been the holy grail of High tech and software companies for quite some time now, but the quest is far from ending. "If Cloud Computing. (1). Portfolio. (3). Cracking The Code.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

But many years later, I began to appreciate that one of our core flaws was our business model. But the downside to our business model was that we did not have hardly any recurring revenue. . Recurring revenue business models are not a little bit better than non-recurring models. million to $22.5

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cloud Computing. (1). Portfolio. (3). Small and medium businesses. (2). Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. Cracking The Code. Saturday, December 16, 2006. My Investments.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 20, 2012

People-based investors focus their due diligence process on spending both structured and unstructured time with the entrepreneur, as opposed to analyzing the product, business model or interviewing customers. We have a thematic focus on cloud computing and the consumerization of the enterprise.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Disclosure: * denotes a current or former Greylock portfolio company.). But to answer the question, “Is WeWork an example of blitzscaling, and perhaps even more importantly, is blitzscaling appropriate for its business model?” The question is, given its intended business model, should WeWork have pursued a blitzscaling strategy?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. It’s also worth noting as data would suggest from this SVB venture funding report, lower costs to build tech & operate businesses implies the possibility of lower loss ratios in portfolios. And the future?

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly. Enter into personal competitions.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

  From a business model perspective we had it nailed…or so we thought…buy the hardware device at cost and we would make money back by selling a monthly subscription service.    I learned a lot from that investment.    The first lesson I learned is that "pioneers get arrows in their backs." 

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of the 21 st century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, while startups search for scalable business models. Why does this matter?

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly. Enter into personal competitions.

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PR Public Relations Startup Technical Review 60

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. Innovation in search, social, broadband, and mobile & cloud hasn’t come to an end. It’s a question every VC asks themselves and the entrepreneurs they invest in. We’re Excited for What’s Next.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

And while it can often be the case that “lemons ripen early” (meaning that the unsuccessful companies fail early in a fund’s lifecycle), the harvest cycle for the winners in the portfolio can take what sometimes feels like an eternity. Your new book, Secrets of Sandhill Road , is literally subtitled Venture Capital and How to Get It ?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

Battery Ventures Open Cloud 2023 report included this comparison chart of private software unicorns (1000+) vs. Software IPOs in the past 10 years (176) which shows the juncture many companies are in. The Unicorn’s struggle is a global phenomenon There are a total of 1,224 unicorns globally, with a combined valuation of $3.7

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Rather than relying on a single main office building, you can allow all your employees to operate remotely; no single point of failure can wreck the business. Many businesses use cloud computing for this reason; rather than storing everything on local physical servers, you can store your data in the cloud. Cross-Training.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

No company in the Milky Way has succeeded without having a balanced portfolio of acquisition channels (fancy word for source of traffic). What to look for: I am really looking for a balanced portfolio of traffic sources. Keyword Tag Clouds. A tag cloud very quickly shows the story in hundreds of thousands of keywords.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

As a seed fund, we tend to layer in “ capital efficient beginnings ” to the mix given our investing model and belief about the best way to build internet and software businesses. As a vertical community, the business of GrabCAD was never going to look like that of a social network or social media company.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Fun fact: it seems that I end up investing in a cloud HR company every seven years. So many companies have had to adapt their business models during and post-COVID. They needed to be more agile, and were using our product to reallocate talent from under-utilised to over-utilised departments within their business.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. If that were the case, most of the Cable and Wireless companies who have been using a similar business model would have gone bankrupt a long time ago and Saleforce would not have 20% FCF margins today. Portfolio. (3).

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Unlike Lean startups, their priority isn't to learn in order to create a scalable business model. The consolidation of the social graph by Facebook, the various app stores and the abundance of cloud-based services lower time to market. What would be the methodology for startups that simply want to flip?

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 28, 2023

To recap the year, here are some of 2023’s biggest themes for Version One: 1) Building in AI While still early in the AI wave, we’re seeing not only technological innovation but also business model transformation. When this happens, it creates an extremely beneficial environment for incumbents.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts. However, as we know from the cable industry, subscription businesses can be very profitable over time. Cracking The Code. Michael Kassing.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. We do this by combining elastic cloud computing abilities, powerful and efficient service management tools, and a wide range of enabled experiences – far exceeding video streaming. Screenz - Company Website.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly The firm’s portfolio includes the likes of Gist , Lijit , Brightleaf, Memeo, SimpleGeo , StockTwits and Zynga. Gary Vaynerchuk: Personal branding master and creator of Wine Library TV, Gary Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with an expanding portfolio of companies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 31, 2012

20 Fresh and New Portfolio Sites Design – [link]. Americans Think Cloud Computing Comes From Actual Clouds [link]. Good to see online music services pay royalties, but can that business model survive? Showcase of Awesome Branding Collections – [link]. 30 Textured Web Designs – [link].

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Virtualization and cloud computing products allow multiple users to run on a single physical host, with each virtual machine sharing the resources of that hardware across multiple environments. Juniper Networks Inc acquired Altor Networks, a company specializing in security for virtualization technology. billion in 2010. billion in 2010.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is where I brought in the thinking of how we build businesses here in Silicon Valley. We needed to be building leveraged business models in scale. So while others can run the JEDI cloud for the DOD, nobody owns running application services for the DOD. The biggest problem is that no one in the DOD owns running that.

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