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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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Yet even so, there still seems to be quite a runway in this space due to three mega trends: Every company is discovering that they need to use technology to streamline their business and improve their competitive position. Buying cloud applications has become the norm.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Some of the things that have helped realty management companies like Venterra grow is their emphasis on customer service and employee satisfaction, as well as the fact that they embrace technology as a means to these ends. The truth is that embracing technology can help businesses of all sizes.

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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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ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2022

Accordingly, the Chemical and pharmaceutical industries are also growing business With Technology. Changes have occurred in most businesses, from children’s education to corporate meetings that involve digital technologies for interactivity. Further, many start-ups have been stimulated by fresh concepts and technologies.

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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. Our meetup is focused on how to use technology to enhance investing in private markets, including VC, growth, buyout, and distressed. I asked him to write a guest post: Hi!

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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

AUGUST 2, 2022

Is there an early mover advantage for being early on a technology trend? In the first five months of 2022, more than $120 billion have been invested in building out metaverse technology and infrastructure, according to McKinsey. The largest and most popular 3D engine has big plans for the Metaverse. Fortnite generated $5.8

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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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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. While all three of our most recent investments built on this foundational idea still remain stealthy, everyone utilizes connected technology to uniquely deliver a service or bundled product. Recent Investment Themes.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 24, 2019

and also has the imagination to picture what the world *could* be with technology. These individuals can be entrepreneurs, engineers, PMs, data scientists, designers, creatives, writers, students, etc. – as long as s/he has a passion for technology and is aligned with our core beliefs and values. what can be better?)

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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

JUNE 20, 2020

The best software engineering companies always prioritize exploring all of the possibilities to find the most accurate solutions as they can. One of the most relevant examples is the technology which can transform speech into text. In this case, Erbis comes up as one of the most prominent vendors. The case studies and references.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

But the portfolio of options available to Admiral Nimitz and President Roosevelt were not limited to battleships. ONR is the Navy’s science and technology systems command. As the chief engineer of the Navy, he was the master of engineering the large and the complex. woke up on Dec.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

This presents a great opportunity for entrepreneurs to launch their own businesses and capitalize on the latest technology. You should give some thought to working in app development if you are proficient in coding, knowledgeable about technology, and able to learn new things quickly. There are two methods to tackle this situation.

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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. Candidates must have a proven track record of scaling consumer applications, growing world-class technology teams, and delivering fast iterative business results. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

None of that can compare with being the CEO of a startup facing a rapidly diminishing bank account, your best engineer quitting, working until 10pm and rushing to the airport and catching a redeye for a “ Hail Mary ” close of a customer, with your board demanding you do it faster. People skills. People skills. Fund raising skills.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 20, 2020

At Version One, we have a core belief that technology can transform the world. we first have to arm our builders with the best tools to unlock the power of technology. Jam’s mission has inspired a fantastic investor base to come together for their $3.5m seed round. Essentially, we need to build for builders.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Today with every city, state and country trying to build out a technology cluster, following Dino’s progress can provide others with a roadmap of what’s worked and what has not. ——-.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In this new era of state sponsored hacking and fully professionalized cybercrime, it is heartening to see engineers get seriously organized and tackle something on the scale of securing the entire web. Website technology providers had to make HTTPS a turnkey experience. The drive to HTTPS the web did not happen by accident.

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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. Enterprise Tech in 2019.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

The engineers can produce various models in a matter of seconds. According to Statista , the market size for AR and VR technology will rise close to 300 billion U.S. This feedback-based approach has been integrated into app development thanks to AI and ML technologies, and no wonder successful apps take this trend into account.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Head of Portfolio Management, AQR Capital Management. David Rukshin, Chief Technology Officer, WorldQuant. If you are a quant, trader, or financial engineer, limited VIP passes are available. Fabio Mercurio, Head of Quantitative Analytics, Bloomberg LP. Lukasz Pomorski, Ph.D., Karl Sprules, Partner & CTO, AllianceBernstein.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

And my sense is the trend carries outside of our portfolio these days. And search engines like sourcing.io help you build a specific list based on skills you’re seeking. Now your mom has the same smartphone as her Facebook engineer daughter and the tech readers are increasingly judgmental, ready to snark on newness.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

First Round Capital’s forum for portfolio executives is a powerful example of a scaleable resource. This allows a VC to put more capital to work in their past portfolio companies with relatively little extra effort. – Provide hands-on operational support for portfolio companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

Today there are a wealth of disruptive technologies available, including the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), advanced virtual reality (VR), and high-function robotics. Here are some keys to that mindset that I have seen working for successful entrepreneurs: Think customer-centric rather than technology-centric.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Mattermark (a portfolio company) looked at the matriculation rates for a class of startups. Likewise, early-stage investors may not appreciate just how much follow-on support their portfolio companies will need. So, how have Version One portfolio companies done in this environment? 2016 for Version One companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

portfolios. Don’t know the running rate for engineers? I won’t need to hire many engineers or customer support staff. Tags: Startup Advice startup technology vc venture capital. Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 You get the point.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

The Denominator Effect I recently wrote a post about funding for investors to think about having a diversified portfolio , which I called “shots on goal.” You’ll find engineers out of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, UCSD, Caltech or execs out of UCLA, Spelman, NYU, etc. On Funding?—?The Focus a lot on the denominator.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Instead, post pictures from a recent Habitat for Humanity trip, showcase graphic art skills or a love for writing by including a portfolio of recent work and a link to published articles. Forget the sexy bikini shots and pictures lounging on the beach. Avoid hot-button topics.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

We've also seen extensive use of technology and increased remote working. 1- Seamless integration of digital technology. Rather than depending just on SEO, marketers will need to optimize picture sitemaps and employ descriptive filenames for photos that are identified by search engines. Photo Credit: Shad Elia.

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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. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” A PM basically sits at the center of UX, technology and business.

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Transformify

MAY 15, 2023

With technologies advancing from time to time, there is a significant need for the best software developers now more than ever. According to the 2022 State of Software Engineers survey, having opportunities for professional development and career growth is one of the elements of their ideal company.

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