Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers. As companies grow in today’s high-speed Internet environment, with constant pivots and new products, they won’t even see the lifecycle phases flashing by, and in fact may be experiencing all of them concurrently.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2022

I collect the data myself and do it the old fashioned way, staring at the flashing cursor on a blank page. I also played with GPT-3 to test if it can help me to publish quicker, but I ended up changing almost every word to sound more like me (maybe a problem they will solve with enough training down the line).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers. As companies grow in today’s high-speed Internet environment, with constant pivots and new products, they won’t even see the lifecycle phases flashing by, and in fact may be experiencing all of them concurrently.

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Matching Marketing Dilution Startup 120

David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility. Further, we support this with weekly flash reports that focus on key operating metrics of the company.”.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 28, 2014

While Mr. Buffett was able to build an alpha-performing portfolio without significant risk-taking on any one position, the modern investor simply does not have this luxury. Maybe pomp, flash, celebrity - as opposed to being things to be frowned and looked down upon - instead are assets to be nurtured and promoted. Investing Jay Turo'

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

As a person working for a company whose 1/2 income comes from selling flash banners on our site, responsive would be such a pain that you can’t imagine. If your boss is selling flash banners and thinking in “table” design, it’s time to move on to a better job. Thank for the article, Ben :). Nick Williams.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2012

It’s a fascinating look at curiosity, drive, and flash mobs. 65 Fresh and Creative Portfolio Website Designs for Inspiration – [link]. The video above is an 11 minute short about a 9 year old boy in East L.A. who built a very elaborate cardboard arcade inside his father’s used auto parts store.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Here are some tips for increasing the loading time of your pages: Don’t use flash. Check out his portfolio and connect on LinkedIn. Loading delays also reduce page views, decrease customer satisfaction and reduce the conversion rate. Use minimal external style sheets. Minimize redirects. Poor photography.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

We have a few portfolio companies going through brand changes. We are trying hard to live up to the guidelines we laid out for our investors, our portfolio companies and our community. And over the past 4 weeks I’ve worked on 6 transactions (2 brand new fundings, 4 portfolio events). You can follow Greg on Twitter here.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 9, 2019

Flash) or one whose design is clearly dated. A portfolio of UX work. Make sure whomever you consider has a strong portfolio of experience design work and can explain that work in detail. Hitting the local maxima can help justify a “radical redesign.” ( Image source ). A collaborative perspective.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 23, 2014

and ‘scale ecommerce’ – that is selling third party brands and taking stock, and identifies four strategies for ecommerce ‘David’s’ who want to take on the ‘Goliath’: Proprietary pricing – e.g. flash sales companies like Zulily and One Kings Lane.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2013

If you have a website showcasing your portfolio and resume, put it there. Look the way you would at the office and don’t forget to flash those pearly whites. Your goal is to be found and followed by like-minded people. You can also put the URL of your LinkedIn profile if you don’t have a personal website. Keep your updates public.

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Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2014

To capitalize on the growing power of online video, Sigma, a leading researcher, developer, manufacturer and service provider of some of the world''s most impressive lines of lenses, cameras and flashes, enlisted Invodo, the business video experts, to expand its portfolio of online video. Enterprise invodo'

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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. ff Venture Capital portfolio company. Social media is valuable for more than just origination.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico). These are all “billion dollar industries” he says.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

In a flash, Batman and Robin would dawn their superhero suits and speed off in the Batmobile to take on the enemy, rescue the citizens of Gotham and save the day.On In a flash, Batman and Robin would dawn their superhero suits and speed off in the Batmobile to take on the enemy, rescue the citizens of Gotham and save the day.On

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

AUGUST 22, 2012

Over the past two years we’ve seen a lot of disruption in the enterprise storage market with everything from the game-changing performance of flash to next-generation storage architectures required to support the cloud and virtualized data center environments.

