Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. This is the implied rate of return of a fund based on the value (mostly unrealized) of a portfolio. at exit due to dilution. Part of the reason to do this was just to reconnect after a long time apart.

IRR 156

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 156

Up and Running

DECEMBER 25, 2021

This is due to the fact that candidates of all generations ( 68% Millennials, 54% Gen-Xers, and 48% Boomers ) are expected to check an employer’s social media profiles before applying for a position. Create interesting recruitment content and distribute it through all relevant social media networks.

Hiring 84

Hiring Developer Social Media Mobile 84

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. This is the implied rate of return of a fund based on the value (mostly unrealized) of a portfolio. at exit due to dilution. Part of the reason to do this was just to reconnect after a long time apart.

IRR 136

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 136

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

Startup 150

Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. They failed due to: the dearth of deals in the region that have IPO potential and. With a portfolio of at least 20 investments, or you are at risk of the adverse selection problem.)

Early Stage 286

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

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. due to inflation, salary increases) to maintain margin in an environment of downward pressure on prices.

Agile 60

Agile Management Forecast Silicon Valley 60

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Following is a guest post from ff Venture Capital winter intern Max Segan , a Colgate senior majoring in computer science, who is starting at Facebook this summer as a software engineer. For phone interviews I recommend websites such as Collabedit to let you watch candidates code in real time. Keep candidates engaged.

Engineer 138

Engineer Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 138

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. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Because Stewart’s programmers are ten times more productive than they were in 2001 due to massive advances in programming language technology. Software is eating the world. Back in 1994, very few people would have predicted that the largest bookseller in the world would be a software company. What is next?

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 76

VC Cafe

APRIL 13, 2023

In its simplest form, my argument is the following: The entire entertainment industry is driven by a creative process that creates and combines text/code, images, audio & video into compelling storytelling. Create text/code, images, audio and video. Whether that is for TV, a game, a newspaper or a podcast.

Generative AI 78

Generative AI Software Review Audio Technical Review 78

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

In addition, we were lucky enough to finally find reliable partners, thus adding a few more services to our portfolio – like Locksmith and Childcare. We’re very new to the industry, and while we’re passionate about the product, there have been obstacles every step of the way – production, shipping, distribution, etc.

Las Vegas 88

Las Vegas Entrepreneur Software Review Community 88

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Walter Frick - Harvard Business Review. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). GrabCAD – 3D Community and Collaboration (NextView Portfolio Company). Insight Squared – SMB Business Intelligence (NextView Portfolio Company).

Boston 71

Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

So much so that our diligence found him working round the clock, running a hyper-intense environment and looking very much like a 20 year old entrepreneur on a mission from God. The market change: Software as a Service. With the advent of SaaS, applications have become radically easier to both build and adopt.

Technical Review 77

Technical Review Memphis Software Review Software 77

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

At the first stage, it is necessary to analyze competitors, explore the market, develop a business plan, define prospects, correctly distribute tasks and available budget, create a «skeleton» with which the developer can already work. The range of development opportunities is virtually non-existent due to the vast array of tools and tools.

Hiring 189

Hiring Developer Software Review Development Team Review 189

Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The platforms then sustain for an additional 5-10 years due to inertia and lock-in. Thus, globally distributed routing protocols along with manual configuration and scripting were largely sufficient. In a modern virtualized environment, all traffic passes through a software switch in the hypervisor before entering the physical network.

Networking 78

Networking Architecture Software Review Cloud 78

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The startup connects business teams in VR, merging game-like features with collaboration tools in one platform to help overcome some of the challenges of distributed teams and remote work. They’ve achieved many accolades and launches as we summarized quarterly: Q1 , Q2 , and Q3 (our Q4 review to follow in a few weeks).

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Generative AI Portfolio 60

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. 80-90% software products vs. 40-50% advertising products) and company maturity (e.g., customer acquisition cost or CAC).

Sales 50

Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. The author concluded this has less to due with aging than to other factors, both intrinsic and extrinsic to the creative process (i.e. What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? How do VCs originate investments?

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

It’s also important to note that while many climate/energy companies touch the physical world, we are focused on those where the majority of value is driven by software. . The resulting growth in EVs will spur lots of infrastructure and software to manage grid interaction, optimize storage, operate fleet networks, and facilitate financing.

