View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You have a point of view on emerging technology and business models, and you are not afraid to voice your conviction. Who Are We Looking For. You are a native of NYC tech with a strong network. You are hungry. A Final Note.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

I touched on this in my post “ Founder Investor Fit “ Passing the initial filtering process. Most of these can sound like common sense, but you’d be surprised how many founders skip this initial research. What would make an investor more interested in your pitch deck. How to make your pitch deck stand out.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the antithesis of how founders want to build a business. Rent seekers are individuals or organizations with successful existing business models who use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants that might threaten their business models. Bill Gurley’s point.)

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Arif Bhalwani is the co-founder and CEO of Third Eye Capital (TEC) in Toronto, Canada. The goal is to transform dormant or underutilized assets into active capital that supports your business. It is also the time to take a hard look at your business model. The firm has made more than $4.5

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. It’s by far the longest time I’ve spent working on any one thing, and I feel very blessed to have been able to work with my partners, colleagues, founders, and collaborators. This one is controversial.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

To most founders a startup is not a job, but a calling. Founders can now access the largest pool of risk capital that ever existed –in the form of Private Equity (Angel Investors, family offices , Venture Capitalists (VC’s) and Hedge Funds.). What does this mean for startup founders? Here’s the thing most founders miss.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. To be fair, in the 20 th century, there really wasn’t a model for how to build startups other than write plan, raise money, and execute – the bubble was this method, on steroids.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. It’s by far the longest time I’ve spent working on any one thing, and I feel very blessed to have been able to work with my partners, colleagues, founders, and collaborators. This one is controversial.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2020

We built up a system to produce a certain type of military power at a time when that whole business model is being disrupted and undermined — much as Blockbuster Video’s business model was undermined by Netflix and Apple. Disruptive Technology. The DOD admits they have a problem.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Dear Brightly (a NextView portfolio company) provides a telemedicine-powered ecommerce experience for prescription-grade retinoids so consumers no longer need to take time off work to go see a dermatologist for 10 minutes just to obtain a prescription for the serum. appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. It’s by far the longest time I’ve spent working on any one thing, and I feel very blessed to have been able to work with my partners, colleagues, founders, and collaborators. This one is controversial.

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IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 136

Version One Ventures

JULY 21, 2020

Backing the next generation of mission-driven founders”. By 2016, we had begun to specialize into a thesis-driven firm , focusing on businesses with potentially large network effects built around people and/or data. . But ultimately, as our interests change, the one constant has been the founder. We like the non-obvious.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Qualification #1: You know how to do something specific that is valuable and needed often in pursuing a deal or servicing the portfolio. Whatever it is, it helps diligence opportunities, win deals or service the portfolio in ways that make the founders and GPs feel good. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs. Synthetic bio.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. For these businesses, it is imperative to get funding from the start without which the company cannot be set up. It is a symbiotic relationship.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founders Interview Series , we interviewed Luisa Mendoza and Tim Carter—CEO and COO of UKONIK —a true startup that began early this year. This pivot gave us an opportunity to diversify our portfolio and create a diversified empire. TSM: What is the most important thing you tell other startup founders?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 24, 2023

 Anthony Zhang is the co-founder of ⁠Vinovest.co⁠, a platform and marketplace for investing in wine and whiskey as an asset class. Anthony explains in this podcast how to add wine and whiskey to your portfolio and takes us through the origin story of his startup.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

by Marc Pitart, founder and CEO of onlineresume.us. Acceleration and incubation programs are on the rise and have helped start and scale many successful businesses over the past 10 years. However, it is important to check the portfolio of the program and see how many companies from your industry have participated.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of this 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. This new framework can act as the front-end of Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it’s not easy. Startups still need capital to scale once they find good product-market fit and a repeatable-scalable business model.). With a portfolio of at least 20 investments, or you are at risk of the adverse selection problem.)

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

by Rick Mac Gillis , founder and CEO of Dragon Cloud , author of “ The New Frontier In Web Api Programming “ Startups, more than any other type of business, are sensitive to change. Therefore, startups are best advised not to tie their fate to third-party businesses. Because startups are fragile and fledgling.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

The first will be commodity businesses that are valued for their ability to execute their current business model. The second class will be firms with a demonstrated ability to continually innovate and reinvent their business models. These innovations do not require change in a company’s existing business model.

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View from Seed

JUNE 24, 2020

After operating quietly for the past year, our portfolio company Jumbo made a couple big announcements yesterday, including the launch of Jumbo 2 as well as their $8M series A financing led by Balderton Capital. And they have an old-school, highly aligned business model – consumers can pay to use the premium version of their service.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The Customer Development process is the way startups quickly iterate and test each element of their business model , reducing customer and market risk. In Discovery startups take all their hypotheses about the business model: product, market, customers, channel, etc. It’s A Marketing Problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2013

VCs are finding that they don’t need the “large” funds of $100M to $500M to support a portfolio, if they focus on early-stage startups. Too many founders today face the conundrum that they need capital to get started, and even Angels defer until after you have your product built, business model proven, and a real revenue stream.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

Now at Imperial College Business School and Co-Founder of the Wicked Acceleration Labs , Cristobal and I wondered if we could combine the tenets of Lean (get out of the building, build MVPs, run experiments, move with speed and urgency) with the expanded toolset developed by researchers who work on Wicked problems and Systems’ Thinking.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Every Flexible VC structure allows founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit, growth trajectory, and ownership optionality. . Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Even when founders don’t get the desired response, they still appreciate our quick turnaround and even forward along referrals. In fact, a recommendation from a founder we passed on is one of our best performing portfolio companies! as our portfolio shows ). Invest in mission-driven founders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Just don’t try to sell your business to investors before it is well established. A popular approach these days seems to be for founders to regale investors early with a pitch touting the newest “million-dollar idea.” If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

VCs are finding that they don’t need the “large” funds of $100M to $500M to support a portfolio, if they focus on early-stage startups. Too many founders today face the conundrum that they need capital to get started, and even angels defer until after you have your product built, business model proven, and a real revenue stream.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

The first, the notion of the “ ambidextrous organization ” from O’Reilly and Tushman , posits that companies that want to do continuous innovation need to execute their core business model while innovating in parallel. Horizon 1 activities support existing business models. Horizon 1 is the company’s core business.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak - OnStartups , May 10, 2010 I’m just wrapping up several weeks of attending conferences across both coasts. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. was having coffee with a friend who teaches at the U.C.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 18, 2018

For the next few years we collaborated on several co-investments and what ultimately attracted us to Guy’s new company (along with co-founders Danny Grander and Assaf Hefetz), was their bold vision to create a new platform for securing open source components with a dev-first focus. Dev first business model with budget from security? —?we

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In our case customers = founders, and supporting the ones we’ve backed is our firm’s #1 priority. You might have detailed these ideas lovingly in a blog post or elsewhere on your site but almost all the time, your portfolio page helps teams decide if they should reach out to your or not. .

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

We make a majority of our investments in those sectors and prioritize proven business models. Aligned Partners offers our portfolio companies world-class venture capital expertise while enabling founders to start lean and stay lean all the way through their growth. We solve problems and dominate critical markets.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital doesn’t publish frequently, but his essays on market trends and Benchmark portfolio companies are a window into how VCs view the world and the kinds of business models that they find most interesting.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As we do at the end of every quarter, we’ve summarized some of the key highlights and activities across our portfolio. . Patch helps businesses of all sizes automate their sustainability goals with just a few lines of code. You can listen to or read stories about some of our mission-driven founders. Announcements. Stay tuned!!

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