The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2020

You can hire remote developers. Many companies and organizations are up to develop the custom analytical and platform to find the insights. As a result, you will be able to improve your business operational efficiency by delivering the proper apps to your end-customers in your company. The case studies and references.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Engineering Analytics Engineer 91

David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students. Our firm has a portfolio of companies across a broad range of markets and the way we look at it is pretty simple – the deals fall into two types: those with customer/market risk and those with invention risk.”

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

On the other hand, if you arrive at a VC pitch without a comprehensive understanding of the industry you’re hoping to compete in, or without a clear path to profitability or a thoughtful product-development road map, you’ll likely leave empty-handed. Do you lack the skills needed to develop a viable product?

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Due Diligence Early Stage Differentiation 140

David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

and if you’re like most of today’s startups — you need to get an app in the hands of customers. Once customers love your app and you show some traction, you raise some money and grow it into that impactful dream of an idea that you’ve had figured out in your head for as long as you can remember. Photo credit.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In addition, I’ve noted a few multi-product lending firms, e.g., Kapitus and United Capital Source , which provide RBI as one of many structural options to companies seeking capital. . We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”.

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Further Reading.

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Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2018

The 10-week programme gives start-ups the opportunity to trial their products at scale and work closely with senior management and experts across the Group. You can test your most promising products and services with the IAG customers. Product development input. Gain vital know-how by accessing real customer data.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Analytics 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

Traction can simply mean showing that you’re making progress with customers, product development, channel partners, initial revenue as a proof point, attracting well-known angel investors, winning industry awards / recognition. Funding is about developing a relationship over time.

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Technical Review Term Sheet Venture Capital Revenue 309

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 27, 2020

They can rally team members, customers, and investors around the mission. . We can find examples of great mission-driven founders throughout our portfolio. Mike Murchison and David Hariri of Ada Support , whose mission is to deliver customer service in a way that’s authentic and simple, but also efficient and scalable.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2017

The 10 tips offered by Umbrella company in this article will not only suggest you answers to these questions, but will help with setting priorities in the correct way so that you would not miss any significant details in the course of development. Tip Six: Carefully Choose The Team Of Developers. Native and hybrid mobile applications.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Both venture firms sought my advice for their portfolio companies. I began to gain an appreciation of how world-class venture capitalists develop pattern recognition for these common types of problems. “Oh It was a long way from Ellis Island.) Surprisingly, I enjoyed seeing other startups from an outsider’s perspective.

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Silicon Valley RSS Venture Capital Customer Development 125

Austin Startup

APRIL 8, 2019

I’m not sure if they are “good” per se, but my investors regularly ask for a redacted version to share with another startup in their portfolio which needs an example of a good update. At the end of the month, I will be in San Francisco for a customer meeting but am padding a day on either side to meet amazing people.

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San Francisco Balance Sheet Startup Austin 48

Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

But startups require money upfront for product development and later to scale. VC’s raise money from their investors (limited partners like pension funds) and then spread their risk by investing in a number of startups (called a portfolio). Congratulations, welcome to Customer Discovery. ——-. The Good News.

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Liquidity Event Founder Liquidation Preference Venture Capital 120

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

In addition, we were lucky enough to finally find reliable partners, thus adding a few more services to our portfolio – like Locksmith and Childcare. We’re very new to the industry, and while we’re passionate about the product, there have been obstacles every step of the way – production, shipping, distribution, etc.

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Las Vegas Entrepreneur Software Review Community 86

VC Adventure

MARCH 17, 2022

Perhaps you raised at what historically have been very attractive valuations (we certainly have companies in our portfolio that have raised well, well above the historical averages). Use time and capital to your advantage, accelerating product development as needed, gaining valuable insight on your go-to-market motion.

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Balance Sheet Burn Rate Valuation Metrics 121

Version One Ventures

AUGUST 7, 2018

Among our Silicon Valley-based portfolio companies, not a single company past “A” does not have a distributed team. When it comes to opening a second location, there are two common approaches: One: Open a location built around specific and well-defined tasks, e.g. platform integration or customer service.

