Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Paul Greenberg recently wrote about the phenomena of companies declaring themselves to be focused on customer experience, and graciously giving them the opportunity to put up or shut up. He is right, and to his credit Paul saw the importance of customer experience and wrote about this in 2001.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Prior to his investing and advisory career, Evangelos spent 20+ years in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering. You need to be able to understand how to take advantage of the market you’re operating in, including how to take advantage of corporations. .

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Hearpreneur

MAY 18, 2022

We want to leave an impact on the communities we operate in and the employees on our team, so we even offer them networking and internship opportunities. In 2010, I co-founded Community Tax LLC, a tax company dedicated to helping customers nationwide with tax preparation, bookkeeping, and accounting services.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

There are a lot of options to expand your deal sourcing, like AngelList, syndicates, angel groups, etc. This is sometimes really tough for former operators. The best way to help is (a) recruiting great team members and (b) finding customers that will actually close. Talk to people and get their POV. I’m not that dogmatic here.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

There are a lot of options to expand your deal sourcing, like AngelList, syndicates, angel groups, etc. This is sometimes really tough for former operators. The best way to help is (a) recruiting great team members and (b) finding customers that will actually close. Talk to people and get their POV. I’m not that dogmatic here.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 17, 2021

1- Who find what customers need. 2- Who solve customers' issues. An entrepreneur who first develops and tests a value hypothesis for the core product value (a useful customer issue solution) is at the core. To establish and operate your own business, you must have courage, enthusiasm, hard work, and a sense of community.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Startups with large, lifecycle VCs included in the seed round syndicate did not reach Series A faster than those who did not. If a lifecycle VC was involved in the seed investor syndicate, the Series A was noticeably larger, at a $5.9M 4 Operating Philosophies Affecting Series A Raises. More on these below.). in our portfolio.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. Teten: How is the corporate VC model evolving: in how they interact with portfolio companies or the operating side of their organization? Corporate venture funds are also investing earlier today.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. Next Annette McClellan presented DaisyClip , a non-surgical contraception device for women that she is in the process of syndicating a $1.8 My recommendation to Hardika is to study the FDBI project. million financing round for.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Angels typically invest in companies operating in industry sectors with which they are familiar. Looking at the strength of the competition in the market, the target is weaker (75% of norm) but early customer feedback on the product is excellent (Other = 100%). Other factors (great early customer feedback). 10% max.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Cumulative customers (unique buyers of Groupons): 15.8M (Q1 2011), 9.0M (2010), 0.4M (2009). The International segment appears to have similar profitability as the North America business though as it accounted for roughly the same proportion of adjusted operating income. in net revenue and passes $0.58 to the merchant.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But then subsequently, the CTO isresponsible for actually integrating and running the technology, i.e. the roleof the ‘operations manager.’ A number of CTOs of software companies in the middleware space have alsodescribed the customer contact as their main activity.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2021

More than anything Duct Tape Marketing is an idea that started with the belief that marketing is a system and in order to operate that system, there must be a very clear point of view about how to build a remarkable business. written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 18, 2023

They also offer to fund marketing and other operations. Often, they syndicate their investments with other venture capitalists, spreading the risk and giving the entrepreneurs multiple contacts and sources of advice. VCs can also introduce you to potential customers and partners.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

paying for travel data from ITA or others (customers acquisition spend is not included in COGS). 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re a startup entrepreneur, you risk facing a competitive disadvantage if you wait too long to expand your operations. While the aforementioned example may not fit every startup, regardless, you need to have an actionable, scalable business model with measurable metrics (downloads, customers, etc.) in place before you expand.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

It requires time, hard work, and consistency to build trust with prospective customers, rank higher in Google searches, and gain a following for your brand. Explore content syndication opportunities to expand the reach of your blog posts. It’s easy to build a brand online. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Thanks to Kenny Jahng of Big Click Syndicate LLC. Filing and data entry is part of the necessary day to day operations that some business owner’s don’t keep track of and worst leave it for months at a time. The more you procrastinate on small and big decisions, the bigger the monster you will have to face eventually.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. Because in the case of many companies, your specific customers may not read the tech press! Why is that important to remember?

