Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

Come with a product built and a proven business model. A business needs technical, marketing, financial and many other skills. If you are an inventor, for example, you need to line up the business side of your team before angels will be interested. Create and highlight your intellectual property portfolio.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

VC’s raise money from their investors (limited partners like pension funds) and then spread their risk by investing in a number of startups (called a portfolio). If you’re using the business model canvas , you’ve already figured this out when you articulated your revenue streams and noted where they are coming from.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

You shouldn’t try to create a business that hasn’t yet been defined. The name and the type have to fit, or expensive rework will be required later. The date of incorporation is the official start date for your business, so progress from this point will be scrutinized by investors.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2015

While the mobile ad ecosystem has significantly more competitors, most notably Facebook, jockeying for position and evaluating Google’s portfolio for weaknesses, TBR believes Google will utilize its vast financial resources, industry experience and risk-friendly R&D culture to sustain advertising revenue growth. Professionalisms'

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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. Announcements. Patch , a platform for negative emissions, officially launched.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

In addition, I asked him to do a competitive analysis on the pricing models of the various mobile app platforms and come back to me with both sets of market data, namely, customer research and competitive analysis. We can derive GeoInvenio's business model and pricing model based on that.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented. As I wrote about in my post on Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing , this is painful and you must have a diversified portfolio to practice angel investing and actually make money. No matter the name?—?the

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). There are actually four people named on the IP and it was a multi-disciplinary project…This was the first product to come out of our department.”. Is this a thing where you can be successful – can you define and confine the risks?

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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 ? Starting with the first point, in general, IP assets of demonstrable value that are relevant to the startup’s business can only help when pitching investors.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2018

by Walker Deibel , Managing Director of Centra and author of “ Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game “ If I asked you to name a business success story, what would you think of? The VC game is one of portfolio management. This is why, as of 2008, the average VC fund is $350 million.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

2) New market (less common form, examples are Lyft and eShares) and 3) New business model (least common, non-K9 portfolio examples are PriceLine and SolarCity). Direct Revenue, meaning no three-way business models and no advertising, media, or content. MK : I chose the name K9 for two reasons.

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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. Use your platform as a way for others to get their name out there, and the gesture will be reciprocated.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

But, in the alleys, most of the improvised cafés and galleries that used to enliven the city have been cleared away, in the name of order; overhead, the race to build new skyscrapers, which attracted designers from around the world, has stalled. This summer, I had a drink with an intellectual I’ve known for years.

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Austin Startup

JULY 19, 2021

There’s a reason why Austin has been named the top tech city in the US in 2019 and 2020 by CompTIA. With the sheer number of startups, talent and investment funds within Austin or moving to the city, it is no surprise that the number of individuals relocating to the area continues to increase.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 22, 2018

I remembered reading about it’s ‘launch’ a few months earlier, which read: Verts, the Austin-born Mediterranean fast-casual chain, changed its name to Noon Mediterranean. Co-owner and founder Michael Heyne said that people didn’t understand the original name, a reference to doner kebabs (which isn’t even available on the menu anymore).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

So what’s wrong the product development model? The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers. Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Secondly, the driver of returns for the funds raised in 1978 – 1981 was not their underlying portfolios, at what stage, or in what industries they were built. However, none were based in the Silicon Valley and are probably unfamiliar names to today’s practitioners. Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market. This isn’t true.

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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.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. This is business model nirvana.

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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 also use these tools, which are specifically for investors and others who work in the tech ecosystem: AngelList , where I post my public portfolio. . Tech stack.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sisu is currently expanding its product portfolio and geographic scale to develop additional cutting-edge, patented, clinically proven medical devices, and to create a system for medical device commercialization in emerging markets. Our top goal is to break into new markets and add new products to our portfolio.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?”

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BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

A few months after closing that round, we changed the name to Greenplum. When we sold GoToMyPC to Citrix, we also restarted the company from the initial business model that we had and did a complete 180 degree change. This is also when we had to stare at the abyss for the third time.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

To help me, I interviewed the two most knowledgeable people I know about financial modeling. My colleague Paul Bianco serves as interim CFO for a number of ff Venture Capital ’s portfolio companies, and has built and reviewed hundreds of financial models. HOW TO MAKE THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT READABLE. 7) Organize your tabs.

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BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

A few months after closing that round, we changed the name to Greenplum. When we sold GoToMyPC to Citrix, we also restarted the company from the initial business model that we had and did a complete 180 degree change. This is also when we had to stare at the abyss for the third time.

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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 ). Image source ).

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

However, never comment on a blog post just for the sake of getting your name out there. Initially, you can approach an investor soliciting advice on something specific, such as feedback on your marketing & sales approach, business model, or long-term product vision. Research a potential investor’s current portfolio.

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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. Building a great product. Sara Wajnberg, SVP of Product at Oscar.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You have graphic artists, content writers, SEO experts, and social media managers, to name a few. Ask for a more comprehensive portfolio than what’s shown on their website. Outsourcing is not just a trend but a business model that’s here to stay. That’s understandable given the multiple benefits it provides businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Here is the email he received (reprinted without names with his permission). I’m an investor at [Big Name, Large Fund VC] and recently came across [Your Company]. Looking forward to speaking, Name [redacted]. So this summer we sent him to work in one of our portfolio companies in product management on our dime.

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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. We at <firm name> are strong believers in AI and also think that chatbots are going to be HUGE. Can we schedule an introductory call this week? Partner. <Firm

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

While Ive made at least my share of mistakes taking equity in lieu of pay, I continue to see this as a key part of my business model. Also, because I have equity in multiple tech start-ups I gain portfolio diversification benefits (meaning Im more likely to get lucky). Name and email address are required. Business Models.

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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. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

These partnerships may take the form of Proof of Concept projects with startups, getting to know VC firms and their portfolios, and familiarizing themselves with university groups doing research in the established strategic problems. (It In exchange, the startups provide companies with their disruptive ideas, technologies and business models.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2019

How did you come up with your business name? We introduce a framework of portfolio management to help them organize all of the entrepreneurial activity going on in their company and frame it around strategic portfolios, mapping funding and resourcing against their larger growth goals. Who doesn’t want to be bionic?

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BeyondVC

APRIL 16, 2004

For those of you who understand that selling IT software to enterprises is not easy, I thought you would enjoy this email from one of my portfolio companies regarding differentiation and “secret sauce.” The post Great business model appeared first on BeyondVC. Luckily, it is starting to get better. with my $3.60

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