Version One Ventures

MAY 15, 2024

Our current investment thesis, “backing mission-driven founders at the earliest stages,” was introduced back in 2020. It perfectly encapsulates our focus on backing a certain type of deeply passionate entrepreneur… and backing them at such an early stage when few people might believe in them. Another way to ask it is “What’s possible?”

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. Since my co-founders and I haven't agreed on the company name yet, we decided to post in one of the Business Naming Facebook groups that we joined. 9- A merger of two companies.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 21, 2020

Backing the next generation of mission-driven founders”. But ultimately, as our interests change, the one constant has been the founder. No matter the vertical, geography, business model, macro or micro trends, entrepreneurs form the nucleus of a generational company. We’ve quietly made changes to our website.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But I recommend entrepreneurs and prospective business builders consider the Agency Builder model. So an entrepreneur forming a startup studio benefits from having experience in the industry sector they hope to serve. Following the digital agency model for a startup, studio offers significant advantages to entrepreneurs.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. First and foremost, angels can provide capital. Affinity by industry.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle. TSM: What is the most important thing you tell other startup founders?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2024

Calling Israeli startup founders in Interactive Entertainment, AI & Gaming! At Remagine Ventures , we’re always on the lookout for visionary founders building the future of interactive entertainment and gaming. If you’re an Israeli startup founder raising a pre-seed round in these spaces, we want to hear from you!

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

We have done almost 90 roundtables so far and, based on this extensive experience of learning directly from entrepreneurs about their core issues, 1M/1M has just launched a new assessment tool for entrepreneurs. This strikes me as yet another entrepreneur who needs a tightening of his segmentation big time. Discuss.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM. The founder of what became General Motors was William (Billy) Durant.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur. We invited entrepreneurs considering joining the 1M/1M premium program to the Stanzr chat room and did a one-hour Q&A session. Please note that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. We thought it was very cool! PTA Portals.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2024

For example: Technologies: AI, IOT, Cloud, Blockchain Areas: Vertical SaaS, Crypto, Security, Consumer, Deep Tech There is nothing wrong with this approach, but it has never been native for us. Ultimately, it is the entrepreneurs that pull us into spaces that we never expected and allow us to join their remarkable adventures.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

I know that many, many entrepreneurs are feeling dejected because of investor rejections. I suggested going for larger companies and also to pick some verticals where the value proposition really shines through. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. There are just as many bad entrepreneurs who do bad things. Founder’s perspective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

IBM had traditionally done all its own vertical technology development, so this outside vendor thing broke all the rules. The startup process and the importance of founders with a vision and energy hasn’t changed much in the last 30 years, but the technology has improved by orders of magnitude. mHz, now 3.0 mHz, now 3.0 Marty Zwilling.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Pete Martin , founder of CEO of Votem , and classic rock drummer The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Paging Iowa elections officials! Helping other entrepreneurs in their journeys because it is very difficult starting and growing companies and it can be very lonely for the courageous women and men that do so. Never give up.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 10, 2013

That’s fine – my issue isn’t that an incubator isn’t good for the entrepreneur – that’s each founder’s decision. The rise of the vertical incubator focused on bringing together a set of startups aligned around a particular technology or industry. Implication? Now what DOES interest me?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

From my experience as an entrepreneur, I’ve learned that raising investment, forging business partnerships, making sales, and even managing employees is all about being able to convince people of my point of view in terms of investing their time, money, or both. Which talent would you most like to have? ii) are you good at what you will do?

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Even when founders don’t get the desired response, they still appreciate our quick turnaround and even forward along referrals. In fact, a recommendation from a founder we passed on is one of our best performing portfolio companies! Invest in mission-driven founders. within 24 to 48 hours (90% of the time).

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 11, 2016

Andy Dunn, the founder of Bonobos and one of the most thoughtful writers I know on ecommerce, penned a good piece yesterday entitled Digitally Native Vertical Brands. It’s a brand, and that brand is vertical. Andy says we are “in the first decade of a multi-century trend” towards vertically integrated ecommerce.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). He would go on to be a co-founder of two mechanical engineering software companies.)

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Several conversations over the last month have turned to the topic of helping entrepreneurs. Having recently addressed founders in my chapter “Be Coachable,” allow me please in this essay to address this matter to you providers of help. As you probably know, I prefer advising founders in long, immersive engagements.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

Milis Bio CEO and Founder Mike Sheehan winning the 2018 Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of Year prize. Mike Sheehan , CEO and Founder at Milis Bio, earned a B.S. in Neuroscience from University College Cork in 2016, and won Best New Idea in that year’s “Cork City’s Best Young Entrepreneur” contest.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

It’s no fun on this plateau, just “making payroll,” and watching some employees make more then you as the Founder. Instead of selling your services to everyone, expand your services “vertically” by targeting industries where you’ve already been successful. entrepreneur Patricia Sigmon plateau profits startup' Marty Zwilling.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

6, 2011 we hosted our 64th free One Million by One Million (1M/1M) strategy roundtable for entrepreneurs, and the first for this year. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses. In the Entrepreneur Journeys methodology, we focus on customer validation as early as possible. Mava Consulting.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Following the inevitable ups and downs of the VC investment cycle, and what founders can do when it all turns cold. Recession or not, what is universal is the bewilderment of many entrepreneurs on how negative VCs have become over the past nine months after almost five years of non-stop cheerleading. The road ahead for entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Others you need to know when you execute the plan.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

My recent years have included many thousands of hours of mentoring, coaching, advising, teaching, and encouraging startup founders with prospective ventures across a wide range of disciplines. In those situations, I have watched over business issues and opportunities so the founders have been able to stay focused on their visions.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2014

” Sourcing feedback from LPs, VCs and entrepreneurs, here’s some of what I heard, and the implications: 1. Obviously too early to understand whether our changes made sense but we felt like they were appropriate based on market feedback and our goals in working with the best entrepreneurs. Chasing Hot Markets.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The toughest part of being a female entrepreneur in the startup world is the number of people telling me that women face more obstacles than men in almost every professional setting. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17. What has the startup experience taught you about life?

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Route One: High LTV per user The exact definition of a “high” user LTV depends on the specific vertical, so it’s typically better to analyze the ratio between Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) and the Life Time Value of the customer. That unfortunate combination makes it rather difficult to reach the $100M mark.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Pattern Recognition One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that you are constantly running a pattern recognition algorithm against a continual collection of customer and market data. But at times it’s why entrepreneurs can sink their own companies. The founder has seen the future and wants to get there immediately.

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