Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

None of that can compare with being the CEO of a startup facing a rapidly diminishing bank account, your best engineer quitting, working until 10pm and rushing to the airport and catching a redeye for a “ Hail Mary ” close of a customer, with your board demanding you do it faster. Fund raising skills.

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Venture Capital Early Stage Technical Review Startup 332

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2019

This problem is completely avoidable by hiring a reputable app development company with a portfolio you can verify. Essentially, rather than create frameworks from scratch for each client, they’ve got existing frameworks ready to use that are developed and maintained by top engineers. million in financing, yet went broke within a year.

Mobile 127

Mobile Developer Framework Development Team Review 127

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Replay , a browser that records all of the context that deve lopers and engineers need to fix bugs faster, launched out of beta and announced a $5.6M The Guesser team brings their experience in decentralized finance applications, smart contract software and tech, and on-chain markets to Gemini. and new investors too.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Canada API Valuation 60

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

Many of our clients have expressed an interest in using video as part of their online marketing efforts, and we have seen firsthand the impact of videos on search engine results. You can help your clients create cover letters and portfolios they’ll be confident to share. Thanks to Dakota McDaniels, Pluto ! #27-

Software Review 114

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

First Round Capital’s forum for portfolio executives is a powerful example of a scaleable resource. Another example is Correlation Ventures ($300M+ AUM), a VC firm which co-invests in financings with at least one other new outside VC. – Provide hands-on operational support for portfolio companies.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Instead, post pictures from a recent Habitat for Humanity trip, showcase graphic art skills or a love for writing by including a portfolio of recent work and a link to published articles. Forget the sexy bikini shots and pictures lounging on the beach. Avoid hot-button topics.

Social Media 154

Social Media Media Chicago Technical Review 154

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Empowered introduced “Financing Accelerator”, an online platform designed to simplify clean energy financing for contractors and revolutionize the way financing is seamlessly integrated into the clean energy sales process. Filebase introduced custom domain support for dedicated IPFS gateways. You can read more about it here.

Portfolio 82

Portfolio Technical Review San Francisco Seattle 82

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies. You may know how much to pay in cash or equity for your new VP Engineering. Always seek input.

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

One foundational principle of the framework is the notion of performing “market-engineering” tasks up front, to ensure you have a reasonable chance of what we call “market-product” fit (without a market, there is no need for your product) before beginning the go-to-market phase. Market-Engineering. So, what is ”market-engineering”?

Cleveland 217

Cleveland Early Stage Framework Startup 217

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Let’s now explore the major developments and ultimate use cases for the Lightning Network in two categories: A) payments/finance and B) Web3. . Use Case I: Payments and Finance . When they can invest the marginal engineering hour in listing a new token that drives revenue vs. saving some costs on settlement, it’s hard to justify.

Networking 168

Networking Global OTC Security 168

Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry. Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.

Belarus 107

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2014

If a software engineer, we will call him “Neo”, is needed on a project, then IT is asked if Neo can be assigned to the project. However, our friends in finance will be happy to explain that Neo’s cost to the business is anything but free. The official term of this dilemma: lost opportunity cost.

Management 150

Management Software Engineering Green Engineer 150

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. But we never lost the finance bug. We were infatuated with tech.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Austin 48

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Mattermark (a portfolio company) looked at the matriculation rates for a class of startups. Likewise, early-stage investors may not appreciate just how much follow-on support their portfolio companies will need. So, how have Version One portfolio companies done in this environment? 2016 for Version One companies.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Early Stage Portfolio Valuation 60

Austin Startup

MAY 2, 2017

I take great pride when my portfolio companies break technology barriers and launch products and/or partnerships that truly move the needle for customers. Today, May 2nd, two years from the day I invested in the angel round, the company announces Series A financing with major institutional support and launches Bitfusion Flex in beta.

Artificial Inteligence 48

Artificial Inteligence Cloud Angel Investor Architecture 48

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2021

upgrades to processes to create deeper integration with Finance & Strategy teams. I’ll give you one guess as to how much our VP of Finance loves this capability. :). You have the start of a fabulous in-flight optimization engine. How does the portfolio of all our activities – owned, earned, paid media, promotions etc.

Analytics 131

Analytics Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Campaign 131

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). Plastiq – Payments (NextView Portfolio Company).

Boston 71

Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s Finance is about reporting on historical performance and future planning through the lens of financial metrics.

