Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2023

” That was the email one of Ethena’s founders sent to me and Melanie Naranjo on 8/21/21, a bit over two years ago. Hunter Walk: One of my favorite things to do for founders is speaking with people who are considering joining their startup. I know you’ll really enjoy chatting.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.

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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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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan transformed corporate management into a real profession, and its stellar example was the continuous and relentless execution of the GM business model (until its collapse 50 years later). If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM. What happened to him?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Whatever it is, it helps diligence opportunities, win deals or service the portfolio in ways that make the founders and GPs feel good. In exchange for doing this repeatedly, you get to learn the rest of the business. You have access and relationships with a pool of talent that will produce founders. Synthetic bio. Blockchain.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Pete Martin , founder of CEO of Votem , and classic rock drummer The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Paging Iowa elections officials! This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

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South Korea Technical Review Open Source Vertical 89

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! Invest in mission-driven founders. within 24 to 48 hours (90% of the time).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

Milis Bio CEO and Founder Mike Sheehan winning the 2018 Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of Year prize. From September 2017 to September 2018, Milis Bio participated in the University College Cork IGNITE Incubator program, and they won Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of the Year for 2018.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

By Daniel Sokolovksy, Co-Founder and CEO, WARP and Troy Lester, Co-Founder and CRO, WARP The dissolution of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was more than just a bank collapse, it was a reality check for both startups and the VCs that fund them. As a founder, ask yourself – does your business actually warrant VC funding?

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

business model and team. I usually don’t back a business unless there are founders that can build, sell, and service the new solution that is being brought to market. In this case, they could build and service it but they needed a third co-founder to sell it. Momentum has a way of building?—?and

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Seattle Elevator Pitch Equity 62

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. However, in meeting some of the sports startups one of the things that struck me is that most of the founders who said they wanted to grow big hadn’t given much thought about how they would go about building size and scale.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Eric Ries in Times Square For any model to be useful it has to predict what happens in the real world – including the web. I realized the Customer Development model needs to be clearer in what exactly a startup is supposed to do, regardless of the business model. “What is the “Business Model” of your startup?&#

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. In contrast to simply executing your business plan, the Customer Development process is built on low-cost and continuous learning and iterating.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The Founder’s New Insight Smart founders are never satisfied with simply executing their current business model, they are constantly observing, orienting and deciding whether their current business model can be made better. It’s a natural part of learning about your customers and business model.)

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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?” This means the founders are isolated from directly hearing customer input – good, bad and ugly.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Following the inevitable ups and downs of the VC investment cycle, and what founders can do when it all turns cold. Vertical integration of different funding risks. The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing. Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008.

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Harvest Vertical IPO Early Stage 60

Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2014

Second, we did an investment where we actually decided to own more than 10% because of the nature of the business model. They use their own brain to fill in the blanks on an opportunity versus really understanding how the founders think. New VCs are vulnerable to fashionable verticals. Chasing Hot Markets.

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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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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. Too often, however, I have found CTO / Founders paired with business people who not only don't add value, but frequently detract from the value of the business.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I like knowing why a founder is building his or her business. I get excited when I can understand and align myself with the founder’s motivations, values, and overarching views or perspectives of the world. The core questions to answer are therefore on distribution and scale, and on your business model.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

. - HT: don''t outsource communication b/c part of core UX even though APIs available - healthy dev environment around APIs, very important to get confidence you can build your platformon on top of them - APIs give you freedom, don''t have to invest both people and tech in maintain internal platforms - HT had to totally revamp their infra, to manage (..)

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I like knowing why a founder is building his or her business. I get excited when I can understand and align myself with the founder’s motivations, values, and overarching views or perspectives of the world. The core questions to answer are therefore on distribution and scale, and on your business model.

Vertical 153

Vertical Distribution Business Model Framework 153

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. Through all of those posts, we’ve received one common question from founders: Are all Everyday Economy startups consumer-facing? Impact First, Business Models Second.

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B2B B2C Vertical Portfolio 120

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures, posted a brilliant analysis on why VCs have to look for billion dollar companies (“unicorns”) to deliver acceptable returns, and how rare it is to invest in one: “The odds are somewhere between catching a foul ball at an MLB game and being struck by lightning in one’s lifetime.”. Vertical SaaS.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

For many years, NextView has looked at many health-related businesses but invested in relatively few. We wanted to learn more about the nuanced industry market forces before applying the same hands-on investing model we do with tech startups in other verticals. I should make clear that we are not life science investors.

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View from Seed

MARCH 15, 2018

Often, these startups tend to fall in areas like home , food , apparel , transportation — but fitting squarely within a specific vertical isn’t a requirement. . One ramification, then, is that many of these or businesses may seem odd, and certainly outside of the mold of current mainstream VC-backed companies.

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Technology Artificial Inteligence Marketing Vertical 120

Version One Ventures

APRIL 23, 2013

Few decisions can be as life-changing for founders as deciding when to sell a business. Companies get sold for a whole host of reasons: founders break up; money runs out; shareholders force a sale. And in many cases, the financial upside of a sale is just too seducing for the entrepreneurs, particularly for first-time founders.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 12, 2019

I’m also a believer that there’s money to be made in podcast businesses – most of it not “venture scale” but lots and lots of opportunities for founders to build meaningful SMBs here. If you think I’m wrong about all this, I’d love to hear why ( @ hunterwalk on twitter).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Tony Martens , Co-Founder at Plantible Foods , moved his company to San Diego from the Netherlands The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 Plantible Foods wants to contribute to a more sustainable and responsible future while meeting the food needs of a hungry planet. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Skilllab’s co-founders won the Google AI Impact Challenge in 2019. Ulrich Scharf , Co-Founder and Managing Director, explains what he’s excited about in the tech world, what he’s learned from the startup experience, and why he doesn’t want to go to the moon. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

But a thesis centered around network effects isn’t static – and isn’t limited to any particular sector, business model, or platform. And we also look at companies that are creating the best product for a specific vertical – including bio/healthcare and other emerging tech. Acknowledgements and gratitude.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

by Lonnie Sciambi, author of “ Secrets to Entrepreneurial Success “ It never ceases to amaze me how many small business owners think that having multiple sources of revenue, often across multiple market types is a good business model. Bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…!

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