Version One Ventures

AUGUST 26, 2016

Every start-up is unique so the same path won’t work for every company and management team. With that said, here are some general guidelines I have developed over the years for building a management team. At 15 people, you want someone who will do all the work, but also has the ability to scale up and manage a small team.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Microsoft Azure, Heroku, Google App Engine, and other well-established PaaS providers let you install your own cloud-based applications. In the cloud, it’s simple to automate disaster recovery, security , and management. You can increase or decrease resources, use vertical or horizontal scaling – as you wish.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Each of these GM divisions focused on its own day-to-day operations with each division general manager responsible for the division’s profit and loss. There’s the Alfred P.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Instead, use an existing user manual template that’s appropriate for your process and vertical. If you’re not using an automated solution to manage revision control, put appropriate policies in writing to ensure that no work is lost. Implement Standardized Development Processes.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

He is currently on a mission to empower 1,000 agencies to become vertical-market specialists, leveraging his extensive experience and insights. Key Takeaways Corey Quinn underscores the significance of vertical market specialization in transitioning from founder-led sales to scalable growth for agencies. This is John Jantsch.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

But the founders also recognized – as many great founders do – that they were going to have to build out an experienced management team to become the billion company everybody believes this can be. Babe Ruth vs. Lance Armstrong. The first move was to bring in digital media veteran Courtney Holt as COO.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

by Cooper Hollmaier, technical SEO manager at Visiture. Using free tools like Google’s Keyword Planner and Google Search Console can help you identify which search queries users are typing in to find your business and where gaps in content exist for your vertical. Cooper Hollmaier is technical SEO manager at Visiture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

He and Bill Lowe somehow managed to convince then CEO Frank Cary to give them a dozen engineers, a small budget, and a few months, to set up a small skunk-works called Entry Level Systems in Boca Raton, Florida, to develop a low-cost personal computer (code name “ Acorn ”).

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

Communities like those of uTest (software QA testers), as well as NextView portfolio companies GrabCAD (mechanical engineers) and thredUP (parents), which resulted in marketplaces had origins in this approach. Often this focus can be on a specific geography or vertical. Piggyback off an existing marketplace.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

Now users interact with digital products in much more complex and different ways than a decade ago…the more complex your stack is, the more customer data you are spreading across many different tools, and the more time you (or your engineering team) will need to reassemble the puzzle and get a full reasonable picture. Integrations.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Our research showed that LTV was much higher compared to other verticals we have worked in the past which made the decision to change our approach a no-brainer. In 2020 we applied the same approach to two of our customers: idronect (software to manage drone businesses) and Opsfleet (software development company).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The main thing you’re concerned about in this phase of your company is maintaing control of your board, which in a legalistic perspective is ensuring that founders & management have the majority of seats on the board. how to evolve our management team. We have also built out an amazing management team.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

PR and reputation management can be huge in getting your brand established. . There are countless strategies to consider employing here, including search engine optimization (SEO), pay per click (PPC) advertising, email marketing, and even traditional advertising are all viable options. . Marketing/advertising channels.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

She’s also a professor at the University of Cincinnati in their Engineering department. Steve Jobs once challenged Obama to find him 30,000 engineers so he could build a plant in California. It wasn’t like we were packaging software we were producing the highest performing vertical axis wind turbine. Thanks Pamela.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Search engines are vital for discoverability. Google’s Public Search Liaison Danny Sullivan has openly pushed back against those who want subscription-only content flagged in search results: Our automated systems try to present the best information in relation to a search topic, as people expect us to do as a search engine.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

As we collect more and more data, it’s becoming increasingly hard to piece together and manage that data, and more importantly, to use that data in real-time to build better campaigns. Contact Management: The Beginning. launched a contact management software. A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

If you are considering developing a vertical SaaS, it is your responsibility to communicate the technology’s robust benefits in a way that’s accessible to your potential customers. Here are a few pieces of advice for building well-loved software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms that have helped me and my team realize our ambitions.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

