VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. Recently, Unity’s CEO John Riccitiello, sparked controversy with the game developer community, which could put future adoption at risk. Here we go! Epic Games. Also, their $1.6 There are now 2.8B

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IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Social Hybrid AI x human communities – messaging & social apps where bots are treated as equal citizens. Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030. Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Boris wrote about the latest opportunities in enterprise SaaS , while Max outlined some of his current investment themes , from the Open Internet to climate change. Today’s online communities for those with chronic illnesses are quite outdated. Interest 1: The next generation of patient social networks.

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Social Network Vertical Cofounder Software Improvement 102

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Encourage founders to turn to other founders and their broader community as resources, not just the VC’s own staff. First Round Capital’s forum for portfolio executives is a powerful example of a scaleable resource. – Provide hands-on operational support for portfolio companies.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

We threw a Launchpad LA dinner to bring the community together as we tend to do 6-10 times a year. Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. ” That always stuck with me. That seems very Brad to me.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Low fee: Lightning supports any size payment all the way down to sub 1 cent micropayments, which will unleash all kinds of new internet native, global commerce and even new payment types like “streaming” – imagine paying by the second for watching a movie or accessing car insurance. . 3) Exchanges + HFTs.

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Networking Global OTC Security 168

Genuine VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

My partner Rob wrote bit more on his blog about our motivations for adding our first new team member at NextView Ventures — a Director of Platform and Community. Active contributor to the Boston entrepreneurial community with extensive network across technology startups. Compensation will be competitive based on experience.

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Community Boston Seed Stage Venture Capital 113

ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

First launched in 2003, WordPress is the leading CMS by which 35% of the entire internet is powered. Because they have been around for over two decades, they have an incredibly engaged community, and many developers and tools build their applications with WordPress in mind. . Image source ). Image source ) .

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Software Review Technical Review Hosting SEO 91

Version One Ventures

APRIL 30, 2013

While my portfolio is primarily centered around consumer internet as well as enterprise SaaS startups, I typically talk to two to three hardware startups each week. Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and my portfolio company Indiegogo are helping fill the financing void for hardware projects. Look at crowdfunding options.

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Venture Capital Software Review Incubator Startup 128

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 31, 2022

So, it wasn’t too surprising when I got back my results from Base (a subscription data-driven personal health company also in the BBV portfolio) that my cholesterol, particularly by LDL (bad cholesterol) had ticked up to the point where I needed to do something about it. You don’t have the same family history, habits, or medical history.

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Portfolio Incubator Cofounder Community 78

Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

We focus primarily on software and Internet companies in areas such as SaaS, application software, financial software, consumer internet, and online marketplaces. These sectors generally leverage the Internet or software in a fundamental way. For most of us, we have been the only woman partner or senior executive in our firm.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage 48

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2017

A few things had to come together for securing (HTTPS’ing) the web to become reality: The global internet security community had to get serious about this problem. With Google now stiffly penalizing the SEO of non-HTTPS sites, and Chrome and Firefox escalating browser warnings , website owners are rapidly supporting security.

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Caching Security Green Global 70

Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Second, that community is the most powerful retention mechanism available to game developers, because you see, these “soldiers” were players in an online WWII multiplayer simulation. As I looked around for more examples of this I found that the introduction of connectivity to gaming (hello internet!) each month). each month).

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North Carolina Community Media Video 112

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

As the old joke goes, “on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog.” In short I ended up having to deal with what is affectionally called on the Internet – trolls. And I accept that anonymity is inevitable on the Internet. ” So I have gotten comfortable with pseudonymity. But context matters.

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Technical Review Reputation Naming Internet 329

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Now, with the use of technology and the internet, especially with the pandemic, the landscape is shifting to safe, non-contact phone sales for life insurance. Digital navigation classes teach you how to use the correct tools to get around the internet. Life insurance has always been largely a face-to-face type of sale. 14- Workcation.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur 110

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

More Things became Internetted of. Last year, NextView co-founder and partner David Beisel asked our portfolio startups which service providers they use to make up the nuts and bolts of their businesses, which he published as the first edition of a potentially recurring resource. And, apparently, more Lyfts were Ubered.

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Boston Seed Stage Portfolio Cofounder 331

David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2013

I was visiting as part of Terrapinn Private Equity World, a leading private equity conference for the Latin American technology community. Miami has many of the assets of an entrepreneurial hub, notably a flourishing creative community, and a strong public university system. that cities such as San Francisco and New York have built.