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

My hypothesis is that there will be a real shake up in how deals are done in startups, and you’ll see turnover as some of these new brands overtake older well-established VC firms. (This is an aside for another blogpost) And then there are also syndicates. From there, you can find various syndicates. B) Operations costs more.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

My hypothesis is that there will be a real shake up in how deals are done in startups, and you’ll see turnover as some of these new brands overtake older well-established VC firms. (This is an aside for another blogpost) And then there are also syndicates. From there, you can find various syndicates. B) Operations costs more.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

And if you don’t have US business activity, then get a beta customer for initial footprint. Goldwerger, Chief Executive Officer at TargetSpot said: Relocate the founder/CEO to silicon valley first. You are then “certified&# for local capital raising and will get over hump.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. A number of analysts have particular focus on serving the customers of technology companies, e.g., Gartner and 451 Research.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

The net effect is powerful: it empowers all of us (no matter who we are or where we are) to learn more quickly, make better decisions, and operate more efficiently. start-up databases/networks like CrunchBase and AngelList ) has led to unparalleled access to investment capital as more seed funds, angels, and syndicates emerge on the scene.

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mashable.com

JUNE 30, 2012

Network Operators: AT&T, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, and others are getting in the game with APIs exposing network resources, including SMS and carrier-billing for in-app purchase. From these examples we can see the following: An API may expose business data such as customer data in apps only intended for internal sales staff use.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

We also soon decided that we wanted to outsource as much of our operations to hosted services as we possibly could. They worry about solving every problem instead of focusing on problems that actually have customers willing to pay them money (today). This is exactly what we have done with [link]. Check out our starter program.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

What’s the first thing you want a customer to think in regard to your business? After all, what good is word-of-mouth if your customer tells a friend, “You really should look up my caterer for your next event. Adding this qualifier instantly tells potential customers what your business is all about. Set the tone.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

Third, we look for founders that are customer obsessed, and are inclined to do the careful work of customer development that makes the pre-seed really productive. In this case, it was a two-person founding team, and the exercise was to essentially convince a few customers to provide their data to the company so that the founders.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Marketers raise brand awareness to capture leads that are handed to sales teams to convert into customers. Only around 10–15% of B2B leads turn into paying customers, and it’s because tactics optimizing for the early stages of the funnel only cater to early-stage goals. DGMs see that demand is maintained throughout the sales cycle.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 10, 2010

With that pre-amble, let me describe the story of Trada – a company that helps businesses more effectively manage their search marketing campaigns via its marketplace through which paid search experts work collaboratively and competitively to maximize the effectiveness of Trada customers search marketing campaigns.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

A de facto requirement for any modern mobile operating system is the inclusion of a modern HTML5-compliant web browser. Supporting one platform can be difficult enough, but now developers not only have multiple operating systems to consider, but multiple device types as well. This is particularly true for mobile devices. startupcto

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

He has a good team, and theyve shipped a working product to many customers. But they are pushing for the things that matter to customers - features. And they are cognizant that their funding is limited, and if they dont find out which features are absolutely critical for their customers soon, they wont be able to survive.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

MediaMind president and CEO Gal Trifon noted that the acquisition by DG would provide the Israeli company with the added scale and resources to continue to grow its platform and enhance the services it provides its customers. With the acquisition, Amdocs plans to expand its Customer Experience Systems (CES) portfolio.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Twitter as a company has encouraged this by granting DataSift “re-syndication rights,” which means that the company can ingest the full Twitter fire hose and resell subsets of it to other parties who want to consume a smaller stream, which is more cost effective in data licenses and in IT resources needed to consume the data.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2014

This notion is more common now than it was when we started the fund early in 2013, there’s still occasional question about whether this slows down a company’s operations or gives investors too much control. This would make room for a meaningful number of other investors in the syndicate but also the concentration we needed.

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