David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

As I’ve worked to build out HOF Capital ’s portfolio acceleration platform , the #1 question I think about is: how do we scalably support our companies? Many VCs offer (or strive to offer) a bundle of levers and support structures to help their portfolio companies. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 31, 2023

A Strong Portfolio of Your Previous Work After getting accepted in the Shopify Experts Marketplace, you will have a page to list your portfolio items, experiences, locations, and rates. Therefore, you should have your site on WIX, Weebly, or WordPress to build your portfolio.

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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. It’s hard to find good engineering talent right now, and if you’ve found somebody who knows what they’re doing they probably know others.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.) Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. NV: What are some basics you’d recommend to anyone hiring an engineer?

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

SEO – Search Engine Optimization for Online Marketing Concept. Next, they optimize the content with keywords to rank highly in the Google search engine results page (SERP). These search engine optimization (SEO) skills are absolutely essential for digital marketers. Is it any wonder they’re essential?

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View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

We can stay busy by expending time and effort supporting the existing portfolio, which is the right thing to do and a good use of time. Like most VC’s, we’ve been engrossed in helping our portfolio company founders navigate these challenging times while thinking through how we will approach this market going forward. Wait and see.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2020

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is one such domain that is dotted with misinformation. You should shape your content around semantics and natural language because they will play a crucial role in determining how pages rank in the search engine results page (SERP). This problem often plagues popular, hot topics. Conclusion.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios. Automated Root Cause Analysis – there’s an opportunity for automated root cause analysis to substantially improve incident resolution time, and the experience for engineers.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2022

To conduct search engine optimization on your website doesn’t simply mean to add the right keywords at the right time, you also have to make your page easy for crawlers to navigate. Furthermore, there are many designs available for the creation of online portfolios. . Always Remember SEO.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Of course, they don’t have the engineering team to build the technology on their own – and this means that the number of enterprise software customers keeps growing. This has been the key success factor for our portfolio company Ada who builds automation-first chat bots that are now used by companies like Telus, Coinbase, Upwork and AirAsia.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

Notable portfolio companies include Uber, Slack, Jet.com, FlatIron Health, Kobalt Music Group and many others. Typically invest in series C and above, notable portfolio companies include Stripe, Lyft, Robinhood, UI Path, Snap, Duolingo and many more household names. The website lists a handful of portfolio companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

After my board meeting I had to do an interview with a CFO candidate that one of my portfolio companies asked me to speak with. She was one of the lead engineers at Uber. I left the meeting and had to attend a 3-hour board meeting where two founders have been fighting and each want the other one fired. But it’s only Tuesday.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

My good friend Alexander Osterwalder , the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations of the Lean Methodology) has written a playbook (along with his associate partner Tendayi Viki ,) From Innovation Theater to Growth Engine to explain how to build and implement repeatable innovation processes inside a company. .

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

SEO – Search Engine Optimization for Online Marketing Concept. Next, they optimize the content with keywords to rank highly in the Google search engine results page (SERP). These search engine optimization (SEO) skills are absolutely essential for digital marketers. Is it any wonder they’re essential?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2022

2) Technology – Blockchain/Defi/Web3, 5G/6G and stronger GPUs, cloud gaming and graphic engines like Unity and Unreal, advanced GPUs, hardware (such as the Oculus Quest 2, the first mainstream VR headset at $300 a pop, with over 10 million units sold in 2021) all make it easier for the Metaverse to succeed now.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2023

Optimize your website for search engines to increase your visibility online. If you’re an investor, you could diversify your portfolio by exploring different property types or locations. Embrace digital marketing In today’s digital age, having a robust online presence is essential for growing your real estate business.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

AI startups in the Alexa Fund portfolio. Some of the past participants in the AWS Builder Space program in Israel (Disclosure: Novos is a Remagine Ventures portfolio company). They are led by AWS solutions architects and engineers, and feature technical deep dives, live demonstrations, customer examples, and Q&A with AWS experts.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 19, 2014

You may noticed from prior posts that we’ve had a difficult time at Foundry Group managing our growing portfolio of WordPress sites. In our portfolio of startup companies, following is how websites usually get managed. Startup engineering teams are now tasked with managing a CMS system. The startup’s ops and engineering team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

VC has operated as an “old boys club”, with access to capital often requiring entrance through an elite university engineering department in one of two cities. Our portfolio companies value us as sparring partners. Like many modern VCs, we’re committed to investing in the community and in our portfolio companies.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2019

That type of retirement planner is defined as a fiduciary, and according to a survey by Financial Engines , 93 percent of Americans think financial advisors who provide retirement advice should be fiduciaries — legally required to put their clients’ best interest first. You utilize other income-producing vehicles in the portfolio.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

It’s a global phenomenon, but to be successful in AI, startup hubs require a density of AI engineers, access to data and compute power and access to capital. Our generative AI portfolio includes HourOne , a text to video solution that enables companies to create high quality presenter-led video from text without the need of a camera.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Many of the talented entrepreneurs and engineers who left India to study and work in the US and Canada, are now coming back to India and building incredible companies. Ada is the most notable AI company in the V1 family, but many others – like Dabble , Jam and Pickle Robot – are creatively using AI in their products.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. Included in our recent investments in this category are both Dunwello (rethinking how employee feedback and reviews are delivered) and a stealthy investment in NYC empowering software engineers. Recent Investment Themes.

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David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. Engineers, product managers, and platform managers building tech solutions for private market investing. I asked him to write a guest post: Hi! We posted on our site a more in-depth overview of ff’s Tech Platform.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Product and Engineering. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Product and Engineering. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. First Round Capital. The Review. Plusstartup. The Review.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2013

We made 3 new investments: Figure 1 , a photo-sharing network for medical professionals; Upverter , a cloud-based hardware engineering platform; and one unannounced investment. These new investments bring the total number of portfolio companies to 14. News portfolio review' Boris & Angela.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Employees are the engine that will drive your company to success. Besides, taking any shot at moving to new territory or expanding the product portfolio requires strong financial foundations. Hire the top-tier employees. Prioritize repeat purchases. This may sound counterintuitive but there is more than one way to grow a company.

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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. But the most difficult challenge is starting the marketplace engine in the first place, which can be sparked with one of the techniques above.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Addepar and PEVCTech invite you to a dinner and presentation on “Tracking, Analyzing, and Reducing Risk When Investing in a Diverse Portfolio of Illiquid Assets.” Our friends at Addepar will share insight into how their platform can be used to analyze collections of alternatives portfolios at huge scale.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2020

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has become widely popular in recent times. The term SEO demonstrates the ranking of a certain website when it is searched in the search engines like Bing, Google, etc. To be a great graphics designer, you just need two things & those are; visual thinking power & a portfolio.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

The work history, clients, portfolio and reviews are gone, just like that? Rick has over 15 years of experience in software engineering, is the author of “ The New Frontier In Web Api Programming “, and has engineered a library of popular software algorithms (HackFastAlgos). Too big to fail.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

I shared a link to Code Climate with a number of CTOs/VPs of Engineering in my network, both inside and outside the NextView portfolio, just asking for their quick opinion. Chad Pytel at thoughtbot, many of the NextView portfolio companies, tens of thousands of developers, and I are already believers.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 24, 2019

These individuals can be entrepreneurs, engineers, PMs, data scientists, designers, creatives, writers, students, etc. Working with existing portfolio companies, including helping out with hiring, financial modeling, and research. Executing projects of your own direction that help Version One and/or our portfolio companies.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. 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.

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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 Coatue Management led the round with participation from existing investors (Andreessen Horowitz, GV and us!) and new investors too. TechCrunch covered this lates t funding news. .

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