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' Today and tomorrow. Boris & Angela.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Which engineers dialed it in before a big release because it was during July 4th weekend? ” Who cut you in on their bonus because even though you’re “just an sales engineer” they know you really deserved more credit for this deal. You hire people who look good on paper. After 6 months – you know.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

So having spent a lot of time thinking about this Silicon Valley is a thing in and of itself. So everybody goes through this phase of we want to be the next Silicon Valley. You have a company called Oblong (in your portfolio) which is a Minority Report type company. That’s the dumbest thing you could try to do.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. The flaw in this thinking is that “first customer ship&# is simply the date when engineering thinks they “finished” the 1.0 release of the product. The products sold themselves.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Secondly, the driver of returns for the funds raised in 1978 – 1981 was not their underlying portfolios, at what stage, or in what industries they were built. Some were Silicon Valley early stage companies, such as Apple, Quantum, and Masstor Systems. Silicon Valley firms also did many non-tech deals.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

Today one of our portfolio companies, GrabCAD, announced it’s Series A funding led by Matrix. In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. zhoucn9999.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves. How to map stakeholders and systems’ dynamics?

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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. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year was a banner year as boldstart portfolio cos raised over $150mm of follow on capital from some of the top Series A and B investors (highlights below). This means more collaboration with the Fortune 500 and more go-to-market experience as our portfolio companies navigate their path to first customers.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Should those entrepreneurs who have built their business elsewhere move to Silicon Valley to raise money? Since 1M/1M is a global program, we have many entrepreneurs in various parts of the world who are building interesting businesses, and trying to determine how best to interface with the ecosystem that exists in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Our firm has a portfolio of companies across a broad range of markets and the way we look at it is pretty simple – the deals fall into two types: those with customer/market risk and those with invention risk.” Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. The real risk in markets like Web 2.0 Order Here. Now In Print!

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. 3:00PM Location: Hilton?—?Salon SXSW and Edelman have partnered to launch a special report of the Trust Barometer?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2014

We graduate more engineers in our greater region than anywhere else in the US. We have top 25 engineering schools than anywhere else, too. I never wanted to be a derivative of Silicon Valley. We have a large number of highly talented engineers and entrepreneurs now developing companies in our local market.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

I watched him jump on a plane regularly to be down at all of our board meetings and while I know that sounds like an obvious commitment from a VC, I’ve watched other scenarios where NorCal VCs find reasons to always dial in via Google Hangouts or ask non-Silicon Valley investments to travel to Menlo Park or San Francisco for meetings.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). GrabCAD – 3D Community and Collaboration (NextView Portfolio Company). Insight Squared – SMB Business Intelligence (NextView Portfolio Company). Raizlabs – Mobile Development.

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Agile VC

JULY 16, 2014

One of our portfolio companies, Plastiq , announced yesterday that they raised a $10M Series B led by Khosla Ventures and are planning to move their headquarters from Boston to San Francisco. Some lament the relocation of Plastiq and other companies who start in Boston but end up moving to Silicon Valley or other startup hubs.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

And these ideas have ways of seeping into board discussions with portfolio companies as in, “have you ever thought about trying A, B or C?&# While all your competitors are trying to copy your model, you’re already on to the next thing on your engineering team. But whom you’re marketing to is not always an easy topic.

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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’ve been around Silicon Valley for a while so I’m connected to many engineers and investors whom I deeply respect.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). For many early-stage companies still working on their product or developing customers, most of their challenges do not require large amounts of capital nearly as much as they require expertise – particularly in engineering, design, and marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

Defending the Brash Arrogance of Silicon Valley | by Mike Greenfield – [link]. Reverse Engineering Your Startup’s Success - [link]. 6 Interesting Facebook Tricks You Might Not Know | Search Engine Journal – [link]. 15 Beautiful and Awesome Examples of Portfolio Designs | Silky Designs – [link].

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

Here are some of the factors: (1) Amazing Engineering Skills – Let’s just start with the big one. There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area. tomnora.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Uber — What’s Fueling Uber’s Growth Engine? Why the Midwest is better for startups than saturated Silicon Valley | VentureBeat - crowdspring.co/1akquBC. A Guide to Designing a Portfolio Website - crowdspring.co/HarwpQ. Hire for potential - crowdspring.co/1aHHrTp. GrowthHackers - crowdspring.co/1akvc2y.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. Immediately.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Three years ago, I brought Angela onboard as an analyst to help manage the growing amount of work and bolster our presence in Silicon Valley. She has been managing the day-to-day activities of the fund, while working with our portfolio companies on data and hiring projects. She has built a deep network in Silicon Valley.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: A Fight in Silicon Valley: Founders Push for Control. Why Register? Personalize your own news page.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Since 2011, we have invested in four Toronto-based startups as well as one Ottawa-based company, out of 60 active companies in our portfolio. For instance, for every dollar spent on an engineering team, companies can get approximately one third of the cost back via government-incentive programs. We are aware of only one other U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico).

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Before we talk about how this might work, it’s helpful to take a look back at a case study of what gave rise to Silicon Valley as an innovation cluster and the San Francisco Bay Area as a modern supercity. In the case of Silicon Valley, it was a combination of: Universities like Stanford. Federal government.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. They paid engineers $4,000 more entry-point. Engineering vs. non-engineering. [00:10:32]

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This is going to be a drag on the portfolio, this is going to be a waste of time.”. One one level, the design mindset is similar to the engineering mindset, in that it seeks to frame and understand a problem, and then solve that problem. That was exactly how the partnership reacted when I brought in Airbnb. CONCLUSION.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Yesterday, K9 Ventures portfolio company, Forethought AI , was declared the winner of the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2018 Startup Battlefield competition. Sami is an engineer’s engineer. Using my own image as I wasn’t sure about TechCrunch’s rules/policy around using their media for the blog post).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D , part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley , and part three The 6 Decisions to Make Before Setting up an Innovation Outpost. Silicon Valley, Boston). Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. If anything using the word “Silicon” seems a bit derivative to NorCal. Interestingly, nobody I know in NorCal EVER calls it Silicon Valley, “Silicon Valley.” Don’t you think?

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