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!

Artificial Inteligence 141

Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Startup Vertical 141

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 16, 2020

The venture capital community reacted to the racial reckoning the country experienced in June in ways I felt were pretty underwhelming—one-time pitch events for Black founders or promises to only meet with Black founders for a month. The Circulate series acknowledges that access to ideas, resources and networks is structurally unequal.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Corey is also the author of ‘Anyone, Not Everyone,’ a comprehensive guide for agency founders looking to move beyond founder-led sales. He is currently on a mission to empower 1,000 agencies to become vertical-market specialists, leveraging his extensive experience and insights.

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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? Magazine’ Inc.

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CPA Founder Vertical Cofounder 141

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.

Philadelphia 62

Philadelphia Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Pennsylvania 62

View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The foundation of your process is an exhaustive list of all the people both in your network and outside it that might have an interest in what you’re building. The more verticalized your startup’s offering, especially if the venture is B2B, the more opportunity there is to identify industry insiders who will care about your company.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Interest 1: The next generation of patient social networks. Full stack care/services, as coordinated via software, improves patient outcomes because patients get a network of support and accountability. This could be similar to Hint, as an example, where people buy memberships for standardized services in a particular vertical (i.e.

Social Network 100

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. Here is what their founder Leo Mirsky told us in the early beginning of the collaboration: Marketing was a mystery to us.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Whatever it is, it helps diligence opportunities, win deals or service the portfolio in ways that make the founders and GPs feel good. Qualification #2: You have access to a particular network of potential dealflow that is additive to the firm’s current strengths. The school you went to. Synthetic bio. Blockchain.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Your business has a high viral co-efficient (or perhaps even a network effect) that lets you amass users cheaply without worrying too much about the monetization per user or spending money on paid acquisition. Even more interesting are businesses that create network effects like marketplaces or social networks.

Churn Rate 168

Churn Rate Viral Acquisition Cofounder 168

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

There is a myth among first time tech founders that product is everything. Here are five financial concepts that every startup founder should know to build an everlasting company. The basic lesson that founders can learn about asset valuation is that Accounting is past and Finance is future. Asset valuation. venkatarag.

Founder 118

Founder Valuation Dividend Startup 118

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 10, 2013

As a seed fund investor here’s what I want from an incubator: (a) serve as a selection filter for me to meet interesting companies and (b) give their startups a competitive advantage via deep network beyond their incubation. Even the most promising founders might be attracted to the incubator because of deep industry focus.

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Incubator Vertical Equity Matching 106

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

The trend now seems to be bending toward incentivizing network participation , where those who see the opportunity will want to not just invest in a new network, but put their time and resources into participating by running nodes themselves. 1/ Social Network Interference. 2/ The Scooter Phenomenon. My goodness, where to begin.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

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.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Los Angeles Cofounder Silicon Valley 63

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur. Said is a dentist himself and argued a good case for a network of dentists with special offers for uninsured consumers. Nirupama is looking to find a niche where she can penetrate the niche social network platform market. We thought it was very cool!

Entrepreneur 116

Entrepreneur San Francisco Technical Review New Jersey 116

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Jerry Nettuno, founder and CEO of online appointment scheduling service Schedulicity , believes that 2012 will be a year that will see a majority of small businesses harness and leverage the power of technology and online productivity tools to effective manage and grow their business. Small businesses move to the cloud.

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Cloud Small Business Mobile Social Media 213

Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

Developers, designers, and finance experts from around the world go through a rigorous process that includes live screening and weeks-long test projects before being invited to join Toptal’s network. The whole platform works because everyone in our network is heavily screened; they’re all experts. Focus on what to focus on.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review Cofounder 40

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.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Incubator Software Review Vertical 48

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. – Network. This model certainly makes sense.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. – Network. This model certainly makes sense.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Version One Ventures

APRIL 19, 2016

If you’re not already familiar with the startups and founders making up the V1 portfolio, here’s a summary of some of this quarter’s news clippings. Talentbuddy founders, Octav Druta and Andrei Soare, joined on as Udemy employees. Network effects can provide a long-lasting competitive advantage and be very capital-efficient.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio San Francisco API Software Review 60

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

For me, I have at least two years of active board and observer commitments to roll off of and far more time before all the founders I’ve backed hit (or miss, I suppose) their ultimate goal of returning lots of money to their investors. No more founder pitch meetings. It has been a career that fits my personality well.

