David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

This is part 1 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 2 will be “ Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name ”. This bench at Cathedral Lawn is engraved with country domain names such as.uk,us,nz It is no coincidence that companies with the best domain names often tend to rise to the top of their space.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Rapid advancements in areas like AI, blockchain , and the Internet of Things (IoT) bring forth new possibilities. While Silicon Valley remains iconic, cities from Bangalore to Berlin are making names for themselves as hotbeds of tech innovation. Yet, navigating this landscape requires more than just a unique product or service.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We frequently tell entrepreneurs that advisors who are just names on a page are kind of a waste of time. When Rob, David, and I started NextView nearly five years ago we thought it was important to enlist a small group of talented entrepreneurs as we built and helped our portfolio over time. The Purpose of Entrepreneur Advisors​.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

3- E-commerce Photo Credit: Carter Seuthe With the launch of 5G internet, I think eCommerce will boom in 2023. It pertains to advising individuals and even provides solutions to companies struggling to make a name for themselves. You can help your clients create cover letters and portfolios they’ll be confident to share.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I then ran a crowdsourced contest on crowdSpring to come up with ideas for the name. CrownTV is a spinoff of that name.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We frequently tell entrepreneurs that advisors who are just names on a page are kind of a waste of time. When Rob, David, and I started NextView nearly five years ago we thought it was important to enlist a small group of talented entrepreneurs as we built and helped our portfolio over time. The Purpose of Entrepreneur Advisors?.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 2, 2018

We’re particularly proud and excited for this development, as it’s two portfolio companies joining forces! Sales automation company Outreach was named to Forbes’ Cloud 100 list and made its first acquisition. The post Q3 2018 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities appeared first on Version One. Placenote SDK 1.6.6

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Secure a domain name that makes it easy for people to find your company. Invest an hour a week looking at competitors’ web sites or viewing web designers’ portfolios. No matter the stage of business, industry, or marketing strategy every startup must have a presence on the internet; it’s the first place a prospect will go.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2017

We continue to invest in blockchain companies and funds such as Coinbase and Metastable Capital , which join our existing crypto portfolio ( Blockstack , Citizen Hex and Polychain Capital ). We welcomed Gencove , a B2B sequencing company, to our portfolio. Select activities from around the portfolio.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. businessname #business #entrepreneur #startup #name #compilation #instagram #ceoblognation #blog #newblog #blogpost #livetoday.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2017

As access to the internet increases from the current 3.5 For example, Silicon Savannah – the name given to Nairobi’s (Kenya) growing tech scene – and Chilecon Valley, found in Chile’s capital, Santiago, demonstrate the global appetite for tech entrepreneurship.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

In a nutshell, we see it a new Internet being built, with the consumer at its centre. On the crypto-side we also see gaming leading the way with play-to-earn games such as our portfolio company Rebelbots , platforms like Manticore Games or Sandbox. Gaming + web3/NFTs. All of this should not cost you $50-75k per year in tuition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

For now, Sunil answers the question of why leave a well paying corporate job to become an online entrepreneur… My name is Sunil and the title of this blog post refers to me. A small part of my portfolio is purely in speculative plays, but I believe in value investing over time. The arbitrage simply works.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. And what about picking a name that’s available as a domain? Obsessing over a name is an easy time trap to fall into when you should be focused on more important obstacles (i.e. Apr 27 2010. Ty Fujimura.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

One example is that they introduced a program where their founders can pool together shares from their company and exchange them for a small portfolio of other First Round Capital companies. First Round Capital invests heavily in its own infrastructure to help add value to the portfolio companies. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”). I’ve worked with Matt for over 20 years and have experienced many ups and downs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

Create and highlight your intellectual property portfolio. Highlight existing presence on the Internet and social media. In today’s world, if your startup is not visible on the Internet, you haven’t started yet. In addition, your company and social media names are key intellectual property.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

As the old joke goes, “on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog.” Every time my posts ended up there the conversation descended into hate and vitriol and a lot of people that don’t really know me calling me all sorts of names. You call them all sorts of names. Cars are dehumanizing.

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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. Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. However, we’d argue that for most smaller managers who are not brand names, it’s better to be highly identified in your niche than being a generalist. VC theses are often so vague that they’re meaningless. Most LPs we speak with agree. .

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David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2020

Household names like traffic app Waze ( 150 million users, acquired by Google for over $1 billion), Shopping.com (acquired by eBay for $634 million ), and Viber (over 650 million users ) are all Israeli companies. of the world’s internet population. The boycott is broken before it begins.”

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2019

Technical support specialists is another name for help desk technicians, operations analysts, or problem managers. Web developers may also be referred to as internet engineers, multimedia architects, or web producers. . Their career titles are as diverse as the portfolios they create. Technical Support Technicians .

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

The Open Metaverse is described as the New Internet, but it’s yet to be built yet. shout out to our portfolio company Echo3D who’s working on this) Improved collaboration tools By default, both the Unity and Unreal level editors only support a single designer editing a level at a time.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Ed Dale, if you don’t know him, is one of Australia’s most well known and likable Internet marketers, who adds a uniquely Australian flavour to the industry. Ed also has a rep for website flipping, having earlier in his career sold his website portfolio for $5 million dollars. The Cutting Edge Of Internet Marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. As the desk-based Internet emerged it was initially sold through telecom carriers (after players like AOL and EarthLink innovated the market). I need to give credit for the topic to PR Malloy who Tweeted me this question.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

How does physical stuff fit in with NextView’s investment thesis focused on the internet and the broad innovation wave it represents? For starters we take a very, very long term view of internet innovation (more on this below). The internet as we know it is 20ish years old.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

How does physical stuff fit in with NextView’s investment thesis focused on the internet and the broad innovation wave it represents? For starters we take a very, very long term view of internet innovation (more on this below). The internet as we know it is 20ish years old.

Internet 100

Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y. Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y. Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m sure many of you have heard his name. Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. Let’s start with Joseph Schumpter. Schumpter was an economist who taught at Harvard in the 1930’s and 40’s.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2018

You’ll need access to a computer, an internet connection, and a space that work that’s comfortable for you, where you can occasionally take phone or Skype calls with clients. Commercial: business naming, slogans, commercial campaigns, public relations, advertorials. Build a portfolio. How do you get started? Choose your niche.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

These partnerships may take the form of Proof of Concept projects with startups, getting to know VC firms and their portfolios, and familiarizing themselves with university groups doing research in the established strategic problems. (It Is the Outpost product officially part of a corporate Innovation Portfolio?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. Here are the key elements: Company name. Internet domain name. This name (www.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 21, 2016

Portfolio founder: There’s an investor who wants to invest about $500k. Portfolio founder: That’s the problem. I have this conversation all the time with portfolio companies. Even in the rounds that I’ve seen with the biggest names, often there are also no-name investors. me: Oh great! Who is he/she?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

It’s also worth noting as data would suggest from this SVB venture funding report, lower costs to build tech & operate businesses implies the possibility of lower loss ratios in portfolios. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 We’re online all the time and at high speed. Today we’re online 3.1

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. If nothing else, it shows how many billions Meta is willing to commit in order to advance Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the future of the Internet. Here we go! Epic Games. but still lost $2.8

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