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.

Technical Review 325

Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. 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.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. 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.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

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.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

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.

Customer 100

Customer Advisory Board Asia Internet 100

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

the cloud infrastructure software company, today announced it has secured $3.5 million in Series A funding to develop management solutions that help secure open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl (LAMP), and accelerate enterprise adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Gazzang, Inc.,

SQL 59

SQL PHP Database Open Source 59

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Whether you’re pivoting in the early days because you haven’t yet found product-market fit, or you’re pivoting by reinventing yourself later on, all companies – if they’re going to become and stay successful – are going to have to pivot. Every successful technology company has repeatedly reinvented itself.

Startup 36

Startup Silicon Valley Business Model Mobile 36