Later Stage 218

Later Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Limited Partner 218

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. Out of hundreds of social networks launched, only one changed the world. Vertical integration of different funding risks. The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing.

Harvest 60

Harvest Vertical IPO Early Stage 60

www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. Too often, however, I have found CTO / Founders paired with business people who not only don't add value, but frequently detract from the value of the business. So my advice to CTO / Founders?

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CTO Hire Founder Cap Table Vesting 40

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

I've had several conversations over the years on TV show financing, and the basic formula is that you have to get a network to finance your show. In the case of J.J's business, the customer is the Network. Unless he can get a network to buy in, there will be no point in producing the show. This is my core assumption on Web 3.0.

Vertical 115

Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115

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.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

The company said it also has other products in the pipeline that “do the same magic” for other verticals, including using crowd-sourced data and environmental protection. The project’s founders, José Pinto Ferreira and Catarina Violante, said the device also learns your taste, adapts to your day and learns what and when you eat.

Internet 120

Internet Bulgaria Portugal Stealth 120

David Cohen

AUGUST 29, 2013

It’s not our first rodeo, as we’d graduated from [name of an unrelated accelerator] but we wanted and needed some support around our vertical. We paused because it was an inaugural cohort but being that it was vertical-specific and the managing director worked for a highly lauded startup in our vertical, we decided to go for it. ([a

Cofounder 134

Cofounder Technical Review Vertical Programming 134

View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

So to successfully raise a seed round of capital, founders should possess at least a basic understanding of the different types of angel investors they’ll encounter. It can also help founders better approach angels in the first place. The Domain Angel. The Previous-Colleague Angel. At the end of the day, all money is green.

Angel Investor 334

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 334

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

I asked Harshil to focus his entire product and go-to-market strategy on the college-bound age 18 market and develop his assessment module, vertical search engine for colleges and trust network to address the needs of that market and that market alone. Age 18 is worried about college and that in itself is a sizable market.

Spain 115

Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

Also, they are investors, startup advisors, and co-founders of Agency18, a firm that helps mission-driven companies adopt their Unsold Mindset. powered by This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. So Colin and Garrett, welcome to the show. Garrett Brown (01:39): Thanks, John.

Sales 90

Sales Technical Review Minnesota Conversion 90

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2019

On today’s podcast, I speak with Arnie Kuenn, an international speaker, author, and founder and CEO of Vertical Measures. Key takeaways from the episode and more about Arnie Kuenn: Learn more about Vertical Measures. Key takeaways from the episode and more about Arnie Kuenn: * Learn more about Vertical Measures.

Customer 69

Customer Vertical Audience Internet 69

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2023

There are three main sources: 1) Other founders who raised *recently * in related areas. Even if you don’t know other founders well, founders are usually up for helping other founders. One word: Manually. Step One: Top of Funnel How do you actually build the list?? 3) Reverse engineering Crunchbase.

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ChatGPT Database Salary Naming 78

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It’s an exciting time to be launching a new fund as our focus on network effects and broad geography are driving opportunities in both existing and emerging markets. We invest in companies and platforms that leverage network effects. and Canada, offering portfolio companies strong networks and resources on both sides of the border.

Silicon Valley 126

Silicon Valley North America San Francisco LP 126

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

I usually don’t back a business unless there are founders that can build, sell, and service the new solution that is being brought to market. In this case, they could build and service it but they needed a third co-founder to sell it. one that got us into a new vertical or geography or product line.

Bootstrapping 52

Bootstrapping IPO Business Model Software Review 52

VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

Now the mobile networks are good enough that it’s starting to be a lot more video. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and CEO. And it started off with primarily text, right, when I was in college, then we all got these smartphones and had cameras so that it became a lot of photos. Inworld AI (image credit: Techcrunch ).

IP 187

IP Strategic Investors Vertical Early Stage 187

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. Regional Ecosystems. I’m in Australia and just spent time with some great entrepreneurs in Melbourne. Bay of Fires Tasmania.

Global 335

Global Australia Silicon Valley China 335