Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Smaller, High Quality Meetups and Places to Learn: Open Coffee - Weekly informal meetup started by Bijan Sabet and Nabeel Hyatt. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). Plastiq – Payments (NextView Portfolio Company).

Boston 71

Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2018

Entering new markets can be a great way for your business to expand its portfolio and diversify its product offering. Research these three key customer boundaries for information on each market segment: Demographics. Identify Distribution Channels. Search engine optimization. Perform Due Diligence. Psychographics.

Jacksonville 189

Jacksonville Due Diligence Exit Strategy Marketing 189

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

While we all agree that ‘apart’ is best right now for reasons of safety, the discussion around what a post-COVID world seems to be largely bifurcated into Office vs WFH/Distributed. The first generation of “future of work” software products were largely IQ-tools — utilities that moved information efficiently.

Early Stage 146

Early Stage Seed Stage Startup Software 146

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

He was a lead for distributed teams in India, Europe and the U.S., The sites look awful, are hard to navigate, ask you to enter a lot of information and responses take weeks rather than hours. QA can look at stuff built just hours before and give feedback by the time the engineers return to work.

Europe 139

Europe India Hiring Engineer 139

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

When they promise to help you with marketing, sales, distribution, integrated product development, etc. But even he would feel conflicted when I had to cut the engineering team because he valued our product more than his investment. Make sure to reference check with other portfolio companies. it sure is tempting.

Strategic Investors 279

Strategic Investors Venture Capital Due Diligence Early Stage 279

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

She makes money for the platform that hosts her without receiving the legal and financial protections of employee status, or the stock options typically given to the platform’s engineers, designers, and managers. Source: The Information. Source: “The Next Creator Economy Unicorns” by The Information.

Startup 207

Startup Social Media Venture Capital Audio 207

www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

All Things Distributed Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Technology Visionary andOperations Manager – This pattern is usually found in dot.com and othertechnology-oriented companies where information technology is key ingredient inimplementing business strategy.

CTO 40

CTO CTO Hire Syndicate Syndication 40

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. The flaw in this thinking is that “first customer ship&# is simply the date when engineering thinks they “finished” the 1.0 release of the product.

Customer Development 238

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. It’s getting warmer here in Austin and that can only mean one thing–summer is right around the corner, and with summer comes summer internships.

Semantic 48

Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users. There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space.

Search 60

Search RSS Technical Review Portfolio 60

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

For many early-stage companies still working on their product or developing customers, most of their challenges do not require large amounts of capital nearly as much as they require expertise – particularly in engineering, design, and marketing. And of course then there is our own fund, 500 Startups. Why should VCs be any different?

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Transformify

MARCH 4, 2018

Over the years, Randstad has acquired smaller competitors thus expanding their portfolio of services and territorial outreach. Their customer portfolio includes a wide array of companies, organizations, and industries. One of the largest staffing agencies founded back in 1960. Robert Half. Insight Global. Accrue Partners. Pride Staff.

Hiring 61

Hiring Finder Canada Australia 61

View from Seed

APRIL 7, 2015

For instance, one compelling thing about our former portfolio company Sunrise ( recently acquired by Microsoft ) is that the company actually never really had a website. For their Series A, they did create a deck, but it was totally minimalist, conveying the right information and pretty much nothing else. Again, that’s the norm.

Early Stage 120

Early Stage Founder Later Stage Engineer 120

Start Up Blog

AUGUST 15, 2019

The Google Page Rank: Sergey & Larry said; ‘Yo, businesses out there, we are different to Yahoo and other searches engines (there used to be many). Distribution is more powerful than content – always has been, always will be. The most important piece in the Steve Sammartino portfolio is my own webpage and this blog.

Channel 48

Channel Portfolio Metrics Search 48

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

In particular we talked about how 3rd-party apps have a lot more access to your personal information than you think – especially if a friend of yours gives access to an app it can inadvertently give that app access to your details, too! Real-time search engine. We talked about Facebook. But it’s a real phenomenon.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

At Top Tier, we have been continuously refining our database and analytics engine, and we use it and other software mentioned in this article to make better decisions, spot trends, and stay in front of targeted venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. 73% responded that they did not use any tools for this purpose.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Overall, the portfolio value (including realizations) was being held at around 5% below cost. Engineering jobs. Job Search. Accounting jobs.

