View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You resonate with the NextView mission to “design the future that we want to live in” You enjoy meeting new people and have a healthy appetite for conversation. Who Are We Looking For. What Will The Job Be Like.

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Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage Cofounder 120

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2017

These designs have become integral in many industries, and this industry has shifted globally to areas such as China and India. These designs have also become more complicated, and the development times have decreased. These designs have also become more complicated, and the development times have decreased. Consultations.

Design 100

Design Software Review India China 100

View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

We can stay busy by expending time and effort supporting the existing portfolio, which is the right thing to do and a good use of time. Like most VC’s, we’ve been engrossed in helping our portfolio company founders navigate these challenging times while thinking through how we will approach this market going forward. Wait and see.

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Cofounder Software Review Portfolio Technical Review 194

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. Perhaps the biggest piece of new news is that after 17 years of operations we’ve changed our name from GRP Partners to Upfront Ventures. Let’s start with the fund. So what changed?

Los Angeles 343

Los Angeles Las Vegas San Francisco Baltimore 343

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

State Regulation In addition to federal laws, each State has its own regulatory environment that applies to businesses operating within the state in areas such as land-use , zoning, motor vehicles, state banking, building codes, public utilities, drug laws, etc. In the U.S. These agencies exist because Congress passed laws.

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Washington Government Marketing Silicon Valley 295

David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. In its first full year of operation, VCAP attracted 159 applicants. The classical economist response is that technological disruption also creates new jobs, e.g., “video game designer”. How have you handled them?

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Partner Technical Review Cofounder 60

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

I believe I am qualified to talk about this as I spent ~6 years at Google in strategic partnerships (commerce), as head of Campus London (Google’s first physical startup hub), Head of Google for Entrepreneurs Europe (now called Google for Startups) and eventually general partner for Google Ventures. M&A – Acquisitions.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Startup Early Stage Cloud 131

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

by Kristy Campbell, Chief Operating Officer at Rev1 Ventures. You’ve validated your market and designed a minimally viable prototype. You’re in discussions with strategic partners and potential beta customers. Call out strategic relationships with business partners, research institutions, or industry groups. Be concise.

Elevator Pitch 100

Elevator Pitch Web Portfolio B2B 100

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

The digital platform ICAS®, Integrated Construction & Architecture Software, completely digitizes the design, procurement and logistics process of building healthcare facilities. Their rapid process from design to installation of healthcare facilities is helping to improve quality healthcare around the world.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Founder Saudi Arabia Cofounder 128

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

The Innovation Portfolio. Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. Often they have brought in an operating executive as the new CEO. Five Types of Innovation to Buy.

Acquisition 333

Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 333

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. 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. 1) Manage the firm .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. And the JAIC can’t run them because we’re not an operational software organization.

Artificial Inteligence 408

Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Technology CTO 408

VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

Several of our limited partners are media and entertainment strategics: broadcasters, publishers, telcos etc, so content creation, distribution and monetisation has always been close to our core focus. At Remagine Ventures we started investing in the generative AI space very early back in 2019.

Generative AI 78

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT 78

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. I’ve listed them below in *very* roughly descending order of efficiency, measured by increased dollars one can put to work, divided by the operational dollars required to implement each strategy. .

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce that we have added Greg Bettinelli as a partner at GRP Partners. So I started introducing him to portfolio companies. This is exactly the brand that GRP Partners wants to embody. We knew he had to be an investment partner. You won’t regret it.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 19, 2015

The lower the DSO is, the more cash is available for business to reinvest in marketing, sales and operations. Your customers make up your portfolio of business. With a portfolio, comes credit risk. These firms allow you to check credit on an individual business, a subset of or your entire customer portfolio. Credit Risk.

Metrics 100

Metrics Software Review Portfolio Software Developers 100

Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. What if our assumptions about the survivability of these naval platforms and the ability of our marines to operate, were based on incorrect assumption about our investments in material, operational concepts and mental models?

