View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Will Quist did a great job of explaining this market rhetoric in this thread. The three-question framework goes as such: Q: How much tech-related market cap will be created in the next 10-20 years? So, on one hand, the market see ms like a total frenzy these days. However, I am not sure that is the case with VC.

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View from Seed

JULY 19, 2019

Like other investors, we at NextView have a number of frameworks which we use to evaluate decisions on making new investments. All early stage venture firms essentially look at some weighting of team, market, product, and traction. In the past, we’ve created and published a flowchart on how we think through these factors.

Boston 149

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. When they promise to help you with marketing, sales, distribution, integrated product development, etc. Make sure to reference check with other portfolio companies. Yeah, I know.

Strategic Investors 279

Strategic Investors Venture Capital Due Diligence Early Stage 279

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. Here the company executes a known business model (known customers, product features, competitors, pricing, distribution channel, supply chain, etc.)

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Will Quist did a great job of explaining this market rhetoric in this thread. The three-question framework goes as such: Q: How much tech-related market cap will be created in the next 10-20 years? So, on one hand, the market see ms like a total frenzy these days. However, I am not sure that is the case with VC.

Valuation 156

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 156

VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

As is true today, there was a requirement that options be priced at or above the “fair market value” of the underlying stock (otherwise there would be tax consequences to the optionee and sometimes to the company as well). I thought it would be worth taking a look at the data across the Foundry portfolio.

Valuation 48

Valuation Common Stock Cap Table Software Review 48

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” It’s an impressive portfolio. Yet some startups such as Biotech don’t have market risk, instead they are dominated by technical risk. Market Type affects your spending and sales ramp after you reach product/market fit.

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 219

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Less established regulatory framework. .

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The creator economy market map, Singalfire. Much like an Uber driver or a twenty-tens Instagram influencer, the creator is responsible for her own marketing, health care, and tax contributions. can help creators create engaging social media content or marketing campaigns to promote their digital products, etc.

Startup 207

Startup Social Media Venture Capital Audio 207

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. Marketing basics are needed as well so you can research our target audience and understand them to deliver content that drives email signups and crowdfunding backers.

Semantic 48

Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

All Things Distributed Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The CTO is in constant contact with keycustomers and is prominently involved in market research. The role developed into very different positions andthere are several ways how to categorize them.

CTO 40

CTO CTO Hire Syndicate Syndication 40

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

Customer Development 238

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

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. In a saturated market however where several companies try to hire you as an expert this works very much both ways.

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Europe India Hiring Engineer 139

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 20, 2022

With every investment (no matter where we are in the roller coaster ride of the tech market), we ask ourselves “Why this mission-driven team?” And it’s within this framework that we reflect on 2022: our focus on outlier talent and emerging areas. . Why is there a market pull today that didn’t exist last year or the year before?

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Technical Review Software Review Generative AI Portfolio 60

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

According to HubSpot , demand generation is “the umbrella of marketing programs that get customers excited about your company’s product and services.”. That sounds suspiciously like…marketing. For one, outbound marketing. Demand generation would not exist without the shift to inbound marketing.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Priorities and strategies change as a company grows – starting with finding product-market fit after a seed round to figuring out distribution between Series A and Series B. LifeLabs Learning offers a good series of workshops and some of our portfolio companies have used Sounding Board for scalable, and affordable, 1:1 coaching.

Leadership 157

Leadership Framework Hiring Portfolio 157

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.

Customer 420

Customer Marketing Lean Vertical 420

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

One dimension is a pretty firm belief that starting financial services companies should not be as hard as it is, and that there is demand in the market for yet another venture fund focused on functionally day-zero companies in financial services. I don’t worry about my anti-portfolio. You have to pick one. Everything we do.