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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.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The breakout categories of 2010 are Local Deals (Groupon, Living Social* etc), and Flash Sales (Gilt, RueLaLa, HauteLook, Ideeli etc), and both are squarely aimed at helping consumers save money. The Flash Sales sites and Local Deals sites both make shopping fun by offering deep discounts. A Lightspeed Portfolio company.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. Lastly, I asked a few women that were not customers to try the service. Even those that started skeptically came back enthused.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 23, 2014

I know plenty about selling advertising on the internet – we have many portfolio companies that help publishers do this (or that are publishers themselves and who make money selling ads). I’m on the board of several of them (you can see the full Foundry portfolio here ).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

We also talked a lot about Geodelic , a portfolio company of Clearstone, who is trying to change the metaphor of how people discover location based information by partnering with large companies and brands. We shared our disappointment at Blackberry even though we’re both faithful users. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 28, 2012

Following that derivative ecommerce business models have become popular, predominantly flash sales and subscription business models, and these in turn have seen successful trailblazers like Vente Privee and Lovefilm followed by second generation players in other verticals and geographies – like Graze and Sports Pursuit from our portfolio.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 2, 2012

Emma picked her head up and flashed me an equally perplexed look. Somewhere within this portfolio, you're going to find some seriously huge successes and "the best of the best" will emerge--but you really never know which ones, just like any other venture portfolio. I was stunned.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 31, 2010

Sometimes my designs take another dimension when I animate them in flash or after effects. Lately I’ve been showing my crowdSPRING logo portfolio on the iPad. For every web project I took the design and programming components for me and leave the content to the client. It just looks fantastic. Please describe your typical work day.

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Venezuela Software Review Design Programming 70

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Our unique technology is called OTP (One Time programmable) FLASH. Unlike traditional FLASH we can put 4 bits of information in a single cell, and we produce memory product in sizes optimized for content distribution, creating the LOWERS cost content mobile Content distribution medium available today.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 23, 2014

I know plenty about selling advertising on the internet – we have many portfolio companies that help publishers do this (or that are publishers themselves and who make money selling ads). I’m on the board of several of them (you can see the full Foundry portfolio here ).

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

One of the bright flashing warning signs that a VC will be a weak board member is when that person says, “We VCs are pattern matchers.” To paraphrase JFK, ask not what your portfolio can do for you, ask what you can do for your portfolio! Board members shouldn’t ask their companies to do their (unrelated) work for them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

Based on the, what's called the "diffraction pattern," you can infer the structure of the protein and if it's a larger protein, you use what's called, "cryo-EM" on where you flash freeze it and then put it under an electron microscope, and from there use these advanced software techniques to infer the three-dimensional structure of something larger.

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Rob Go

JUNE 14, 2012

It has worried me for some time that a lot of the pop-culture allure of the tech scene is centered around hype and flash. I loved that when Seth Godin presented my portfolio company Wander it was precise, direct and to the point (as were all the other intros). I liked that. Lots of kudos for all the teams for their hard work.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

In our portfolio, we have companies with founding CEOs who own less than 10% of their companies for some of the reasons I just listed. Let’s take an example in our portfolio: Playfish, a “social gaming” company, was launched in London in 2007. Why should they be penalised in such an arbitrary way? So why twelve years?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC News : Dow Jones financial information service provides unparalleled reporting and analysis of the entire global venture capital industry, from fundraising developments to financings, liquidity events to people moves and other key developments at venture capital firms and portfolio companies in every industry and region. Flash Networks.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Labels: internet , Portfolio. Portfolio. (3). The videos can be watched at Bessemer Online Marketing Portal (the other materials are not public). Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 8:53 PM. 8 comments: David Dalka said. Interesting to see VCs looking at this issue. How does one contact you Phillippe? Anonymous said. anecdotes. (13).

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Flash Networks. Flash Networks’ HarmonyTM Web & Media Optimization and Traffic Management provide operators with comprehensive, end-to-end, policy-based solutions that successfully manage traffic growth, while enhancing user experience even during the busy-hour period. Rad Data Communication.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Flashing statements on one side, bottom-up financial analysis on the other: I will let you decide which one to believe, but I could not help reflecting on some of the comments made in the interview: "The hype is based on one company in the software industry having modest success. Portfolio. (3). anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1).

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Google Trends is valuable because it helps expand our keyword portfolio (top searches) and the keywords under which we should be lighting a fire (rising searches). Make sure our sites are crawlable (no javascript wrapped links, pop-ups with crazy code, Flash heavy gates, page tabs using magic to show up, etc.), Here's an example.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

. :) Bounce Rate helps you identify campaigns where you might be targeting wrong people (who then come to your site and leave right away) or sending relevant traffic to irrelevant (and often flash-filled hideous) landing pages. Bounce rate helps you find campaigns and landing pages that need to be killed / improved. Where is it?

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