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JULY 10, 2012

VENTURE CAPITAL. You are here: Home / Startups / Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital.

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View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2024

My prediction is that we will gradually see more consolidation in venture if a) underlying inflows into the category slow over a longer period of time and if b) more asset value is created by smaller funds that integrate proprietary software or data in their businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

The SBIC was instrumental in the creation of the venture capital business. If you want to see a fun quote on it, read A History of Silicon Valley which quotes: “ …many venture capital pioneers think the SBIC program did little to advance the art and practice of venture investing.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Here budgeting software can help: feeding it automatically with actual numbers, combining them with a limited number of key variables, and calculating forecast scenarios using predefined formulas. Without systems in place to manage distributed spending, finance teams will leave money on the table.”. Guest contributed to Techcrunch.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

software, songs, movies, web site content. _. Copyright gives you the right to prevent others from copying, distributing or making derivatives of your work. If your product is software, copyright is also used to prevent someone from stealing your software and reselling it as machine and/or source code.) Examples. _.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

As the venture capital industry has evolved, more and more seed investors are passing on traditionally “seed stage” startups because there isn’t enough traction. We see innovation becoming more broadly distributed over time, and outlier companies being built in more and more places. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Can we see that maintaining a software-obsessed tech industry is self-sabotage? As a venture capitalist, I know there’s incredible excitement around quantum computing. Once again, we see a bias that plagues the tech community: software overshadowing hardware. True innovation lies in the integration of hardware and software.

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Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

An experienced software engineer, for example, can develop a new mobile app with his or her own resources and market the product on the web with very little capital. Center for Venture Research. Venture Capital. $20 So, generally, these three major sources of capital are complementary, not competitive.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

No matter what economic cycle we go through, Fortune 500 companies need to invest in software.”. Ed Sim, Boldstart Ventures. While developers can now spin up applications faster than ever before, one of the downsides is the complexity of managing these distributed applications and technologies. Enterprise Tech in 2019.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Now with a new infusion of $8 million dollars of venture capital, SuperMac had been resurrected from the dead and was attempting to restart. They had an existing distribution channel and their dealers and customers thought they knew who the company was and what it stood for. The first step was to recruit a new management team.

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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). Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. ” Are you going into an industry (say, music?)

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

Venture capital and other forms of seed funding have been crucial for the development of the best online colleges. Many third-party educational organizations exist to maintain online schooling ventures, and these organizations typically receive most of their funding from venture capital firms. By Estelle Shumann*.

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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. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

Keep this in the back of your mind as you think about the biggest transformation in enterprise tech; the re-platforming of corporate America from legacy to cloud/hybrid cloud and monolithic software apps to microservices driven development. Some call this “ambient AI” and I just call it software.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Today’s workforce has radically different expectations, brands are losing their power, physical channels are being destroyed by virtual ones, market share is less important than market creation, and software is eating world. As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

Capital Innovators put on the event, called Demo Day, at the cherished Pageant Theater, which normally is a concert venue. Each presenter had small demo booths where investors could ask questions about the venture and see the software in operation. The second event was the annual Invest Midwest conference on Thursday.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Not all businesses are a fit, or require venture capital. But for fast scaling tech startups, to attract venture capital, they will need more than greeat tech and a strong founding team. Venture Capital investors look for ‘Big markets’, ideally multi billion Dollars in size and growing.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

If you’re selling enterprise software, this may require a significantly larger investment than a coffee shop. Depending on the size and goals of your venture, you may need to seek financing from an “angel” investor or from a venture capital firm. Investment and lending options include: Venture capital.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

Startup hubs like Berlin, London, New York, Los Angeles, Bangalore, Hong Kong and Singapore offered access to venture capital and vibrant start ecosystems thus attracting the brightest founders. In fact, companies in London can create remote jobs and build distributed teams in high unemployment areas in the UK, not abroad.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Here’s why.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Background Reading: When LLCs Make Sense for Startups Not Building a Unicorn If you have spent almost any time reading about the basics of startup legal issues, you know that Delaware C-corps are the default organizational structure for a “classic” tech startup (software, hardware) planning to raise angel/VC money and scale.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

However, that is wishful thinking if your customer decision makers have budgets for percentage payments and software buying is handled by a different group and a different procurement process. Heck, there was no venture capital in Dixie in that era. There was no thought of enterprise value.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

VP of Engineering, AppNexus - New York, NY "It's over a billion ad impressions a day, we got a full tank of venture capital, half a pack of cigarettes, the future of ad networks is dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea. Wireframes.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

It ultimately failed because she was focused on engineering the product, but didn’t validate the rest of her business model (product/market fit, distribution channel, customer acquisition, etc.). Instead, I went the Software as a Service route and tried to charge for what was a commodity product. . …

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Venture capital isn’t right for many business but if you do want to raise from a VC at some point you need to understand that often investors care more about growth than profits. Is the revenue dependent on a concentrated set of distribution partners or platforms that put future revenue at risk? Not necessarily.

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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. You have an array of N unique numbers distributed uniformly at random. The answers to all questions are at the bottom of the post.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Business Software. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. Employee Benefits.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2016

But even hotter, according to new data from mutual fund filings and Dow Jones VentureSource, are proprietary big data software startups. Proprietary software’s free pass. Both companies offer Hadoop distributions, but Cloudera has been much more willing to offer proprietary add-ons to complement its open source platform.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

It’s possible to have a company with literally millions of customers (users) that employs only a handful of people, working in a small rented office, with hardware and software costing in the tens of thousands rather than millions of dollars. (Instagram is a textbook example.) Most of our early-stage startup clients fit this description.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types « “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch Closure » 21 Responses Tweets that mention Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development « Steve Blank -- Topsy.com , on November 16, 2009 at 7:20 am Said: [.]

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

As the venture capital industry has evolved, more and more seed investors are passing on traditionally “seed stage” startups because there isn’t enough traction. We see innovation becoming more broadly distributed over time, and outlier companies being built in more and more places. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Current round: $12.0mm led by Jafco Ventures, DAG Ventures, Accel, Baseline Ventures.

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