YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

They also want to see that you’ve assembled a collaborative team, capable of delivering your solution to the market. If you can check these boxes and convince venture capitalists that you’ve achieved product fit in a market with plenty of room for growth, you have a real shot at securing funding. Be ready when it counts.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Due Diligence Early Stage Differentiation 140

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. Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. Markets with Customer/Market Risk are those where the unknown is whether customers will adopt the product.

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Vertical Silicon Valley Marketing Customer 144

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

I’m not recommending that you saturate your discussions with lingo, but responding with a blank stare once-too-often won’t convince anyone that you can build the next world-changing business or outpace the market. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development.

Software Review 120

Software Review Sweat Equity Accredited Investor Angel Investor 120

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.”.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

The “more traction&# feedback is a very typical scenario is a down market economy like the one we’re in. But many Series A firms tell people they have a “revenue rule&# and then you look at their portfolio and see many exceptions. Funding is about developing a relationship over time. VC’s are the same.

Technical Review 309

Technical Review Term Sheet Venture Capital Revenue 309

View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

This is driven by either boredom or fatigue around the areas where they’ve built a business in the past, or else the founder knows too much about the market they are coming from. Knowing all the challenges and warts of a market or problem makes it hard to dive back in that second time. 3: Re-calibrating to a new stage and time.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies. You may have an opinion on your market-entry strategy for Europe. Always seek input.

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Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

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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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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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2018

Corporate accelerators are one of the best ways for startups to access capital, advice, and markets. 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. Product development input. World class mentors.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Analytics 60

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The market for talent has never been more fierce. We can find examples of great mission-driven founders throughout our portfolio. Jam’s Dani Grant and Mohd Irtefa are committed to making digital product development dramatically more collaborative. . Let’s start with why we’re focusing on mission-driven founders right now.

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Founder Portfolio Leadership Product Development 188

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. Then I put those thoughts and facts into an email to 25+ people and my entire company. Hopefully, it is helpful. Dear Shareholder, Happy Monday from Austin!

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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). Or as with consumer deals, is the value is ascribed by the market? The Good News.

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Liquidity Event Founder Liquidation Preference Venture Capital 120

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Near-term product development and commercial traction are still important goals, but being profligate with capital or time early on or being inconsistent about your vision & strategy makes it harder to be a meaningful force in a market in the years to come as that market grows and matures.

Chicago 156

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

VC Adventure

MARCH 17, 2022

With the markets down significantly, financings (at least at the later stages) slowing down, and inflation and interest rates on the rise, perhaps now is a good time to talk about your burn rate. Hopefully, you took advantage of the robust financing markets of the past few years to put some money on your balance sheet.

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Balance Sheet Burn Rate Valuation Metrics 121

Version One Ventures

JULY 1, 2020

And while these past three months have been far from typical, there was a lot of activity across our portfolio. The funding will be used for product development and to continue their geographic expansion (more in Europe and eventually Asia). Scanwell continues to work on bringing a Covid-19 antibody test to market.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

The G/SCORE measures the key milestones a company has achieved in business building along seven factors: overall concept, market opportunity, competitive risk, product development, business development, team, and business model. The technology was developed in collaboration with Bar-Ilan University.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review South Korea Mexico 87

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

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 more than the combined market capitalizations of Amazon.com, eBay, Yahoo, Netscape and the entire Internet sector. But to have such a birth, we must first have a funeral.

Romania 77

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

At V1, we have had the privilege to sit on many of our portfolio companies’ boards from (pre-)seed to Series B (and beyond). We actively help each portfolio company manage their changing priorities as they grow. Priority = product-market fit . The seed round is all about finding product-market fit.

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Seed Stage Portfolio Metrics Hiring 163

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. The company’s success has been largely driven by its developer-led freemium model, going from Series A funding to a valuation of $2.6B million developers using our product.

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Early Stage Open Source Development Team Review Security 62

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Near-term product development and commercial traction are still important goals, but being profligate with capital or time early on or being inconsistent about your vision & strategy makes it harder to be a meaningful force in a market in the years to come as that market grows and matures.

Chicago 136

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 136

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. They are: 1.

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Startup 333

Version One Ventures

AUGUST 7, 2018

A recent article “Bay Area Bay Area’s High Costs Drive Away Some Tech Firms” details numerous examples of Silicon Valley start-ups that are moving their headquarters or opening a second location in places like Austin, Denver and Atlanta – and many engineers, marketers, even executives are considering moving.

Silicon Valley 129

Silicon Valley Distribution San Francisco Denver 129

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. I’ve been helping clients with digital marketing (mostly Facebook ads) since early 2016, but this year was able to quit my job to do that full-time. 3- Quitting my day job.

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Las Vegas Entrepreneur Software Review Community 85

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

When they promise to help you with marketing, sales, distribution, integrated product development, etc. But the venture guys don’t make the calls on what the product / business guys do. You’re not their core business – their interest will swing more wildly with the markets. it sure is tempting.

Strategic Investors 279

Strategic Investors Venture Capital Due Diligence Early Stage 279

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

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.” This is just one of the important dimensions of product portfolio planning. Unfortunately it’s a very bad model.

Portfolio 71

Portfolio Revenue Finance Product Development 71

David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

However, they remain key to your email identity, and fundamental to your marketing and even capital-raising. 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. “The

Naming 114

Naming Semantic Venture Capital Startup 114

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave’s a great guy with a good sense of humor and a broad knowledge of the market, which is why I was excited that he could be on the show. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. Enter ShoeDazzle.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

VC Adventure

JANUARY 24, 2013

At the risk of overgeneralizing (although to be fair as a VC that’s pretty much my job description) and understanding that there’s plenty of grey area here, I’ve really been noticing recently just how challenging it can be for organizations to move from being product focused to sales and marketing focused.

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Sales Product Marketing Acquisition 102

NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 12, 2020

While many large companies invest millions to protect their intellectual property portfolio, startups in their early stages can forget to look into their intellectual property altogether or make decisions that have a negative impact later on when the business develops. i) Assuming your intellectual property is not important.

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Intellectual Property New Zealand Startup Early Stage 91

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

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2022

Over time, you’ll start building up more and more sophisticated ways of tracking and your reports will start to subdivide into functional areas like marketing, product development, and financials (when you have dedicated investor money or a limited pool of your own capital you’ve decided to invest).

Equity 118

Equity Metrics Widget Bandwidth 118

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

We started with the product about three years ago, development, a year later we released it. So let’s say about a year and a half, the product has been out for real. So when you’re thinking about marketing positioning to me, that side of it is the interesting side of it. A lot has happened since then.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2018

Some startups require lots of brainstorming sessions, networking, marketing, writing code, and product development in a race against time to be the first to the market. Make your money work for you in the financial markets. Freelance on the side if you have outsourceable skills.

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eCommerce Social Media SEO Portfolio 100