Green 78

Green Technical Review Distribution Software Review 78

K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Computing and software came a few years later for me as access to computers wasn’t as easy or affordable. Software is awesome as it gives you instant gratification. It requires a higher level of discipline than software does. You make a change, compile, and voila you can see the effect of what you did.

Software Review 48

Software Review Forecast Portfolio Distribution 48

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

It makes no sense to meet in August or December due to travel schedules of most investors. For the record, this is not a secret, coded messages to companies for which I am on the board! Feel free to have color coding for each member with companies for which you think they might be able to help with intros. That’s it.

Software Review 301

Software Review Early Stage Agile Partner 301

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The distribution of investors should mirrorthe distribution of startups, which has the usual power law dropoff.So It seems probable that investors have till nowon average been overcontrolling their portfolio companies. Though a lot of investors are entering this territory, there isstill room for more.

Startup 93

Startup Valuation Non-Compete Deal Flow 93

Transformify

MARCH 22, 2023

Consequently, it is crucial for cryptocurrency investors to exercise caution and do their due diligence before making conclusions about their investments based only on social media reactions. There are different types of wallets available, including hardware wallets, software wallets, and online wallets.

Social Media 52

Social Media Securities and Exchange Commission Media Software Review 52

David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

Addepar is precisely trying to collect and convert into software these best practices. (ff Teten : I’m not sure I agree, as inevitably some people will look like geniuses in a random distribution of outcomes. They regularly find they have years where they would have had better returns by not changing their portfolio at all.

Software Review 114

Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Portfolio 114

Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Disclosure: * denotes a current or former Greylock portfolio company.). And many of the Silicon Valley technology companies achieve their global prominence due to blitzscaling — which provides jobs, tax revenues, and new products and services to society. Distribution. Distribution. What makes a company Blitzscale-able?

Silicon Valley 53

Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review United Kingdom 53

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 19, 2015

Reducing DSO is one of the largest challenges for many businesses due to the company-wide strategy that’s necessary to do so. Your customers make up your portfolio of business. With a portfolio, comes credit risk. These firms allow you to check credit on an individual business, a subset of or your entire customer portfolio.

Metrics 100

Metrics Software Review Portfolio Software Developers 100

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y. Re/code – crowdspring.co/1hYEli4. A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y. 10 Code Playgrounds for Developers – crowdspring.co/1jB2aSC.

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

We have fought valiant battles, paid expensive consultants, purchased a crazy amount of software, and achieved an implementation high that is quickly, followed by a " gosh darn it where is my return on investment from all this?" But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? " low.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Transformify

MARCH 24, 2020

Examples include online distribution of makeup that requires job seekers to pay a small amount for a makeup test kit and the like. The best practice is to provide links to an online portfolio if you have one. It is likely to find online reviews, comments posted on forums, etc. Avoid Remote Jobs That Require Upfront Payment.

Los Angeles 85

Los Angeles Limited Liability Company NDA Technical Review 85

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Please register to gain free access to WSJ tools. An account already exists for the email address entered. Forgot your username or password? another account.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

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. If you’re not familiar with the industry, check out this Beginner’s Guide To PR .

PR 114

PR Public Relations Startup Technical Review 114

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. But I wonder if the success is due to or in spite of VCs. Now he wanted to go off start his own company.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 120

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2013

Find More Customers for Your B2B SaaS Product with These 5 Distribution Hacks – [link]. MIT Technology Review – [link]. Increase Your Team’s Curiosity | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Can you Crowdsource Your Employee Reviews? Here’s why – [link]. The Habits of Happiness – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Ben's Blog

JULY 13, 2010

Due to radically cheaper computing cycles and storage, the database market moved to the much more easily programmable and more resource intensive relational database model. Based on this design, Salesforce.com radically raised the bar for product and financial performance in the software industry.

Cloud 77

Cloud Architecture Software Review Database 77

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Short run manufacturing is getting cheaper and cheaper due to robot manufacturing and improved supply chain management techniques. Arduino and other open source hardware platforms are reducing costs in the same way open source software reduced costs for web companies. 3D printing is reducing the cost of prototyping.

Open Source 102

Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102