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Silicon Valley Distribution San Francisco Denver 129

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram has grown to hundreds of employees, thousands of customers, and attracted substantial capital all from its home base in Chicago. For Hologram this meant being heads down primarily focused on product development in early years, and then only scaling sales and marketing as the market opportunity across IoT really blossomed.

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Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more Unlike political regimes, technological rulers are comprised of products rather than people. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. So what will become of IT?

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Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

SVPG

JULY 24, 2011

If your company is one that still allocates product development funds based on approval of projects, then you still have the old “project-based funding model.” Creating strong products is not a series of projects that come in sporadic bursts of a few months each over several years.

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Portfolio Revenue Finance Product Development 71

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. in our portfolio. Foster product development and marketing which creates organic (or somewhat organic) user traction. The mean Series A size was $5.2M. average versus $4.9M

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Startup 333

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram has grown to hundreds of employees, thousands of customers, and attracted substantial capital all from its home base in Chicago. For Hologram this meant being heads down primarily focused on product development in early years, and then only scaling sales and marketing as the market opportunity across IoT really blossomed.

Chicago 136

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 136

David Teten

JULY 30, 2013

I met some time ago with Brad Wisler, co-Founder of SproutBox , and shared with him our research on portfolio value creation by venture capitalists. SproutBox might accurately be placed in the Mentor category or Portfolio Operator category, but our primary value is very specifically in hands-on product development.

Portfolio 114

Portfolio Indiana Cofounder Operations 114

David Teten

JULY 30, 2013

I met some time ago with Brad Wisler, co-Founder of SproutBox , and shared with him our research on portfolio value creation by venture capitalists. SproutBox might accurately be placed in the Mentor category or Portfolio Operator category, but our primary value is very specifically in hands-on product development.

Portfolio 114

Portfolio Indiana Cofounder Operations 114

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, November 17, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part one Ive written before about some of the advantages startups have when they are very small, like the benefits of having a pathetically small number of customers. Talking to potential customers and competitors customers.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 88

SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

Our job is to invent on behalf of our users" - I attribute this to Amazon, as it emphasizes the all-important point that our customers and users can't tell us what to build (they don't know what's possible, and they don't know what they want until after they see it), so it is our job to invent great solutions on their behalf.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Aggregator Curation Agile 69

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

New product development process. Successful innovation turns ideas into money, to enhance customer value, and thus shareholder value. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Without risk, there can be no innovation.

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Intellectual Property IP Valuation .Net 247

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.

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Seed Capital Metrics Cofounder Revenue 212

mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Your first product will likely be just a little bit ugly, and thats okay — its part of getting to market quickly and testing your idea in front of live customers. In my first company, people liked our product but were embarrassed to share it because the design and presentation was so poor. Befriend funded entrepreneurs.

Cofounder 111

Cofounder Technical Review Startup Software Review 111

David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

The ff Venture Capital portfolio is evidence of how much we believe this, e.g., our companies Alerts.com , Gobbler.com , Identified.com , Patents.com , Phone.com , and Plated.com. You want your company to show up first in the search results whenever someone is looking for a product you sell. A bad domain name can sink you.

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Naming Semantic Venture Capital Startup 114

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico). Marketo competes with MarketBrite and Eloqua.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. We started with the product about three years ago, development, a year later we released it. So who is buying it today?

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

New product development process. Successful innovation turns ideas into money, to enhance customer value, and thus shareholder value. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Without risk, there can be no innovation.

Intellectual Property 234

Intellectual Property IP Valuation .Net 234

SiliconHills

JULY 13, 2017

The company plans to use the money on product development, customer support and marketing. “We We are thrilled to bring Telestax into our portfolio of promising companies. The exceptional team, high-value technology and resulting customer adoption of […]. The post Austin-based Telestax Lands $4.7

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Austin Portfolio Partner Product Development 48

K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The audience can be either external (customers, partners, developers) or internal (employees). They have one series that is targeting new fund managers (helps Carta bring in new fund administration customers) and one called Execute which tells the backstory of Carta.

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Media Audience Distribution Product Development 62

Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Choose the right metric and they'll create the most glorious digital experience in the universe, the perfect acquisition campaign, the most amazing customer service channel. That incentive removes a focus from the important entity, your customer, and places it on the secondary entity, your advertiser. News has them.

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