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. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

Andy Brown , Chief Technology Officer, UBS Tim Lyons, Senior Vice President, Technology Innovation Portfolio, Bank of America. Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase. The trick is delivering business insights over this channel: use social networks to support relationship management.

Fractional CTO 122

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Azure 122

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

For many startups, this was the secret to massive success : David Quail is a super talented software engineer, with one exit already under his belt. WordPress itself is free, and you can purchase inexpensive plugins that automatically transform your website into a membership site, e-commerce portal, social network, and even daily deals site.

Artificial Inteligence 167

Artificial Inteligence Cofounder Startup Widget 167

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels.

Angel Investor 241

Angel Investor North America Accredited Investor Angel Groups 241

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Brandsforce is a plug & play social media marketing platform that generates conversations, engagements and measurable actions on social networks. The First Taste Engine. Jinni is a Taste Engine.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

That said, a good number of my past investments have produced a very clear social benefit endogenously, i.e., as a direct result of their business activity. – SignUp.com is an organizing platform to quickly mobilize and coordinate people in their community, school, religious organization, or other social networks.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Partner Technical Review Cofounder 60

Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

10 – Unique Social Network. For the free social media portion, think LinkedIn or (even Facebook) meets Soundcloud, meets Instagram or EyeEm, meets YouTube, meets Patreon, with a focus on collaboration and an environment that fosters cooperative creativity and encourages mutual support among artists.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Technical Review Harvest Portfolio 92

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators. In the Andreessen Horowitz portfolio, no companies deploy applications on premise, every employee has a mobile device and all deploy modern social software.

Romania 77

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Salon C Register: SXSW badge required The Texas Startup Manifesto SXSW Report on Trust: Gov’t, Tech & Media with WP Engine CEO Heather Brunner Join the legendary Dan Rather, Heather Brunner (WP Engine), Jess Clifton (Edelman Digital), moderator Richard Edelman and host Hugh Forrest (SXSW). 3:00PM Location: Hilton?—?Salon

Technical Review 58

Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. This one claims to be the world’s largest single Angel investor network, with 1,100 accredited investor members throughout 27 chapters on t3 continents.

North America 289

North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor Angel Investor 289

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels.

Angel Investor 167

Angel Investor North America Accredited Investor Angel Groups 167

Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented. As I wrote about in my post on Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing , this is painful and you must have a diversified portfolio to practice angel investing and actually make money.

B2C 51

B2C Austin Cofounder IPO 51

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly The firm’s portfolio includes the likes of Gist , Lijit , Brightleaf, Memeo, SimpleGeo , StockTwits and Zynga. Gary Vaynerchuk: Personal branding master and creator of Wine Library TV, Gary Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with an expanding portfolio of companies.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2021

Users are flocking to multiplayer 3D universes such as Fortnite and Roblox that allow people to interact with 3D content and use it to represent their identity – these are the new 3D social networks. From avatar technology, to game engines. Alban Denoyel , Sketchfab’s co-founder and CEO. 2) VR adoption.

Cofounder 184

Cofounder Mobile Revenue Cloud 184

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. It boasts more than 1,000 member-managed groups and VCs, with 40,000 investors, and over 1,800 startups funded in the last 12 months. Keiretsu Forum.

Angel Investor 270

Angel Investor North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor 270

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2013

Exploit Technologies has been working with A*STAR Research Institutes and partner organizations to develop portfolios of enabling technologies to help strengthen the sector’s competitiveness. ARISE’s Entity search engine aims to take search beyond mere web pages. . “With new business models comes the need for new technologies.

Singapore 140

Singapore Asia Technology Networking 140

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators. In the Andreessen Horowitz portfolio, no companies deploy applications on premise, every employee has a mobile device and all deploy modern social software.

Romania 44

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community.

Massachusetts 33

Massachusetts Silicon Valley Washington Boston 33

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Social games overflow out of Facebook. While the amount of social gaming on other social networks, especially the Asian networks, has significantly increased over the course of the year, the vast majority of social gaming still takes place on Facebook. A Lightspeed Portfolio company.