Agile 392

Agile China Artificial Inteligence Taiwan 392

Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

My partner ( Steve Schlafman ) and I recently launched Tapestry , an exercise for founders to invest in their relationships, and it was met with an incredible reaction. Its an easy reference to “tap” into the work later for partners and teams. Design and Development – no-code project launching.

Software Review 103

Software Review Cost Cofounder New Zealand 103

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA.

Equity 78

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. The following information is based on companies funded by us and/or our capital partners: The average most recent monthly revenue is $331,229.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. This is called brand goodwill, a hard-won value resulting from the trust that a strong name engenders among buyers and partners.

Global 266

Global North America Intellectual Property Offshore 266

Rob Go

JANUARY 18, 2012

In a prior post about what it’s like to be a VC I made the claim that even if an investor has operating experience, that experience gets stale after a few years. This led to the following question in my comments: “You mention that operational skills begin to decline 2 years into the job. Couple observations.

Operations 50

Operations Technical Review Investment Bankers Cofounder 50

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Zenput raised $27M in Series C led by Golub Capital to continue improving its application to automate operations procedures such as food safety tracking, public health standards, and changing market circumstances. Dapper Labs is partnering with the NFL to create NFTs of digital-video highlights from games. . Select Product Updates.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Canada API Valuation 60

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Mitul’s passion to excel and customer focus have been built into the core values and mission of Citius Partners. They provide a hands-on transformation and revenue growth partner for B2B technology companies. How Citius Partners helps their clients. Mitul Ruparelia – Founder, Citius Partners.

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Founder B2B Private Equity India 158

VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

Jonathan Lai, General Partner, A16Z Gaming fund. shout out to our portfolio company Echo3D who’s working on this) Improved collaboration tools By default, both the Unity and Unreal level editors only support a single designer editing a level at a time. Let’s define the building blocks of the Metaverse.

Cloud 200

Cloud Venture Capital Cofounder Non-Compete 200

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Since NewTV won’t be making the content, they will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. The result?

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . I recently had a chance to interview Mari Joller , an expert on corporate innovation, on this topic.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. 9) Accelerate portfolio company value.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. 9) Accelerate portfolio company value.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

When I started Version One over six years ago , I started it as a single GP firm with no defined plan to ever add a partner and build a “franchise.” So it is with tremendous happiness that I can announce today that Version One now consists of two General Partners with Angela joining me in the partnership.

Partner 114

Partner Cofounder Venture Capital Engineer 114

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. 26 Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the oldest venture capital practice in the United States, today announced the closing of a $350 million supplement to its current fund family, BVP VII, which closed in June 2007. 2009 Bessemer Venture Partners. Portfolio. (3). at 11:26 AM.

Software Review 48

Software Review Partner United States Venture Capital 48

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

monthly active end-users who are engaging with content created or operated by Unity solutions in 2020. For that, Yuga labs partnered with London based Improbable. Roblox’s design is very simplistic, almost pixelated, but perhaps the secret to its success is its simplicity. There are now 2.8B source ) Roblox generated $1.9

IP 206

IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2018

The latest Hangar 51 accelerator, run in London, but open to any global startup , is designed in partnership with L Marks. Smarter operations: big data analytics, robotic processes and smart contracting to optimise business operations. Access to world class subject matter experts across all IAG operating companies.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Analytics 68

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

At Wildcat, we’ve organized these steps into the Traction Gap Framework – a centralized strategy that codifies key lessons learned by me and my founding General Partners over the course of our decades-long operating and venture investing experience. When we initially formed our firm, we reviewed our prior performance as investors.

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Cleveland Early Stage Framework Startup 217

Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2014

The result has been a “regression to the mean” - with alpha performance by fund managers being driven as much by randomness and luck (as it has been with public market mutual funds for decades) as by coherent design. To Your Success, P.S. Like to learn how to apply these principles to your portfolio? So what to do? Do Like Warren Does.

Venture Capital 101

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