BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

Keep this in the back of your mind as you think about the biggest transformation in enterprise tech; the re-platforming of corporate America from legacy to cloud/hybrid cloud and monolithic software apps to microservices driven development. Some call this “ambient AI” and I just call it software.

Cloud 60

Cloud Cofounder Portfolio Advisory Board 60

Up and Running

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Technology helps you stay accountable for some of the difficult decisions you’ll need to make, so it’s worth it to prioritize that expense early. Weigh hiring an employee versus implementing software. The decision to invest in efficiency boosters versus building out a team in the early stages is another potential tradeoff to consider.

Entrepreneur 149

Entrepreneur Sales Cycle Early Stage Texas 149

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. These are very different.

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Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Next, Shirish Deodhar discussed InnovizeTech , an Indian company that has built software to capture how employees are spending their time in order to help manage and monitor productivity. Next week, we will delve deep into cloud computing businesses. InnovizeTech. Very encouraging!

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

But Gregg stayed and grew and took on more responsibilities and became a senior member of Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud team. Importantly, we recently announced a $30 million financing that gives us the resources we need to build a global enterprise software company. For years I struggled to convince people that phone calls mattered.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Fractional CTO Cofounder Early Stage 150

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

As an early stage investor in the world of gaming and metaverse technology at Remagine Ventures, I find these companies have the potential to set the agenda, become the potential platforms for developers building in this space and future acquirers/consolidators of startups building the next generation of the Internet.

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IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We back very early stage companies and work alongside executive teams as their build their teams, launch their products, announce their companies and raise their first downstream capital rounds. The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier. dot-com bonanza.

Pre-Money Valuation 471

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Venture Capital Early Stage 471

David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

Attendees “get hands-on experience, insight, tips and tricks from AWS experts on how to architect [their] applications, optimize [their] costs and deploy quickly to the AWS cloud.” Microsoft BizSpark is a global program that helps software startups by giving them access to a range of Microsoft software at free or discounted prices.

Startup 114

Startup Technical Support Venture Capital Balance Sheet 114

Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

It’s possible to have a company with literally millions of customers (users) that employs only a handful of people, working in a small rented office, with hardware and software costing in the tens of thousands rather than millions of dollars. Most of our early-stage startup clients fit this description. Intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Software Review IP 149

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The same might be said of good software. Here we have the beginnings of a theory of design for software.

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service. In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

View from Seed

JULY 15, 2020

Some early stage businesses may even be able to get to CFBE fairly quickly. Mid-stage portfolios can be more acutely impacted if many companies have fat cost structures and were investing heavily in growth that is not materializing. Some companies are seeing a massive acceleration event because of Covid.

Portfolio 215

Portfolio IRR Dilution Distribution 215

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

His most recent company, Filtrbox, participated in the inaugural Techstars class (Techstars Boulder 2007) and was a win for all parties involved; Filtrbox was acquired in 2010 by Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE). Following is his advice to early stage entrepreneurs for creating structure in their company.

Burn Rate 152

Burn Rate Equity Software Review Early Stage 152

Scalable Startup

JULY 20, 2013

At the time SaaS just wasn’t mature enough and people at the company weren’t comfortable enough to make the change; too many old habits of installing software. These are now done either transparently in the background, in the cloud, or done using minimally invasive mobile apps. It vastly reduces computer waste.

Mobile 22

Mobile Hawaii Angel Investor Early Stage 22

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2014

Early Stage Startups: The Biggest Killers | Forbes – crowdspring.co/1mtenKl. Amazon and Google are in an epic battle to dominate the cloud—and Amazon may already have won | Quartz – crowdspring.co/1eVLm7M. Foreign Startup Founders Face Unique Struggles To Break Funding Barrier | TechCrunch – crowdspring.co/1mJ9Pjd.

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Up and Running

MARCH 15, 2012

As if it wasn’t enough that remote workers save their employers on office-related costs, most of the software required to work remotely is either free or inexpensive and extremely easy to use. Your expenses may be limited to a lap top, smartphone, and some software.

Software Review 79

Software Review Early Stage Employee Technical Review 79

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2018

RedMane is a software solutions and systems integration firm with a culture of client success, people focus, and unwavering integrity. In the public sector, we helped the US Virgin Islands implement a cloud-based Disaster Food Stamps system to bring aid in a matter of weeks right after two devastating hurricanes hit the islands.

Louisiana 113

Louisiana Founder Virgin Islands South Africa 113

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

With businesses moving towards cloud storage and some few dedicated storage arrays, dynamic storage software with an integrated deep learning algorithm can be of great help for organizations to gain additional storage capacity, at 60 -70 percent cost reduction. More Software-Defined Storage. Hybrid Storage Clouds.

