techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Founders Den co-founder and angel investor Zachary Bogue has joined forces with seasoned big data VC Matt Ocko , Metamarkets founder Michael Driscoll and Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross to launch Data Collective , the world’s first Big Data-only early stage investment fund. .” Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2017

Mobile computing means that he has the world’s information and entertainment at his literal fingertips. We are already seeing this happen with our portfolio company Grove Collaborative , which is increasingly rethinking the form factor of CPG products. Source: Google Finance).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

No newly hired sales and marketing exec is going to tell a founder, “Hey my prior experience and assumptions may not actually be relevant to this new startup.” The Outsourcing of Founders Responsibility The Product Development model separates founders from deeply understanding their customers and market.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. 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. and Indian companies.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 13, 2015

It’s certainly an important topic to any founder or entrepreneur looking to break into an existing market. His second point is that an upstart can unbundle a generalized marketplace and focus on creating the best product for a specific vertical. For example, StubHub vs. Craigslist and HotelTonight vs. Expedia.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

Mobile will drive new use cases. What’s the n°1 startup that you wish you had in your portfolio? Do you consider yourself as competing with US VCs for SaaS startups? We are a global VC, therefore we’re competing — and at the same time partnering! — with with VCs everywhere in the world.

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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. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

On the early side, it's repeat founders coming together again or early runaway traction in an early beta that generates buzz. DOs for a systematic rather than haphazard startup job search: Pick a specific vertical or theme (e.g. DON’Ts : Don’t ask a venture capitalist “are there any job openings in your portfolio?”

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Just because we’ve got that mobilizer fired up to fight for a point-of-view about a problem or solution in their organization (that will lead uniquely back to you as a supplier),” Spenner notes, “Doesn’t mean they know how to go win that fight.”. Each quarter is an opportunity to test and refine campaign tactics for other verticals. “I

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

In 2012, one of the greatest unaddressed pain points for the mobile and online industries is this overabundance of eyeballs that publishers, software, app and game developers are struggling to find monetization models for. Some vertical ad networks have gone after this opportunity, Glam Media being one of the most successful of the lot.

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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. This is why ecommerce fashion and design (eg: Fab and Pinterest) have emerged now vs. earlier. Ubiquitous computing. Seamless data.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 21, 2016

The ride experience is better in an UberX than a taxi, uberX is cheaper than a taxi, and on demand mobile booking, payments, etc make it way more convenient. The challenge is that a lot of founders think that they are doing a judo move and offering a product or service that is disruptively better, but they don’t quite hit the mark.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. For this reason, we’re excited to announce that we have closed on NextView’s $50M third fund, with a mission to champion founders who are redesigning the Everyday Economy. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. My first two calls were to True Ventures & Founder Collective.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders. Furthermore, founders become highly emotional about their companies. Company : BricaBox.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 2, 2014

Our focus on the Bottom Up Economy means we’re very interested in marketplaces, platforms and products which empower individual professionals, so we’ve had the chance to engage with these founders over the past year. For example, creating the “credits” for a popular mobile app.

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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 for those that were willing to do this, HotelTonight created an unparalleled mobile booking experience.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, the influential advisor to dozens of startups like Dropbox and Airbnb , sent his entrepreneurs an email Wednesday afternoon cautioning them against taking "lowball offers"—in particular, he said, from Google Ventures. Our portfolio speaks for itself.". BI Intelligence. BI Intelligence.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 15, 2015

6 Things That Can Help Female Founders Bridge The Gap Between Idea And Success crowdspring.co/1IoaLD1. Why there won’t be an Uber in every vertical – buff.ly/1KNtdUj. Why VCs Draw Big Salaries but Look for Founders Who Take Little crowdspring.co/1bf5Zuh. Portfolio Design Tips and Examples – Design Milk crowdspring.co/1KQ07Em.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

At Remagine Ventures we know that all too well, as we invest in these new tools ( Hour One to create synthetic videos, Munch to help distribute short-form videos on social media, KwaKwa to create short-form educational videos, Playo to create games within minutes, Quiiiz to bring the Trivia game-play to mobile).

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

I am the founder and Program Director of a very unique and dynamic community-based outpatient behavioral health treatment facility based in Brooklyn, New York called One World Counseling. Our company develops our own POS system which would cater the needs of mobile businesses. Thanks to Linda Passante, The Halo Group. #3

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

That is why I invited the Founder & CEO, Jonah Peretti , to come talk at the 2017 Upfront Summit and make the case himself. But I knew I had to look for investments in “software meets X (often known as Vertical Software solutions)” rather than necessarily horizontal enterprise software applications.

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