ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

According to HubSpot , demand generation is “the umbrella of marketing programs that get customers excited about your company’s product and services.”. That sounds suspiciously like…marketing. For one, outbound marketing. Demand generation would not exist without the shift to inbound marketing.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

At NextView Ventures, we have a number of companies in our portfolio which are “marketplace” businesses, where buyers and sellers meet to exchange a good or service. Brute force a mini-market and expand. Often this focus can be on a specific geography or vertical. Piggyback off an existing marketplace.

Engineer 201

Engineer Vertical Portfolio Seed Stage 201

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses. Arguably revenue is the best signal of product-market fit for B2B startups. Business facing companies typically provide software or an online service for which their customers pay a fee.

Revenue 234

Revenue Product B2B Marketing 234

VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

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. I love landscapes as they help organise the categories needed to define the vertical.

Cloud 200

Cloud Venture Capital Cofounder Non-Compete 200

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. 1) Market fund. Why is it now more feasible to use technology in the VC investing process?

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Hundreds of new micro funds somehow keep getting into the market. If every sector is to be transformed by technology, and if private markets keep growing, it makes today’s conditions understandable. More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. 5/ Early Effects Of The Softbank Effect.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

The objective of the conference was to understand how APIs will power the next great web and mobile companies and share some best practises in understanding when to use APIs or not and how can API company best market to developers.

API 48

API Fractional CTO CTO Hire San Francisco 48

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA. The INTRO tool is available to non-portfolio companies as well. —– Indie.vc

Equity 78

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

#2- Following my passion where there was no market. While the events happened in 1979 the lessons for entrepreneurs are timeless:I had a passion for coaching senior executives and quietly conducted market research to confirm that there was a need for this service.On Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! . #4-

Entrepreneur 56

Entrepreneur Delaware Hiring Social Media 56

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

#2- Following my passion where there was no market. While the events happened in 1979 the lessons for entrepreneurs are timeless:I had a passion for coaching senior executives and quietly conducted market research to confirm that there was a need for this service.On Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! #4-

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Delaware Hiring Social Media 54

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. And in the entertainment category, our portfolio company TripleLift provides monetization for online publishers through native ad technology. BookBub ), hybrid B2C/B2B2C models (e.g.

B2B 120

B2B B2C Vertical Portfolio 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development.

Customer Development 238

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Each day some new story comes out about some creative marketing plan that takes the cake and drives huge traffic to a business. Whether you pull off unique marketing stunts, have products which need no introduction or style yourself as an innovative CEO, having a defining quality is what customers will notice. #1

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Technical Review Harvest Portfolio 87

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Both venture firms sought my advice for their portfolio companies. I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. It was a long way from Ellis Island.) Would you mind sharing them?

Silicon Valley 125

Silicon Valley RSS Venture Capital Customer Development 125

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

These investments include Kaggle, a startup that compels engineers to compete against each other in order to solve “hard problems,” and Continuuity, Parse, Pushd and Citus Data. The fund views its portfolio startups as fulfilling one of the three layers of the “Big Data stack”: 1. Advertise Here. Advertise Here.

Early Stage 70

Early Stage San Francisco Los Angeles Southern California 70

Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

For us, the investment is certainly fresh and newest in our portfolio, but it also feels familiar. CEO Anne Raimondi and my partner Rob were colleagues together at eBay in the early 2000’s before she went on the lead product and/or marketing at many household internet names like Zazzle, InsiderPages, and SurveyMonkey.

Seed Stage 199

Seed Stage Cofounder Portfolio Curation 199

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. I remember thinking, “What a disappointment one of the smartest engineers I know and he is going to waste his time making games.”

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 120

ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

presence in new markets and verticals. Helen Curtis from Coterie Marketing recommends getting a potential partner on a phone call and evaluating the big picture together: What will our biggest hurdle be? Is there market appetite for our joint offer? Can we really stand out in the market? higher brand awareness.

Channel 84

Channel Partner Programming B2B 84

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Over the next four years, Sisu, which strives to be the future of medical devices in emerging markets, expects to impact 14 million lives with Hemafuse?—?direct and Indian companies.

