The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Affiliate marketing can be a great channel for business growth. However, there are some negative parts of affiliate marketing that have become status quo over the years and are considered “just the way it’s been done.” Because of this, I am committed to ensuring that affiliate marketing maintains its strong reputation.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 7, 2020

Congratulations to Manny Medina and everyone at Outreach , which was named the Fourth Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500™. Lolli was named to CNBC’s 2019 Upstart 100 list (they were the only bitcoin-related company on this year’s list). Product launches. of their SDK.

North America 78

North America Technical Review Seattle Software Review 78

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Portfolio company support & analysis. Portfolio community building. Industry reviews. So the “VC associate” is largely a launching pad job for exceedingly bright and hard-working young tech professionals. We relaunched our brand name. Deal screening. VC firm admin. VC firm policy or fund analysis.

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Jordan Technical Review Portfolio Partner 365

ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Cayuga Venture Fund recently closed an investment in a company called Agronomic Technology Corp (ATC). The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). The resulting product adapt-N has become the initial offering of Agronomic Technology.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review IP 65

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. …But LPs Have Been Putting Out More Money Than They Are Getting Back. That’s money that fuels our startup ecosystems.

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Venture Capital LP Silicon Valley Marketing 150

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2017

As an industry, VC essentially acts as a broker between investment banks, who can’t invest in risky startups due to laws on loan interest, and entrepreneurs who desperately need capital. Expanding tech talent. It’s an aging adage but it’s true; tech talent can increasingly be found outside of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Kenya Startup 193

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They point out perceived market risks, they might question the management team’s experience, they might worry about regulatory risk or incumbent competitive powers. Periodically we do portfolio reviews to evaluate whether we have enough diversified risk across the fund. Let’s just make sure we do it fairly.”

Technical Review 362

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

What tech stack should a microinfluencer use? Many investors including me spend most of our day doing the same things people have always done in our job: in my case, due diligence, deal execution, etc. The challenge is that my time and money budget for “influencing”–content creation and marketing– is minimal.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

Perhaps the biggest piece of new news is that after 17 years of operations we’ve changed our name from GRP Partners to Upfront Ventures. We wanted our name to reflect both the changes we’ve made and how we plan to operate for the next 20 years. Our portfolio companies value us as sparring partners. What’s up with that?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital. These include making deposits, transferring funds, paying bills and managing stock portfolios. In doing so, they are presenting alternative lenders with an opportunity to seize market share from banks and credit unions and provide more loans to Main Street business owners.

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Small Business Technical Review Technology United States 100

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Summer is always the time when large numbers of new participants in the tech ecosystem arrive and start to get their bearings. It’s also surprisingly difficult for students to get plugged-in to everything that is happening in the local tech ecosystem. For example: Dropbox, Reddit, and Birch Box, to name a few. Next major event?

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Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. And while the “first mover advantage” was the rallying cry of the last bubble, today’s is: “Massive capital infusion can own the entire market.” Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

One example is that they introduced a program where their founders can pool together shares from their company and exchange them for a small portfolio of other First Round Capital companies. In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. and Half.com.

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Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Cofounder Cram Down 284

Hunter Walker

MARCH 25, 2015

Every aspect of our lives are being disrupted with technology (specifically the mobile phone) and not one category will go untouched. HW: What’s a favorite question you ask founders during your “get to know you/due diligence” process? EK: How did you come up with your company name?

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Naming Technical Review Early Stage Green 48

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

This was in part due to a tremendously busy 30-day period for me (in which my overall writing has been down) and in part the inevitability of knowing that weighing in just tees me up to take abuse on one anonymous app called Secret. You call them all sorts of names. It has captured the tech zeitgeist and has now raised a ton of money.

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Technical Review Reputation Naming Internet 329

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

Grow Your Business By Growing Your People written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Whitney Johnson. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Whitney Johnson. Whitney is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors. Learn more here.

Leadership 78

Leadership Technical Review Fractional CTO Utah 78

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market. JD Robinson Jewelers: The original “diamond man” (Tom Shane’s inspiration).

