abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. The company is also announcing two new board members in addition to myself, Marka Hansen, former president of North America for Gap, Inc.,

eCommerce 62

eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Susan Balloch, Managing Director, Golden Seeds; formerly Executive Director and Principal, The Blackstone Group. How to build a portfolio of startup investments. How to add value to a portfolio company. What to do when your portfolio startup pivots. Susan Balloch, Managing Director of Golden Seeds. 8:30 Networking.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

We got to know stellar entrepreneurs in the space and backed them early – 50% of our portfolio is comprised of companies who are defining this computing paradigm, and FPV continues to be a go-to fund for entrepreneurs looking for sector expertise. When we launched, few had heard of blockchain, and bitcoin was a dirty word. 2015EOY_FPV_v31.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

We got to know stellar entrepreneurs in the space and backed them early – 50% of our portfolio is comprised of companies who are defining this computing paradigm, and FPV continues to be a go-to fund for entrepreneurs looking for sector expertise. When we launched, few had heard of blockchain, and bitcoin was a dirty word.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. The ACA is the angel industry alliance, which now includes a directory to more than 250 angel groups and 14,000 individual angels across North America.

North America 337

North America Accredited Investor Angel Investor Angel Groups 337

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In the first transaction, SailPoint acquired Beacon Professional Services to supplement the company’s identity management consulting services and to deliver expert support and training to the company’s implementation partner network. SailPoint’s worldwide partner network saw dramatic growth in 2010.

Global 73

Global North America Customer Cofounder 73

Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The site has more than 1,000 member-managed groups and VCs, with 40,000 investors and more than 1,800 startups funded in the last 12 months. 5) Angel Capital Association - this organization includes more than 160 angel groups and 20 affiliate organizations across North America. Startup Funding'

North America 40

North America Angel Investor Accredited Investor Silicon Valley 40

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Editor’s note: Robert Wiltbank, PhD , is a professor at Willamette University, where he and Wade Brooks run an angel investing fund managed by second-year MBA students. Second, a portfolio of investments, even in angel investing, is a great approach. He’s c0-authored two books and many academic articles. It is risky.

Angel Investor 103

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In conversation with a16z managing partner Jeff Jordan (and former CEO of OpenTable and former GM of eBay among other things) — so, from all sides of investing, operating, life — Annie shares tips for decision makers of all kinds making decisions under uncertainty… really, all of us. You want a diversity of opinion. <Right.>

San Antonio 36

San Antonio Aggregator Jordan Stock 36

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 8, 2010

Discounted Tickets As part of their sponsorship, Baseline is offering discounted tickets to their portfolio companies. Discounted Tickets As part of their sponsorship, Baseline is offering discounted tickets to their portfolio companies. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

San Francisco 97

San Francisco South Africa Spain North America 97

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

In addition to supporting their portfolio companies in coming to the event, they also have taken the additional step of underwriting a limited number of discounted tickets that are available to the general public. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

San Francisco 107

San Francisco Romania Cleveland South Africa 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

Anticipate greater growth outside of North America. Companies with diversified portfolios can focus their energy on other global markets that are doing well. The result is that every startup company now needs to consider every aspect of management, sales and service on a global basis. Speak the customer’s language.

Global 266

Global North America Intellectual Property Offshore 266

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA. The INTRO tool is available to non-portfolio companies as well. Details here.

Equity 78

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

VC Adventure

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We’ve kept ourselves intentionally small as a firm so can keep our close connection with our portfolio founders from due diligence, to investment, and throughout the lifecycle of our investments. Foundry Group is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies and venture fund managers. A LITTLE ABOUT YOU.

Networking 99

Networking Technical Review Hiring North America 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. The ACA is the angel industry alliance, which now includes a directory to more than 275 angel groups and 14,000 individual angels across North America.

Angel Investor 241

Angel Investor North America Accredited Investor Angel Groups 241

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

For starters we saw a huge influx of inexperienced managers enter the VC industry proving clearly that being a VC is not a purely quantitative job. 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.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Plano is home to a new Texas unicorn, Alkami Technologies, a Digital Banking Platform, and a number of corporate headquarters including Capital One Financial Services, Dr. Pepper Snapple, Frito-Lay PepsiCo, Pizza Hut, and Toyota North America. A significant strength of Texas lies in its diversified portfolio of unique cities.

Texas 90

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 80 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 500,000 members worldwide, perhaps the largest Angel investment community in the world.

North America 289

North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor Angel Investor 289

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Anticipate greater growth outside of North America. Companies with diversified portfolios can focus their energy on other global markets that are doing well. The result is that every startup company now needs to consider every aspect of management, sales and service on a global basis. Speak the customer’s language.

