Ben's Blog

JULY 13, 2010

As former founder and CEO of Loudcloud, one of the original cloud computing companies, I am considered somewhat of a domain expert in all things “cloud.” While this sounded like a good idea to many VCs at the time, it turned out to miss important details and advantages of the cloud.

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Cloud Architecture Software Review Database 77

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 With a portfolio of at least 20 investments, or you are at risk of the adverse selection problem.)

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs.

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Peru Fractional CTO Artificial Inteligence Database 58

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. Boston Hardware Startup Meetup – Meetup organized by the founders of BOLT.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

Moreover, the indicators that show founders are ready to take on new capital in order to progress to the next phase of company-building – be it hiring, expanding into a new market, launching a product or more – can vary from company to company. WHAT METRICS SHOULD A FOUNDER SHOW TO RAISE A SERIES A FROM A VC FIRM LIKE GREYLOCK?

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Technical Review Seed Stage Software Review Early Stage 69

Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

We tend to favor companies that have a “distribution advantage”. This isn’t true for every single one of our portfolio companies, but in at least half, we had a thesis about why this company had some sort of unfair advantage or head-start when it comes to getting their product out into the market.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Why Register? Personalize your own news page.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

Initial investment in a company is among the first non-founder capital raised. Portfolio construction favors early-round capital allocation vs. company life-cycle allocation. Of course CapEx has been transformed into OpEx via changes in the tech infrastructure layer (open source, virtualization & cloud computing, offshoring, etc.).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Or defined around demographics (the people over 45 market), technologies (the brain sensor market), customer activities (the fitness market), and product portfolios (the heavy equipment market). This circular loop can cause them to churn, pivot, and fail. In most cases, innovators don’t create markets; they create products to serve markets.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Disclosure: * denotes a current or former Greylock portfolio company.). Distribution. A good product with great distribution is more likely to win a Glengarry Glen Ross market than a great product with poor distribution. Distribution. It doesn’t make sense to expend massive resources to win a small market.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

When Avi Networks founders Umesh Mahajan, Murali Basavaiah, and Ranga Rajagopalan first came to Lightspeed in 2012 with their vision of bringing the benefits of a hyperscale approach to application delivery and layer 4-7 services, it made perfect sense to us. Monolithic approaches to application delivery simply don’t work anymore.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2015

Headquartered in San Francisco, AppDirect makes it easy for businesses to find, buy, manage, and monitor cloud services from a central location. They also give providers and developers an easy way to distribute, sell, and market cloud services. Well, not always, and the process of managing multiple cloud services can be a mess.

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Finance San Francisco Hiring Silicon Valley 70

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

In addition, we were lucky enough to finally find reliable partners, thus adding a few more services to our portfolio – like Locksmith and Childcare. We’re very new to the industry, and while we’re passionate about the product, there have been obstacles every step of the way – production, shipping, distribution, etc.

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Las Vegas Entrepreneur Software Review Community 85

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

The reality today is that capital is more available than ever and entrepreneurs have become more sophisticated, so founders are looking for more than just cash from their venture backers. I’ve seen many founders not fully grasp how the venture capital business works and what incentives investors have.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We’d like to thank KeyBank and G2 for providing some of the data used in the report - * It’s an amazing time to be a cloud entrepreneur in Europe. The European cloud ecosystem is growing much faster than anyone could have anticipated: last year, we predicted that it would take another three years for Europe to generate its first decacorn.

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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. Screenz - Company Website.

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Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. Internship Title: Marketing Wizard Compensation: Unpaid Description: As an intern you’ll work with the founders and team of chefs on a variety of projects.

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Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Cloud Infrastructure. see the Libcloud -compatible cloud providers. CVSDude (svn).

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

We also talked a lot about Geodelic , a portfolio company of Clearstone, who is trying to change the metaphor of how people discover location based information by partnering with large companies and brands. We also discussed the fact that an IPO often doesn’t mean the founders or investors can take too much money off the table.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ). spray-and-pray?

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Home prices are moving in lock-step with higher salaries, to the point where many investors are hunting for deals outside the area, where teams are now starting off distributed or with a plurality of offices to locate some functions outside of the Bay Area costly square footage. Getting capital in the earliest stages continues to get easier.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) Joe Lonsdale.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet. With Rockmelt, the browser information lives in the cloud rather than on a device. Your bookmarks, browsing history, configuration, etc.

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CTO Internet Illinois Cofounder 78

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Nothing is going to stop cloud.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Venture Chronicles

MAY 8, 2013

With the work I did on plans and pricing, later enhanced and executed by other teams in the company, we were able to position to the market a consolidated portfolio of services that could be sold to SMB, mid-market, and large enterprise companies all off the same product platform.

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Cloud Leadership America Analytics 65

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

I sat down (virtually) with Chainalysis co-founder and CEO Michael Gronager to discuss his learnings from almost seven years at the helm of a high-growth company. I met [Kraken co-founder] Jesse Powell here. ? Many European founders wonder where to start their company - move to the US or stay in Europe.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Carbonmade helps over 100,000 people create online portfolios that require zero HTML skills. Starting as a tool for one of the founders to update his portfolio, co-founders Spencer Fry, Dave Gorum, and Jason Nelson launched a self-funded, $12 per month plan in 2007, alongside their established free plan. How’d they do it?

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Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Salary 78

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd. Rad Data Communication.

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