Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2020

My investments have always been geographically distributed across the US and I spent the majority of my time between Monday and Friday on the road. In the past few years, there have been several high profile examples of scaled companies that have a completely distributed workforce. For many years, this was a function of travel.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. If not, he still has the option to pivot.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

12- Video marketing agency Photo Credit: Maria Harutyunyan As the CEO of an SEO agency, I have seen how important video marketing has become for businesses of all sizes. Our clients achieve a high return on investment (ROI) from their video marketing efforts, making it a lucrative opportunity for a video marketing agency.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”. Production costs of content will continue to fall drastically – Case study Video Video is a great case in point.

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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. Whether it’s text, images, audio, video or even music, new tools are democratising creativity, enabling new opportunities for startups. Are you building in this space?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Create interesting recruitment content and distribute it through all relevant social media networks. To pique the interest of such passive prospects, distribute recruitment-related content. Blogs, webinars, emails, videos, and ebooks are just a few of the types available. Incorporate automation in the process. Final thoughts.

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Transformify

APRIL 19, 2018

We normally ask our students to contribute to open source to engage with communities and companies with distributed teams and workflows. For those who have the opportunity, we also recommend that they attend conferences like Running Remot Conference 23-24 June, Bali where distributed teams gather to talk about remote work once a year.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). The past few years have therefore seen a huge rise in the proportion of LPs using specialized tools to manage and understand their portfolios, including platforms such as Chronograph, Solovis, Allocator, Cobalt LP, eFront Insights, iLevel, Burgiss.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

Fully digital worlds, not unlike what’s seen in video games, that feel like “places you could live and inhabit.” 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.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2021

When you boil it down, the innovations around the creator economy consist of new ways to create, distribute and monetise content as well as direct to consumer models for fan engagement, monetisation and commerce. I was recently asked by Sifted to recommend exciting Creator Economy startups to watch, that are not part of our portfolio.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

The company was founded to build games with embedded video to bring Hollywood stories, characters, and narratives to a market where “shoot and die” twitch games were in vogue. In the game business of the early 1990’s video was at best a brief narrative, a distraction you maybe watched once, not the core of the game.

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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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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Industries that we all grew up with, industries that enjoyed decades of market dominance – like newspapers, bookstores, video rentals, personal computers — are being swept away. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Distribution. You have a company called Oblong (in your portfolio) which is a Minority Report type company.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) And so it is with video. Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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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. It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Find Out How – crowdspring.co/1j0S8nO.

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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’). According to research firm Ampere Analysis, Global video game sales are forecast to contract 1.2% Creator platforms (Source: Doug Shapiro).

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. not via a tool like Hootsuite), especially when posting native video. I post there the occasional video in which I’m featured. . Distributing content.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. We do this by combining elastic cloud computing abilities, powerful and efficient service management tools, and a wide range of enabled experiences – far exceeding video streaming. Interested to learn more?

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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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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.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We believe this way we can extrapolate insights for our particular business model (portfolio operator VC fund) previously missed out.”. We make heavy use of Slack both internally and with our portfolio company founders for messaging and task progression. How can accelerating portfolio company value be aided by use of software?

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Version One Ventures

JULY 1, 2020

And while these past three months have been far from typical, there was a lot of activity across our portfolio. This was our first investment in the “time of Covid-19” with everything done virtually via video calls, Dropbox folders, DocuSign forms, and other remote tools – more on our experience here in GeekWire.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 27, 2014

Writers, however, must be intrinsically motivated, just like any production-oriented job role (design, video, etc.). ” Instead of “repackage long form pieces into smaller projects to be distributed around the web,” you should say “find creative ways to produce related pieces across many mediums and channels.”

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A new flock of startups has launched to support content creators to craft (videos, art, newsletters, music, games, courses, etc), find an audience, generate income (subscriptions, tipping, ecommerce, NFTs, etc) and engage their communities. The creator economy market map, Singalfire. To understand the trends, follow the money.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

My post The Future Of Work Is Distributed received some good comments. ” It’s an important nuance, as there is a big difference between a fully distributed workforce (which the blockchain kids refer to as a “decentralized workforce”) and a multi-location workforce. .”

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Where to Play

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

It will be piloted manually with an on-site video screen, even in very dark, smoked or dusty environments, but only for a limited duration due to battery limitations. This strategy clearly defines your primary focus, and a smart portfolio of Backup and Growth options that you will keep open- to make sure you maintain your agility over time.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Indeed, a brochure is typically distributed in letterboxes to promote the menu of their local takeaways, or on trade shows as a way of introducing company expertise. The other popular type of business brochure presents itself as a booklet that showcases your portfolio on a trade show. Emotional and engaging; The video.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

It’s well-known—and we ourselves have been publicly frustrated —that white men tend to dominate the speaker rosters for tech and entrepreneurship conferences, not to mention the portfolios of many entrepreneurship programs. That was a small group of people, but the distribution was broad. Did using blind review make a difference?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Clypd – Video Advertising (backed by Atlas, DataPoint, Boston Seed). 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).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It helps them audit existing content portfolios (blog posts, landing pages, etc.) Build systems and processes that enable your team to create and distribute content seamlessly. Most of their video content is behind-the-scenes footage of their people in their office environment. Take search-oriented creative agency Rise at Seven.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Biggest Advice I Give to Portfolio Founders? Food production and distribution, group collaboration, remote training or education, sensor technology (tracking people movement, temperatures, etc), certain biotech deals. But when a fund writes checks into a portfolio company it typically “reserves” money to invest in future rounds.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

Consider this: Jack Conte , Patreon’s CEO summarised it beautifully in the video below (or on this blog post if you prefer reading) by breaking down the evolution of the creator economy. They already distribute over $100M a month amongst their 200,000+ creators. Billion in 2020. Finally, a small plug to Remagine Ventures.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

Sarah Guo: “We’re all operating on new ground here, but we do have companies in our portfolio that think about the next nine months to two years as a special time period for execution. Go watch a video or listen to a podcast of Reid or Josh McFarland or any one of my partners giving a talk and ask, ‘Do I like that guy or gal?’

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2013

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Mobile traction is getting harder, not easier.

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