Baltimore 62

Baltimore Africa South Africa Michigan 62

ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

presence in new markets and verticals. Helen Curtis from Coterie Marketing recommends getting a potential partner on a phone call and evaluating the big picture together: What will our biggest hurdle be? Is there market appetite for our joint offer? Can we really stand out in the market? higher brand awareness.

Channel 77

Channel Partner Programming B2B 77

Hippoland

APRIL 3, 2016

It’s super annoying when investors say your market size is small. So, you do all this extra research – you look for Gartner’s excerpts and articles about projected market sizes, etc, and you come back with research to argue that your market is much bigger. Unfortunately, it’s ineffective.

Differentiation 48

Differentiation Marketing Vertical Software 48

Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. Sevin Rosen in Dallas launched the next year and throughout the 1980s and 1990s the two firms vied for their place in the Texas market.

Venture Capital 54

Venture Capital Austin Texas Private Equity 54

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. Real-time search engine. Read More: TechCrunch.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 4, 2012

A couple other things I’ve written on this specific topic recently include: The Peter Principle Applied to Management , which focuses on keeping people as individual contributors when they’re not able to move vertically into a management role within their function or department, and. Moves like this don’t always work.

Vertical 91

Vertical Portfolio Management Engineer 91

Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

It’s some combination of great teams , attractive markets , and promising products. This isn’t true for every single one of our portfolio companies, but in at least half, we had a thesis about why this company had some sort of unfair advantage or head-start when it comes to getting their product out into the market.

Distribution 66

Distribution Vertical Viral B2B 66

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. The system would choose the appropriate group for each situation (mobile device held vertically, wide screen TV, spoken aloud, user preference, whatever comes next).

Mobile 101

Mobile HTML Flash Software Review 101

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

As he grows, he can simply focus on increasing the restaurant portfolio and getting more corporate clients. I also advised him to avoid consumer marketing and market his service through the HR departments of the corporations as an employee benefit. It would be much cheaper to acquire customers this way. Discuss.

India 116

India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical 116

Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The Android UI is one which only an engineer can truly love… lot’s of icons, buttons, menus, and gestures. It’s time to revamp the Android market(s) by moving away from the category navigation model to a strong search function where someone can use the search facility to find apps by stacking up metadata strings (e.g.

Metadata 28

Metadata Software Review Vertical Software 28

David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

However, Israeli companies historically did not focus on marketing to their immediate neighbors. Pre-seed startups (all vertical) are welcome to register to world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, the Founder Institute Final Admissions Deadline: October 04. INVESTMENT ORGANIZATIONS FOCUSED ON THE ISRAEL-MENA AXIS. Apply here.

UAE 60

UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. He researched his market, he thought hard about how he thought it might ultimately monetize, he built a prototype and he created a very compelling vision for where he thought his market would head.

Term Sheet 303

Term Sheet Mobile Cofounder Early Stage 303

Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2016

1) The investor doesn’t / no longer invests in your vertical / space. Now, the confusing / annoying part of this, is that very often you’ll see a company in an investor’s portfolio that is in your space, but then he/she will say that he/she doesn’t invest in your area. All of you passed on me, because I wasn’t an engineer.

B2B 48

B2B Angel Investor Portfolio Vertical 48

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

The growing impact investment market provides capital to address the world’s most pressing challenges in sectors such as sustainable agriculture, clean technology, microfinance, and affordable and accessible basic services including housing, healthcare, and education.” –the Global Impact Investing Network.

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Global South Africa 174

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

I agree with that, they are becoming no different to other large vertically integrated service providers like Facebook and Apple. As Danny points out, there is one important historical difference though, and that is Google’s “Do no evil positioning”, which gives the worlds largest search engine much further to fall than its competitors.

Canada 97

Canada Vertical Portfolio Search 97

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

They market and they sell. Well, at the very heart of the marketing and selling problem is the concept of lead generation. As the Internet became mainstream, this was largely replaced (at least in the universe we live in) by email marketing campaigns, so the key information was the email address of a lead. Social Contacts.

Greece 116

Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. surrendered market leadership and thought leadership. didn’t care/focus enough about discovering how to market eventvue. It’s free.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. Might be kinda large market., The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62