YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “. The value inflection points include: Minimum Viable Category (MVC). In this phase, you should conduct validated market research that confirms that your chosen category can support your venture.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably. As the venture capital industry has evolved, more and more seed investors are passing on traditionally “seed stage” startups because there isn’t enough traction. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund. As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. We average eight to 10 total new investments per year as a firm, so this frequency is a typical investment pace for us.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

As a fan of prediction lists, I collected a number of interesting reports and expert forecasts for 2021 in the spaces we cover at Remagine Ventures. The ‘Just Chatting’ category remains the most popular on Twitch, and lockdown measures led to concerts, political events, as well as live shows all being hosted on the platform.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2020

Stay Unique With Category Design. Category design refers to an innovative business strategy that can help your company dominate a new product category. The product market you might want to venture in is overly saturated, so creating an edge is essential if you want to pursue it.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 31, 2024

Consequently, nearly every founder is attempting to weave an AI narrative into their ventures, regardless of its necessity or fit, which will likely lead to an unhealthy market environment and potentially drown out genuine opportunities. and Self Driving Cars appeared first on NextView Ventures. Which leads me to the second analogy.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2017

Should you fall into this category, it’s important to lay as much of your startup’s groundwork as possible before you resign from your current position and venture off on your own. Venture capital. In a nutshell, venture capital is money that is provided by an investor to finance a new or developing business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The “venture capital” model is the only option they know, where they feel they get no mercy, giving up equity and control. The basic categories include equity, straight debt, convertible debt, services, and agreements for future equity. Document the investment types you are willing to consider.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

All in all, there are 16 different categories of FinTech at present, according to Venture Scanner. So, here are the three branches of Finacial Technology you definitely should know about, the most attractive ones for Venture Capitalists: Consumer Lending (raised $16B in 2016).

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Under this category, you have the angel investors who would invest their own money and Venture Capital or VC firms, who manage funds aimed towards specific startup sectors and stages. Let’s have a look at the investment ranges for different categories of investors. Equity investors. Investment Stages of Startup Funding.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “ As we continue our exploration of the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale – I will walk you through the principles.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. Funder Category. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2023

In my experience as a seed venture investor, founders that had a full and tidy data room not only came across as more professional, but actually accelerated the process of DD and legal. It’s also worth checking YC’s series A due diligence checklist.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Category leaders do very well, while the #2, 3, 4… players struggle to attract customers and financing. In these markets, we often see one major company emerge and take all of the value created in its respective category. Even beyond auctions and social networks, the web tends to prefer the category leader.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

. — This virtual gathering will bring together entrepreneurship educators from around the world who are putting Lean Innovation to work in their classrooms, accelerators, venture studios, and student-driven ventures. The summit topic is “ Education and Innovation in the Age of Chaos and Disruption. ”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

You have to cater to many different user categories. The biggest challenge is that a user from one category can’t even realize that there are other users not like them. Yet, in my experience, the people who pursue the new venture alternative are generally more satisfied than all the rest.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “ As we continue our exploration of the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale – I will walk you through the principles.

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Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 113

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. The goal was to set quantifiable metrics to hit in each category and to reverse engineer how many people and dollars would be required to get there. Then they broke each category down into six-week sprints.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 15, 2024

We’re interested in those rare opportunities where a founder is creating a brand new category. They’re building something the market hasn’t yet imagined and doesn’t fit neatly into an existing market category. There are no natural competitors, at least early on, and you’ve got a chance to define and lead the category.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2023

Venture investors are realizing that generative artificial intelligence might not be enough to stem years long startup downturn. As I mentioned before, I believe we will see generative AI tools supporting every role companies and adding automation, especially to manual repetitive tasks. But not all is rosy.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2024

An overly simplified example would be Workday, which disrupted an existing category of HR software built on the cloud, replacing existing HCM spend at enterprises and stealing share from SuccessFactors and others. These are the enabling software and platforms that will make this whole category really work in the coming decades.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2011

