Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

But the portfolio of options available to Admiral Nimitz and President Roosevelt were not limited to battleships. As the chief engineer of the Navy, he was the master of engineering the large and the complex. The Navy has world-class engineering and acquisition processes to deal with hardware. woke up on Dec.

Agile 369

Agile China Artificial Inteligence Taiwan 369

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

Many of our clients have expressed an interest in using video as part of their online marketing efforts, and we have seen firsthand the impact of videos on search engine results. With the increased demand for video content, a video marketing agency can offer a wide range of services, from video production to distribution and analysis.

Software Review 114

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 114

ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Jeff Clavier was the first tech investor I ever met; he was introduced to me years ago by some hip engineers in a bar as "one of the few cool VCs." He says that one is too lonely, two is good and three is a great number if they can combine their skills to cover design, development and distribution. How to Hack the Investment World.

Investment Bankers 153

Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

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

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Here the company executes a known business model (known customers, product features, competitors, pricing, distribution channel, supply chain, etc.)

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Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). GrabCAD – 3D Community and Collaboration (NextView Portfolio Company). Gridco Systems – Power Distribution Systems (backed by General Catalyst and Northbridge). Places to Hang.

Boston 71

Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Distribution. And what happens is you have a lot of people that are either engineering or non-engineering that end up in PM roles that can’t think across the whole thing… “. Human Computer Interaction. Protocol Digital Life.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As we do at the end of every quarter, we’ve summarized some of the key highlights and activities across our portfolio. . In addition, UNI arrived and was probably one of the largest token distribution events ever with 15% of all tokens going to nearly 300K liquidity providers and users. Announcements.

Portfolio 95

Portfolio Software Review Cofounder Canada 95

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

As an analyst, I was upset that this change would hurt my ability to analyze the effectiveness of my beloved search engine optimization (SEO) efforts – which are really all about finding the right users using optimal content strategies. We are headed towards having zero referring keywords from Google and, perhaps, other search engines.

Search 154

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2018

Entering new markets can be a great way for your business to expand its portfolio and diversify its product offering. Identify Distribution Channels. Search engine optimization. The choice may seem simple; the ability to scale quickly and even boost profits in your existing market is enticing. Referral marketing.

Jacksonville 189

Jacksonville Due Diligence Exit Strategy Marketing 189

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. If a company wanted to distribute software on a mobile device it need to sell via a “portal” (US term) or a “deck” (UK term) of a mobile carrier. PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015.

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PR Early Stage Software Naming 150

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. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs. Experienced leadership, well-funded, and hiring in engineering, product and operations.

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., Seeing that Web developers take a lot of pride in their online portfolios and keep their LinkedIn profile up to date this just appears incredibly dated. 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

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Like everything in life, you want a balanced portfolio (left). What you now see is the distribution of which link is making you how much money. Sure they can sprout the number of tweets or top search keywords, but rarely do they have a robust understanding of the geographical distribution of their audience. A very bad thing.

Analytics 159

Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 159

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

There are strong tailwinds on the renewable energy front as Max discussed this summer: the cost of solar is falling off a cliff; storage and EVs are falling down similar cost curves; we’re seeing innovation in financial engineering and the rise of smart grids and smart homes, etc. New Electricity Providers.

Artificial Inteligence 88

Artificial Inteligence B2B Finance Portfolio 88

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

Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

For us, the investment is certainly fresh and newest in our portfolio, but it also feels familiar. And Board Member James Reinhart is already part of the NextView family, as CEO of portfolio company, thredUP. Similarly at GrabCAD , where CAD engineers collaborate and create in a community, the collective output has been remarkable.

Seed Stage 199

Seed Stage Cofounder Portfolio Curation 199

www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

All Things Distributed Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I have metCTOs who manage divisions that had 500 - 1000 engineers or more. The first thing thatalways comes up when you want to discuss the role of a CTO is that there is no wellestablished definition of what a CTO actually does.

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.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

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. “What the creator economy promises, and what it actually does”, The New Yorker. Creative Automation.

Startup 207

Startup Social Media Venture Capital Audio 207

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Early liquidity. Equity VC is a “get rich slow” business.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

But one thing in our homes hasn’t changed much in over a hundred years since it was first invented and that is electric power distribution and management in the home. Currant is a K9 portfolio company that has developed the world’s first truly smart, AI-powered electrical outlet.

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United States Portfolio Engineer Distribution 93

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

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

What guidance for your portfolio companies? I think every company’s portfolio is different, so they’re all different sizes, different stages, different geographies, different cash positions, and different market leadership positions. . I will say the one thing we tell all our portfolio companies is to get fit and lean in.

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Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

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

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 3) Developer Driven Sales.

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Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

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. You can read more about it here.

Search 60

Search RSS Technical Review Portfolio 60

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. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

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

Version One Ventures

AUGUST 7, 2018

However, the pressure of sky-high housing costs, salaries and competition for suitable candidates is causing start-ups and investors to rethink their approach to distributed teams. Among our Silicon Valley-based portfolio companies, not a single company past “A” does not have a distributed team. Slack, Zoom). Slack, Zoom).

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Silicon Valley Distribution San Francisco Denver 129

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Real-time search engine. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Will expand IBM’s business analytics capabilities and become part of IBM’s application and integration middleware portfolio. But it’s a real phenomenon.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government 36

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In 2010, SailPoint closed two strategic corporate transactions to broaden its product engineering and services teams and further expand its global footprint. As part of this agreement, SailPoint also assumed responsibility for the Control-SA engineering and support team.

Global 73

Global North America Customer Cofounder 73

K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

Most of these funds are <$100M, with the majority of them being clustered around the $40M mark (that’s the point where the fund economics start to work in terms of management fee and ability to take a meaningful stake in portfolio companies). Top engineering talent today has a bimodal distribution.

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Mezzanine Seed Stage Early Stage IPO 134

Cracking the Code

JUNE 18, 2018

There are software applications, or workflow engines, that have been created to manage business processes. Because many existing workflow engines are hard to use, and it's easier for a developer to hack something together themselves. None of that counts for anything of course if the backend workflow engine isn't up to scratch.

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API Java PHP Ruby 48

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

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. You can even get great first-step guidance about how to rebalance your portfolio from that last column.

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Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

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. Ironically, one way to get around this is to do a total judo move and be extremely minimalistic — or else offer a product that kind of speaks for itself.

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Early Stage Founder Later Stage Engineer 120