K9 Ventures

APRIL 16, 2023

I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company. After 10 years of building K9, my knowledge and advice to founders were becoming dated. The name of the candidate will often be very American-sounding. Like a lot, a lot.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Mike Baker – Co-Founder/CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures. advice and mentorship to founders in the NextView portfolio.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I came up with my business name Aging Youthful when the network marketing company I am involved with came out with a product for youthful aging.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2017

For example, Silicon Savannah – the name given to Nairobi’s (Kenya) growing tech scene – and Chilecon Valley, found in Chile’s capital, Santiago, demonstrate the global appetite for tech entrepreneurship. The lower costs of capital also mean that startups are less risky bets, allowing for more diversification among portfolios.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 25, 2015

Forerunner Ventures is one of Homebrew’s favorite co-investors for consumer commerce/retail startups. Firm founder Kirsten Green has an amazing analytical mind combined with empathy for the consumer. How do you convey to founders why your backgrounds are valuable to them? EK: How did you come up with your company name?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The partner at the fund, the VC, gets to do the fun part—the meeting with founders, vetting deals, negotiating, helping, etc. Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. That’s the first thing anyone trying to raise a fund needs to understand, as well as anyone thinking about investing in one.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”). Fred Wilson was his lead investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup. You’re two guys in a garage, two guys across campus trying to make a name for yourself. Technical founder. And we’re here in LA, but we’ve got people all over the world watching this.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. He just hired Meg Whitman.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic is a long term visionary of our online future and the Metaverse. Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO. Yuga Labs Pitch Deck: BAYC founders raised $450M from Andreesen Horowitz from Pitch Decks. Here we go! Epic Games. No company has more riding on the Metaverse than Meta.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 28, 2019

Marcelo Ricigliano is the co-founder of 4Geeks Academy , a Miami based coding academy with campuses in USA, Chile and Venezuela. Marcelo Ricigliano is the co-founder of 4Geeks Academy , a Miami based coding academy with campuses in USA, Chile and Venezuela. How did you come up with your business name?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A popular approach these days seems to be for founders to regale investors early with a pitch touting the newest “million-dollar idea.” The name and the type have to fit, or expensive rework will be required later. If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

A few weeks ago I spoke with Boris Wertz, founder of JustBooks, COO of AbeBooks and founding-partner of Version One Ventures. In ” At present, Version One Ventures portfolio includes startups from all over the United States and Canada. Version One Ventures does not look at founders in a gender specific light.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 21, 2013

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the unsung hero of many start-ups: the other founder. A lot has been written about the founder/CEO and her growth and evolution as a company grows. In the image above, most everyone knows the name and image of Larry Page - cofounder and now CEO of Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

I want the names of the key buyers, the last time you met them, who the competition is and what are the criteria for a decision. One of his investors called him, “the best CFO in our entire portfolio.&# ). It’s different when you’re co-founders and one person gets the title COO. Who does sales report to?

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2019

How did you come up with your business name? It starts with a pilot, with often is pretty small: just one or two teams of co-founders dedicated to growth opportunity areas for six months or so. Who doesn’t want to be bionic? Fully you, but better, stronger, faster? Bionic is that exoskeleton. We build you up from the outside in.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a 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. Connect with the FB group Boss Babes ATX | #bossbabesATX If the name doesn’t get you, the programming will.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

For example: Dropbox, Reddit, and Birch Box, to name a few. 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. MIT Start Lab.

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View from Seed

JULY 17, 2019

Although you still hear stories of investors that require founders to move to SF, it’s more likely these days that investors see a winning business outside of the Bay Area as a positive, given the costs and competitive pressure in that local market. How should a founder go about it? But doing this takes extra work.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Last week I had a chance to interview Kyle Stalzer, President at Tackk (a portfolio company of my firm, ff Venture Capital ), about an issue that’s top of mind for a lot of our companies: How to Recruit an A-Quality Designer for Your Company. With 99 Designs and Crowdspring , you post your design project and name your price.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented. As I wrote about in my post on Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing , this is painful and you must have a diversified portfolio to practice angel investing and actually make money. No matter the name?—?the

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Years later Clavier's name now comes up all the time when one of his portfolio companies finds success; his exits include Mint, Tapulous, and UserPlane, other investments include Mashery (a ReadWriteWeb sponsor), Rapleaf, Fitbit, bitly, GroupOn, Twitter and many more. Are all co-founders equal, Clavier asked?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 9% (1 / 12). Source: Knowledge.VC , based on scraping firm websites

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

One VC (I won’t name but with whom I still won’t work today) called Marc Benioff directly. Another VC called the co-founder & tech head – Parker Harris. Another VC called the co-founder & tech head – Parker Harris. Founder friction / departures. What did he do?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Roland is an investor, business mentor, Co-founder, and/or Principal of five different Inc. Magazine’s fastest-growing companies, and names like DigitalMarketer, Traffic and Conversion, Scribe Publishing, and Real Estate World. In this episode, Investor and Co-Founder of 5 different Inc. Like this show?

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. Twilio became a popular perk for Techstars companies globally over the years and many other Techstars portfolio companies use the product extensively. 1: SendGrid (2009).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m sure many of you have heard his name. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. Third, smart companies manage an innovation portfolio where they can pursue potential disruption in a variety of ways. Let’s start with Joseph Schumpter. This never ends well.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As we do at the end of every quarter, we’ve summarized some of the key highlights and activities across our portfolio. . The Globe and Mail included three of our portfolio companies Ada (#11), Jobber (#87), and Top Hat (#230) on its list of the 400 top growing companies in Canada. . Announcements. Stay tuned!!

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I spoke with experts at a number of software development shops to get their insights on this topic, leaders at DarwinApps , Casual Corp , HappyFunCorp , OAB Studies , Coventure (a VC with its own software development team), and World Accelerator (an accelerator focused on premium domain names). Some were very critical.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2020

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Emily Heyward, the Co-founder and Chief Brand Officer at Red Antler , the leading brand company for startups and new ventures. Emily was named among the Most Important Entrepreneurs of the Decade by Inc. Marketing Podcast with Emily Heyward.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 23, 2011

I’m pleased to announce the developer launch of K9 Ventures’ portfolio company, card.io (pronounced card-I-O). As the name suggests, card.io Well, almost all of that information also appears on the face of your credit card: it has your card number, the expiration date, and your name. So the guys at card.io

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. Founders Den co-founder and angel investor Zachary Bogue has joined forces with seasoned big data VC Matt Ocko , Metamarkets founder Michael Driscoll and Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross to launch Data Collective , the world’s first Big Data-only early stage investment fund. .”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Gayle King is co-host of CBS This Morning. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits.

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View from Seed

JULY 8, 2021

Today Lula announced its $18M funding round led by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures. We couldn’t be more thrilled for co-founders Michael and Matthew for this next phase of building the business with substantial additional backing. I first met the Lula co-founders in Boston about 2 1/2 years ago, at the very end of 2018.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. Secondly, the driver of returns for the funds raised in 1978 – 1981 was not their underlying portfolios, at what stage, or in what industries they were built.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. These include making deposits, transferring funds, paying bills and managing stock portfolios. by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital. Small Business Loan Overview.

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