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Analytics Hiring SQL Forecast 149

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. That is a personality type.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

Meanwhile, financing the company will be quite challenging, and I advised Satya to manufacture parts based only on signed contracts and advances against orders, to avoid getting into an inventory-rich, working capital-poor situation. These resellers buy devices from the U.S. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Discuss.

Costa Rica 115

Costa Rica Incubator Silicon Valley India 115

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing? First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Well, there are multiple nuances to the answer.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Lean is The Engine for the Ambidextrous Organization. Fast forward to today. We can adapt these startup tools for use inside the corporation.

Lean 120

Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

He holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering with University Honors and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D. 2) New market (less common form, examples are Lyft and eShares) and 3) New business model (least common, non-K9 portfolio examples are PriceLine and SolarCity).

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Fralic earned his BS in Finance from Villanova University and his MBA from St. Mr. Kalghatgi is a recovering engineer with several years of experience in front-end design and development focused on mobile and web UX before completing his MBA at Harvard Business School. Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital.

Portfolio 122

Portfolio New York Social Bookmarking Philadelphia 122

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” Are you passionate about creating great user experiences within a product? Both internal and external.

Management 85

Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company. Cash collateral. Minimum requirements.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

I don’t plan to allocate more than 5% of my portfolio to startups. One of my portfolio companies is about eight blocks from where I live, and another one is fifteen minutes away by Muni. I prefer investing in health, transportation, education, and (under some very specific circumstances) finance. Some lawyers, even.

San Francisco 55

San Francisco Startup Silicon Valley Seed Stage 55

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

I helped make this decision by “triangulating&# between our DBA, lead technical architect and our VP of Engineering (who had a better grasp of the financial costs & development costs of each decision). I spent a ton of time with the CEO and VP Finance understanding the businesses, its customers and its operational challenges.

CTO Hire 308

CTO Hire Management Technical Review Part-Time VPE 308

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2018

If we have engineered a better way to start from scratch, it probably looks a lot like this. So, extremely well-financed startups with the support of the best investment teams in the world are successful in doubling the already minuscule success rate of non-VC-backed startups. The VC game is one of portfolio management.

Startup 182

Startup Acquisition Portfolio Venture Capital 182

Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Engineering Serendipity Making real connections starts with having the right people in the room. He does this all round for the Capital Factory portfolio but this week he’ll be in high gear making hundreds of introductions and arranging hundreds of in-person meetings at Capital Factory. Serendipity is what SXSW is all about.

Silicon Valley 50

Silicon Valley Technical Review Texas Venture Capital 50

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 21, 2013

I’ve probably been thinking about this topic a lot lately because I’ve been recently meeting with the other founder at a few of my portfolio companies. They may run a function, such as product or engineering, or they may have a broader operational role and carry a COO title. And then a VP of finance. Grow into the COO role.

Cofounder 45

Cofounder Founder Part-Time VPE Portfolio 45

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

There are strong tailwinds on the renewable energy front as Max discussed this summer: the cost of solar is falling off a cliff; storage and EVs are falling down similar cost curves; we’re seeing innovation in financial engineering and the rise of smart grids and smart homes, etc. New Electricity Providers. Climate Risk Assessment .

Artificial Inteligence 88

Artificial Inteligence B2B Finance Portfolio 88

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

4- Getting comfortable with the numbers and finances. I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. I will keep up my current marketing efforts and have definitely learned to diversify in everything, not just my financial portfolio! .

Entrepreneur 55

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

4- Getting comfortable with the numbers and finances. I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. I will keep up my current marketing efforts and have definitely learned to diversify in everything, not just my financial portfolio! and many others.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Delaware Hiring Social Media 54

Haystack

JANUARY 16, 2019

The more I discover about going beyond just writing checks into startups — concepts like portfolio construction, cross-fund management, and new fund formation — the more I realize how critical the parlay is. Let’s focus on the noun first. Of course, if the fund does well, that investment compounds nicely.

Portfolio 111

Portfolio Syndicate Syndication Stock 111

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. They paid engineers $4,000 more entry-point.

Cofounder 337

Cofounder Technical Cofounder San Diego Startup 337

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

Startups are hungry for credit, but banks and other financial institutions have never been stricter with their financing parameters. They’re using metrics that are often unworkable in the current business environment, causing growing businesses to look elsewhere for capital and increasingly towards alternative forms of financing.

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Advisory Board Entrepreneur Portland Oregon 249