BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

6 portfolio companies raised Series A financings including Manifold , Hypr , and 4 unannounced, 1 raised a Series B (unannounced), and Security Scorecard raised a $28mm Series C. Expect this trend to continue and what this means is that CIOs will take a portfolio approach, make some bets, and double down on their winners.

Cloud 60

Cloud Cofounder Portfolio Advisory Board 60

YoungUpstarts

JULY 13, 2020

Companies need this to do business in today’s market. SIP Trunks have taken over the telephony market that is for sure. In 2017 the SIP market size was $6.88 It is simple to add to your existing portfolio of products providing a broader spectrum of products and services for your customers. Compatibility.

Technical Review 147

Technical Review IP Internet Audio 147

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! You’ll find more creative outdoor advertising in the Social Media & Marketing section below. 10 Tips To Improve Email Marketing – [link]. Who are we?

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. What accelerated this was the collapse of the public stock markets. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.

LP 311

LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited. The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). But markets value high growth over short-term profitability. Where are we today?

Technical Review 398

Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

As started a few weeks ago with RackN, I am putting forward a Spotlight Series on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. Next up, Appbase — wow… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

Global 48

Global Austin Portfolio Marketing 48

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Success depends on finding startups that have identified acute customer pains in large markets where conditions are ripe for a new entrant. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 Startups still need capital to scale once they find good product-market fit and a repeatable-scalable business model.).

Early Stage 286

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. First check to seed?—?congrats Rebel exit to Salesforce.

Stealth 79

Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%. Apple owned 0%. Think about this.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

As a marketer, you want to choose a CMS that is not only easy to use but plays nicely with the rest of your team as well. Even for a small marketing website or a simple landing page, designers would send over the designs, sit back, cross fingers, and pray that it will all come back pixel-perfect. Image source ). Image source )

Software Review 91

Software Review Technical Review Hosting SEO 91

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Companies like Fold (and soon V1 portfolio company Lolli ) offer cashback rewards for shoppers via Lightning, a Trojan horse for many people to acquire their first bitcoin. Bitrefill makes it easy for anyone to buy gift cards and phone minutes (a big use case in emerging markets) instantly using Lightning. 2) Gaming . At least not yet.

Networking 168

Networking Global OTC Security 168

Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

It’s implications are far and wide, even in the narrow scope that I live in (marketing, analytics, influence). Machine Learning | Marketing. Machine Learning | Marketing. You are seeing many applications of Machine Learning being applied to Marketing. Consider the implications of ML on your email marketing program.

Artificial Inteligence 60

Artificial Inteligence Analytics Marketing Campaign 60

BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

With COVID raging at the beginning and end of the year, it is all the more amazing what our portfolio companies have accomplished the last twelve months. We are to have partnered since day one as FortressIQ created the market for process discovery and automation and scaled to dozens of enterprise customers. 2021 Recap.

Stealth 78

Stealth Cofounder SQL Open Source 78

YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2020

Do you want to add bitcoin to your portfolio, but you do not have money for investment? Various exchanges and services based on the principle of network marketing. As the price of Bitcoin moves up and down in the open market, you need to know the latest exchange rate to avoid mistakes. Brokerage exchanges and trading.

Affiliate 246

Affiliate Open Source Framework Portfolio 246

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

As a result, businesses will require digital marketers to assist customers in understanding their new or modified offerings. Experiential marketing campaigns, such as live streaming of events, may attract a big audience to a business. As a result, marketing techniques must be altered to accommodate this new sort of search language.

Artificial Inteligence 110

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur 110

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Volatile, uncapped. Flexible VC: Revenue -based.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Version One Ventures

JULY 1, 2020

And while these past three months have been far from typical, there was a lot of activity across our portfolio. Coinbase launched Rosetta, an open-source specification and set of tools that makes integrating with blockchains simpler, faster, and more reliable. At the end of every quarter, we publish a quick recap.

North Carolina 148

North Carolina Raleigh Stealth Seattle 148

Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

a new segment of the institutional venture market is emerging. Both super-angels are institutionalizing “up” and formerly traditional VCs shifting “down” to fill a market opportunity. Portfolio construction favors early-round capital allocation vs. company life-cycle allocation. That’s no secret.

Seed Stage 175

Seed Stage Technical Review Dilution Offshore 175

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Why if we can get a small machine to balance and adjust its center of gravity like this little fella, how long can it be until those flying cars finally go on the market? Open source typeface “Hack” brings design to source code crowdspring.co/1JPW7C3. IdN Motion Gallery on Pratt Portfolios crowdspring.co/1OaQlOL.

