article thumbnail

How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

I’m very interested in additional ways to use technology to extend each of these! S kill-Building – Over time, we want our portfolio executives to build out the full skill set needed to lead world class technology companies. RJMetrics ); technology (e.g., At HOF Capital, we support our companies through 7 main levers (i.e.,

article thumbnail

The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin. Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. They have deep insights into how technologies and markets are moving.

article thumbnail

Should We Take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders? [New Data]

View from Seed

That’s a pretty astounding figure, especially when you consider that many students in the latter years of that cohort have yet to raise or have yet to raise later-stage, larger rounds. Combined, they’ve raised over $2.5 billion in capital to date for the 90+ companies they launched. The Verdict: Business School or Launch a Startup?

article thumbnail

Bitesize Friday – Israeli Funding Recap

VC Cafe

The combination of companies looking for capital and investors looking for liquidity put a strain on early stage start ups but seemed to have played favourably for growth equity investments and later stage companies. Plasma-Laser Technologies, Ltd. LucidLogix Technologies, Ltd. MobilEye Vision Technologies Ltd.