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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants.

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Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It

YoungUpstarts

You could probably make a case for any one of these, but here’s the thing: Although on the surface these companies appear to have completely different business models, they all share one very powerful component: a scalable online platform connecting people and ecosystems. Or Software as a Service for the enterprise, such as Salesforce?

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Why We’re Market-First, Not Technology-First, Investors

View from Seed

My partners and I have been very public and transparent over the past six months about our thematic investing approach — what we call the Everyday Economy. Often, these startups tend to fall in areas like home , food , apparel , transportation — but fitting squarely within a specific vertical isn’t a requirement. .

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network. They realized if they could develop and promote a well-coordinated sports technologies industry, they could capture their unfair share of the $300 billon sports consumer market. They intended to get scale for their business by growing in the U.S.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active. It is related to business model.

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How Early-Stage Startups Can Utilize the SVB Collapse as a Wake-Up Call

The Startup Magazine

And they probably never will be unless business model viability is reassessed across the board. We didn’t have to change our business model entirely, we just realized what was working and what wasn’t and moved on from there. they still aren’t profitable.

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“Speed and Tempo” – Fearless Decision Making for Startups « Steve.

Steve Blank

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