SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

When I do a quick mental query of headcount across our entire portfolio of ~30 companies, I think at least 50% and maybe as much as 60% of the entire headcount of our portfolio is in either product or engineering. This is a great configuration for a starting team. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. What should I do?’.

Fractional CTO 248

Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 4) Manage deal flow. 9% (1 / 12). 1) Market fund. Pitchbot.vc

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2022

Sequoia’s “Adapting to Endure” Sequoia presented this deck to a group of portfolio founders and it quickly spread online to founders worldwide. We may see many VC funds increase their reserves strategies to triage their portfolio through this high-bar Series A environment. Notable tech layoffs (source: Protocol ).

Venture Capital 184

Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation Startup 184

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Out of hundreds of social networks launched, only one changed the world. As a result, any public market downturn will immediately impact unrealized returns of the fund they are managing due to the late and growth stage companies in their portfolio. Normal distributions do not exist; standard deviations are meaningless.

Harvest 60

Harvest Vertical IPO Early Stage 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. Mari Holds a B.A.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). The best way is if they hear from third parties but if you can’t manage this it’s OK to tell them directly. Tough, but true.

Venture Capital 282

Venture Capital Term Sheet Valuation Stock Options 282

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

You Manage What you Measure. One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Or they go in the opposite direction and spend too much time capturing & measuring data that isn’t used to make management decisions. On measurement.

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In just two years, propelled by Aronin’s mission-based mindset, Paragon Bioscience’s portfolio companies have reached significant milestones. Experts point to the benefits of a mission-oriented management philosophy like Jeff Aronin’s. That approach has worked particularly well for Jeff Aronin’s Paragon Biosciences.

Artificial Inteligence 147

Artificial Inteligence Retention Salary Social Network 147

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! There are also tons of tools for creating your own microsites, Facebook apps, social networks, blogs and more. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.

Small Business 104

Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

Babbling VC

AUGUST 18, 2011

What I am addressing here are internships, analyst and maybe even investment manager positions. . Research the fund you are applying to: read their website, review their portfolio, find some press clippings on recent deals and research the partners via LinkedIn, Xing or whatever other social network gives you access to their backgrounds. .

Portfolio 75

Portfolio Software Review Partner Networking 75

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 1, 2011

The opposite approach of index investing is an actively managed or concentrated investing approach. alone and would rather take time to find companies that he can actively manage and leverage his competitive advantage with. The most popular traditional indexes are the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Standards and Poor?s

Technical Review 123

Technical Review Due Diligence Cofounder Startup 123

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

One really great experience was a discussion I had with the camera rolling with my good friend Dmitry Shapiro who founded the major YouTube competitor of its time (Veoh) that was sued into oblivion by Universal and who also founded a social network designed to promote pseudonymity. I have a blog and a voice.

Technical Review 329

Technical Review Reputation Naming Internet 329

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. Marketing Manager at Fanscape (Lo.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

Portfolio construction favors early-round capital allocation vs. company life-cycle allocation. Initial investment in a company is among the first non-founder capital raised. The firm is solely focused on capital efficient business sectors, most frequently but certainly not always internet-enabled companies.

Seed Stage 175

Seed Stage Technical Review Dilution Offshore 175

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles.

Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

Haystack

JULY 4, 2019

Contrast that with a fund manager, who is often required to issue quarterly capital account statements usually paired with a cover note and updates on specific companies. But seed portfolios are largely different than larger funds. For me, I am pretty zen about this after six years of early-stage startup investment. Want to send them?

Early Stage 167

Early Stage Deal Flow Finance Metrics 167

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

She began the CIA’s Lessons Learned program and led the Agency’s first effort to address the challenges posed by social networks, digital ubiquity, and the emerging culture of collaboration. Both of us were very highly respected, we were both managers, we both had really large networks of people that we knew. … .

Wiki 120

Wiki Entrepreneur Cofounder Government 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2012

This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs that solve critical health problems. Portfolio pricing. This one takes expert management to work. Keep the number of tiers small for manageability. Tiered or volume pricing.

Business Model 282

Business Model Revenue Portfolio Differentiation 282

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

On the other hand, the best firms have developed strategies to capture more value while their best portfolio companies stay private. If you get into a high-growth company and you have asymmetric information on how the management team is performing?—?this As a result the best companies grow faster than any time in human history.

Venture Capital 292

Venture Capital IPO Mezzanine Early Stage 292

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2014

This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs and medical devices that solve critical health problems. Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, with high markup and low markup items, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers.