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Venture Capital SBIC Technical Review Silicon Valley 70

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

One would think entrepreneurs would never want less available cash – until such time as their competitors ridiculously and unnecessarily all raise $50 million in the name of a “land grab” thus making it much harder for your totally reasonable company to attract investors. What is one to do?

Software Review 150

Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

We learned this weekend that it was named after his East Hampton home. We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. The Greycroft event was a 10 out of 10 so I’ve diligently taken notes.

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PR Technical Review Portfolio Customer Development 279

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

With so many startups facing a tough journey right from their inception, the pressing question becomes: How does one successfully navigate the tech industry? The key lies in having a groundbreaking idea and understanding the broader tech landscape and the forces shaping it.

Technical Review 137

Technical Review Startup Silicon Valley Agile 137

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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San Francisco Jordan Los Angeles Technical Review 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

A business needs technical, marketing, financial and many other skills. Create and highlight your intellectual property portfolio. Angel investors expect to review a short executive summary before booking time to hear an investor presentation or taking the time to analyze a full business plan.

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Accredited Investor Angel Groups 120

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2022

How To Create A Culture Of Learning And Growth written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Whitney Johnson. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Whitney Johnson. Whitney is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors.

Leadership 73

Leadership Utah Portfolio Technical Review 73

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

As the name explains it, PMP certification is a relevant credential granted by the Project Management Institute (PMI), USA, and is therefore recognised the world over. It helps you draw big – Suddenly you’re in high demand in the market and also in a position to demand and earn a higher salary than your counterparts.

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Management Software Review Demand Salary 81

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

An article on growth and marketing in the middle of a crisis—the current one or any other—can seem tone deaf. This post surveys what people have done in the past—and what marketing leaders are doing now—to make it through tough times and thrive in the post-crisis era. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. But nothing gets better if we stand still.

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

The name and the type have to fit, or expensive rework will be required later. If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing. A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Preferred Stock Stealth 120

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2021

Analytics teams are named for the silos and limitations within which they trap themselves. This is very hard to do, we now have a proven seven-step experimentation process, with one of the coolest algorithms to pick matched-markets (normally the kiss of death of any large-scale geo experiment). Matched market tests. Paid Media.

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Analytics Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Campaign 131

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2015

by Jack Narcotta, Devices Analyst at Technology Business Research. While TBR expects margin growth to be uneven through 2015, revenue and gross profit will continue to increase, due to the ability of its advertising business to monetize the proliferation of mobile devices and maintain its dominance in desktop search.

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Advertising Revenue Mobile Intellectual Property 100

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the pivot they are making as a result of the pandemic and here are the responses: #1- Social media marketing. 8- Shifting our focus on the global market. Due to that, we decided to widen our client base to increase our revenue. Thanks to Glen Carroll, Clicks marketing ! #14-

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Entrepreneur Metrics Technical Review North America 120

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. And for my own good I vowed to have relationships in China and knowledge of the local markets. This company is back on the market raising money again. They hired a consultant to help them with the review. I knew THEN that we had lost.

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China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. And for my own good I vowed to have relationships in China and knowledge of the local markets. This company is back on the market raising money again. They hired a consultant to help them with the review. I knew THEN that we had lost.

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China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 328

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. While there was an occasional bad apple, the public markets rewarded companies with revenue growth and sustainable profits.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 235

ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Jeff Clavier was the first tech investor I ever met; he was introduced to me years ago by some hip engineers in a bar as "one of the few cool VCs." Kedrosky: "In the 90's I was an analyst through all this [tech investment and IPO] madness. The market just isn't that efficient to truly determine the best.

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Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 20, 2019

Most freelancers don’t like the “gig economy” name that experts use when referring to this type of labor market since freelancing isn’t just a hot trend. Here are a few reasons why the freelance market will continue to grow in 2019 – and beyond. Let’s stick with our digital marketing example. It’s cost-effective.

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Technical Review Portfolio Hiring Naming 56

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2018

Nike’s LinkedIn page notes that the Portland-based athletic giant is named for the Greek goddess of victory — one of the only mentions of this fun little fact anywhere in Nike’s vast marketing aperture. Fortune favors those who cultivate a favorable Yelp rating and review portfolio. Crunchbase.

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