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. This is the implied rate of return of a fund based on the value (mostly unrealized) of a portfolio. Part of the reason to do this was just to reconnect after a long time apart.

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IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 136

Up and Running

JANUARY 15, 2018

But you’ll also be in charge of every aspect of running your business and making hard decisions which can impact the success and growth of your company. Create a Lean Business Plan. The first step to running your own business is creating a solid plan. Showcase your work.

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Web Design Software Review Elevator Pitch 86

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

For a business to survive, it needs to be profitable. It needs to maintain a positive cash flow , taking in revenue in excess of expenses, and reliably enough that it can continue to sustain your business model. The most common investment advice in the world is to diversify your portfolio. Redundancy. Advertising.

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Revenue Affiliate Portfolio Advertising 232

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

We'll be your hosts for a three-part series about the use of MongoDB here at Etsy. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. MongoDB at Etsy - Code as Craft , May 19, 2010 Hi! The Curation Team.

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Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

After hosting three live roundtables and being on stage for six to seven hours a day last month during my trip to Pune , I almost lost my voice. We can derive GeoInvenio's business model and pricing model based on that. You can select the business you like best through a poll on the 1M/1M Facebook page.

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Costa Rica Incubator Silicon Valley India 115

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. I host on Hostforweb **. I use this to host my presentations , which are all embedded at teten.com. This is hosted by NFX. Tech stack. Google Drive **.

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Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It was also found that “Engaged” customers received 3-4 (or more) reviews of their portfolios and were taking part of on-going conversations where their advisor was soliciting feedback and asking for actual input. For AirBnb, it was after someone hosted or returned from a stay. Read the full case study here.).

Programming 107

Programming Marketing Analytics Portfolio 107

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

She makes money for the platform that hosts her without receiving the legal and financial protections of employee status, or the stock options typically given to the platform’s engineers, designers, and managers. “What the creator economy promises, and what it actually does”, The New Yorker. Creative Automation.

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Startup Social Media Venture Capital Audio 207

Hearpreneur

MAY 31, 2020

5- Build a business. If you are looking at building a board portfolio – this skill is essential because most board appointments don’t make it to recruiters. You and your business will be better for it. One of the main ways we do this is by hosting HR gurus and professionals on our podcast. 7- Create friends.

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Networking Entrepreneur Social Media Channel 144

Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

We were fortunate to host very talented speakers from our portfolio (Ilya Sukhar from FB/Parse, Steve Marx from Dropbox, Bill Ready from Braintree, Ali Rayl from Slack, Eric Wittman from Atlassian, Sam Mac Donnell from HotelTonight.)

API 48

API Fractional CTO CTO Hire San Francisco 48

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

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. Fifteen CFOs participated - about half of them from Bessemer portfolio SaaS companies (Cornerstone On Demand, Intacct. Portfolio. (3). anecdotes. (13).

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Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

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). Progressive. Image source ).

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

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.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

APRIL 18, 2014

For that reason, on May 5 in New York, HBSAANY is going to co-host our first-ever pitch night with the Harvard Business School African-American Alumni Association. VCAP Fellows will also have an opportunity to meet the portfolio companies of NAIC member firms for potential deal discussions. Details here.

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Los Angeles New York Miami Early Stage 114

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! You can also get great recommendations from your existing network; just be sure to research portfolios, websites and references thoroughly before making a decision to work with a particular developer.

Small Business 104

Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane Merrifield is a co-founder and CEO of FreshGrade , a learning collaboration and portfolio tool focused on enhancing teachers’ lives and making students’ learning visible. No MBA business model would ever come out with, “Hey we’re going to go target the academics.” If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 146

K9 Ventures

JUNE 30, 2016

Every few weeks one of the founders of K9 Ventures’ portfolio companies forward over an email they’ve received from a “Partner” at a VC firm. And I’ve seen it happen to companies in the K9 ventures portfolio. But it happens. How should you respond? . Check what the person’s background is.

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Email Database Term Sheet Partner 96

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane Merrifield is a co-founder and CEO of FreshGrade , a learning collaboration and portfolio tool focused on enhancing teachers’ lives and making students’ learning visible. No MBA business model would ever come out with, “Hey we’re going to go target the academics.” If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 120

Bryce Dot VC

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Despite an obvious business model in offering backup. Along with a host of other startups. . We’ve seen it numerous times in our own portfolio alone. Despite many requests to offer backup. And despite numerous heated arguments about how we could do a better, more Timehoppy?, Dropbox does it really well.

