Genuine VC
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
The two companies had been working together for a while, especially as both are deeply embedded within the Ruby on Rails developer community, with a strong following for their respective offerings. It essentially gives developers another set of eyes on every commit. Instead, the response was overwhelmingly positive.
Genuine VC
MARCH 14, 2012
In the past month or two, it’s become especially salient to me that the release of the Microsoft Kinect Developer Platform last summer is something fundamentally game-changing. But this exploration also includes alternative user-interfaces and inputs, like gesture controls.
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Genuine VC
AUGUST 14, 2012
Telling the same pitch over and over again… taking time away from more immediately impactful endeavors like recruiting and customer development… the endless follow-ups and inevitable radio silence… fun? For entrepreneurs, seeking seed capital means meeting with numerous VC firms and sometimes dozens of angels… fun?
Genuine VC
MARCH 24, 2014
The five conditions for a Series A financing which he enumerated are: a core team ready to scale, demonstrable market size, repeatable cost effective customer acquisition, metric momentum, and plausible monetization. The strategy here is to foster product development and marketing which creates overall (semi-)organic user momentum.
Genuine VC
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
In other words, for a company looking to compete across the entire marketplace in a specific industry, it must either develop a unique product offering (along the lines of brand, design, features) or more-efficiently produce the product to outcompete on price.
Genuine VC
MARCH 14, 2012
In the past month or two, it’s become especially salient to me that the release of the Microsoft Kinect Developer Platform last summer is something fundamentally game-changing. But this exploration also includes alternative user-interfaces and inputs, like gesture controls.
Genuine VC
JULY 17, 2012
While I guess you could develop a “strategy” to networking successfully (… with many a book written about the subject), I think becoming especially productive at networking is largely tactical. And as a VC, I get plenty of practice doing it. As one of my former high school coaches used to put it, “Practice doesn’t make perfect.
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