SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. 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.

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Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you want to know more about them and why they grew so rapidly I’ve written about them here ( online / offline mobile ad integration ) & here ( the most obvious mobile phone ad unit ).

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Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

An experienced software engineer, for example, can develop a new mobile app with his or her own resources and market the product on the web with very little capital. Center for Venture Research. Venture Capital. $20 Pre-seed, startup. Angel Investors. $20 20 billion. Most for startups and growth stages. 20 billion.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Valuation Software Engineering 179

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Inside Sales), Channel, Pre-Sales, SDRs, Marketing, Customer Success, and Professional Services. Mobile phone technological advance. Beginning of 2009, Mitul designed and sold a solution that enables mobile operators across the globe to seamlessly exchange SMS, while taking care of billing, settlement, and routing.

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Founder B2B Private Equity India 128

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Now nearly a “double unicorn,” the company plans to use the new investment to further grow its business operations and expand its current suite of mobile applications. The $130 million Series D investment round was co-led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Which brings me back to your mobile phones. Today’s workforce has radically different expectations, brands are losing their power, physical channels are being destroyed by virtual ones, market share is less important than market creation, and software is eating world. Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Monetate Mobile adds mobile-native navigation, search, GPS store location, cart access and more, to any site, overnight. The ideal candidate has experience with eCommerce systems, emerging mobile and social technologies, as well as RoR. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Read more: TechCrunch , Reg Form D , WSJ interview w/ Susan Lyne.

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Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2010

He introduced himself and we kept in touch through all the various social media channels—until I heard he was leaving Gilt. They showed me a very lightweight HTML5 mobile site that enabled you to start a group chat that fell back to just text messages when you logged off the web. I knew Jared from his time at Tumblr.

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Part-Time VPE New York City SMS Syndicate 109

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Consider Tesla, Warby Parker and Peloton, all of which use physical locations as storerooms to supplement their online sales channels. Smart mobility startups that get their start now are more likely to have the established infrastructure to find success in a post-driver world.

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Technical Review Startup Social Media Green 126

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Given the time I spent a decade ago doing not only venture capital, but investing in private equity funds that buy retail companies, I find this data collection fascinating. They''re looking for more marketing channels and the best potential marketers of your business are the ones that already frequent your store.

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Leveraged Buyout Venture Capital Private Equity Channel 137

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

We are all more reachable through powerful and mobile personal computer devices, and the world is more and more connected with the Internet of Things (IoT). In the past, marketing budgets were focused on high-traffic channels, with minimum focus on demographics. More capital is available for scaling and brand building.

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IRR Marketing Startup Angel Investor 143

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Here’s why.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Skip to Main Content. Tech: Blogs. Technology Live. Game Hunters.

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San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

When we led Eric’s first financing — a $10 million round and the first capital into the bootstrapped team — we believed mobile location and mapping would be big. In the years since, with massive customer launches like Snapchat and the Weather Channel, the horizontal scale of Mapbox’s platform is now much more obvious.

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Afghanistan Bootstrapping Venture Capital Channel 82

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. There weren’t enough details to know whether Corduro was trying to build a mobile payments company like Zong or a retail merchant processing solution like Square.

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IPO .Net Venture Capital Strategic Investors 236

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Follow Entrepreneur on Facebook Follow Entrepreneur on Twitter Follow Entrepreneur on LinkedIn Subscribe | Mobile. Technology Technology Home Online Business Tools Security Phones & Mobile Gadgets Tech Tips Technology The Future of Facebook -- Streaming Live Now. Get Entrepreneur Mobile for iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry.

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Sweat Equity Equity Fractional CTO CTO 55

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

For our tech project (and likely others in our field) the value is in accurately predicting platforms and information channels in the next 6months-1 year. This is more challengine than it appears, and method of insulation is supporting varied input channels. Look forward to your next post a usual! You guys are setting a great example!

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Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 225

BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

 As I look around post-holiday season, I am seeing more and more regular, non-technical friends and family get connected on their mobile devices.    Clearly that was just the beginning of a longer term trend for mobile devices to get more powerful, easier to use, and more widely deployed into the market. 

