VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

At Remagine Ventures we like to say that “we invest in technologies that change how people spend their time and money”. Advancements in technology and changing cultural behaviour are big drivers of this trend and Covid-19 was like pouring gasoline on fire. . *by Kevin Baxpehler.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2020

In doing so, it then ensures you will deliver an MVP that not only captures your market but saves you time and money in the long run by not building features that don’t appeal to your target customer or are not necessary for early-stage launch. Dovetail designs, builds and invests into fast-growing technology companies.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Technology tools such as a CRM system can also help you get a strong understanding of your sales cycle and pipeline. 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. Think about your weak points and where you are today.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Is there an early mover advantage for being early on a technology trend? think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. Also, their $1.6 Every month, there are 5B downloads of apps built in Unity.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Next week, we will delve deep into cloud computing businesses. To prepare, please study the Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing trends and opportunities series. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. Very encouraging! You can register for the next roundtable here.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. Natalie Diggins (Neustar, ex-VP Cloud Platform/DevOps), Francesca Krihely (MongoDB, Dir. Amara’s Law : “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”. New CXO advisors join?—? Enterprise Tech in 2019.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Brett was formerly SVP of the Marketing Cloud at Salesforce with an enormous organization of sales, marketing, implementation, sales engineers, etc.

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Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

Enterprise Tech in 2018: “The Law of Accelerating Returns” by Ray Kurzweil is truer than ever before: the rate of change in a wide variety of evolutionary systems (including but not limited to the growth of technologies) tends to increase exponentially. This is a trend that kicked off over the last 2 years and will only accelerate in 2018.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The past several years have seen cloud-based storage come into its own in a big way. No matter what your needs, either to store and back up your own business files or to collaborate with colleagues on the other side of town (or the other side of the country), there is a cloud storage solution to suit your needs.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 28, 2014

They are one of the firms that inspires us here at Forward Partners , particularly for their operational model which we have adapted and extended so it works for early stage in the UK. The ultimate market size that this current generation of tech companies can go after dwarfs that of previous ones.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Early Stage Cloud 125

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The seeds of cheap cloud computing, social networking & mobile were planted and then the 2008 financial crisis brought a hurricane that swept much of the old, dead brush from the venture capital industry and ushered in a new phase perhaps best punctuated by Sequoia’s famous and now ironic presentation “ RIP Good Times.”.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

This is not a comprehensive list, but merely an attempt to highlight some of the most notable examples relevant for technology-enabled startups. For example, Qualcomm Ventures hosts an international business plan competition called QPrize , which targets mobile technology startups. 1) Corporate Venture Capital. 3) Freebies.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

2014 will be a formative year for new business owners and early-stage entrepreneurs. Tightly defined budgets, small teams, and offices in “the cloud” may seem like a weakness, but these are also these are the attributes that can drive us to success through being “lean and mean;” more efficient and more maneuverable.

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Entrepreneur Startup Balance Sheet Non-Compete 210

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Most of our early-stage startup clients fit this description. Today, it can sign one deal with a cloud service provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) to replace all of the above. Who on the team, if anyone, is moonlighting , and how closely related is their work to the startup’s business and technology?

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Software Review IP 149

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Tech-oriented startups are also obligated to maintain an awareness of trends in their industry and keep up-to-date on the latest tools, payment methods, and technologies that can be used to give them a cutting edge. Early profits should be directed back into your tech startup to boost growth and business stability.

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Technical Review Bootstrapping Startup Finance 81

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.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Texas Venture Capital 50

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Tony is the Founder and CEO of RedMane Technology. He has some insights on technology and how to use it to impact the world. Technology is just one of our tools. Our work spans everything from technology strategy and needs analysis to systems development and ongoing maintenance. The biggest disruptor is the cloud.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Agora isan affordable “one-stop shop” for cloud computing needs. Intended for cloud infrastructure service providers, enterprises with spare capacity in their private clouds, startups, companies doing image and video processing, and others. Here is a brief summary of each.

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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. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. – Technology stack. I have published a series of research papers on how VCs are using technology to improve returns. This model certainly makes sense.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. – Technology stack. I have published a series of research papers on how VCs are using technology to improve returns. This model certainly makes sense.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

taketheinterview.com , New York, NY) is a cloud-based solution that streamlines the recruiting process. VCAP© launched on May 9, 2012 and generated entries from a large range of industries and market sectors, including technology, retail and entertainment. Take the Interview ( www. domestic market.

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Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 128

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2011

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company. The service would use early-stage smart phones and a push system developed by Rhino.

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

taketheinterview.com , New York, NY) is a cloud-based solution that streamlines the recruiting process. VCAP© launched on May 9, 2012 and generated entries from a large range of industries and market sectors, including technology, retail and entertainment. Take the Interview ( www. domestic market.

Programming 114

Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 114

Gust

JULY 23, 2014

You can find this in a number of places, but in a nutshell, I prefer to invest in highly-scalable, technology-based ventures, with a particular focus on platforms, at a very, very early stage (but, oxymoronically, where there is already some type of traction).

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Angel Investor Elevator Pitch Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review 153

Hunter Walker

JULY 24, 2018

Satya and I started Homebrew not because we wanted to optimize for investment management roles in our careers but because we believed practicing early stage venture in a deliberate manner would be the most satisfying and impactful way to spend the second half of our careers.

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Cloud Early Stage Venture Capital Matching 83

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Both technologies have altered the way businesses operates and thinks regarding business intelligence and data storage. Software-defined storage has many potential benefits, helping businesses overcome their reluctance to being told that there is hitherto another new technology they need to adopt. Hybrid Storage Clouds.

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Artificial Inteligence Flash Cloud Algorithm 94

Up and Running

MARCH 15, 2012

Tony Bradley writes in Entrepreneur magazine, “Small and medium businesses in particular should embrace cloud-based productivity and collaboration platforms such as Google Docs or Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Services (soon to be rebranded as Office 365).

Software Review 79

Software Review Early Stage Employee Technical Review 79

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.

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Portfolio IRR Dilution Distribution 215

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. after a 24-hour journey from California.

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India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Global Technology 140

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 26, 2018

Google is pushing hard to make artificial intelligence as easy to access as cloud computing, building services that reduce both costs and the technical skill required from users. They now have more than 10,000 businesses using Google Cloud AI services, including companies Box , Rolls Royce Marine , Kewpie and Ocado.

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Artificial Inteligence Cloud Early Stage Web 72

Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2021

On October 4th, five technology startup finalists will pitch to a panel of advisors and judges made up of successful investors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders. Houston based Syzygy Plasmonics is developing a green power source from hydrogen fuel cell technology and raised a $5.8 million Series A round. Female Founders!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Cloud- based Electronic Medical Records (EMR) are quickly becoming another distribution platform. Therapeutics Channel = what you’re selling in the early stage is data and Intellectual Property to the pharmaceutical and biotech companies. other DHealth channels such as Wellness Platforms, and cloud-based EMR’s are also emerging.

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Distribution Channel Lean Intellectual Property 224

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2016

The coming Year of the Monkey looks set to be a year of change, not just in the technology sector but in every industry, with technology embedded in everything we do. The rise of mobile and social technologies has made end-users more empowered and knowledgeable than ever before.

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