52 finalists from multinationals to start-ups, and academic institutions, even primary schools, will be pitching their innovations to a panel of judges including luminaries of ICT industry, venture capitalists, investors and academia. In the Emerging Technology category. In the Interactive Ideas category.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

internet executive and venture investor Christopher M. Where there’s been the overthrowing of governments, mass protests and even outright civil war, there’s… entrepreneurship. “ Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East “, written by seasoned U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Funding for commercial product prototypes is still R&D in the eyes of venture capital investors, but in business areas with large opportunities, this activity will catch the eyes of specialized angel investors.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The Forrest Four-Cast: October 1, 2017 A gathering of innovators, big and small, people and organizations, across multiple categories, 50 on Fire occurs at 7:00 pm on Wednesday evening, October 4 at Impact Hub Austin (5540 North Lamar, 78756). Tickets for 50 on Fire start at $35 and can be purchased online.

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View from Seed

JULY 26, 2021

We are pleased to have been able to make very successful investments in the first two areas (and are looking for more), and have been on the hunt for something in the autos category for quite some time. The post Announcing Our Investment in YAA appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

There are three market categories that startups from Singapore are likely to address: 1. Startups in this category start off in their home markets (i.e. The startup will then look outwards in the region to expand into, either organically or via a partnership, joint venture or acquisition. Singapore ) where if you become No.1

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Singapore Technical Cofounder Product Marketing 178

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

WordPress theme development and ThemeForest sales are possible ventures, depending on your skill level. That suggests that a store selling baby products could be a successful venture. As a consultant, you would need to provide ventures with practical advice. Thanks to Pete Chatfield, Household Money Saving ! #10-

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Practically all consumer companies fall into the “sell to many” category, but what about on the enterprise side? Start-ups in this category typically have a target market composed of dozens to low thousands of large (Fortune 500) companies. appeared first on Version One Ventures. Sell to few”: Traditional enterprise sales.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Pierre is Head of Operations and Acting CEO at Wellington UniVentures , the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington subsidiary tasked with launching new ventures from university research. At the end of the day, most commercialisation offices are in the business of supporting new ventures – not making money.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2014

million, led by Shea Ventures and including new investor Grishin Robotics. Connected play is a new category that I’m completely obsessed about. As an investor in these three companies, I’m psyched to be part of inventing a new category we are calling connected play. Is Twice As Fast, Agile, And Awesome.

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Software Review Agile Mobile Programming 136

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing. As an entrepreneur on the other side of that table many moons ago, I always wondered the same thing — how the venture investment cycle goes from cold to hot to cold again with almost zero connection to the actual fundamentals of the companies seeking funding. Betting on the wrong horse.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

ChatGPT deserves a mention in this category as they pushed the envelope by letting anyone create Custom GPTs, which became the company’s app store. Shameless plug, at Remagine Ventures , we’re looking to back founders that have internalised this. As pre-seed investors, it’s never too early to have a conversation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2022

On the other hand, venture capital organizations typically look for needs that exceed $2 million. Angel investors will perk up if you have a prototype or a few real customers, while venture capitalists will likely choose to wait until you have achieved several million in revenue or customer count.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2023

Entrepreneurs in this category are real risk takers, such as Elon Musk. Don’t let this contamination infect you, your team, or your disruptive venture. People who shape the future, like Steve Jobs, did this. Push your mindset to tackle the seemingly insurmountable. A bold mindset excels at speed, creativity, and decisive action.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Over the past few years, “pre-seed” as a distinct category has emerged within the early stage fundraising landscape. Of course, as a labeled category of financing arose, so did a number of dedicated pre-seed funds emerge to specialize in it. We at NextView Ventures believe that the seed stage is a spectrum. A continuum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Funding for commercial product prototypes is still R&D in the eyes of venture capital investors, but in business areas with large opportunities, this activity will catch the eyes of specialized angel investors.

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Early Stage Angel Investor Incubator Government 412