YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

It serves as a reminder to look beyond or ourselves and invest in the interest of those in our community. It’s a day where people around the world join in and help charitable organizations in their community. Both individuals and organizations can take part in the annual global giving movement. In 2015, there was $1.77

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Lower level of community familiarity. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I’m extremely excited about the portfolio of companies my partners and I have put together at Foundry Group which includes some great ad tech companies which you list above. Rather, I’d say that the one truly common trait across our portfolio of companies is the obsession these businesses have with their product.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

As a result of all this Super Angel / Micro VC activity in the latter half of the decade, many larger, more prestigious Silicon Valley firms began losing some visibility and influence with the entrepreneur community, as that of First Round and Ron Conway and the PayPal Mafia and others similarly grew in influence.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

For what they bring to the table, startups are indeed changing the economic landscape in ways that extend to job generation, innovation of products and services, and equal distribution of opportunities among businesses. Things You Need to Know About Starting a Startup Business. Rationale for Startup Investments. Launch Platforms for Startups.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

COVID-19 has caused global acceleration of many trends that were already happening before the pandemic and the immigration to Texas and especially Austin are no exception. When anyone can work from anywhere, they don’t evenly distribute across the country. How different that is than the feeling in Austin right now! Why Jim Breyer?

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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. This means more people behind a screen, which means more opportunity across distribution channels.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2015

What isn't surprising is that their plans for getting the kids outside became Tinkergarten , a distributed network of leaders providing outdoor learning experiences. If you ask me what companies in my portfolio have the biggest potential, Tinkergarten pops into my head. You see, Meg is a career educator, so play is never just play.

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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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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. Building a great product. We want to talk to you!

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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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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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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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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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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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. These conferences are not only a great way to raise your startup’s profile, they also serve as valuable networking opportunities within the tech/VC community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

And while it can often be the case that “lemons ripen early” (meaning that the unsuccessful companies fail early in a fund’s lifecycle), the harvest cycle for the winners in the portfolio can take what sometimes feels like an eternity. but globally. Why did you decide to write a manual like this, especially right now?

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. These conferences are not only a great way to raise your startup’s profile, they also serve as valuable networking opportunities within the tech/VC community.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Companies are aggregating global audiences and selling direct making new product categories viable which wouldn’t have worked when national distribution limited customers to single countries – companies which build communities around their interest area are particularly powerful in this regard – e.g.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2021

When you boil it down, the innovations around the creator economy consist of new ways to create, distribute and monetise content as well as direct to consumer models for fan engagement, monetisation and commerce. Value of the global entertainment and media market (Source: Statista ). 5 Israeli creator economy startups to watch.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 29, 2007

I went out to dinner a couple weeks ago with a few key executives at a portfolio company and as we started talking about future product direction, it seemed that we all had different ideas of where the company should go. Metacafe probably is constantly working to improve its community based voting and algorithms.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

I did not want them to make the mistake of trying to achieve revolution at the end of the keynote, rather I wanted to give them a path to achieving a global maxima. They make a few things like tooth-paste which are sold online, but the primary channel of distribution is offline stores. It is hard to optimize for the entire portfolio.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Journal Community. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Journal Community. Why Register?

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2022

Tech advancements are making it easier than ever to create, edit, distribute content than ever before (more on this in my post on ‘ the opportunities for creative automatio n’). According to research firm Ampere Analysis, Global video game sales are forecast to contract 1.2% Creator platforms (Source: Doug Shapiro).

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

It’s a repeatable model that we’ve been able to apply globally to everything from autonomous vehicles to drug discovery. When I released this information into the community my life became in danger. First, we built relationships with 10+ colleges, getting distribution rights to their students.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Cell Buddy will be the world’s first Mobile Virtual Global Operator (MVGO). We live, think and breathe digital music distribution. . – get your free ticket while they last: Israel and UK Digital Drinks.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

And then you fast forward a couple of weeks, I live here in Santa Clara County in Silicon Valley, which actually I think had one of the first cases or one of the- Eric Ries : Of community spread, yeah. Sal Khan : first cases of community spread. It was really myself and my boss, who was our portfolio manager.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Throughout the 1990s, we were focused on how to integrate China into the global system so that it would become a responsible stakeholder. It was time to take their claim, their rightful place in the international community. — On China. And we did everything we could, WTO membership, all kinds of collaborative efforts.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Having been a journalist myself, I’ve experienced first hand the pains of sending lists of links or PDF files to editors – or, to anyone interested in my writing portfolio. We started as a data provider and have grown into a comprehensive retail pricing platform with 100 clients operating globally.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

While I work with a few companies in Silicon Valley, the vast majority of my clients are either in Austin or ecosystems that look much more like Austin than SV; “second tier” tech communities. Large funds write larger checks because they lack the mental/resource bandwidth to actively manage a portfolio of smaller investments.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Journal Community.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Above you see the distribution among the top 100 grossing e-commerce websites in regards to the number of checkout steps they have. Portfolio Design Study: Design Patterns. Portfolios. With a commitment to quality content for the design community. The average checkout consists of 5.08 Related Articles. Advertising.

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