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Genuine VC
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
The famed business strategist Michael Porter described a set of successful general strategies which firms employ to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage: differentiation strategy and cost leadership strategy for those firms with a broad market scope, and a segmentation strategy for those with a narrow market scope.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
John Berger, Director Operations & Impact Solutions, Toniic , observed that this has clear investor benefits: “ The grace period became a feature because it benefits investors in regions like the US where there can be tax differences between short and long term gains. Payments are commonly delayed for a grace period of 12-36 months.
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K9 Ventures
OCTOBER 12, 2015
That is because the venture capital industry operates in cycles. This includes, but is not limited to money from China, India, Middle-East and also from “retail” investors (or otherwise unsophisticated investors who are attracted to a market simply because of the amount of press/media attention it gets).
K9 Ventures
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Where did the term Pre-Seed come from? The first time I used the words “pre-seed” (yes, the initial use was in all lower-case, but then became upper-case over time) was on June 27, 2013, at the K9 Ventures LP Meeting. They talk about how deal sizes and stages were changing even back then. Seed rounds were getting bigger.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
Operations. Separately, in the morning I called a seed-stage investor in NY and talked to him about investing in one of my companies. We call these investors “LPs” for limited partners. I had lunch with an LP. Marketing. Marketing = deal flow = share of mind = start of future relationships.
David Teten
DECEMBER 12, 2017
As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 29, 2011
Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. Amazon in turn led to the formation of an earlier stage of venture capital now led by what I call “micro VCs&# who typically invest $250-500k in companies rather than the $5-7 million that VCs used to invest. There are also others.
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