David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 3) Raise capital.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility. Without systems in place to manage distributed spending, finance teams will leave money on the table.”. Best Practices in Spreadsheet Design.

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Agile Management Forecast Silicon Valley 60

View from Seed

MAY 28, 2020

Advances in technology and changing consumer preferences have long been transforming the way food is created, distributed, and consumed. The food supply chain has been rattled with distribution shifting from restaurants to grocery and with food production bottlenecks resulting from fewer employees at work.

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Memphis Distribution Bankruptcy Operations 256

Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Disclosure: * denotes a current or former Greylock portfolio company.). Once achieved, leadership in a Glengarry Glen Ross market can provide decades of substantially profitable operations, repaying and justifying the costs incurred in blitzscaling. Distribution. Operational Scalability. Distribution.

Silicon Valley 53

Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review United Kingdom 53

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Matt Blumberg, who runs one of Fred’s portfolio companies, Return Path, follows up with an additional three : Don’t be a bottleneck (make sure you aren’t holding up people’s work). My first company was founded in Ireland, headquartered in England and had country operations in the UK, France & Germany.

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Ireland Sales Bankruptcy Germany 319

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Let’s not even get started with “on-demand” or “subscription e-commerce.” Normal distributions do not exist; standard deviations are meaningless. As a result, any public market downturn will immediately impact unrealized returns of the fund they are managing due to the late and growth stage companies in their portfolio.

Harvest 60

Harvest Vertical IPO Early Stage 60

Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

I think that the number of players in this devloping class of what I’d call “Micro VCs” will continue to increase over the coming years: the model fits into an opportunity on the capital supply side, as well as more importantly becomes the right product for many entrepreneurs on the demand side. Structural.

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Seed Stage Technical Review Dilution Offshore 175

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Applicaster helps content owners, broadcasters, cable companies and mobile operators of all sizes deliver innovative and profitable mobile broadcast experiences. Applicaster - Company Website. Betterview - Company Website.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Early liquidity. Thanks to Alawai H.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

For Dan Hughes, Director of Operations at startup brewery ColdFire Brewing, he and his brother have been hard at work on business development and recipe formulation, navigating bureaucracy, and enduring the inevitable delays that come with brewery construction, equipment delivery, and regulatory approval. But they all take so much time.

Oregon 60

Oregon Jordan SBA Cofounder 60

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

These companies get the prevention-promotion balance right by evaluating every aspect of their business model—making near-term changes that reduce costs now and after demand returns (unlike layoffs). Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. He continues: It’s OK to continue to operate.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2017

The cars on the road may be familiar to him, but now, he can also magically hail a car on-demand or pay ludicrously low prices to get from place to place by sharing rides with one or two other passengers. Mobile computing means that he has the world’s information and entertainment at his literal fingertips.

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Denmark Vertical eCommerce Internet 244

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

As recent as 2016, for example, many business ideas from great minded entrepreneurs came to life, including those related to cancer cure, fast internet connectivity, business news, self-driving trucks, drones for relief operations, and so much more. You have a startup when your company is in its first stage of operations.

Private Equity 159

Private Equity Startup Incubator Social Network 159

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

His first reality reset is that now, maybe for the first time, he really has a boss, or several bosses, and often very demanding ones at that. Your startup is now part of someone’s portfolio, and here are a few of the ways in which you should expect to be monitored by your investors: One or more seats on the Board.

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View from Seed

APRIL 23, 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. As NextView’s David Beisel likes to say, “We live in a demand-constrained world. You can find those here. ).

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Founder Distribution Viral Seed Stage 120

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

One dimension is a pretty firm belief that starting financial services companies should not be as hard as it is, and that there is demand in the market for yet another venture fund focused on functionally day-zero companies in financial services. I don’t worry about my anti-portfolio. On Deciens’ Lean Operation.

Silicon Valley 88

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2010

His first reality reset is that now, maybe for the first time, he really has a boss, or several bosses, and often very demanding ones at that. Your startup is now part of someone’s portfolio, and here are a few of the ways in which you should expect to be monitored by your investors: One or more seats on the Board.

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Advisory Board Entrepreneur Venture Capital Angel Investor 231

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. To that point, a well-run telesales operation will be super metrics-driven. 3) Developer Driven Sales.