Internet 110

Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 110

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

ScheduleOnce – Scheduling engine to get everyone who needs to meet together at one time. Ximdesk – Collaboration and social networking platform for enterprise. GroupSwim – Social collaboration and community tools to bring your employees, customers, and partners together.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social networking. Social/Sharing. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Mailing lists/groups. Google Groups.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 1, 2011

Not the first search engine. Not the first social network. While Facebook wasn’t the first social network in the Web 2.0 When I go through our portfolio at Foundry Group , I consider many of the companies we’ve invested in to be first movers in their current segment. “Google?

Social Network 143

Social Network Cofounder Portfolio Networking 143

David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

Our research indicates that for these social media-savvy funds, their visibility to investors and potential portfolio companies more than makes up for whatever competitive edge they lose by giving outsiders insight into their activities. Social media is valuable for more than just origination. Site traffic increased by 6.5%

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Social Media Equity Media 114

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2016

First, blogging keeps your site updated, and when you include longtail keywords, this helps your site with search engine rankings. Remember, you are writing for the search engine just as much as you’re writing for your audience. Use social media as an outlet for creating a connection with your followers. Create Brand Advocates.

SEO 100

SEO Social Media Hosting Affiliate 100

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2016

Over the past few years, we’ve seen a number of start-ups try to carve away parts of LinkedIn by being the “LinkedIn for x” – where x ranges from doctors, teachers, finance professionals, academics, lawyers, engineers, etc. One of the most obvious examples of the online portfolio is within the creative community.

Vertical 60

Vertical Reputation Portfolio Curation 60

Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

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. But this time, I gave a different answer. We tend to favor companies that have a “distribution advantage”.

Distribution 66

Distribution Vertical Viral B2B 66

Spencer Fry

MAY 11, 2011

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is unquestionably a first step. This is an everyday occurrence for social network services such as Twitter, Facebook, About.me, Flickr, and LinkedIn, but what about sites without social networking components? If you visit our marketing site, all you see is "Your online portfolio."

Bootstrapping 78

Bootstrapping Marketing Portfolio SEO 78

Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

I saw our hardware portfolio companies struggling with their supply chains; they were overly reliant on expensive air freight because the ocean freight market was so opaque. At the same time, I believe that the engineers and creators of these products are fundamentally good people. Can you share an overview of what you discovered?

Social Media 82

Social Media Campaign Media Marketing 82

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. If you’ve read this far, you definitely should : Try out our Funding Recommendation Engine. Company: Home Portfolio. It’s free.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Transformify

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Surprisingly, the engineers, consultants and teachers are even more interest in generating «free earnings» than the IT experts. It is common for a freelancer to be asked to provide references, links to their portfolio and previously completed projects, etc. Freelance work exists even in the construction industry.

Software Review 67

Software Review Bankruptcy Portfolio Advertising 67

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. for anyone needing user interface, design and branding for their project visit my portfolio: [link] we love to build bold identities for fresh ideas. See how it works?

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

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. Google couldn’t become #1 search engine without VC money. A few more stats make that picture look worse.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Datanetis’s solutions enable organizations to leverage, for the first time, social networks and social influencers as part of their marketing activities on a large scale. Sagarmatha’s core technology is a sophisticated, proprietary data mining engine. helps manage their networks and services effectively.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

There were no social networks, let alone sharing economy then, so it took a while to take off. A platform will become more complex as it grows over time and will need to be re-engineered. Back in 2006, that was a very weird concept. Until the first seed round in 2010 we were building the company with no funding.

Global 62

Global Europe France Cofounder 62

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. But the short answer is that the best intro is from a portfolio company of that VC or by other entrepreneurs whom that VC respects.

Developer 366

Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

In addition, Cellguide’s GPSense engine is chip agnostic and could use pseudo- ranges from any GNSS receiver thus creating a fully featured locaiton and navigation engine. Dasur’s solution is based on a unique, patented pattern recognition engine. Cellint provides the best road traffic information service world wide.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103