Version One Ventures

APRIL 30, 2013

Despite the recent media buzz surrounding the hardware revolution and emerging maker space, the overwhelming majority of hardware startups have a hard time attracting financing today. As a result, most venture capitalists are reluctant to touch hardware projects, opting for the lower costs and smaller risks of software.

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Venture Capital Software Review Incubator Startup 128

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. In finance, “this time is different” is the beginning of a new bubble. Angels are becoming more aggressive as their stock market and real estate assets recover, and institutions again have earnings to risk in venture capital funds.

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Demand Government Venture Capital Valuation 362

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Of course we have to believe that there is a viable market, a differentiated product offering and a chance to build something defensible but if you do those basics right you still get crushed without an amazingly talented founder. but greatness is never easy and the spoils go to those who solve harder problems. He was steadfast.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K).

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Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

AI has become the year’s venture capital buzzword. Dan Primack, Axios Earlier this week I joined Dr. Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) to give a talk to her Entrepreneurial Finance class. Take copywriting for example. Jasper, Copy.ai

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Generative AI ChatGPT API Venture Capital 103

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Smart is simply not a differentiator. I’ve watched VCs help with valuation support (spreadsheets, comps) on next round financing, participate in M&A meetings, interview senior job candidates – even help terminate tricky senior hires. And so is venture capital. In fact, book smart can be a negative.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. And somebody who isn’t thinking necessarily thinking about how to maximize their ownership in your next round of financing. In the Early Days. Experience. Relationships. Founder’s perspective.

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Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

So LPs are looking for a combination of “established top tier” and “new managers with differentiation.” Chang Xu for her tireless effort in helping me prepare and analyze the data) If you met with LPs to raise a fund in 2009–2012 the most common refrain was, “We have too many managers and too many dollars in venture.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

Even pre-launch, there’s work you can do here to differentiate yourself. It is very important to establish the finance function of the business before dumping money into ad spend. Unfortunately, debt financing for DTC is still somewhat nascent. How will you take advantage of SEO and SEM?

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Technical Review Software Review China Acquisition 49

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2011

VC Cafe asked entrepreneurs to tell us what type of help or support they wish they could get from the venture capital investors. What started originally as how can VCs differentiate themselves to stand out, quickly became an Entrepreneur’s wish list from its VCs. Several entrepreneurs asked: Not just the what but the why.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Hosting Harvest 101

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 3: Brand and differentiate yourself. Whether you’re looking to stand out in an already-crowded marketplace, or to simply be a memorable company, figuring out how to brand and differentiate yourself is key. However, we have been able to differentiate [ourselves] and also excel by making enterprise software fun and enjoyable.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

The implications for entrepreneurs is that each of these (market risk versus invention risk,) require radically different financing models, a different type of venture investor, different timing for hiring sales and marketing, etc. are much more differentiating than technology.

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Vertical Silicon Valley Marketing Customer 144

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

There’s a big business in Finance working with Excel, but that’s an outlier. The community they had developed was extremely valuable and is what differentiated StackOverflow from the free, open source alternatives that were created in response to StackExchange. With StackOverflow, Joel raised money through venture capital.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

The best way you can help them is build a big business with their backing, and that requires you to appear self-made. [I should mention that disclosure of participation in the Venture Capital Access Program is optional.]. That point of differentiation is a plus not a minus, because it means that he has access to networks you don’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2013

In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. In finance, “this time is different” is the beginning of a new bubble. Angels are becoming more liquid as their stock market and real estate assets recover, and institutions again have earnings to put into venture capital funds.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Professional expert networks allow you to efficiently convert your financial capital into relationship capital. Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy. Again, our value can really be differentiated in its scale and depth.

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New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

A new pricing or packaging model does not by itself represent a meaningful core differentiation, and the rising abundance of “subscription” or “flash sales” companies heightened our concern with regard to barriers to entry. ecommerce Internet retailing Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech Ecommerce Retailing Stitch Fix'

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eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. You’re a small fish. This team is talented. They wanted advice. And probably some money.