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Miami Private Equity Florida Technical Review 114

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y. Something new for the Chicago tech community – crowdspring.co/1bXLS29. Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y. Want to succeed? 18G9BRl.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2022

If only the internet had been prevalent then, he could have created a website and advertised his services locally. My goal is to invest in both existing and new properties to create a portfolio of income-generating real estate assets. My goal is to build a portfolio that will generate strong returns over the long-term.

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Affiliate United States Entrepreneur Software Review 62

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

Mid- to large-size companies can also benefit from the lean methodology and one way to do so is by actively leveraging crowds of workers: designers , software engineers , testers , writers , customer support people , customers, market researchers , and dozens of other groups via the Internet.

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Software Review Technical Review Social Media Community 89

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This made consumer internet a very exciting investment category – this Pinterest case study shows why. For me the sweet spot has now shifted to businesses that are able to able to extract a high ARPU from a focused community. Lyst and MoviePilot are good examples of businesses from our portfolio that fit into this category.

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Internet eCommerce Business Model Audience 102

Hearpreneur

MAY 31, 2020

If you are looking at building a board portfolio – this skill is essential because most board appointments don’t make it to recruiters. From that point onward you get transformed from a stranger on the internet to someone who is somewhat of a friend or ally in their corner. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Networking Entrepreneur Social Media Channel 144

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Blablacar is one such example of innovation: with a fast growing community of 1.6m Labels: Europe Consumer , internet. internet. (6). Portfolio. (3). How the use of internet is transform.

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Software Review Europe Technical Review Spain 95

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 16, 2020

To help them provide for their families, I would like to employ people in my community first and hopefully extend to other communities as well as I will also be partnering with other small businesses. As an agency, getting new contacts and prospects over the internet has been a mixed bag of results. Photo Credit: Craig Smith.

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Entrepreneur Agile Artificial Inteligence San Francisco 147

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. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2014

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. And no designer portfolio whatsoever.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 29, 2021

We believe that decentralized applications (dApps) are the future of the Internet, but it’s still too hard to develop blockchain applications. Tenderly already has deep respect within the Ethereum community, as we quickly discovered during our due diligence. Our portfolio companies Uniswap and Nexus Mutual raved about the platform.

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Serbia Due Diligence Developer Angel Investor 78

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

And online consumers are not always who you think they are — in fact, a little over half of Americans over age 65 use the Internet and email, and 70 percent of those use the Internet on a daily basis. Does my website tell the story I want my customers to know about my business? Am I using images that effectively help do that?

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Small Business Social Media Channel Media 178

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Almost as good as the blog itself is the thoughtful and intelligent community that posts hundreds of insightful comments on a daily basis. On Haywire, Semil Shah shares stories about his investments, giving a behind-the-scenes view on why he’s working with the companies in his portfolio. Above the Crowd. Follow Semil on Twitter @semil.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Silicon Valley Cofounder 60

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Carmen was the first CIA executive to envision many of the applications now used by CIA analysts, including online production, collaborative tools, and Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki developed by Don Burke and Sean Dennehy. It basically means like a senior statesman in country … without portfolio. Don : Exactly.

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Wiki Entrepreneur Cofounder Government 120

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

This way, I could focus solely on studying and building web apps for my portfolio. I used my lunch time during the bootcamp to work on projects for my portfolio, so the instructors could help me to quickly get unstuck. The apps I built for my Github portfolio were all I had to vouch for my coding skills while applying and interviewing.

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Software Engineering Engineer Software Silicon Valley 48

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2017

While internet disruption has transformed most facets of everyday living, one of the last to really be redesigned has been the home. It’s interesting to note that Home Depot is a $180B retailer that has not seen significant threat from internet disruption. The easiest example is around community. Source: Google Finance).

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Denmark Vertical eCommerce Internet 244

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2015

And TV / Film / Video Games / Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality and frankly the Internet will all merge. We simply can’t escape our history as hunters & gatherers sitting around a fire and explaining the world to our community. Western countries watch > 5 hours of TV per day. Because we’re visual storytellers.

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Startup B2C Portfolio Video 150

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. Mega VC, Micro VC.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

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. This means that private keys — the keys that literally control the money — never touch the Internet. 3) Rebalancing — we rebalance portfolios monthly.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Austin 48

Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

One Jackson is a new online children’s clothing retailer which is surprisingly fresh – all of its designs were created by independent designers and then curated with love from its community of parents. For us, the investment is certainly fresh and newest in our portfolio, but it also feels familiar.

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Seed Stage Cofounder Portfolio Curation 199