View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Caregivers receive product guidance, curation, and content – as well as human support & empathy – that other ecommerce experiences don’t provide. Because the needs are personal, Carewell’s offering is personal.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

AI to make IRL matches – What if you could chat with a bot that learns about you on a deeper level and uses this information to make a curated set of matches? Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios. Autonomous Logistics – Global autonomous delivery revenue could reach $900bn by 2030.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

It showcases our personality, while simultaneously showcasing the accomplishments of our portfolio. It’s easy to focus on the accolades and accomplishments of today, but what did the NextView portfolio companies look like when they first started their journeys with us? The new website is colorful, it’s exuberant. Check it out!

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2020

To help you in that quest, we’ve curated some of the top remote work utilities that have become absolute essentials for today’s transformed workforce. Here are some of the key features and benefits of deploying PDFelement as part of your software portfolio. 1: PDFelement 7 Pro.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 9, 2023

We encourage all our portfolio companies to add multiple independent directors and build diverse boards. Their approach is simple: they host executive roundtables across the country (remote and in-person) and build curated referrals for board openings for free. We’ve made this an operating principle at Foundry.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

One of our strategic investors is using HourOne.ai (disclosure: a Remagine Ventures portfolio compan y) to create synthetic video news around sports. The quality of the synthetic characters and of the video is high enough to monetise via pre-and-post rolls while the cost of producing these videos is extremely low.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

It means connecting potential collectors and buyers with the artist, creating excitement and buzz about the artists and the exhibition while forming relationships with other galleries, curators, and art institutions. A gallerist also creates the space and opportunities for the artists to showcase their work.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

It showcases our personality, while simultaneously showcasing the accomplishments of our portfolio. It’s easy to focus on the accolades and accomplishments of today, but what did the NextView portfolio companies look like when they first started their journeys with us? The new website is colorful, it’s exuberant. Check it out!

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

And that’s the idea of the portfolio career. And that's the idea of the portfolio career. And rather more like a portfolio to cure rate as an, as an artist would, or an investor would, are lots of different kinds of portfolios, but it's this sense of our professional identity goes so far beyond our resume.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 23, 2015

Another example is Lexoo , one of our portfolio companies. Lexoo and Uber are both curated marketplaces – i.e. marketplaces where the marketplace does some work on behalf of the buyer and doesn’t just rely on market forces to optimise the user experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I will use some examples from Parachute and some other portfolio companies to give you examples from our experiences of watching successful brands grow. Curation There are really multiple forms of “curation” that I think can build sustainable differentiation in products vs. the retailer that is selling them.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2012

I particularly urge you to review SpeakerNetNews ; it contains a tremendous amount of curated wisdom from professional speakers: how to be a more powerful speaker, deal with distracting audiences, etc. E.g., See ffVC’s blog post about the JOBS act, which discusses portfolio company Indiegogo. Photo credit: Zitona.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Dan McKinley and Wil Stuckey from the Etsy Curation team here. The Curation Team. When I do a quick mental query of headcount across our entire portfolio of ~30 companies, I think at least 50% and maybe as much as 60% of the entire headcount of our portfolio is in either product or engineering. Well, half of it.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2020

Your portfolio is going to show your clients what you can really do. And most people already have some sort of portfolio, but you really need to make it stand out. Throwing everything on Instagram, or your Adobe portfolio is probably not going to cut it. Money again. You have to pay taxes.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

What a great way for a guy like me stuck in the 90′s on music to get curated music while I do other stuff. I called a bunch of portfolio companies and asked them to check it out. I think that’s pretty cool in the way Pandora helps me explore new music. I got so excited to tell other people what I liked about turntable.fm.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

The Market Opportunity Navigator is a useful adjunct to the curation and prioritization steps. In three simple steps the Market Opportunity Navigator can help you: Identify a portfolio of market opportunities stemming from your technology or unique abilities.