Sales 50

Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. The Clubhouse is Now On-Demand | Partake. Check out which Capital Factory startups are looking for you to join their team!

Semantic 48

Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 14, 2020

You can also improve startup resilience with the help of decentralization; decentralization allows you to distribute your business in a way that prevents it from becoming too dependent on any one variable. Most startups operate with one mechanism for generating revenue—a core product or service that drives the entire business model.

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Startup Revenue Cloud Employee 109

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

While Dan heads up operations, his brother Stephen is head brewer, and their team also includes directors of finance and brand, respectively. These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. Watch your finances.

Oregon 24

Oregon Jordan Software Review Distribution 24

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

I was trading real heavy hours for heavy dollars, and led a very mobile, demanding and by choice, a pressure packed lifestyle. That said, I have some of my stock portfolio in hedge funds managed by folks I know (I know you are thinking Madoff at this point), and most in vehicles that are on auto-pilot. The arbitrage simply works.

Internet 80

Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 80

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?”

Media 210

Media Los Angeles Russia Viral 210

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Do we believe “startup-driven” innovation (innovation that comes from relationships with external, early-stage companies) should be part of the corporate innovation portfolio? For example, Google’s acquisition of Nest (which had customers, revenue and a distribution channel) allowed it to enter the connected home market immediately.

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Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage 120

Hunter Walker

MAY 18, 2015

They provide assistance to Californians in building a vibrant, successful and inclusive society, distributing more than $1.5b Anne Dinneen: Nothing has contributed more to the growth of the Irvine endowment over the years than our venture portfolio. And what leads to adding or removing a fund from Irvine’s portfolio?

LP 48

LP Portfolio Early Stage Institutional Investors 48

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Nuospace – On demand collaboration software that provides online document management, allows you to edit pages in your browser, and offers tools to engage your colleagues. RightNow – RightNow is an on-demand customer relationship management program that integrates sales, service, marketing, feedback and voice functions.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Unfortunately after twenty years working such demanding jobs I was no longer able to physically do the work. First, we built relationships with 10+ colleges, getting distribution rights to their students. For the previous twenty years I had actually worked in emergency response, as a firefighter, medic and police officer.

Entrepreneur 61

Entrepreneur Ireland LLC Kansas 61

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. Will expand IBM’s business analytics capabilities and become part of IBM’s application and integration middleware portfolio.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

Now, that may end up being a logistics network, that may end up being a kind of transport network in a way that they operate. Three is, “I think it should be the portfolio,” whereas four is, “If you don’t want to do the deal, I want to do the deal.”. Those companies kind of question about redefining the “brain” of the car.

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Incubator IPO Networking Cofounder 36

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Why Register? Personalize your own news page.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

Yes, almost everyone who was operating as a Super Angel, went on to raise a venture fund. Most of these funds are <$100M, with the majority of them being clustered around the $40M mark (that’s the point where the fund economics start to work in terms of management fee and ability to take a meaningful stake in portfolio companies).

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Mezzanine Seed Stage Early Stage IPO 134

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

Transformify

MARCH 24, 2020

Examples include online distribution of makeup that requires job seekers to pay a small amount for a makeup test kit and the like. The best practice is to provide links to an online portfolio if you have one. Some skills are equally valuable regardless of the industry sector the prospective employer operates in.

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Los Angeles Limited Liability Company NDA Technical Review 85

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

As discussed above, these terms can cleverly fool the inexperienced operator, because they are able to “meet the ask” with respect to cover valuation, and the accepting founder does not realize the carnage that will come down the road. This is uncharted territory. Achieving profitability is the most liberating action a startup can accomplish.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

i-nigma was successfully deployed by hundreds of enterprises, among them operators, advertisers, integrators and solution providers. This highest quality of the traffic information, never achieved before, together with the perfect applications generate significant revenues for the operator and maintain customers’ loyalty.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Contact : to existing portfolio, to internal team resources, to LPs. Bloomberg Beta open-sources their entire operating manual on Github, where their website lives. – Tax distributions. Compensation : base salary, share of profits of management company, carry. Finally, 15% of the funds require a majority vote. “.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Partner 60