ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

Satya is evaluating various go-to-market models such as franchising, and I advised him to focus on direct selling to major builders and working with industry value-added resellers (VARs) that already operate in the smart home segment in India. These resellers buy devices from the U.S. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. The mode purpose for funding is (in order of frequency) Sales, Marketing, Market Expansion, Product Development, and Hiring Employees.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. While there was an occasional bad apple, the public markets rewarded companies with revenue growth and sustainable profits. What Do VC’s Do?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. Total disruption on the funding market?

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While institutional LPs know big changes are happening, most focus too much on 1) increasing/decreasing fund size or 2) marketing + branding as the major trends. note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). This is a long piece, so if you’re not a fan of inside baseball, skip it.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2015

They also give providers and developers an easy way to distribute, sell, and market cloud services. Many of our portfolio companies are those types of cloud services and the ecosystems that AppDirect powers can help them get to market faster, reach more users, and drive more revenue. Investments appdirect Jobs standing cloud'

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) But Quibi has raised $1.4 Meg shared their reasoning that Quibi would face two big challenges.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Thus began my marketing campaign. Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. Having been at Battery Ventures for 5 years earlier in her career has given her the investor vantage point and years of seeing booming markets and contracting ones. She has been in operations in Seattle and Los Angeles.

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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 prefer investing in health, transportation, education, and (under some very specific circumstances) finance. Some lawyers, even.

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View from Seed

JULY 28, 2015

The narrative I often hear goes something like this: “Consumer companies are all about great marketing, and Boston doesn’t have enough great consumer marketers.”. I asked the former Director of Growth at LivingSocial — who also runs a large startup marketing meetup in New York — to recommend three rising stars in that city.

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Boston Marketing Early Stage Startup 120

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave’s a great guy with a good sense of humor and a broad knowledge of the market, which is why I was excited that he could be on the show. VC Financings: 1. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. At the same time neither banks nor local governments had the cash to finance startups on the scale the country needed. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

But I’ve come to the view (only after being in the industry for a few years) that the best investors influence their end-games through well cultivated relationships with eventual buyers of their portfolio companies. He’s backed so many of the Silicon Valley’s young elite tech professionals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

The only point we didn’t seem totally aligned on was what we happening to the “middle of the VC market.” Scott pointed to B-round SaaS valuations in excess of $100 million in $15m+ financing rounds with companies with very limited proof of customer traction or revenue. And we ended. Startup Lessons'

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VC Adventure

MARCH 19, 2023

Like many of you, I’ve been reflecting on the implosion of Silicon Valley Bank quite a bit this past week, now that the initial panic has faded into a dulled sense of disbelief. More broadly, our research for The New Builders showed us just how important smaller banks are to the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

On the heels of the announcement we made last month about our Series B financing , we are now announcing the launch of a new program called Bolster Prime and a new venture capital fund called Bolster Ventures. This is another big week for us at Bolster. What about the middle?

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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%. The talent market has gotten as competitive and aggressive as I have ever seen in the last 20 years. Immediately. 2) Hiring Inexperience.

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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. Loading… Markets. Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. Ritter, a finance professor at University of Floridas business school.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While Silicon Valley remains iconic, cities from Bangalore to Berlin are making names for themselves as hotbeds of tech innovation. The Founder’s Journey To truly succeed, a founder needs resilience , a consistent capacity to innovate, and the agility to adapt to an ever-changing market.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

Some days in Silicon Valley it feels like there are more investors than there are entrepreneurs. Founders typically get their equity in a company once — at the time of founding and then get diluted with each subsequent round of financing. And there absolutely are more investors than there are good deals.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley Founder Seed Stage 117

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

"Great companies have been founded during downturns and Bessemer sees a lot of investment opportunity in the current market environment," said Ed Colloton, Chief Operating Officer of Bessemer Venture Partners. Labels: Portfolio , Venture Capital. Portfolio. (3). sales and marketing. (10). To learn more, visit [link].

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

In that presentation, I said that Seed is not the first round of financing any more and that K9’s investments were mostly “pre-seed”. So I mostly kept my opinion within a small closed group and let my LPs know that K9’s strategy was to *not* change our strategy despite the pressures of the market. Impact of Public Markets.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

Some days in Silicon Valley it feels like there are more investors than there are entrepreneurs. Founders typically get their equity in a company once — at the time of founding and then get diluted with each subsequent round of financing. And there absolutely are more investors than there are good deals.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley Founder Seed Stage 105

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. At the same time neither banks nor local governments had the cash to finance startups on the scale the country needed. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Because by an order of magnitude Silicon Valley has the most startups, VCs, large exits, etc., the majority of the content available online for founders to educate themselves comes from Silicon Valley. Apart from YC itself, Silicon Valley already is an aberration among startup ecosystems. Billion or bust.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

Brian joins Lightspeed as our Partner in charge of executive level talent for Lightspeed and our portfolio of companies. Meredith joins as Vice President of Marketing to lead marketing initiatives for Lightspeed overall and support the marketing efforts of our founders and their teams.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. If you want to launch a new business, this is a great market to launch from because you can easily reach all of the major Texas cities with one office. A significant strength of Texas lies in its diversified portfolio of unique cities.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 24, 2011

With the performance of the public markets looking like an EKG read-out, I’ve been asked frequently in the past two weeks what effect this will have on the venture financing market. How tied are private company valuations to the public markets?

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

Even in 2006, when I joined Bessemer Venture Partners, there was still a lot of skepticism in the Silicon Valley around SaaS (one of my first blog post in 2006 was titled: “W hy I disagree with Tony Zingale — CEO of Mercury Interactive — on the future of SaaS "). What’s the n°1 startup that you wish you had in your portfolio?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some intensive discussions around market sizing and its impact on financing. You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing. Is that a $20 million market? $30

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Here is the short list for your 2007 travel time: Wall Street Journal Tech News Briefing: My daily starter - a five minutes overview of the latest technology news and trends plus a rundown on technology stocks on the move MarketWatch Morning Stock Talk : A 5mn snapshot of how the stock market is doing CNET Daily Tech News : The daily news from CNET.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

So I gave my “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” talk as the keynote to the CIA’s venture capital conference. Their VC firm, In-Q-Tel , has been in business for 10 years, and like most VC firms they have an annual event where they show off their new portfolio companies to their limited partners and other VC partners.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 1, 2018

How most SaaS Companies should be funded Earlier this year, I considered raising a typical Silicon Valley series A. It was clear that Silicon Valley VCs are looking to invest in rocketships. All this happens while the VC has a dozen more companies just like yours in their portfolio, needing just one to reach the moon.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

While going through my daily reading this morning, I came across a bunch of posts talking about how the sky was falling, Silicon Valley was in turmoil, financing was drying up everywhere, and all the unicorns were doomed.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

One dimension is a pretty firm belief that starting financial services companies should not be as hard as it is, and that there is demand in the market for yet another venture fund focused on functionally day-zero companies in financial services. I don’t worry about my anti-portfolio. You have to pick one. Everything we do.

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