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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. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly. Enter into personal competitions.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

The end result was a truly ambitious, unique, and international set of curated Wicked problems. Startups vs. Large Companies vs. Governments Innovation at Speed for Horizon 1, 2 and 3 (Managing the Portfolio across Horizons) What is Systems Thinking? How to map stakeholders and systems’ dynamics?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2012

The advent and growth of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and, now, Pinterest has heralded a new era in the Internet where people are connected to one another to share, discover, curate, and collaborate. Lightspeed Portfolio Company. How do you think about building the next large scale mobile app? I’m all ears.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Who is actually building a portfolio whose founders reflect the diversity of the greater population? I went back and calculated the number of companies in the first Brooklyn Bridge Ventures portfolio who have at least one founder who is female, from an underrepresented minority group, or LGBT.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 9, 2020

A project portfolio that leads to income. Tools like Github , Dribble , and Flocknet help users showcase skills and portfolios to their social networks, which is how people are increasingly landing jobs. . What do people actually need to go from curious noob to gainfully employed hero. Discipline to do the work consistently .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) This is an entirely new way of filming Personalization ?—?to

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here’s a detailed description curated explicitly for you. Portfolio managers generally manage mutual funds. Lear Capital guides you through this process with a definite plan to make a profitable investment both in the short term and in the long term. Wondering which investment plan to focus on? Mutual funds.

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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. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly. Enter into personal competitions.

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SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

I have literally hundreds that I've aggregated and curated. I also have favorite quotes around portfolio management, product development, process, optimization, roles and leadership. Very hard for me to pick just ten. And my favorites change over time and depending on the company.

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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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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This will be followed by an Investor Week starting March 9, where Techstars Austin will curate meetings with investors from all over the United States. Techstars provides their accelerator portfolio companies with access to financial, human and intellectual capital to fuel the success of their business.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 13, 2016

In this scenario the shop has generated the (foot) traffic and created a sale through curation and/or recommendation. In other words – they need to curate and/or recommend products that people don’t know, or aren’t sure, they want. Examples from our portfolio include Thread.com , Patch , and Snaptrip.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. I also use these tools, which are specifically for investors and others who work in the tech ecosystem: AngelList , where I post my public portfolio. . Tech stack.

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Board Effect

JULY 28, 2023

This is your once-a-year opportunity to elevate your governance and learn about Diligent’s growing portfolio and how it can benefit your organization. We wanted to give you a sneak peek into some of the sessions specially curated for volunteer boards, showcasing the insights and knowledge that awaits participants.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Then the contents are amazing too, an incredible set of letters curated by Shaun Usher. He promised to “blow it through the bedroom window of a sleeping child” Unbound, one of our portfolio companies, is a crowdfunding platform for authors. Portfolio' First off, the book is beautifully constructed.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

We were fortunate to host very talented speakers from our portfolio (Ilya Sukhar from FB/Parse, Steve Marx from Dropbox, Bill Ready from Braintree, Ali Rayl from Slack, Eric Wittman from Atlassian, Sam Mac Donnell from HotelTonight.)

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Notable examples of companies in this market include our portfolio company Lovefilm (acquired by Amazon for a rumoured £200m ), our portfolio company Graze that sells healthy snacks, shoe subscription businesses ShoeDazzle and StylistPick , and startup coffee subscription business Kopi.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

The role of the project manager is to act as gatekeeper, curator, editor, and leader and this guidance is vital to the project’s success. Because many crowdsourcing communities are open platforms which have low barriers to participation, the quality of the submitted work can often be subject to great (ahem) variability.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

In order to effectively represent your brand online, you should invest time and resources in creating a well-designed website, carefully curated social media presences, and thoughtful emails that mirror your offline branding. This does more harm than good, because it can be a big turn-off to curious connected consumers.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

Offer portfolios  Many different people like to showcase their work online. Now there are free portfolio tools for almost every type of individual. Once a site is successful in gaining users for their free portfolio tool, you end up having solved your initial supply challenge. Curate one side. See: Exec.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. How will crowdfunded investments impact your portfolio? or maybe just #GrumpyCat. Will ICOs make a comeback?

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