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JULY 31, 2014

As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. We of course try to look ahead at what’s next in the marketplace, but the founders we work with do a better job than we do at that.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

They also want to help founders and want their products and services to exist. So, if you’ve been a successful internet founder or have launched great web/mobile products, most founders would love to have you in a round even if your check size is small. Be founder driven. Investment Strategy.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

They also want to help founders and want their products and services to exist. So, if you’ve been a successful internet founder or have launched great web/mobile products, most founders would love to have you in a round even if your check size is small. Be founder driven. Investment Strategy.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Our largest team, Web Engineering, has twelve engineers. Editor’s note: The Alliance was written by LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. Hiring and onboarding new engineers are time consuming and expensive. A team that can mitigate turnover is a more productive and efficient team. In the past 3.5

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JUNE 23, 2020

I was on a pitch video call the other day when the founder asked me what the guiding principle for product was at Blue Apron when I was leading the team there, and my response was that consumer product experience should be like water. “Be formless, shapeless, like water.” – Bruce Lee. There are two ways to think about this.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Traction is a biweekly podcast where founders share the creative or unusual things they did during the seed stage to make early progress. Founders from LinkedIn , DraftKings , General Assembly , The Muse , Behance , InsightSquared , and more have appeared on the show. Subscribe on iTunes , SoundCloud , or Stitcher.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

Five years ago, as the mania around seed fundings was accelerating, Founders were very eager to announce their seed round to the world. Typically, one that is orthogonal to the Founders’ network that wouldn’t have surfaced otherwise. Seeing on the screen just feels more “real” to many prospective employees, even if it shouldn’t.

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MARCH 19, 2015

Founders laud their own “end-to-end” thinking. NVV: How do you see a pretotype helping (or hurting) a founder’s ability to raise capital and scale successfully? If you’re in the tech startup industry today, you get the sense that every one of your peers wants to take on the entire world.

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APRIL 21, 2016

Let’s make a few assumptions: You are a founder, you have your idea, and you have your money. If you know you are building something that is web-based but very UI intensive, an engineer with lots of Front-End experience is ideal. How do you build your engineering/dev team from the ground up? It is just you.

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APRIL 7, 2015

Whether it’s rational or not, it’s really hard to convince an investor that the founders will be great at creating wonderful products if the materials and web presence they put in front of them fall flat. Dirty Secret #2: Feedback from VCs usually sucks (despite how often founders seek it out).

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APRIL 11, 2016

But with the Echo and Alexa, if you’re sitting in front of a web browser, you can buy from Amazon in the browser, and they don’t care. At a past firm, I saw a founder who was 10 years too early thinking about the UI in the car, too, so this is not an entirely new discussion. DAVID: Oh yeah, I remember that.

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MARCH 12, 2015

In a typical first meeting between a VC and team of co-founders, the investor typically ends up asking more questions than the founders. This almost goes without saying, but odds are good that your other founder friends in the startup ecosystem have crossed paths with some of the VC firms you might be researching.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

The best kind of traffic to a web based business is organic traffic. On the more organic side is when the founder and investor have a pre-existing relationship. On the more organic side is when the founder and investor have a pre-existing relationship. Similarly, the best kind of deal flow for a VC is organic deal flow.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

Through all of those posts, we’ve received one common question from founders: Are all Everyday Economy startups consumer-facing? This technology enhances a consumer experience for literally thousands of media properties across the web. The answer is no. 2) Pervasive Tools.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

You might be able to build a reasonably successful business by spotting a hole in some market somewhere, but it’s much more likely that outlandish success will be won by founders (and, really, people ) who are authentically interested in solving a problem. Maybe you struggled with something in a former job or as a consumer.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

You might be able to build a reasonably successful business by spotting a hole in some market somewhere, but it’s much more likely that outlandish success will be won by founders (and, really, people ) who are authentically interested in solving a problem. Maybe you struggled with something in a former job or as a consumer.

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MARCH 10, 2015

Ahmed is a former Googler and the current founder of Nani. Bleacher Report and Team Stream were always built on the idea of curating information and the best sports stories from across the web. Below, he shares product management lessons from his time at BR. Where did Team Stream fit in BR’s already broad content ecosystem?

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