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Mobile SMS Venture Capital Web 60

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

San Antonio is home to H-E-B , our regional grocery store which is also one of the most innovative and community focused organizations in the state and mobilizes to respond to hurricanes and pandemics and to keep Texans fed. It is the tech hub of Texas and has the most local venture capital and attracts the most venture capital.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Bloch was previously a partner in Jerusalem Venture Partners and an active member of the board in the Israeli startup Wix. Started in October 2006, Mysupermarket currently has a team of 35 people and is looking to expand further, both geographically and on the product front, by adding a mobile offering soon.

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Venture Capital Aggregator eCommerce Partner 98

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Yesterday, TechCrunch posted a neat slideshow on the nine largest venture capital and private equity financing rounds of the past 24 months. However, what is clearly not in doubt, is how Uber is massively profiting by harnessing and channeling the entrepreneurial, Sharing Economy Power of these tens of thousands.

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Venture Capital Private Equity United States China 48

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 14, 2014

Back when I e-mailed Fred Wilson about Twitter in March ''07, one of the things I was most intrigued by was the ability to let people reach you by phone with a message, without giving them your phone number--a control layer on top of mobile messaging. Venture Capital & Technology' I''m the exception.

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Security Venture Capital Channel Retention 105

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 13, 2011

Being in venture capital gives you the benefit of having seen a lot of patterns of success and failure—and unfortunately, there are some basic ones that new founders seem to miss. Foursquare is really Dodgeball at a time when smartphones enable a better and geo-aware mobile experience.

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Viral Social Network Startup Early Stage 110

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The product development model is so focused on building and shipping the product that it ignores the entire process of testing your basic hypothesis about your business model (customers, channel, pricing, etc.) Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:28 am Said: [.]

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

The quantitative combination of an initial approach that is high-volume, but later selectively filtered results in a higher percentage outcome of winners, and larger dollar-weighted bets on companies that are successful. startupcto

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 23, 2010

If we don’t hear form the CDO on a regular basis through social media channells in an authentic, engaging way, you might as well toss their salary into the Hudson because they’ll never have the freedom to work. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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Social Media Government New York City Media 94

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 5, 2015

¯_(?)_/¯ Here, however, are a few early thoughts: 1) It''s obviously the best live streaming mobile app we''ve ever seen. If that''s the case, then it becomes a broadcast channel, but one where each broadcast must be watched right away. Venture Capital & Technology' That''s a simple feature fix.

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Bandwidth Venture Capital Austin Mobile 60

Hunter Walker

MARCH 20, 2015

I met Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein through mutual interests in advancing diversity in tech and began to learn about the great work they did through Kapor Capital and the Kapor Center for Social Impact. HW: You’re young, female and Latina in a venture world that’s largely middle aged, white and male.

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Silicon Valley Georgia Venture Capital Networking 48

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts celebrates 10 years in venture capital this month. He began as part of Salt Lake Citys Wasatch Venture Fund (now Epic Ventures ), an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, in March of 2001. We thought readers might like to know more about this interesting player in the tech community. startupcto

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Silicon Valley Semantic Social Network Cofounder 46

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

After that there’s a discussion of how the product will reach the customer and the potential distribution channel. The startup develops its first positioning statement and uses this to explain the company and its benefits to venture capitalists. Building the sales channel and supporting the marketing can burn a lot of cash.

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Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 260

Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2013

There are only 3 corporate sponsors and there probably always will be: AT&T, IBM, and Exxon Mobil. Watch me on Golf Channel in ’08 scoring the only perfect score in the Masters Trivia game “Beat Brandel”).

Georgia 100

Georgia Green South Africa Startup 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

I guess it may be impractical for Twitter to acquire Seesmic given it has raised considerable amounts of venture capital (reportedly $12 million) but the broader point for me is that I always believed Twitter should control the client versions of its product. Think about the creative tension.

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Acquisition Developer Management Advertising 287

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Marketing channels have changed. Mobile is now more important than desktop computer for many apps. In preparation for her reentry into VC she spoke with many mentors of hers for advice on venture capital. Each situation you face is different and unique. Platforms have changed. Crowd funding now exists.

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China Venture Capital Framework Partner 150