Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the Andreessen Horowitz portfolio, no companies deploy applications on premise, every employee has a mobile device and all deploy modern social software. In a world with little maintenance friction and pay-as-you-go business models, we enter the age of the disposable application. So what will become of IT?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Techstars provides their accelerator portfolio companies with access to financial, human and intellectual capital to fuel the success of their business. I am very excited about this year’s incoming class,” said Amos Schwartzfarb, Techstars Austin Managing Director.

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Gust

AUGUST 24, 2014

This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs and medical devices that solve critical health problems. Subscription model. This is a very popular model today for Internet services, calling for monthly or yearly low payments, in lieu of one value or cost-based price.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2010

This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs that solve critical health problems. Portfolio pricing. This model is relevant only if you have multiple products and services, each with a different cost and utility. This one takes expert management to work.

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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. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the Andreessen Horowitz portfolio, no companies deploy applications on premise, every employee has a mobile device and all deploy modern social software. In a world with little maintenance friction and pay-as-you-go business models, we enter the age of the disposable application. So what will become of IT?

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Ive written previously about Right Side Capital Management (RCSM) , the latest in my post earlier this year, " How Much Diligence is Due. " (Full disclosure: I am an investor and adviser in RCSM.) Can't wait until you have some actual portfolio results to analyze and compare against Cambridge returns. September 27, 2011 5:51 PM.

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

However, using portfolio theory, your losers are going to far outnumber your winners, so taking half or more of the gains out of the winners will have a big impact on the overall returns. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? That seems to be Paul Grahams (YCombinator) argument.

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Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

I personally enjoy the earliest stages and building a portfolio of start-ups and entrepreneurial teams. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The cheerleader role isnt all bad. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. For starters we saw a huge influx of inexperienced managers enter the VC industry proving clearly that being a VC is not a purely quantitative job. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! And the future?

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The Business of Social Networks: We have seen a coalescing of business models form around social networks and not surprisingly the vast majority of them are evolutions of advertising models.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Bessemer Venture Partners lists an anti-portfolio of investments they passed on that includes Apple, Ebay, Intel, and Google. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Now, back to that house in Mountain View, California. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1).

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. The general rule is one business model drives the business.

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Professor VC

JULY 22, 2009

The burn rates of my portfolio companies is certainly top of mind right now, but thats not what this post is about. Well, our VP Operations at Fliqz, Daniel Marcus , dabbles in creating writing and music when not managing our data center. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

This is not far from the Y Combinator model , except they put a lot of time and energy into working with the entrepreneurs. With 2 or 4 new investments per week that Right Side is projecting, it will be challenging enough to remember the names of the entrepreneurs in their portfolio, let along help build companies. ► January. (1).

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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. It’s a pain to manage payroll, unemployment, insurance, etc in one state. We had the wrong business model. Author : Todd. Company : YouCastr.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most are sitting on large portfolios of private companies that are raising money now or will need to do so in the future and they know that they’re up against some headwinds. Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors.

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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. Brandsforce - Company Website.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

However, as we soon discovered, many of these firms were forced to hoard capital for existing portfolio companies and focus most of their time and energy on deciding which ones deserved these reserves. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► January. (1). ► 2010. (7).

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 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! Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly The firm’s portfolio includes the likes of Gist , Lijit , Brightleaf, Memeo, SimpleGeo , StockTwits and Zynga.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

After that company failed, I went on and interviewed a bunch of investors that I had met and also some other CEO’s who had failed companies prior to their successes now and asked them, “Why did these companies fail in your portfolio?” Our business model was Pinterest. Pinterest didn’t exist at the time.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Actually that has a humorous “aside&# , because the title in my portfolio was labeled with the company name. When the buyer set up his/her website with the new logo created on cS, the search engines kept taking people to that design in my portfolio. I did change the title in my portfolio and all was well.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. That means the vast majority of privately held companies are still very dependent on venture money to stay in business.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Ceedo Technologies – Founded in 2005, Ceedo AppCenter allows fixed and mobile operators to deliver PC software applications over the web to the subscriber’s desktop, to manage those applications remotely and us the platform to provide additional services direct to the PC.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Scoping the prpject down to something manageable is really hard. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. The programmer will probably not understand your business model, and therefore cant help you point out anything that doesnt make sense in the requirements.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Its i-nigma solution comprises of a mobile multi-barcode reader application and an integrated platform for managing barcode services. This allows customers to create, manage and track processes that include tagging of physical objects using barcodes. Flash Networks. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Task Management. Project Management Tools. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Private beta invitations & management: Prefinery. Scanning / Document Management.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

That said, a good number of my past investments have produced a very clear social benefit endogenously, i.e., as a direct result of their business activity. This helps to replace the jobs lost as so many restaurants are going out of business due to COVID-19. Are you politically active? How have you handled them? Who hasn’t?

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