Silicon Valley 88

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The management framework that propelled LinkedIn to a $20 billion company – [link]. Find More Customers for Your B2B SaaS Product with These 5 Distribution Hacks – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

You want to win big with data, with marketing, with transformative digital yada yada and blah blah, evolve. I'll say this again at the very end… As a Marketer or an Analyst, there is nothing you'll attempt that will be more complex and challenging than what you are about to read in this post. Evolution works.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics Technical Review Channel 60

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

For our Market Motive Analytics training course , we provide students with access to one ecommerce and one non-ecommerce site because they simply can't learn well enough from my magnificent videos. I'll also highlight frameworks, metrics, custom reports, and other elements I feel most Analyst's don't poke around enough.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

A couple weeks back I'd requested the nice folks following me on Google+ and Facebook to submit their most important digital marketing and analytics questions. Some tools do pan-session analysis better than others, and there are a number of relatively new analytics solutions on the market today. Rinse and repeat.

Analytics 124

Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

Occam's Razor

APRIL 2, 2012

I'm convinced that the resulting problems (confusion, FUD, angst, daily prayers, and wasted budget) are due to the lack of a clear framework that can help clearly define the problem. In this post my hope is share a framework that will help define the problem clearly. This is going to be a lot of fun. are happening as a result.

Channel 152

Channel Analytics Framework Advertising 152

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Large tech companies like Google, Amazon, Apple recognize that the multi- trillion dollar health care market is ripe for disruption and have poured billions of dollars into the space. Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? What’s Not Working?

China 67

China Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 67

Lightspeed Venture Partners

JUNE 11, 2012

In 2009 I wrote a guest post at Industry Gamers about why social gaming is so attractive to investors , where I talked about the three key elements oin gaming: Development, Distribution and Discovery. But I think the framework of Development, Distribution and Discovery is still a useful lens to view the industry.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product. Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Brandsforce - Company Website.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Above you see the distribution among the top 100 grossing e-commerce websites in regards to the number of checkout steps they have. Portfolio Design Study: Design Patterns. Frameworks. Portfolios. The average checkout consists of 5.08 Related Articles. Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices. Advertising.

Design 98

Design Software Review HTML Technical Review 98

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 24, 2011

One of the cool things about being a fund that works with so many early stage companies is that bringing the whole portfolio together in one place results in a lot of collaborative learning opportunities. There's no reason why this shouldn't work for any kind of position--whether that means finding a Director of Marketing or a COO.

Startup 116

Startup Ruby PR Sales Cycle 116

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I am going to attempt to significantly simply your life by recommending the critical few metrics you should use to analyze performance of your digital marketing campaigns and website. Use my Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes framework to ensure an end-to-end view of important activity and 2. Another pan session metric I adore.

Metrics 151

Metrics Web Analytics CPA 151

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 5, 2011

There has been a great deal written about how to pitch VCs and how to drive towards product-market fit , but there is relatively little out there about managing your board. Because the materials were distributed in advance and each board member has read the materials, it's more of an interactive Q&A than presentation.

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Green Framework Email Acquisition 46

View from Seed

AUGUST 27, 2014

He wasn’t a former marketer or a former teacher or even a former liberal arts major. And that’s why we need to collectively scrap the usual hiring process if we want to bring in great writers to run our blogs, our PR, or our content marketing in general. The best writer I ever hired at a startup didn’t have a resume.

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Hiring Startup Technical Review PR 335

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

Moreover, the indicators that show founders are ready to take on new capital in order to progress to the next phase of company-building – be it hiring, expanding into a new market, launching a product or more – can vary from company to company. Reid Hoffman: “Sometimes the best evidence for that huge market isn’t current numbers.

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Seed Stage Software Review Early Stage 69

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

4: The Analytics/Marketing skills in your Analysis Ninjas is 70/30. #3. The organization functions off a clearly defined Digital Marketing & Measurement Model. #1. An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." You know what your Return on Analytics is!

Analytics 140

Analytics Web Metrics DC 140

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

for anyone needing user interface, design and branding for their project visit my portfolio: [link] we love to build bold identities for fresh ideas. One thing I look for is that if their own portfolio site needs a lot of help then theyre probably too busy to update it. And probably youre no marketing expert and salesman, either.

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Inbound Marketing vs Interruption marketing. Email marketing. Market Research. Promotions/Marketing. Put up a LaunchRock Page and get your marketing working right away.

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