Artificial Inteligence 94

Artificial Inteligence Flash Cloud Algorithm 94

The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

When cloud services company Cornerstone OnDemand got its start in Los Angeles in 1999, the odds were against it. Improbably, founder and CEO Adam Miller and his partners soldiered on to eventually build a $2 billion+ cloud company. Three months after getting up and running, the tech bubble burst and all the money dried up.

Cloud 118

Cloud Southern California Los Angeles New York City 118

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do. Telesales simply don't work without reference customers.

Silicon Valley 114

Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Early Stage 114

Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Meet the Locals Here are the most active early stage investors in town that you should meet while you’re here and do deals with. It’s a robust ecosystem so I’m only listing the ones we’ve done the most deals with here but Capital Factory is the most active early stage investor in Texas so this is a good sampling.

Silicon Valley 50

Silicon Valley Technical Review Texas Venture Capital 50

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

Back then there was no “cloud” so we had to plow money into hardware, software licenses and web hosting. I tell them that they don’t have the experience to charge a startup $200k and even if they did no early-stage startup would want to bring on an in-house general counsel very early.

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Founder Salary Startup Early Stage 409

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

I see a lot of early-stage companies struggling with this. If you put yourself in the shoes of the early-stage founder who is seeing their pipeline slowing down or their conversion rate going down because of the crisis we’re facing, how should they think about it? How did you define this threshold for Snyk?

Early Stage 62

Early Stage Open Source Development Team Review Security 62

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

For example, if one of the founders is fanatically obsessed with wanting to create a consumer software company that lots of people know about, then friction may be created if the model needs to shift to more of an enterprise product. The issue can be clouded sometimes when one of the founders is investing significant cash into the enterprise.

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Cofounder Founder Equity Dilution 128

Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2021

Any software, hardware, or CPG startup in Texas with a female founder or co-founder can apply to participate. Austin based Senseye has developed a system of high resolution cameras and software that can read your mind just by watching the movement of the muscles in your pupils. Who Can Apply? They’ve raised $7.2 Female Founders!

San Antonio 107

San Antonio Dallas Houston Founder 107

The Equity Kicker

JULY 30, 2013

One of the reasons I moved to Forward was to be in the vanguard of change for early stage company finance. Startup costs have fallen – open source software and cloud computing have driven startup costs down by a factor of 10. At Forward we can benefit from all of these trends.

Venture Capital 144

Venture Capital Silicon Valley Early Stage Angel Investor 144

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea. Wireframes.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business?

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Digital Health Channels = Direct Sales but you’re selling software to both end users and enterprises. Cloud- based Electronic Medical Records (EMR) are quickly becoming another distribution platform. In Digital Health direct sales is a possible channel, as are traditional software channels (App Stores, Box, etc.).

Distribution 224

Distribution Channel Lean Intellectual Property 224

siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

13) Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome) (0). Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Platform Software Developer. Software Cloud Engineer III. Software Cloud Project Manager. Software Engineer.

Portland 46

Portland Oregon Technical Cofounder Startup 46

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. Then, create an encouraging environment for early-stage companies. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Continuous Deployment 113

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Accounting may seem like the most mundane aspect of running a business, but it’s also the most essential to keep on track —especially during the early stages. If you’re just looking for a place to store digital receipts, you have a wealth of options to choose from in the cloud.

Small Business 60

Small Business CPA Finance Warrant 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2016

I’ve noticed a great tendency among startup founders to ignore the essentials of business accounting in the early stages of their startup. I recommend one of the many cloud-based and low-cost tools to help, such as the Viewpost business network. In fact, just the opposite is true. Corporate records.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Startup SBA Warrant 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2018

As an example, this is a diagram of the multiple beneficiaries and stakeholders that a software company developing math software for middle school students has to navigate. To illustrate this they drew these adjacent markets as a cloud surrounding their company. The book Regulatory Hacking calls this diagram the Power Map.

Marketing 321

Marketing Startup Government SEC 321

Austin Startup

MARCH 16, 2021

Any software, hardware, or CPG startup located in the greater Houston metropolitan area can apply to participate. Journey Foods - Food Science & Supply Chain Software San Antonio’s Easy Expunctions makes it easier and more affordable for people to clean up their criminal records by automating the expunction process and has raised $1.6

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Houston San Antonio Dallas Texas 80

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Read the rest.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 68

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2016

At the same time, enterprises today can leverage the cloud to make faster, more efficient software changes; use social media to connect with customers; deploy predictive analytics to determine what their customers will want and connect and control devices via a central point with the Internet of Things (IoT). billion to 8.6

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Customer Advisory Board Asia Internet 100