View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. Half our portfolio is consumer. On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a In that time, I’ve been consistently delighted by the support and enthusiasm of the Austin startup community. In July I spoke on a panel at 3 Day Startup Global Roundup, an opportunity that sprung out of a connection in a Female Founders Facebook Group.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Fund Details We identify the most promising use cases for cryptoassets and within those use cases we vet the teams, projects, and communities. Our investment thesis is simple: Blockchains will impact trillions of dollars of economic activity across many industries globally. 3) Rebalancing — we rebalance portfolios monthly.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Successful businesses that give back to the community, and it’s all on brand. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

The sudden arrival of the global pandemic has shifted the playbook for founders and venture capitalists. As high-conviction, seed stage investors, we are inherently relationship-driven, and we value meeting exceptional founders face-to-face. I can have a wider reach and a higher volume of 30 minute meetings with founders.”.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. 9% (1 / 12). Source: Knowledge.VC , based on scraping firm websites . 1) Market fund.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users.

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Austin Startup

JULY 19, 2021

To give a high-level snapshot of the activity in just the investment community alone this past June, ATX Venture Partners closed a $150M fund, 8VC filed with the SEC regarding plans to raise an $880M fund and Mainsail Partners, a growth equity fund based in San Francisco, is planning to open an office in Austin this September ( Source: AustinInno ).

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2021

The According to Alon Grinshpoon, co-founder and CEO of EchoAR: “3D content is now everywhere. Alban Denoyel , Sketchfab’s co-founder and CEO. According to the Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2021–2025 report by PWC, Worldwide VR content revenue surged 31.7% 2) VR adoption. in 2020 over 2019.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. What is your top goal for Sisu Global for 2020? We are proud to be a Baltimore-based company with global reach.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Did anyone have global pandemic on their bingo board? As mentioned at the top I do not know anyone that predicted the global pandemic of COVID19, despite the writing on the wall and the cases growing in China at the time of this post last year. 10/ Community is a moat. Ok lets move on… Photo by Anna Shvets on Pexels.com.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 30, 2013

A few weeks ago I did an event with Built In Denver where I interviewed Tim Miller and Ryan Martens, the founders of Rally Software , on their journey from a startup to a public company (NYSE: RALY ). Powerful startup communities start at the neighborhood level. This is one of the key parts of my theory around Startup Communities.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Dave Dowsett , Invesco – Global Head Technology Strategy, Digital Transformation, AI & Emerging Technology. Rasheed Sabar , Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Correlation One. Buyside members generally draw from Portfolio Management, Research, Trading, Data Science, Risk and Innovation roles.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

They were joined by a third co-founder, Nathan Blecharczyk, who brought programming expertise. Hosts can earn substantial sums of money—one has even used Airbnb earnings to pay off his mortgage—and their community of users is passionate about the service, enjoying the social aspects of Airbnb travel.

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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. Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Who’s next?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. But your community does matter. That crisis saw a global spending decrease of 9%, with U.S. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. Your people, too.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. ICAS® can then be scaled up across the customer’s portfolio bringing enterprise-wide benefits.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

My partner ( Steve Schlafman ) and I recently launched Tapestry , an exercise for founders to invest in their relationships, and it was met with an incredible reaction. No code and a global workforce make it possible. Putting myself in the seat of a founder or someone learning about Steve and I for the first time was helpful.

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View from Seed

JULY 28, 2015

This is expressed by people outside of Boston, but it often comes from those within our community too. Even Reebok’s global headquarters is located just outside the city. There are a couple reasons cited for the challenge of building a consumer company in this city, but I want to focus on one in particular.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies. He also didn’t believe in supporting the community and supporting local organizations through our skills. Image Credit: Natalie Harper.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Austin’s opportunity I’m excited to come to Austin next week because I’ve seen in the community everything we need to solve the problems we have. First, we need to intentionally recruit a different and broader pipeline of founders. We need to intentionally do the same with people who have the potential to be entrepreneurs.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2015

Most people take that to mean that they'll stop spending as much time with their family and go on to work at another startup or be a founder themselves. I introduced them to the founders of Zumba, chloe + isabel, and Zogsports--all companies that depended on creating scalable in person experiences, especially around training.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. Panelists: Jeff Kupietzky MBA 98, CEO, Oversee.net.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

I remember writing a blog post in 2008, post-financial crash, on how the recession was going to re-vitalize the city’s tech startup community, which would eventually help diversify the NYC economy. Startups are not immune to globalization and can accelerate growth if thinking globally from launch.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. The Grand-daddy. Worked with.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

“I didn’t set out to write a book but as we looked around the market for an operational playbook for sales, we couldn’t find one, so I tapped into my 20 years of sales experience and my network so that we could create a valuable resource for founders everywhere,” said Schwartzfarb. Denver, CO?—? RSVP here Sept. New York City, NY Sept.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 16, 2015

Bonus points for the fact that they partner with the social enterprise Vision Spring to facilitate training for optometrists and eye glass manufacturers in the same countries that they donate glasses to (India, Guatemala, and Bangladesh to name a few), so the communities also receive opportunities for sustainable income.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2013

We speak to the founders of Imaginary Friends Studios (IFS) team – 28-year old Kai Lim, 39-year old Stanley Artgerm Lau, and 31-year old Kendrick Lim (pictured above)- about hitting the big eight. Stanley Artgerm Lau: I am a co-founder and creative director of IFS. Tell us a little about yourself.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. However, 87% of our respondents don’t actively participate in any such community.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2010

The world is a global place, made even smaller by technology. Similarly, it's not surprising to me that Evan, Hilary, and Chris--the founders of HackNY --are either New York natives or have been here long enough to feel like natives. Did you talk to the co-founders? New York isn't part of a portfolio--it's home.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Mr. Lindzon has more than 20 years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We argued extensively in our book, Blitzscaling , that these strategies and tactics describe why Silicon Valley Bay Area – which has a population of less than 4 million – generates such a massively disproportionate number of global technology companies. Disclosure: * denotes a current or former Greylock portfolio company.).

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

The modern form of the venture capital firm — dating to American Research and Development Corporation and JH Whitney & Co. Similarly important are private/public partnerships between local community college systems and private sector employers to create job retraining and certification programs, again tied to the area’s specialization.

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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. but globally. I’ve seen many founders not fully grasp how the venture capital business works and what incentives investors have.

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