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Silicon Valley IP Dividend Finance 332

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. So if you’re casually reading and don’t really care about angel financing – abort now! Differentiate.

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Silicon Valley Ireland Technical Review Valuation 291

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. Second, understand the broader financing climate. There will be one to three issues that are potentially problematic for your financing — address them head on. Your differential product?

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Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

To differentiate themselves in the marketplace, Quigo made the pivotal move of going to publishers and saying explicitly “you’re working with Adsense. The Union Square Ventures partners started whispering in his ear that “it’s all about social now”. Quigo was competing heavily and heatedly with Google. We can do better.

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Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. So why would raising venture capital be any different. But if you’re looking for something differentiated in your portfolio I think we’d be a great fit. why buy me?

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

Up and Running

DECEMBER 22, 2015

See Also: 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading. Trade secrets, effective branding, differentiation, and first-mover advantage can help. Therefore, companies that can fund their own growth are less interesting than companies that need to raise more money later to finance continuing growth. It doesn’t fund itself.

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Angel Investor IRR Software Review Startup 60

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

Lets take venture capital and grow this thing into a real business.”. Typically the size of their opportunity and company doesn’t lend itself to attracting venture capital. They grow their business via profits or traditional bank financing. The question was: what did the founders want to do? The Scalable Startup.

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Hockey Stick Venture Capital Startup Cofounder 276

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. Everyone wanted to work in finance. “CEO is the new Analyst.”. But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. Everyone wants to work in tech startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2011

In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. In finance, “this time is different” is the beginning of a new bubble. Angels are becoming more liquid as their stock market and real estate assets recover, and institutions again have earnings to put into venture capital funds.

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Startup Demand Green Government 225

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

According to a study by CB Insights (2017), a software that gathers essential data from investors, companies and industries, more than 70% of startups do not exceed the first stage of venture capital investment. The rounds were conducted from 2008 to 2010, starting from seed capital. Why do so many companies fail?

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Venture Capital Cofounder Finance United States 77

Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

It will also help you when it comes time to write your business plan, especially if you’re pitching an angel investor or a venture capital firm – they will want to see there’s a market for your idea, otherwise, it won’t scale as rapidly as they need it to in order to make a return on their investment. Personal investment.

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Elevator Pitch Software Review SBA Business Plan 166

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

If you choose your name well and it represents what your customers value in you then it will be memorable, differentiated and meaningful. If you’re an associate, an assistant, in finance or a new partner interviewing with the firm – you know what we expect! We have a few portfolio companies going through brand changes.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2022

Finding answers to these questions helps you solidify a strategic market position and identify ways to differentiate yourself. Which can lead to more funding down the road from both venture capitals and banks alike. It forces you to think through all aspects of your business, from marketing and sales to operations and finance.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2010

They understand that now’s not the time to hire a senior VP of Sales to start to scale the sales force or to look for a finance department to create income statements that say zero each month. Filed under: Durant versus Sloan: Startups Verus Companies , Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Many of these “Urgent Care” providers prefer to be thought of as “Convenient Care” providers, highlighting their differentiation and their move from solely episodic usage to more of default provider of health services. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme.

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Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2019

Ali Mayar began his professional life in finance before moving on to his current role today. His work in the finance industry showed him how difficult it can be for business owners to secure the funds they need to grow their business, so he left his job to in order to launch a brand-new business venture: Platinum Rapid Funding Group (PRFG).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

One of the earliest and most critical decisions an entrepreneur must make is whether to self-fund a startup by bootstrapping, or raise outside funding through venture capital.” – Forbes. What differentiates you from the competition? Today, venture capital is a hot topic. by Brian Pontarelli, CEO of Inversoft.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. This is what brings us to the second big difference: the cost of Applied Venture is too large to finance from a standard VC management fee. .

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St. Jude Children’s Cancer Hospital and the Stanford Medical Center, and teach entrepreneurship and venture capital at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. To ensure U.S.

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