Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. In the early days of every business the incumbents tend not to respond because you’re too small and insignificant. Choose that market. Microeconomics.

Startup 150

Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

They’re putting money into web services/business – most without early revenue. It’s an impressive portfolio. By the time the meeting was over I left wondering whether the Customer Development model would help or hinder their companies. What we concluded is that the Customer Development model needs an additional overlay.

Customer Development 223

Customer Development Web Developer Customer 223

David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. My design inspiration is Craigslist (no joke), because Craigslist has the highest signal to noise ratio of any major website. Tech stack. I host on Hostforweb **. Crunchbase.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The creator economy consists of a new set of tools designed to support content creators from all walks of life (from doctors to hobbyists). Note that most of the density in these landscapes is around ‘business model’ – ad revenue, marketplaces, memberships, affiliate. Creative Automation.

Startup 207

Startup Social Media Venture Capital Audio 207

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? What kind of risk do we run of being put out of business by others’ IP rights ? It’s often possible to “ design around ” a patent to operate a business that achieves similar results in different ways.) Barriers to entry ?

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model. Look at the Product Development model and you might wonder, “Where are the customers?” customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) before you ship.

Customer Development 241

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 241

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Survey design. Progressive.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. It may just be that the message of building companies that have predictable revenue and profit models hasn’t percolated through the VC business model.

Silicon Valley 223

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 223

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. The typical quota for a sales rep varies by type of business model (SaaS vs. perpetual), product gross margin (e.g.,

Sales 50

Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

Version One Ventures

AUGUST 25, 2015

However, a marketplace is unique in that it deals with distributed supply (and demand) and there aren’t many marketplace-specific tools out there yet to help with this. The other takeaway is that we believe there is significant opportunity to develop infrastructure solutions for marketplaces.

Product 60

Product B2B Curation Demand 60

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft.

Operations 176

Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

which was a $6.25M fund designed to be deployed over 3-4 years, making initial investments between $100K – $250K in concept and seed stage technology companies located in the San Francisco Bay Area. No three-way business models and no content, media, advertising-based companies. was acquired by PayPal.

Technology 132

Technology Seed Stage San Francisco Limited Partner 132

K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

which was a $6.25M fund designed to be deployed over 3-4 years, making initial investments between $100K – $250K in concept and seed stage technology companies located in the San Francisco Bay Area. No three-way business models and no content, media, advertising-based companies. was acquired by PayPal.

Technology 132

Technology Seed Stage San Francisco Limited Partner 132

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. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

August 2010 Two years ago I wrote about what I called " a huge, unexploitedopportunity in startup funding :" the growing disconnect betweenVCs, whose current business model requires them to invest largeamounts, and a large class of startups that need less than theyused to. Get funded by Y Combinator.

Startup 93

Startup Valuation Non-Compete Deal Flow 93

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

At Forward Partners we help entrepreneurs systematically uncover assumptions in their business model and find ways to test those assumptions. With the use of our lean start up methodologies and design thinking an entrepreneur can increase their chances of success at a lower cost and arrive at a viable business model sooner.

Partner 91

Partner Early Stage Business Model HTML 91

K9 Ventures

APRIL 28, 2010

is a $6.25M fund that is designed to do concept and seed-stage investments in technology companies. K9 expects to be an active investor in portfolio companies and will typically make only 4-6 new investments per year. No distributed teams, and no outsourced product development. K9 Ventures, L.P. Twilio (Seed and Series A).

Seed Stage 61

Seed Stage San Francisco IP Portfolio 61

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?” Distribution. Distribution. This is where the WeWork business model becomes problematic.

Silicon Valley 53

Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review United Kingdom 53

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

These take considerable time to design, build and populate, and require regular use and “feeding of the beast”, as we call it. We are taking a mathematical (weighted coefficients estimation, probabilistic modelling, etc), human-system hybrid approach to early stage investing through this tool.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The most interesting company to present was The Coop , a modern, design-focused, indoor-outdoor children’s playspace in Los Angeles. This is largely a relationship driven business, with the relationship between the venture investor and the lender being crucial to debt being made available to a portfolio company.

Covenant 159

Covenant Warrant Southern California Los Angeles 159

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. We tend to favor companies that have a “distribution advantage”. So what are some examples of distribution advantages?

Distribution 66

Distribution Vertical Viral B2B 66

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. THE JOBS-TO-BE-DONE MARKET DEFINITION CANVAS.

Customer 421

Customer Marketing Lean Vertical 421

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. Under 30 CEO and Young Entrepreneur profile younger CEOs, while Mixergy allows entrepreneurs to share their experiences at part of an online business education.

PR 114

PR Public Relations Startup Technical Review 114

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar?

Oregon 60

Oregon Jordan SBA Cofounder 60

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. Under 30 CEO and Young Entrepreneur profile younger CEOs, while Mixergy allows entrepreneurs to share their experiences at part of an online business education.

PR 60

PR Public Relations Startup Technical Review 60

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

First, we built relationships with 10+ colleges, getting distribution rights to their students. I began by connecting talented employees with jobs but soon had to close the business due to a lack of a solid business model. So I thought, why not apply the same business model in Ireland?

Entrepreneur 63

Entrepreneur Ireland LLC Kansas 63

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. The CDROM content business in the early 1990’s was one of the many of the long line of venture capital fads. Little did I know.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 120

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. With this money, they plan to expand its distribution to selected metro areas within the state of Oregon. Initial plans are to produce three main lines of beer. Martin Cove Brewing Company.

Oregon 24

Oregon Jordan Software Review Distribution 24

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? Wants to promote intrapreneurship to extend its business model and retain creative employees like Google, Amazon, and Facebook do. Does it get spun out?

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? It may be the first one built into the watch, but it’s not the first Apple Watch ECG app cleared by the FDA – AliveCor , got over-the-counter-clearance in 2014 and Cardiac Designs in 2013.)

China 67

China Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 67

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year. 11 – Lesson Learned.

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. With 100% commitment to the digital world – Craze is using the latest technologies and constantly developing new methods (some patent pending) for selling and distributing music and videos. More about the Movie Genome.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 31, 2011

No matter what you are involved with today, you can easily establish a niche website to add yet another passive stream of income to your portfolio and further diversify your risk across several income baskets. The business model is simple. Since this is a one and done business model, you don’t have to keep updating your sitemap.

HTML 108

HTML Social Bookmarking Affiliate Engineer 108

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. INTERNET BUSINESSES. Business Services (B2B).

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

View from Seed

APRIL 23, 2015

However … An unfortunate side effect of this particular POTAJ is that, in many startup pitches, entrepreneurs focus so much on product or tech that they leave out one crucial, deal-making-or-breaking detail: distribution. ” Founders must address distribution in their pitches both overtly and succinctly.

Founder 120

Founder Distribution Viral Seed Stage 120

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

That said, I have some of my stock portfolio in hedge funds managed by folks I know (I know you are thinking Madoff at this point), and most in vehicles that are on auto-pilot. A small part of my portfolio is purely in speculative plays, but I believe in value investing over time. Why did we decide to sell the business?

Internet 80

Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 80

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The 72 Israeli companies participating in the 2010 Mobile World Congress: Aerotel Medical Systems – a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. helps manage their networks and services effectively.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109