Global 235

Global North America Intellectual Property Marketing 235

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. It boasts more than 1,000 member-managed groups and VCs, with 40,000 investors, and over 1,800 startups funded in the last 12 months. ACA membership includes more than 160 angel groups and 20 affiliate organizations across North America.

Angel Investor 270

Angel Investor North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor 270

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Chilean billionaire and entrepreneur Isidoro Quiroga has been called South America’s Warren Buffet for his near-perfect investment portfolio and his ability to transform businesses from small firms to global leaders. Quiroga has invested in companies in North America, South America, Europe, and Australia.

South America 134

South America Chile Silicon Valley Argentina 134

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. The ACA is the angel industry alliance, which now includes a directory to more than 240 angel groups and 13,000 individual angels across North America.

Angel Investor 167

Angel Investor North America Accredited Investor Angel Groups 167

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

He's also the founder and host of Traffic and Conversion Summit, the largest digital marketing conference in North America. That year I had three different companies within our portfolio group that all grew enough to hit the ink, 500 or 5,000 lists of those three companies, one of 'em went on to experience really great success.

Engineer 71

Engineer Software Review Operations Founder 71

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2020

We’re looking for someone with the vision, background, experience, and skills to help us form the next chapter for The Foundry Network and to continue to grow and adapt how we work with our ecosystem in ways that support and empower our portfolio of companies and VC funds. We invest in companies and funds across North America.

Networking 176

Networking Hiring North America Venture Capital 176

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Anticipate greater growth outside of North America. Companies with diversified portfolios can focus their energy on other global markets that are doing well. The result is that every startup company now needs to consider every aspect of management, sales and service on a global basis. Speak the customer’s language.

Global 136

Global North America Intellectual Property Offshore 136

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Anticipate greater growth outside of North America. Companies with diversified portfolios can focus their energy on other global markets that are doing well. The result is that every startup company now needs to consider every aspect of management, sales and service on a global basis. Speak the customer’s language.

Global 244

Global North America Intellectual Property Entrepreneur 244

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Anticipate greater growth outside of North America. Companies with diversified portfolios can focus their energy on other global markets that are doing well. The result is that every startup company now needs to consider every aspect of management, sales and service on a global basis. Speak the customer’s language.

North America 260

North America Intellectual Property Marketing Offshore 260

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Since both sets of my parents went through bankruptcy while I was a child, learning about how to manage money became almost an obsession of mine. My oldest daughter was graduating from college and wanted to pursue her dream of a career in stage management. From as early back as I can remember, I had always wanted to be a writer.

Entrepreneur 60

Entrepreneur Ireland LLC Kansas 60

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

Anticipate greater growth outside of North America. Companies with diversified portfolios can focus their energy on other global markets that are doing well. The result is that every startup company now needs to consider every aspect of management, sales and service on a global basis. Speak the customer’s language.

Global 258

Global North America Intellectual Property Offshore 258

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

Anticipate greater growth outside of North America. Companies with diversified portfolios can focus their energy on other global markets that are doing well. The result is that every startup company now needs to consider every aspect of management, sales and service on a global basis. Speak the customer’s language.

Global 120

Global North America Intellectual Property Offshore 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2010

Anticipate greater growth outside of North America. Companies with diversified portfolios can focus their energy on other global markets that are doing well. The result is that every startup company now needs to consider every aspect of management, sales and service on a global basis. Speak the customer’s language.

North America 223

North America Intellectual Property Offshore Startup 223

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

To learn more about the CAC ratio and CLTV, you can read Philippe Botteri’s white paper “CAC Ratio - One Number to Manage your SaaS S&M Spend” also available at www.bvp.com/saas. Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The joint OpenMarket-MX Telecom business will provide a hosted platform to extend mobile payment and messaging capabilities through an integrated network and product portfolio. Amdocs is an Israeli founded provider of software and services for billing, customer relationship management (CRM) and operations support systems (OSS).

OTC 68

OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

Altgate

JULY 12, 2009

There are close to 800 companies that have already completed the survey in North America which is by far the largest participation in the 10 year history of the survey. The only way to get the report is to take the survey (or for VCs, to get your portfolio companies to take it and mention you).

North America 28

North America Venture Capital Canada 28

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). This invite-only event for our portfolio companies and close friends of the firm was designed to be fairly intimate and interactive. Monday, February 04, 2008. Stay local.

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Its i-nigma solution comprises of a mobile multi-barcode reader application and an integrated platform for managing barcode services. This allows customers to create, manage and track processes that include tagging of physical objects using barcodes. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd. Flash Networks.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103