VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The pressure to protect portfolio startups seen as potential fund returners will be profound. TVPI = total value to paid in capital (paper gains) DPI = distributed to paid-in capital (real cash gains, paid out). portfolio values on paper that will likely be marked down and not be returned.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Content editing: Owning multi-media workflows – combine an image with text, music with video, or animation with a voiceover. Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios. What’s missing is the last mile — distribution, customer journey design, guardrails and workflow automation.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Building a great product. We want to talk to you!

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Business owners who want to impress their prospective employees should investigate employer branding and social media recruitment strategies. Create interesting recruitment content and distribute it through all relevant social media networks. Bank on the power of social media. Utilize your network for referrals.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Some observations from Bipul Sinha about the internet and media industry in 2011. This is as much of a game-changer (due to a new distribution model based on the social graph) as going from offline to the Internet was in the 90s. Startups to watch in this space are Legolas Media , Krux Digital , and BrightTag , among others.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

Then, you may begin to promote your items on your blog and social media profiles. 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. You can help your clients create cover letters and portfolios they’ll be confident to share.

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Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 110

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! Does Search Produce Better Customers Than Social Media? Does Search Produce Better Customers Than Social Media? Does Search Produce Better Customers Than Social Media?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2024

With the rapid advancement of generative AI, we’re seeing content creation, distribution and monetisation being disrupted faster than ever before. We’re fast and lean in our decision making and support companies beyond the money with our strong network in the media, entertainment and gaming space.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Cleargraph (Distributed Systems) joined Coinbase to continue their work on human-friendly decentralized identity. We’re particularly proud and excited for this development, as it’s two portfolio companies joining forces! The post Q3 2018 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities appeared first on Version One.

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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. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

shout out to our portfolio company Echo3D who’s working on this) Improved collaboration tools By default, both the Unity and Unreal level editors only support a single designer editing a level at a time. As a firm that prides itself in being a media company, the backlash/gloating was particularly bad.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

6 portfolio companies raised Series A financings including Manifold , Hypr , and 4 unannounced, 1 raised a Series B (unannounced), and Security Scorecard raised a $28mm Series C. NYC has deep enterprise tech : the NYC you imagine that is full of ad tech and media is not the NYC that we see.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

They are tasked with “getting deals done&# so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc. Let me give you an example. I love that saying.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Readers of VC Cafe already know that we’re fascinated by the creator economy and its potential to completely disrupt the $2 trillion media and entertainment industry. Value of the global entertainment and media market (Source: Statista ). The post is behind a paywall, so I’m sharing a slightly expanded list below.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility. Without systems in place to manage distributed spending, finance teams will leave money on the table.”.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

We tend to favor companies that have a “distribution advantage”. This isn’t true for every single one of our portfolio companies, but in at least half, we had a thesis about why this company had some sort of unfair advantage or head-start when it comes to getting their product out into the market.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Hit Start Media is my latest investment for K9. In fact, if you look at my investment criteria you’ll notice that media is filtered out. But Hit Start isn’t just a media company; it’s an enterprise services company. Media just happens to be its product. You can find all of these and more on the Hit Start Media website.

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Media Audience Distribution Product Development 62

David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. Distribute press releases on free sites like Free Press Release and PRLog.com. Exploit social media and establish a voice for your company on Twitter and Facebook.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2023

Given the team’s background in media and entertainment, Remagine was focused from inception on the use of AI to create, distribute and monetise content, and have recognized the generative AI disruption early on: they began investing in generative AI in 2018.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

– Austin Hill , co-founder Blockstream (FPV’s newest portfolio company). The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2022

Tech advancements are making it easier than ever to create, edit, distribute content than ever before (more on this in my post on ‘ the opportunities for creative automatio n’). Consumer behaviour changed – As a society, we watch less TV, and consume more information on social media, podcasts etc.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Your brand values should permeate through your entire business and marketing strategy , from external interactions (including social media content) to internal culture (more on that in a bit). It helps them audit existing content portfolios (blog posts, landing pages, etc.) and identify ways they can optimize them for better results.

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Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The goal is to intelligently structure the information collected and combine it with additional information scraped from the web and social media. We believe this way we can extrapolate insights for our particular business model (portfolio operator VC fund) previously missed out.”.

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Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

That’s 7 out of about 29 investments that K9 has made to date and so that’s almost 1/4 of the K9 portfolio. In at least one case, one of my portfolio companies wasn’t able to source the parts they would have really wanted because Apple had locked up the entire supply chain for that part!

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Software Review Forecast Portfolio Distribution 48

ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Years later Clavier's name now comes up all the time when one of his portfolio companies finds success; his exits include Mint, Tapulous, and UserPlane, other investments include Mashery (a ReadWriteWeb sponsor), Rapleaf, Fitbit, bitly, GroupOn, Twitter and many more. How to Hack the Investment World. You can also follow Kedrosky on Twitter.

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Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

Version One Ventures

MARCH 30, 2021

You’ve probably heard of NFTs given the amount of media coverage over the past few months. Using blockchain technology, like Ethereum and Flow (the blockchain of our portfolio company Dapper Labs ), the entire history and origin of a piece of art can be tracked on a distributed ledger. .

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Portfolio Distribution Media Founder 136

VC Cafe

JUNE 1, 2011

Taiyo has one of the most comprehensive generic product portfolios in the Japanese market and has a strong presence in all major distribution channels in Japan. is a provider of content delivery network services for media companies, online businesses and organizations operating e-commerce storefronts or a Website.

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Switzerland Japan Technical Review 79

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Companies are aggregating global audiences and selling direct making new product categories viable which wouldn’t have worked when national distribution limited customers to single countries – companies which build communities around their interest area are particularly powerful in this regard – e.g. DIY Drones.

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Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. It it just more time that they save? .”

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Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

So when an investment thesis becomes popular, when a new technology becomes available, when a new media consumption platform becomes dominant, if we believe in the trend, we have to “seed” an investment within the first three years and hope to “harvest” 5–10 years later. Normal distributions do not exist; standard deviations are meaningless.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 27, 2014

Naturally, this leads to more open jobs for in-house writers at startups, instead of your more traditional media outlets, PR firms, and advertising agencies. Their portfolio trumps their past jobs, and it’s not even close. blush), but Jeff actively avoided sharing his resume with me during his interview process. Nothing at all.

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Hiring Startup Technical Review PR 335

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

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). Insight Squared – SMB Business Intelligence (NextView Portfolio Company).

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Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

David Teten

JULY 12, 2012

E.g., See ffVC’s blog post about the JOBS act, which discusses portfolio company Indiegogo. Distribute press releases on free sites like: PRWeb.com , Free Press Release , and PRLog.com. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Potential partnerships with media and telecom giants make it attractive enough though, and hopefully there will be cross polination between the Israeli startups and the great tech cluster in London. Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. How do we do this?

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Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133