View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. Through all of those posts, we’ve received one common question from founders: Are all Everyday Economy startups consumer-facing? The answer is no. 2) Pervasive Tools.

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B2B B2C Vertical Portfolio 120

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

ATI has served the entrepreneur community for over twenty years and focuses on the IT, Wireless, Clean Energy and Bioscience verticals. The current portfolio ranges from 60 Ghz chip sets (Nitero) to enterprise 2.0 ( InXero ) to family media ( Famigo ) companies. ATI also works closely with MobileMondayAustin and Semantic Web Austin.

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Technical Review Intellectual Property Incubator Due Diligence 70

Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

At NextView Ventures, we have a number of companies in our portfolio which are “marketplace” businesses, where buyers and sellers meet to exchange a good or service. Often this focus can be on a specific geography or vertical. Attract would-be buyers with research/learning about purchasing … suppliers will follow.

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Engineer Vertical Portfolio Seed Stage 201

Genuine VC

APRIL 12, 2012

People ask us at NextView all of the time: “What is the typical profile of an entrepreneur in your portfolio?” Subtly behind that question is often one about the experience-level of the founders. The answer, however, doesn’t fit into a neat soundbite.

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Vertical Portfolio Search Internet 144

Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

In just a few clicks, you can find everything from the company’s tagline to information on founders and investors, number of employees, funding rounds, etc. Mattermark is a web-based platform that helps VCs weed through the vast amounts of data to identify potential investment opportunities and track existing start-ups and private companies.

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Venture Capital Vertical Curation SEC 160

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.;

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Genuine VC

APRIL 12, 2012

People ask us at NextView all of the time: “What is the typical profile of an entrepreneur in your portfolio?” Subtly behind that question is often one about the experience-level of the founders. The answer, however, doesn’t fit into a neat soundbite.

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Vertical Portfolio Search Internet 109

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

As he grows, he can simply focus on increasing the restaurant portfolio and getting more corporate clients. Edward Varghese from New Delhi, India, pitched i-Globify , an outsourcing service catering to the niche travel vertical, focusing on building Web 3.0 Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

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India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical 116

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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Startup Portfolio Later Stage Hiring 148

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Attaining that level of attribution—the key to improving outcome measurement—breaks down in a couple of spots: Web analytics. The amount of data you pass from your web analytics tool(s) to your CRM is a major fault line. Tom Tunguz offers a framework that uses a scale from 1 to 10 to assess demand generation portfolios: 1.

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Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

Rob Go

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Consumer web is overheated. In our own portfolio, we’ve made a few investments here. Custommade takes the difficult process of finding an artisan to craft a custom product and brings it to life on the web. These are NOT examples of megatrends. Consumerization of IT is hot. Beware the series A crunch. Quantified self.

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B2B Internet Vertical Early Stage 62

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis. A contemporary analog to this type of vertical integration is Comcast/NBC-U.

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Cofounder Merger Founder Venture Capital 277

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 6, 2011

Logo and my latest designed web project completed so far with more projects in the works. KY Ho – founder of ATI Technologies Inc. Stashed in the recently found (almost perfect) vertical laptop bag. To view the portfolio presentation, please visit my online profile at [link]. Too bad cS buyer chose another.

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Canada Design Community Vertical 69

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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Term Sheet Mobile Cofounder Early Stage 303

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. Post-Mortem Title : Lessons from Kiko, web 2.0 Post-Mortem Title : BricaBox: Goodbye World!

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

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. This is increasingly true in both consumer and business facing companies.

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Distribution Vertical Viral B2B 66

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

Every founder I meet whos building a marketplace business basically says the same thing: Its so much harder than I thought to build a two-sided marketplace. Offer portfolios  Many different people like to showcase their work online. Now there are free portfolio tools for almost every type of individual.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Curation Demand Portfolio 101

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

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.". Its just not true. More » Paul Graham.

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Silicon Valley Startup Valuation Venture Capital 54

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 15, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! 6 Things That Can Help Female Founders Bridge The Gap Between Idea And Success crowdspring.co/1IoaLD1. Features are not goals – buff.ly/1IkHsRo.

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Small Business Design Social Media Startup 48

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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Media Los Angeles Russia Viral 210