VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Given the ‘fuzzy’ period we’re in, where we still struggle with a definition of the Metaverse, it’s easy to dismiss it all as a fad. The largest and most popular 3D engine has big plans for the Metaverse. Fortnite generated $5.8 billion revenue in 2021 for Epic Games and was played by 83.3

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

The engineers can produce various models in a matter of seconds. It will definitely become a trend in 2021 since the consumer market is promising. Simply research the company with its portfolio. Simply because the consumers love it. Suppose you want to design a room. Google is about to introduce a new AR feature for Google Maps.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

portfolios. So, definition: when I talk about a business plan I’m not talking about a 40-page Word document outlining your market approach. Don’t know the running rate for engineers? I won’t need to hire many engineers or customer support staff. Cisco and others went out to fill out their Web 2.0

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Every announcement – whether it was a funding round, exit or layoffs – was analyzed within the context that the tech bubble has definitely burst or that we’re still in the bubble. Mattermark (a portfolio company) looked at the matriculation rates for a class of startups. The industry entered the year bracing for an apocalypse.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. The more specific you can get in your definition the better. Paid Engineering – One final thing I would often ask for that I see very few others doing is “paid engineering.”

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). Plastiq – Payments (NextView Portfolio Company).

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Rather than depending just on SEO, marketers will need to optimize picture sitemaps and employ descriptive filenames for photos that are identified by search engines. After all, they’ve already been definite business boomers. The value of image alt-text is growing exponentially. Thanks to David Wurst, Webcitz ! #4-

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

For many startups, this was the secret to massive success : David Quail is a super talented software engineer, with one exit already under his belt. There’s a bit of a learning curve, depending on how you want to use it, but definitely a faster option than finding a developer or learning to code. It puts fate into your own hands.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

As an analyst, I was upset that this change would hurt my ability to analyze the effectiveness of my beloved search engine optimization (SEO) efforts – which are really all about finding the right users using optimal content strategies. We are headed towards having zero referring keywords from Google and, perhaps, other search engines.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. The Lean Definition of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Lean is The Engine for the Ambidextrous Organization. Fast forward to today.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” Are you passionate about creating great user experiences within a product? Both internal and external.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. They paid engineers $4,000 more entry-point. Engineering vs. non-engineering. [00:10:32]

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. I will keep up my current marketing efforts and have definitely learned to diversify in everything, not just my financial portfolio! . Photo Credit: Brian Gill. How did you rebound?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. I will keep up my current marketing efforts and have definitely learned to diversify in everything, not just my financial portfolio! Photo Credit: Brian Gill. How did you rebound?

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

What everyone can agree on, though, is that there are definitely more seed and early stage funds now than ever before, and more people willing to give money to young companies looking to make it big. K9 Ventures II has invested in about 10 companies so far and I expect the final portfolio to be closer to about 20 companies.

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SVPG

AUGUST 3, 2015

More surprising to me was how unimpressive the engineering is in the watch. So much value that we overlook minor engineering and design issues. The other aspects of the design – especially the interaction design and visual design – are not great but not really terrible either. Frankly, it’s lame.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 23, 2011

I’m pleased to announce the developer launch of K9 Ventures’ portfolio company, card.io (pronounced card-I-O). Brent, the founding engineer of card.io It’s been a busy week folks! As the name suggests, card.io is the simple and secure way to accept credit cards in mobile applications.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Secondly, the driver of returns for the funds raised in 1978 – 1981 was not their underlying portfolios, at what stage, or in what industries they were built. None of these companies fit Mr. Neumann’s definition of the era’s venture deals and each generated returns we would welcome today. Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2014

Tesla Motors announced yesterday it has opened its patent portfolio in hopes of encouraging other companies to create new electric vehicles. This paid off big for the technology giant because it guaranteed its search engine and other digital services supported by advertising would be prominently featured on them.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Looking for Funds in All the Right Places: The Definitive Guide to Austin Capital By David Altounian and Stephen Straus OVERVIEW For entrepreneurs: We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of capital in Austin to help focus your fundraising efforts. We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of startup capital in Austin.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The first thing thatalways comes up when you want to discuss the role of a CTO is that there is no wellestablished definition of what a CTO actually does. I have metCTOs who manage divisions that had 500 - 1000 engineers or more. The role is very different dependingon the type of company and the role technology plays in the company.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Ed also has a rep for website flipping, having earlier in his career sold his website portfolio for $5 million dollars. Here are some notes from what I took away from the event – Much of the conversation talked about search engine optimization and traffic related advice, which fundamentally hasn’t changed.

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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).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

It was definitely a huge leap to leave the corporate world (and the salary and security that comes with it) and start a company. Today I own and manage a company specifically designed to help people grow their portfolios. 11 – US Army Classified as a Computer Engineer. Thanks to Jason Bond, Jason Bond Picks ! #6

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2022

In industry terms, I’d call this a “miss/loss,” which VCs tend to not write about for obvious reasons (I’ve got a whole other rant on the fake performative anti-portfolio lists — Bessemer’s aside). Post-BuildingConnected things definitely changed. Everyone got squeezed down, and there were definitely more than a few tough phone calls.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 29, 2010

Portfolio: A product portfolio management workbench that analyzes the portfolio investments you are making in your products with the goal of aligning those investments where you are achieving the most reward. Agile: Manages the product engineering methodology according to Agile or hybrid principles.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users. There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space. You can read more about it here.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 3) Developer Driven Sales.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Vivek Wadhwa of Singularity University in California studied more than 500 American high-tech and engineering companies with more than $1m in sales. There is definitely an availability bias (dominated by people like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates) that leads us to think that tech startup founders drop out of college to start their companies.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Binxy Baby kind of just ended up being the name that checked all my boxes and had an available URL— a definite must-have for an online business. Why should a highly-trained engineer, who could potentially be building a bridge, waste time on a sales proposal in PowerPoint? Not many were. 10- One email. Photo Credit: Carrie Brummer.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

Let me share a simple definition that helps me understand each phrase. I'm thinking of how to give them a portfolio of skills, rather than just be happy they are an engineer or a teacher or a plumber.). Engineering, economics, and neuroscience are also helpful. AI is an intelligent machine. Discipline. (Be

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

The old adage of “Always be selling” definitely applies to fundraising. Angel investors can be people without a tech background: doctors, lawyers, bankers, engineers, etc. Many “regular” people invest in large diverse portfolios as part of their retirement savings strategy. .

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Brandanew

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

But you can connect the dots and reverse engineer things. When it comes to building your online identity and influence, certain definitive steps must be followed. It may be a authority blog or an arresting portfolio of images or even a YouTube channel depending on what you do. You never know who gets influenced by whom.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 22, 2016

They make up around one third of our portfolio. They connect companies with legal services but rather than have an open marketplace where customers browse through lawyer profiles they’ve built a sophisticated matching engine which identifies the best lawyers for a particular job and gets four of them to quote within twenty four hours.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Labels: internet , Portfolio. Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Portfolio. (3). Monday, February 12, 2007. Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. The videos can be watched at Bessemer Online Marketing Portal (the other materials are not public). at 8:53 PM.

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Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2016

This is definitely the WRONG way to approach things. Now, the confusing / annoying part of this, is that very often you’ll see a company in an investor’s portfolio that is in your space, but then he/she will say that he/she doesn’t invest in your area. All of you passed on me, because I wasn’t an engineer.

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