deal architect

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In the 64th episode of Burning Platform, we host Rainer Zinow, who heads product management for SAP’s mid-market ERP offerings and Jory Lamb, CEO and Founder of VistaVu, a SAP midmarket partner which also offers their own complementary products In.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

And I saw a lot of this first hand in Salesforce’s acquisition of my company, Koral, which was a content management company. Specifically we encouraged vertical applications like financial services and healthcare. We asked them if they would use our CMS API’s and encouraged them to partner even more closely with us.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Once you have assembled the right core team, I recommend prioritizing as follows: First, meet with your portfolio company management. Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. Organize events in your vertical. AskAnything.VC

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Does partnering with other businesses make sense? Here are a few of the advantages to consider when partnering with another brand or business. Depending on who you partner with, this could be an entirely new complementary audience or an expansion of the market you already serve. But what if you own a small business?

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2023

I’m going to assume you disagree with this but how do you manage through a changing environment and try to keep a team steady during a business cycle like the one we’ve experienced over the last year? And let’s be clear: The term “culture and employee engagement” doesn’t mean “Happy Hours” and “Pizza Parties.”

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

In my career, I have never seen a position in any industry with more varying criteria than General Partner at a venture capital firm. Interestingly, many different models have worked, but in all cases the criteria by which the General Partner is selected says a lot about what you should expect as an entrepreneur from the firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The main thing you’re concerned about in this phase of your company is maintaing control of your board, which in a legalistic perspective is ensuring that founders & management have the majority of seats on the board. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. how to evolve our management team.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2023

For many companies, the base use case is to deploy an internal chatbot, powered by GPT-4 that can serve employees to search and engage with the company’s internal information (with the right level of access control and data management), without model hallucinations. In 2023 so far, Generative AI startups raised $15.2B so far in 2023.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

Jonathan Lai, General Partner, A16Z Gaming fund. I previously covered on VC Cafe the state of ‘Creative Automation’ Cloud-based asset management, build, and release systems – Most of the 3D content used in these games/experiences is hard coded and locked. Why can’t the assets be centrally managed in the cloud?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Business processes span industries, both vertical and horizontal, and can include any type of business operation. Some examples may include: Automotive – managing parts and/or suppliers. Finance – an invoicing process, a billing process, a risk management process. Health – a medical assessment, a drug approval.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

And maybe that openness is what has attracted many on the management team of other ethnic groups of Chinese, Iranians and the like? This is the cycle of synergies that lead to strong vertical franchises in media. Of course there are many great verticals including: Auto, food, music, animation, shopping. ESPN in sports.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The startup Tracx , which provides a SaaS solution for tracking and managing marketing campaign on social networks, has received an undisclosed investment from Israeli angel Zohar Gilon. million in a second round led by previous backer Genesis Partners and joined by T-Venture , the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

The management team of one of the companies sat down for a brainstorming session. Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. Thanks to Roy Morejon, Enventys Partners ! #10- 9- A merger of two companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of the management team, or a sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attributes for every funding equation. While these may be necessary for funding, they may not be sufficient to make your startup the great success embodied in your vision.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2012

I always tell teams I meet with, “The scarcest resource in your company is management bandwidth. And nobody is more important in this regard than senior management. ok, I know our product isn't yet verticalized. Spend it wisely.” ” Every company is built by a team and every team member matters.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

To do this we partnered with the RevGenius community to get a better understanding the challenges mature companies faced. Our research showed that LTV was much higher compared to other verticals we have worked in the past which made the decision to change our approach a no-brainer.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

But the founders also recognized – as many great founders do – that they were going to have to build out an experienced management team to become the billion company everybody believes this can be. Babe Ruth vs. Lance Armstrong. The first move was to bring in digital media veteran Courtney Holt as COO.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

James Kenigsberg is the Chief Technology Officer and a founding team member at 2U , an educational technology company that partners with universities to offer online degree programs. By doing so, we demystify the online education experience and use our technology to empower the students enrolled in our partner programs. .

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. 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. 2) Market .

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2014

Johnson had VanDerveer bring the basketball team down to the track so they could work on their foot speed and vertical jump by doing things like toe raises, lunges, short sprints, and barefoot training in the grass. It got results — VanDerveer reported that some kids improved their vertical jump eight inches in three months.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

I had the pleasure of co-hosting a free Bplans webinar with Lara Galloway, a business coach and time management expert. In the webinar, Lara offered some excellent time management tips and productivity hacks. Lara is an author, speaker, business coach, and the host of the popular Mom Biz Solutions Show podcast. Lara: Hey, Jonathan.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. Swing is now at over 1,200 school partners and has filled over 115,000 teacher absence days. As you can see, that can be a big mistake. based teachers. NEW EMERGING MARKETPLACES.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Evangelos has spent the last 15 years as a Venture Capitalist, first at Apax Partners and later at Trident Capital. Ownership and management were one and the same – the owners managed, and there were no salaried middle managers or administrators. and to develop professional managers and management hierarchies to run them.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. – Thoughtful fund management. Investing is a completely different skillset from being a good manager.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. – Thoughtful fund management. Investing is a completely different skillset from being a good manager.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

Zoom has successfully managed to systematize the entire process, which has enabled individuals to boost their utilization of online meetings in order to continue their occupations from home even in the face of a pandemic. For example, Twelve has partnered with Daimler and can recreate ingredients needed to make car parts.

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View from Seed

MAY 11, 2020

As a firm, we have had a thesis around the unbundling healthcare to create best-in-class, vertical healthcare solutions for the world’s biggest problems. As they were conceiving of this business based on Mike’s own experience with medical treatment for managing alcohol, we were captivated by the opportunity to partner with them again.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2022

You’re probably familiar with many resale or rent marketplaces, with category leaders sprouting out of specific verticals – from fashion, electronics, books, cars, home, equipment, furniture, and more. Some thoughts: “Pure” versus Managed Marketplaces. Currently, Moment Energy is vertically-integrated. Marketplaces.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Alon Sahar , Partner at law firm Meitar Liquornik Geva Leshem Tal, stated in a press release : “The current report, covering the first half of 2017, alongside the second half of 2016, indicate a clear trend – a decrease in the number of merger & acquisition deals, which requires an explanation.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

by JP James, Managing Director of Libreum Capital Management. Thinking Aloud deal making deals JP James Libreum Capital Management startup' I have been asked by more than one venture the question, what are the points that I need to consider whenever I put together a deal?

Technical Review 164

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. The founders, LPs, and venture partners have a long history in local startup ecosystems in the Southeast including LaunchTN , The Company Lab , CoStarters , and several other regional funds and resources. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 25, 2014

At version one, we are big believers in the vertical SaaS opportunity. A mobile-first approach, combined with a laser-like focus on a specific vertical, can create the right toolset to help SMBs achieve huge productivity gains ( I wrote about this nearly a year ago for TechCrunch). That’s where Clio comes in.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

By September, they reached a point where the company’s lack of funding and their inability to find the ideal marketing partner was really starting to hurt. First, we provide great tools for recruiters to manage the process of finding potential employees,” explains Deering. The best way to overcome this?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Investors will ask management what their “AI strategy” is before investing and will be wary of companies that don’t have one (Fred Wilson, USV). Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Atidot offers a predictive analytics platform for actuarial science and risk management.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

My personal favorite and best fit for GRP Partners was Thumbtack. The idea of aggregation is powerful in a world where your social communications are fragmented and increasingly hard to manage. There wasn’t a bad company tonight but I had a clear favorite. Thumbtack is marketplace for local services.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. Alternative Capital. “ You qualify if you have $5k+ MRR. Bigfoot Capital.

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