The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2020

You can hire remote developers. Many companies and organizations are up to develop the custom analytical and platform to find the insights. Ones would not be so sure if the specific company can be a prevalent choice for them or not without looking at their vendor’s portfolio. The case studies and references.

Artificial Inteligence 91

Artificial Inteligence Software Engineering Analytics Engineer 91

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

On the other hand, if you arrive at a VC pitch without a comprehensive understanding of the industry you’re hoping to compete in, or without a clear path to profitability or a thoughtful product-development road map, you’ll likely leave empty-handed. Do you lack the skills needed to develop a viable product?

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Due Diligence Early Stage Differentiation 140

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

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. In fact, most often, it is limited to seeding a startup business rollout or scale-up after development is completed from friends and family. Seed-round investment. Super-angel investors (micro-VCs).

Software Review 120

Software Review Sweat Equity Accredited Investor Angel Investor 120

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2018

New products: creative solutions to enhance the products and services portfolio which can improve the customer journey. Product development input. Twelve start-ups have joined the Hangar 51 portfolio from previous programmes. Access to world class subject matter experts across all IAG operating companies.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Analytics 60

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

Traction can simply mean showing that you’re making progress with customers, product development, channel partners, initial revenue as a proof point, attracting well-known angel investors, winning industry awards / recognition. Funding is about developing a relationship over time.

Technical Review 309

Technical Review Term Sheet Venture Capital Revenue 309

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.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

The last time they were starting a company at the raw, pre-product/market fit stage may have been quite a few years ago. The context of starting business may have changed, and some of the tools and practices (especially around early product development and go-to-market) might look very different.

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Founder Cofounder CTO Hire Early Stage 159

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts.

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

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

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). At the end of every quarter, we publish a quick recap. New Investments .

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North Carolina Raleigh Stealth Seattle 148

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.

Early Stage 62

Early Stage Open Source Development Team Review Security 62

VC Adventure

MARCH 17, 2022

Perhaps you raised at what historically have been very attractive valuations (we certainly have companies in our portfolio that have raised well, well above the historical averages). Use time and capital to your advantage, accelerating product development as needed, gaining valuable insight on your go-to-market motion.

Balance Sheet 121

Balance Sheet Burn Rate Valuation Metrics 121

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.

Silicon Valley 126

Silicon Valley RSS Venture Capital Customer Development 126

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 Unlike political regimes, technological rulers are comprised of products rather than people. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. So what will become of IT?

Romania 77

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

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. average versus $4.9M

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Startup 333

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.

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Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

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). But there’s only one reason your company got funded. ——-. The Good News.

Liquidity Event 120

Liquidity Event Founder Liquidation Preference Venture Capital 120

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. To this end, you want to focus your investments on those things that will get you closer to product-market fit.

Seed Stage 163

Seed Stage Portfolio Metrics Hiring 163

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

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

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.

Intellectual Property 91

Intellectual Property New Zealand Startup Early Stage 91

SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

You can see from the list above that I am spending a lot of time lately on product vision, and on testing techniques. I also have favorite quotes around portfolio management, product development, process, optimization, roles and leadership. And my favorites change over time and depending on the company.

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Silicon Valley Aggregator Curation Agile 69

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. But it’s rewarding to see our customers so excited about the product, and the huge growth in sales from last year has been encouraging. 7- Major appointment.

Las Vegas 88

Las Vegas Entrepreneur Software Review Community 88

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. Make sure to reference check with other portfolio companies. it sure is tempting. How have they behaved in good times and bad?

Strategic Investors 279

Strategic Investors Venture Capital Due Diligence Early Stage 279

Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Second, that community is the most powerful retention mechanism available to game developers, because you see, these “soldiers” were players in an online WWII multiplayer simulation. For example, Lenny Rachitsky writes a newsletter devoted to technology and product development. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs.

North Carolina 113

North Carolina Community Media Video 113

Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Our firm has a portfolio of companies across a broad range of markets and the way we look at it is pretty simple – the deals fall into two types: those with customer/market risk and those with invention risk.” (The line is just a first approximation, nothing hard and fast about it.) In these markets it’s all about invention risk.

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Vertical Silicon Valley Marketing Customer 147

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Product life cycles keep getting shorter and shorter, which mandates accelerated innovation cycles. Without risk, there can be no innovation.

Intellectual Property 247

Intellectual Property IP Valuation .Net 247

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

Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

The strategy here is to foster product development and marketing which creates overall (semi-)organic user momentum. Even if those customers are acquired unprofitably or the margins are thin/non-existent, this revenue figure begins to connect the dots about the potential for a real business developed over time.

Seed Capital 212

Seed Capital Metrics Cofounder Revenue 212

SiliconHills

JULY 13, 2017

The company plans to use the money on product development, customer support and marketing. “We We are thrilled to bring Telestax into our portfolio of promising companies. Telestax announced this week it has raised $4.7 million in funding. Austin-based LiveOak Venture Partners led the funding round.

Austin 48

Austin Portfolio Partner Product Development 48

David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

Software Developers 60

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Product life cycles keep getting shorter and shorter, which mandates accelerated innovation cycles. Without risk, there can be no innovation.

Intellectual Property 234

Intellectual Property IP Valuation .Net 234

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit. What is customer development?

San Francisco 88

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 88

David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

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. Root Orange has developed a particularly innovative method for exploiting valuable domain names. I previously published this in Forbes.

Naming 114

Naming Semantic Venture Capital Startup 114

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 Unlike political regimes, technological rulers are comprised of products rather than people. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. So what will become of IT?

Romania 44

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

His investment thesis is that vertical platforms combining content, community and commerce will make great investments over the next period, and he cites existing portfolio companies including Houzz as good examples. Jeff Richards of US VC fund GSV Capital has a good post up today: Content, Community and Commerce: Why Verticals Win.

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eCommerce Community Silicon Valley Vertical 109