Revenue 287

Revenue Startup Business Model Retention 287

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Companies being created has continued to go up dramatically making managing dealflow nearly impossible. Thank you to Tasha for helping to keep me sane by managing the onslaught of meeting requests, board meetings and constant change. 2013 has proved to be a wild year. eCommerce was battered this year.

Valuation 288

Valuation eCommerce Revenue Social Network 288

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the Andreessen Horowitz portfolio, no companies deploy applications on premise, every employee has a mobile device and all deploy modern social software. Communicate – The most important challenge in managing any large organization is communication. Users are now buyers—as the always-excellent Vinnie Mirchandani points out.

Romania 77

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. Sentiment is strong in personal portfolios and up commensurately with VC’s expectations that their last fund will now be worth something (and along with that increase the partners’ personal wealth).

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

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. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Scalable Startup

APRIL 1, 2013

>> The 15 Minute Website and Personal Website “Portfolios” – soon anyone will be able to build multiple personal sites with full e-commerce, payment systems, community, social networking, SEO, and big data analytics with no coding and very easy manipulation.

PHP 22

PHP Japan Portfolio Social Network 22

VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2021

Users are flocking to multiplayer 3D universes such as Fortnite and Roblox that allow people to interact with 3D content and use it to represent their identity – these are the new 3D social networks. Snap recently acquired Vertebrae , a company that lets brands create and manage 3D versions of their goods.

Cofounder 184

Cofounder Mobile Revenue Cloud 184

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2013

This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs and medical devices that solve critical health problems. Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, with high markup and low markup items, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers.

Product 290

Product Revenue Business Model Retention 290

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Indigo Room Featured Speaker: Whitney Wolfe Herd As Founder and CEO of Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd helms one of the fastest-growing social networks in the world. Room 211–212 Sunday, March 11 Social Airbag with Spredfast CEO Rod Favaron Social networks were under fire in 2017 following foreign interference of the 2016 US election.

Technical Review 58

Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Techstars provides their accelerator portfolio companies with access to financial, human and intellectual capital to fuel the success of their business. I am very excited about this year’s incoming class,” said Amos Schwartzfarb, Techstars Austin Managing Director.

Austin 62

Austin Curation Startup Dallas 62

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2010

This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs that solve critical health problems. Portfolio pricing. This one takes expert management to work. Keep the number of tiers small for manageability. Tiered or volume pricing.

Product 247

Product Startup Portfolio Revenue 247

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 29, 2011

Reality is that we're probably connected in some way anyway through various social networks anyway and I'm very quick to figure out all of those connections to ask about you. I don't mind cold intros at all--but it's hard when I can't figure out who you are in the context of my network. Don't try to skirt the process.

Technical Review 114

Technical Review Early Stage Due Diligence Venture Capital 114

Gust

AUGUST 24, 2014

This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs and medical devices that solve critical health problems. Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, with high markup and low markup items, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers.

Revenue 184

Revenue Startup Retention Internet 184

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We all know media companies are suffering as CPMs (the amount they can charge per thousand visitors) are falling, available inventory is climbing, free content and blogs are proliferating, user attention is being divided with social networks and the core media business cash cows like classified ads have been disrupted by companies like CraigsList.

Media 288

Media Advertising Early Stage Algorithm 288

View from Seed

MAY 12, 2015

Even if a firm’s members are almost all titled “partner” externally (and not other gradations like Managing Director), some partners are still more equal than others. And if you’re easily able to get an introduction to a particular partner through a close tie in your own network, that’s often just the right approach.

Partner 120

Partner Term Sheet Reputation Deal Flow 120

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

The opposite approach of index investing is an actively managed or concentrated investing approach. alone and would rather take time to find companies that he can actively manage and leverage his competitive advantage with. Most indices are cap-weighted - more in line with a concentrated portfolio (i.e.

Technical Review 50

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Although it may be tempting to simply tell employees that they are expected to keep up their usual focus despite the social celebrations and obligations of the holidays, it’s not always the best way to approach the situation. Ratchet up your company’s social networking posts. Managing a Business holiday season productivity'

Employee 134

Employee Product Ratchet Demand 134

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2012

Whether you meet people at the dog park or connect on LinkedIn , you should be using your unemployment to build a strong network that you can hopefully use to catapult you back into the working world. Learn about social networking. It’s hard to get by in many industries these days without some solid social media knowledge.

Networking 267

Networking Social Media Community Hiring 267