Naming 49

Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It’s a data-informed strategy that justifies tactics and aligns their goals. Content creation, the engine of inbound marketing, creates the draw (i.e. Create and distribute content to those segments. Visitors request demos. You email them. You (supposedly) do demand generation—or you would if you just ran LinkedIn ads, too.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

As the Internet became mainstream, this was largely replaced (at least in the universe we live in) by email marketing campaigns, so the key information was the email address of a lead. Today's discussion was about how to generate additional distribution and acquire traffic. Today, the problem has once again changed definition.

Greece 116

Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

My macro goal is to make you dangerously informed. But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? The outcome in either scenario is a restructuring of the organization that is exquisitely geared towards taking advantage of portfolio optimization. Multi-channel attribution across digital channels.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs.

Peru 58

Peru Fractional CTO Artificial Inteligence Database 58

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Customer Marketing Lean Vertical 420

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Indeed, it would be foolish to use the same media to share technical information and to build an emotional connection to your audience. Informative and practical: The brochure. The other popular type of business brochure presents itself as a booklet that showcases your portfolio on a trade show.

Audience 113

Audience Video Portfolio Distribution 113

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

My post The Future Of Work Is Distributed received some good comments. More interesting was the number of direct emails I received back with detailed information about “remote-first” companies and how they did things. This is especially true for companies headquartered in Silicon Valley, Seattle, and New York.

Silicon Valley 81

Silicon Valley Seattle Russia Denver 81

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Besides being “busy doing great deals and distributing cash to your LPs”, what are they’re actually doing to make that happen? If I told you that the people who strike out the most batters, on average, have 98MPH fastballs, which is 2% higher than the league average, that’s much more useful information.

Non-Compete 97

Non-Compete Cofounder Cap Table Reputation 97

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Start with models like Time Decay and Position Based to understand what the conversion portfolio might look like (last two columns above) and create hypotheses about what a better budget allocation might look like. Roll that out to your entire portfolio (or to a subset as a controlled experiment) and measure conversion improvements.

Analytics 124

Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

From a personal perspective, this presented a compelling engineering challenge. Meanwhile, I was doing a great job creating content for my website and ranking in the search engines – so good a job, that people wanted to hire me to handle their content and SEO. But I was bad at the “business” of being a motivational speaker.

Entrepreneur 63

Entrepreneur Ireland LLC Kansas 63

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 31, 2011

No matter what you are involved with today, you can easily establish a niche website to add yet another passive stream of income to your portfolio and further diversify your risk across several income baskets. Because search engines like keywords. How do search engines work? What Are Niche Sites?

HTML 108

HTML Social Bookmarking Affiliate Engineer 108

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. With 100% commitment to the digital world – Craze is using the latest technologies and constantly developing new methods (some patent pending) for selling and distributing music and videos. The First Taste Engine.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Help & Information Center: Help.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It Will Be Harder Than the Pentagon Thinks , Considering Military Culture and Values When Adopting AI, Swarms of Mass Destruction , Joby Aviation raises $590 million led by Toyota to launch an electric air taxi service , Linking combat veterans and Valley engineers. See how they can inform the new concepts and vice versa.

Technology 300

Technology China United States Government 300

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

and suddenly your voices/words will have 10x more confidence informed by real-world usage. The change required based on this data is not just your marketing portfolio re-allocation, that is almost trivial, what' bigger, huger, crazy-harder is changing how your company thinks. Awesome, right? It is painful.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Then there have been entrepreneurs who sort of don't do anything in the realm of biotech but can somehow help with logistics or distribution or whatever that like, "I am going to ask my friends who do run biotech companies or hospitals or whatever, what they need me to do and then all of our plans are out the window.

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Many businesses today leverage search engine optimization (SEO), in order to boost their online visibility, credibility and awareness. The main advantage of SEO is that it doesn’t just help companies rank well on search engines, but it also helps them improve their reputation online. For example, what is their backlink portfolio?

SEO 45

SEO Campaign Search Reputation 45

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

ScheduleOnce – Scheduling engine to get everyone who needs to meet together at one time. Socialcast – Private online communities of all sizes to help organize enterprise communication that allows employees to decide how to find and use information while reducing email clutter and unproductive communications.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

No distributed teams, no overseas teams, and definitely no companies that rely on “outsourcing” to build their core technology. ” Now that last statement is a little off, since I have a portfolio company in Berkeley and one as far south as San Jose. the flow of information and connections happens quickly and efficiently.

Silicon Valley 124

Silicon Valley San Jose Portfolio Cofounder 124