Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

We were fortunate to host very talented speakers from our portfolio (Ilya Sukhar from FB/Parse, Steve Marx from Dropbox, Bill Ready from Braintree, Ali Rayl from Slack, Eric Wittman from Atlassian, Sam Mac Donnell from HotelTonight.)

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As we do at the end of every quarter, we’ve summarized some of the key highlights and activities across our portfolio. . The Globe and Mail included three of our portfolio companies Ada (#11), Jobber (#87), and Top Hat (#230) on its list of the 400 top growing companies in Canada. . Announcements.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

As more investors have more touch points with a “Softbank round” in their portfolio, a picture emerges — rounds here often take a long time to close. And, privately, many investors up and down the stack are discussing what the true impact of these mega rounds will be. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real.

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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

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! . #4- I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. I will keep up my current marketing efforts and have definitely learned to diversify in everything, not just my financial portfolio! . and many others.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! #4- I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. I will keep up my current marketing efforts and have definitely learned to diversify in everything, not just my financial portfolio! and many others.

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Entrepreneur Delaware Hiring Social Media 54

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. Potential customers’ willingness to pay will help you segment your target market (by customer size, vertical, geography, etc) more effectively than simply “researching” your market in abstract.

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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. It was a long way from Ellis Island.) Would you mind sharing them?

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Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

For us, the investment is certainly fresh and newest in our portfolio, but it also feels familiar. And Board Member James Reinhart is already part of the NextView family, as CEO of portfolio company, thredUP. Similarly at GrabCAD , where CAD engineers collaborate and create in a community, the collective output has been remarkable.

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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.

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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.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sisu is currently expanding its product portfolio and geographic scale to develop additional cutting-edge, patented, clinically proven medical devices, and to create a system for medical device commercialization in emerging markets. Our top goal is to break into new markets and add new products to our portfolio. and Indian companies.

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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.

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Vertical Portfolio Management Engineer 91

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Real-time search engine. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Will expand IBM’s business analytics capabilities and become part of IBM’s application and integration middleware portfolio. But it’s a real phenomenon.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

As he grows, he can simply focus on increasing the restaurant portfolio and getting more corporate clients. Edward Varghese from New Delhi, India, pitched i-Globify , an outsourcing service catering to the niche travel vertical, focusing on building Web 3.0 back ends for medical, religious, sports, and other kinds of tourism solutions.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

A strategy for meeting these investors in Austin is to figure out the board schedule of their portfolio companies, as they they will likely travel here for those meeting. This list is venture funds that have invested in two or more Austin-based companies over the past two years. link] Click here to download a PDF with all of the tables above.

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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. On the software side the portfolio of Android apps is deep and broad, the only application that I would like to have which is not available is Instagram.

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Metadata Software Review Vertical Software 28

View from Seed

JUNE 23, 2022

Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. So in college, I studied aerospace engineering, joined Air Force ROTC, and eventually was accepted by the Air Force to go to flight school upon graduation. My goal was to become an astronaut.

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DC Cambodia eCommerce Social Media 156

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Content creation, the engine of inbound marketing, creates the draw (i.e. The end goal, as John details in his course , is to reverse engineer accountability so that marketing is responsible not just for a number of leads but an amount of revenue that various lead types are forecasted to generate. Second, “lead” generation.

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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.

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Hippoland

APRIL 3, 2016

Companies in certain verticals tend to have this problem more. Just like I, as a software investor, know nothing about solar panels or pharmaceuticals, not all software investors will know most verticals to be able to understand what you’re talking about. Adtech, security-tech, fashion, etc. In the old days (i.e.

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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.

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Canada Vertical Portfolio Search 97

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Some vertical ad networks have gone after this opportunity, Glam Media being one of the most successful of the lot. The market is crowded, but Stathis has a critical mass of traffic and transactions, as well as a large portfolio of car rental companies providing data to make the service viable. It's just not worth it. Discuss.

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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. 20% initial ownership.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

As a result, second time founders very often shy away from ad-based consumer ideas, but when they do, they think about what viral mechanisms you can implement *first* and engineer the product around that mechanism. Marketing first. Product second. Here is a good case study on LinkedIn (scroll down to see how they grew).

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

As a result, second time founders very often shy away from ad-based consumer ideas, but when they do, they think about what viral mechanisms you can implement *first* and engineer the product around that mechanism. Marketing first. Product second. Here is a good case study on LinkedIn (scroll down to see how they grew).

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Rob Go

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In our own portfolio, we’ve made a few investments here. And some verticals like farming and agriculture have just been ignored or overlooked by internet entrepreneurs until quite recently. But there is another major force around the engineering of physical products becoming much more software-like.

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B2B Internet Vertical Early Stage 62

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

If I can build a partner program using software with a thousand different partners, with a thousand different tactics, I, I have inherently a, a diversified portfolio. Bob Glazer (07:19): I, I, I think it's, every business needs to add the sort of activity to their portfolio. They are the partner and the supplier are all in one.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 21, 2015

One of the best parts about having a strong portfolio filled with smart people is the wise advice that founders share with each other. In this case, one of V1’s portfolio companies has been looking to hire a VP of Sales and I asked Jon Zimmerman ( @jpzimmerman ), CEO of Front Desk , to share his experiences and insight on the matter.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 6, 2011

Great learning experience and worked with some very creative folks outside the design realm – computer programmers, engineers and product managers are creative people too! Stashed in the recently found (almost perfect) vertical laptop bag. To view the portfolio presentation, please visit my online profile at [link].

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Canada Design Community Vertical 69

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.”

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Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 120

ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

presence in new markets and verticals. Partners can be a source of valuable product feedback – connect them with product managers and engineers for feedback from the front lines. Tai Rattigan from Amplitude: Tai Rattigan: “Be entrepreneurial when running a portfolio of customers. higher brand awareness. increased revenue.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

presence in new markets and verticals. Partners can be a source of valuable product feedback – connect them with product managers and engineers for feedback from the front lines. Tai Rattigan from Amplitude: Tai Rattigan: “Be entrepreneurial when running a portfolio of customers. higher brand awareness. increased revenue.

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Channel Partner Programming B2B 77

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).

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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”.

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