My wife and I both worked as mechanical engineers, so we wanted a name that paid tribute to our profession. Momentum is a term that is highly related to engineering, as it relates to motion and dynamics. The management team of one of the companies sat down for a brainstorming session. 9- A merger of two companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

The idea of aggregation is powerful in a world where your social communications are fragmented and increasingly hard to manage. The two most ambitious projects were ThereNow and IQ Engines. The pro’s (for me) – the UI was simply beautiful. I wrote about how to give demos in a previous post.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The offering is a managed service, priced at $7,000-$10,000 for a one-time setup fee and a $2,500-$3,000 per month maintenance and services charge. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

A page that’s well-matched for user intent can outperform those that optimize primarily for search engines—in search and after the click. IP address) can provide clues to search engines, as can search history, time of year, or time of day. Look at the search engine results page (SERP). Geography (i.e. A manual process works.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Simulation to Reduce Invention Risk If you’re in a vertical where “invention risk” is dominant, then you want to do everything you can to manage and reduce those risks. When I wrote the Four Steps to the Epiphany , the Customer Development text, I hadn’t yet thought about what vertical markets it might be appropriate for.)

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Version One Ventures

MAY 4, 2015

While these ingredients certainly aren’t unique to hiring a ride, they do not cut across all industries and verticals. For example, through Facebook Connect, Airbnb has managed to make people feel safe and secure when opening up their home or staying in a stranger’s place. Sites do exist for non-commoditized services today.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Earth remote sensing (ERS) data has become a critical source when solving practical problems of local and global level, monitoring natural and man-made objects and phenomena, increasing efficiency in many areas of human activity , especially agriculture, transport, fuel and energy complex, construction, environment management, etc.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

And, as we brainstormed with today's audience, they suggested other excellent use cases, including one for product managers to discuss feature-function priorities with customers and prospects. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Taariq, please note!

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

. - HT: don''t outsource communication b/c part of core UX even though APIs available - healthy dev environment around APIs, very important to get confidence you can build your platformon on top of them - APIs give you freedom, don''t have to invest both people and tech in maintain internal platforms - HT had to totally revamp their infra, to manage (..)

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. 4) Manage deal flow. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce. Google Ventures (GV). Pitchbot.vc

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

New building materials, construction equipment, and innovative project management made construction more efficient – unlocking technologies that lead to higher skyscrapers, undersea tunnels, longer bridges, and mega projects that changed the face of the Earth.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

My ex-boss was going to be the VP of Engineering and I would report to the CEO whose marketing acumen and sales instincts seemed at the time to be telepathic and sense of theater was legend. Our vision was that just as the PC was revolutionizing the business market, we were going to do the same for scientists and engineers.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 2, 2022

Vertical banners placed on sidebars are known as skyscrapers. . The ad networks manage what space is available, matching it with demand from advertisers. . They can also come in search results on search engines like Google, and they can be included as recommended content by discovery platforms. . The Technology .

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Every startup has some methodology for product development, launch and life-cycle management. Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. In this post I’m going to describe the flaws of the product development model.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

WordPress is the most popular content management system. It means that maintenance engineers will be required, further increasing the company expenses. Managing a large WordPress site comes with greater responsibility. Also, the high traffic makes scalability a must when managing a large site. Vertical Scalability.

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SVPG

APRIL 28, 2012

Armed with her launch checklist, she schedules a meeting with John, the product manager. My partner, Marty, wrote elegantly about the necessity to split product management and product marketing into two separate roles [link] , and this assumes that model. Vertical/affiliate/evangelist programs. She is on the marketing team.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Problem Solving with Data Driven Methods and the Innovation Engineering System “ News Flash: Innovation is no longer just a specialist’s job. The name Innovation Engineering is relevant: Innovation is about ideas that matter relating to new products or services, how we do our work, or even how we ignite social change in our communities.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

Getting business websites more visibility is what we do, but I want to focus on building a reporting system that demonstrates our progress in a way that non-tech CEOS and managers can understand. Each month Peak District SEO serves 25 customers with SEO services. Overly complex reports than nobody reals or understands are a wasted resource.

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