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Portfolio Hosting Business Model Search 45

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. Host an event. If you have office space that isn’t used during the evenings, consider hosting an event to discuss your company or other themes pertinent to the startup / tech scene.

PR 114

PR Public Relations Startup Technical Review 114

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For both deal origination and due diligence, a host of companies aspire to be the “Bloomberg of private companies”. We are taking a mathematical (weighted coefficients estimation, probabilistic modelling, etc), human-system hybrid approach to early stage investing through this tool. How do VCs originate investments?

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

John Jantsch (00:01): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the salesman podcast, hosted by Will Barron and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. This will work for any kind of business. Or do you think that this just every business now? And there's a whole host of ones in the B2B space.

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Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 89

Transformify

AUGUST 29, 2017

Our brains rely on a whole host of implicit associations as cognitive shortcuts for everyday life. If all your product managers come from Google, they’re accustomed to a certain set of business models and a certain set of tools. It isn’t that holding certain prejudices is inherently wrong.

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Hiring Technical Review Portfolio Software Engineering 40

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?

Silicon Valley 53

Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review United Kingdom 53

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The space can host 6-9 parties per weekend, and they generated $350,000 in revenue last year. Even after paying the two founders $100,000 collectively in salary, the business still made a profit in the $125,000 to $150,000 range.

Covenant 157

Covenant Warrant Southern California Los Angeles 157

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

It rarely occurs to either party that the founders could be busy inventing the next disruptive product, but doing so in a non-disruptive way. As a result, many of these companies get caught by surprise when their optimization activities hit a plateau and competitors who have a true portfolio approach race past them.

Silicon Valley 167

Silicon Valley San Francisco Lean Investment Bankers 167

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

Actually keeping the company in business, having it have a sustainable business model, having it pull in the funds that it needs to keep going, that's actually not a greedy thing to do. So anyone in your portfolio, or anyone that you've been talking to have an example of something like that, or impressed you with something?

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Dallas Employee Government Social Media 68

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

From expert AMAs tailored to your pre-seed needs to hands-on mentorship from relevant, established entrepreneurs within the NextView portfolio to founder-only sessions that create a safe space for sharing and supporting one another, our programming is created to meet you where you are and propel you forward in the direction we believe you can go. .

Programming 156

Programming Sacramento San Francisco Founder 156

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. Host an event. If you have office space that isn’t used during the evenings, consider hosting an event to discuss your company or other themes pertinent to the startup / tech scene.

PR 60

PR Public Relations Startup Technical Review 60

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Hey, I want to give a shout out to another member of the HubSpot network, the success story podcast, hosted by Scott, the Clair. Success story features Q and a sessions with successful business leaders, keynote presentations, conversations on sales marketing. It's one of the most useful podcasts in the world.

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Affiliate Advisory Board Networking Programming 96

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You're selling a consumable product, which is a great business model. You want to get some cells that express this host cell surface receptor ACE2, and you want to test an antibody to see if that will block the virus from entering the cell. Portfolio theory construction, alpha and beta into the science process.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Thanks to my team at Portfolio for believing in me and Body of Work. Jules Taggart hosted her very first mastermind retreat for women entrepreneurs. My hope for this book is that it uplifts, inspires and activates hundreds of thousands of people to have joy, meaning, prosperity and success in their lives. I hope you enjoy it!

Phoenix 75

Phoenix San Diego LLC Community 75

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Last night at the NY Tech Meetup, John Britton of our portfolio company Twilio showed how it is done. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. As most, if not all, of the games on social networks use the freemium business model (i.e. 10 cents per DAU.

Startup 191

Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Edwin: Oh sorry, so the business model. Edwin: The business model is that the organizer has to pay. My marketing site is hosted at WP Engines so … Jason: No wonder you get so much traffic. Do you think that’s a good business model? We kept it simple, the business model.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? The FDA has to adjudicate between a whole host of conflicting constituents and priorities. Apple has been focused on turning the Apple Watch into the future of health screening and diagnostics. to the iPhone.)

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China Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 67

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

As CEO of Quintessence Group, Melinda educates entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 companies on subjects including small business startup, business development, and social media marketing. I want you to be really realistic about your personal financial portfolio and how you spend money before you make the decision to start a business.

Social Media 60

Social Media Small Business Software Review Technical Review 60

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

For four years we have offered the synchronization service for no charge, predicated on the hypothesis that a business model would emerge to support the free service. With that investment thesis thwarted, there is no way to pay expenses, primarily salary and hosting costs. We had the wrong business model.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79