Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 29, 2013

A recent interview with Union Square Ventures ’ Albert Wenger reminded me how much things have changed in the past years: I’m less interested in the regional differences than I am in the fact that it’s now possible to build very large, global businesses from anywhere in the world…The Internet is global. Look global and local.

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Silicon Valley Global Finance New York City 161

View from Seed

JULY 21, 2022

For creatives, we’re a premium, value-aligned partner to help grow their networks and portfolios, and monetize their passions. EP: I went off to the University of Michigan for college and last year made my way back to Santa Monica after 4 years of working at Meta in Digital Marketing in Austin and San Francisco. And your least?

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Early Stage San Francisco Michigan Portfolio 156

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program.

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Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

According to the National Venture Capital Association/Dow Jones VentureSource, the VC industry is dominated by men (89% of VC Partners), specifically white men (76% of the total). Of all VC Partners studied, just 10% identified as Asian, 1% as African-American, and less than 1% as Latino.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Then, what’s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner? Just like you’d go to the Mission in San Francisco to find a hipster, you need to identify where these people are hanging out both online and offline. Prior to that, she worked in venture capital at OpenView Venture Partners. Debriefing.

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Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

Hunter Walker

JUNE 26, 2023

Hunter Walk: So why venture capital, why early stage, and why Canada? At 500, I had the opportunity to work with early-stage founders from around the world and quickly realized that this was where I wanted to spend my time. After DataHero was acquired, I felt like it was time to try something new.

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Silicon Valley Canada Founder Early Stage 113

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. Establish credibility with potential partners.

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San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Local Early-Stage Risk Capital. Early stage venture funds are more important than your mother. Here’s Part 3 of Dino’s story….

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Engineer Silicon Valley Oregon San Francisco 313

View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York. We pulled together a lineup of A-list speakers, healined by TripAdvisor CEO Steve Kaufer, Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah, and Spark Capital founder and partner Bijan Sabet, among other very talented entrepreneurs and thinkers.

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Boston Cofounder B2C PR 120

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

During this time she began showing increasing signs of early-stage dementia. I learned firsthand about the everyday challenges those living with early dementia face, including using the telephone. Thanks to Yotam Alroy, Mindspace – Global boutique coworking provider ! #21- Photo Credit: Tavis Schriefer.

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Entrepreneur LLC San Francisco Mexico 116

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Amidst an increasingly connected world, globalization is the order of the day. However, while the benefits are many (including more efficient communication and greater potential for collaboration), today’s digital age can put increased pressure on young businesses to expand globally — and to do so quickly. from France.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development.

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Silicon Valley Oregon Lean Venture Capital 317

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Here are five simple questions we asked before deciding to partner with startups like Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, Square, Khan Academy and Coursera for our design education program, Bridge. Airbnb Global Growth via Airbnb Annual Report. 3) Will you be a partner in making decisions? Square’s headquarters in San Francisco.

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Design San Francisco Cofounder Startup 161

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. Top From Our Partners. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Global Syndication Partners. 50,295 followers. 0 followers. Television. 3,567 followers. Like Tweet.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

COVID-19 has caused global acceleration of many trends that were already happening before the pandemic and the immigration to Texas and especially Austin are no exception. Some want to make sure it doesn’t end up looking like San Francisco. People are moving to Austin from all over the US and all over the world.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings. Have an account?

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Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

According to Pitchbook, the data and technology provider for the global private equity and venture capital markets, the year’s total for this region was a record $2.4 Madrona focuses its efforts on funding early-stage companies, especially ones that they determine to have the potential to innovate and disrupt markets.

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Southern California Silicon Valley Venture Capital Early Stage 60

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 4, 2013

And that’s not to mention the advice for very early-stage companies on topics like getting your first users, or choosing metrics. The livestream will let you see all of the events in the Masonic Theater in San Francisco on Monday and Tues. Our sponsors include companies like Intuit, O’Reilly Media and Amazon Web Services.

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Lean San Francisco Conversion Startup 167

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

Two years ago, Tianyi co-founded SmartHealth Activator, an early stage biotech accelerator and venture firm in North Chicago. This year, SmartHealth partnered with Rosalind Franklin University to set plans to build a $50 million, four-story, 100,000 square foot Biotech Innovation Park.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Later, when I learned that Joe White would take on this newly created role, I grew even more excited about the positive impact this new position will have on fostering innovation and entrepreneurism on a local and global scale. billion in investment capital in 2019 and now employs nearly 3 million people. companies and U.K.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 24, 2015

We’re a New York based early-stage venture capital firm. The question some of our limited partners ask us is, “Why?”. Additionally, the Canadian government has significantly more rational immigration policies for foreign entrepreneurs than America, encouraging talented people globally to come to Canada.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Early stage sales and product-market fit are topics that I love talking about,” said Schwartzfarb. I’ve spent my entire career helping to build early stage companies and I feel very fortunate to share my experience with founders everywhere.” 8: San Francisco, CA Oct. RSVP here Sept. 11: Startup Week?—?Washington

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Box has announced the launch of Box Accelerator , a global data transfer network that pushes the speed, security and scale of the Box service for business and enterprise users for a faster and more streamlined service. times faster than the closest competitor, globally, and 3.1 times faster than its closest competitor in the U.S.).

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Europe Entrepreneur United States San Francisco 114

mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Global Syndication Partners. Google+ Traffic Falls 60% From Post-Launch Highs [REPORT]. Social Good Summit.

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PR Startup Social Media Technical Review 103

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. The University of Texas System is massive including UT Austin , UT Dallas, UT Arlington, and UT San Antonio.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Today, Andrew Rachmell from Boca Raton, Florida, discussed peerbackers , a crowdsourced fund raising platform to help very early stage entrepreneurs raise small denomination funding ($50, $100) from friends, family, and peers to help finance the prototype development phase with about $25,000 in seed financing. peerbackers.

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Affiliate San Francisco Entrepreneur India 130

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses. Mava Consulting.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

This episode explores how to think about growth in turbulent times, according two growth experts: a16z general partner Andrew Chen, who previously led the growth team at Uber, and Brian Balfour, formerly the VP of Growth at HubSpot, now the founder and CEO of Reforge, a masterclass in growth strategies. I’m excited about Yelp.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

I’ve been running this business with my partners for four years now and even though it feels like 138 years ago, I’m still working hard with the same enthusiasm as in the beginning. Global Innovation Exchange : Great place for people looking to promote their ideas and get funding. SeedInvest : Platform for early stage startups.

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Austin DC Texas San Francisco 49

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. The key is to ask the right people what they think – not your friends, parents or partner. When it comes to early stage investing – it’s all gut. Initial developer: partner or hired?

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

but most are coalescing around the Palo Alto – San Mateo – San Francisco center of the universe. And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I’m an early-stage investor. I normally look to invest my first money below a $20 million valuation and when deals get to lofty prices I normally bow out to later-stage investors who have deeper pockets. In the B round we invested the maximum amount we could alongside the lead – Scale Venture Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. But … global tech does require an absolute, singular commitment level. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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