Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

As a mentor, you are expected to bring to the table real experience, sound advice, relevance, customer and/or funding connections, enough technical grasp to speak the language, and adequate availability to see the startup process through. Many accelerators and incubators have institutionalized mentoring in the form of EIR’s or similar titles.

Incubator 48

Incubator Vertical Deal Flow Technical Review 48

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

He looked at his resume, and asked just one question: “ What’s your edge? ” My friend got the job because his answer was differentiated, credible, and backed up by a history of investing success. Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. – Execution.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

He looked at his resume, and asked just one question: “ What’s your edge? ” My friend got the job because his answer was differentiated, credible, and backed up by a history of investing success. Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. – Execution.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

VC Cafe

APRIL 27, 2011

10 things VCs can do to differentiate themselves and provide more value to potential investments – based on feedback from dozens of entrepreneurs. Despite the VC’s obvious disadvantage in the early stages, marketing and differentiation of venture capital funds is limited today. Can they teach each other something?

Venture Capital 90

Venture Capital Differentiation Incubator Angel Investor 90

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

He is heading straight into an intensely competitive market without adequate differentiation or competitive positioning. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. Anupam has serious segmentation issues.

Spain 115

Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

I was recently interviewed by the team of eFounders , the new Parisian SaaS start-up incubator founded by Thibaud Elzière (Fotolia) and Quentin Nickmans. What makes a good VC for a SaaS startup? They also need VCs capable of financing their entire life cycle — on average, SaaS startups raise between $80 and $100 million before an IPO.

API 48

API Silicon Valley Europe Differentiation 48

ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

I suggested LinkedIn, oDesk, and eLance with the caveat that the field is extremely competitive and crowded and differentiation would be tough to achieve. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. Happy Grasshopper.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India 125