Small Business 48

Small Business Design Syria Social Media 48

Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

Pantheon is one of the Silent Killers in our portfolio – and I’m immensely proud of the progress they are making and excited about their future. We are the leaders in our market, and they will follow, after we’ve found and laid the path. I had to be there. Before any big city, there was once The Frontier.

Vermont 165

Vermont Startup Campaign Virginia 165

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. We have two kinds of users at Snyk: the open source developers, who are never going to pay but will help build the community. in just 30 months.

Early Stage 62

Early Stage Open Source Development Team Review Security 62

BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

We also leveraged the open source database platform PostgreSQL as the initial foundation for our technology. We did have some large initial customers but quickly realized that we were far from capital efficient in a market crash and that we would have to refocus and restart. Tags: Entrepreneurship Open Source.

Portfolio 109

Portfolio Open Source Architecture Database 109

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. Companies pursuing innovation can Buy, Build, Partner or use Open Innovation. . —– Lean Innovation Management.

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Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2013

Hadoop , an open source framework for storing and processing large volumes of diverse data on a scalable cluster of servers that has pretty much emerged as the preferred platform for managing big data, itself promises to be able to keep pace with big data’s rapid evolution, so it’s no surprise to see Intel leap onto the bandwagon.

Distribution 154

Distribution Software Open Source Framework 154

BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

We also leveraged the open source database platform PostgreSQL as the initial foundation for our technology. We did have some large initial customers but quickly realized that we were far from capital efficient in a market crash and that we would have to refocus and restart.

Portfolio 109

Portfolio Architecture Open Source Database 109

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2014

Tesla Motors announced yesterday it has opened its patent portfolio in hopes of encouraging other companies to create new electric vehicles. In a blog post, CEO Elon Musk said this was done “In the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.”

Intellectual Property 200

Intellectual Property California Open Source Portfolio 200

BeyondVC

MARCH 17, 2004

.” It is still early days for XORP and the platform still needs to address performance and security issues, but the point is that any software product with a large enough installed base can be vulnerable to open source competition. One other open opportunity for attack in the database market is the reporting and analytics end.

Open Source 60

Open Source Database Analytics Portfolio 60

BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Before diving into the standard year-end predictions on the enterprise, I thought I would share some data on our firm and our founding teams from 2016: we welcomed 9 new enterprise founding teams to the portfolio including Workrails (started by venture partner Jeff Leventhal), BigID , Hypr , Init.ai , and 5 stealth companies.

Stealth 60

Stealth Canada Azure Architecture 60

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Market analysis. This looks at the target market for your product or service. It has a breakdown of your market segments, their geographic location, and what their needs are. How do they currently meet your target market’s needs, and how will you differentiate your product or services? Sales and marketing plan.

Business Plan 64

Business Plan Small Business Administration Hiring Social Media 64

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

If you’d like to capture the iPhone market, too, check out AppBreeder , a web-based iPhone app maker, or SwebApps , another tool for building iPhone applications. It might be smart to double-check your plans with an experienced and successful mobile and online marketing expert before beginning your app creation.

Small Business 104

Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 14, 2013

The closure of Google Reader, and the knock on effect on businesses like our portfolio company Taptu that rely upon the Google Reader infrastructure will on the one hand make it harder for people to read blogs like this one, and on the other hand make it harder for news hounds like myself to stay on top of multple sources.

Open Source 108

Open Source Acquisition Portfolio Developer 108

Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

CEOs, by contrast, recognize that markets, circumstances and luck factor into the equation in a big way. When you start a company, the decision about which market to pursue comes early and lasts a very long time. As a result, the CEO’s job is to optimize the company in the current market or move to an adjacent market.

Acquisition 78

Acquisition Cloud Architecture Revenue 78

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

His theory of disruption states that large companies are most often disrupted by small competitors who release products which are cheaper and initially inferior but good enough to take the low end of the market, after which quality improves to the point where they take the whole market. Wadwha is right.

Open Source 60

Open Source Portfolio Naming Technology 60

David Cohen

MARCH 3, 2016

Recently, one of our newer portfolio companies was looking for some advice from our network regarding hiring a developer evangelist. If you don’t have one of those, are you sure you need developer marketing yet?” The thread went on: “There is a large community around our open source project.

Developer 48

Developer Hiring API Open Source 48

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

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. Marketing Manager at Fanscape (Lo. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B. 10 Fresh Blogger Templates for Any Ap. JoinSquare at Square, Inc.

Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

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. Marketing Manager at Fanscape (Lo. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B. 10 Fresh Blogger Templates for Any Ap. JoinSquare at Square, Inc.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83