Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2019

Define and document the portfolio of initiatives to deliver on your strategic objectives and fulfill your production and skill requirements. Scale up your portfolio of initiatives, monitor progress and dynamically pivot as your plans are implemented. Architect: Build an actionable plan and acquire delivery resources.

Technical Review 226

Technical Review Leadership Portfolio Matching 226

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

By removing physical boundaries, the care delivery modality provides an obvious advantage to more efficiently match geographically unbalanced provider supply with patient demand. . Affordability . Patient-facing cost is a key driver of healthcare accessibility. Scalable Go-To-Market .

Vertical 156

Vertical Software Review Portfolio Demand 156

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

Obvious caveats to my POV here, most specifically: exposure is limited to largely the US/SiliconValley ecosystem, driven by our own portfolio, my friends and co-investors, the funds I’m a LP in, and our institutional LP relationships. Many VCs Owned Too Little of Their Portfolio Companies to Begin With. Valuations.

Portfolio 98

Portfolio Cap Table LP Valuation 98

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Jeff Bezos , CEO of Amazon, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. VCs are committed to servicing existing portfolios. Super angels have greater scope to match talent with a startup. Super angels sometimes drive up valuations.

Angel Investor 342

Angel Investor Venture Capital Silicon Valley Portfolio 342

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2023

Create a distinct brand identity that matches your values, area of expertise, and selling point. If you’re an investor, you could diversify your portfolio by exploring different property types or locations. To win over customers’ trust and loyalty, consistently uphold your brand promise and offer superior service.

Technical Review 152

Technical Review Social Media Networking Differentiation 152

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

AI to make IRL matches – What if you could chat with a bot that learns about you on a deeper level and uses this information to make a curated set of matches? Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

You need to be careful in choosing the website where you’ll build your portfolio because you might end up wasting time, effort, and money without getting any clients. Transformify uses powerful ML ( machine learning algorithm) to suggest those profiles that are a good match to the employers. DesignCrowd.

Technical Review 89

Technical Review Software Review Search Portfolio 89

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Especially since VC pattern matching may inappropriately label people this way (can’t sell) who are merely nervous or new to their environment. At Homebrew, we keep a list of coaches that work well with startups and then try to help match against need and personality type. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs.

Technical Cofounder 144

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Startup Matching 144

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers. There is no time to be changing your culture to match the lifecycle. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture.

Dilution 224

Dilution Merger Flash Global 224

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

His reaction reminded me one more time why entrepreneurship is an art, why VC’s manage portfolios of companies and why new ideas come from those who don’t respect the status quo. A match made in heaven? I’m a Domain Expert Damn It. We always assign experienced mentors to our student teams. Not exactly.

Vertical 332

Vertical Agile Customer Development Lean 332

Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Qualification #1: You know how to do something specific that is valuable and needed often in pursuing a deal or servicing the portfolio. Whatever it is, it helps diligence opportunities, win deals or service the portfolio in ways that make the founders and GPs feel good. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs. Synthetic bio.

North Carolina 90

North Carolina Hiring Angel Investor Technical Review 90

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

The Innovation Portfolio. Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. What can companies learn from others’ failed efforts to integrate startups into large companies?

Acquisition 332

Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 332

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As a buyer of technology and capability, the Department of Defense now can decide to buy different capabilities to match this new world. The only way we’re really going to change is by trying to create more and more pockets in the defense portfolio and programs that are open to real competition. Changing Acquisition.

Technical Review 361

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology United States 361

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Understand the basics around how your message resonates and how to identify more customers that match your target personas. Invest an hour a week looking at competitors’ web sites or viewing web designers’ portfolios. Successful businesses are always working on their websites. Plan to iterate.

Elevator Pitch 100

Elevator Pitch Web Portfolio B2B 100

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2018

A baker portfolio can fulfill an important role. However, the sheer extent of that variety does make some forms of advertising a bad match. The ideal place to begin is with a decision to build a portfolio website. How portfolios help showcase creativity. How portfolios help showcase creativity.

Portfolio 85

Portfolio Advertising Social Network Matching 85

ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2012

They’ll spend nine months in full-time or intern-level jobs at companies in the Bain Capital Ventures portfolio, taking time out to attend events and meet startup founders. We can go to these campuses across the country on behalf of our portfolio, find great kids and match them up with our companies.”.

Portfolio 121

Portfolio Matching Silicon Valley Startup 121

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Jeff Bezos , CEO of Amazon, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. VCs are committed to servicing existing portfolios. Super angels have greater scope to match talent with a startup. Super angels sometimes drive up valuations.

Angel Investor 314

Angel Investor Venture Capital Silicon Valley Startup 314

View from Seed

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The ultimate vision for Poly is to become an online personal asset library, with an “infinite” supply of highly customized design assets matching every designer’s unique style. But it’s not just the technology that makes Poly stand out – it’s also the team behind it.

Generative AI 156

Generative AI Cofounder Architecture Technical Review 156

Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

General Bucky Butow – Director of the Space Portfolio. Department of Defense match or beat the speed of great power competitors in acquiring and integrating critical technologies? For semiconductors, the White House Coordinator for the CHIPS Act – Ronnie Chatterji, and the CTO of Applied Materials – Om Nalamasu.

Technical Review 353

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology China 353

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Maybe we like the idea of control over the ‘last mile’ — for example, happy to let a dating app give us top 10 profiles they think matches for us, but we’d prefer to pick the ones we want to connect with versus the same app setting us up with one of the 10. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs.

Web 105

Web Technical Review Framework Stock 105

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

In contrast, the main job of a start-up is to search for a workable business model, to find the right match between customer needs and what the company can profitably offer. Blank explains that this is why companies need a portfolio of new business start-ups rather than putting all of their eggs into a limited number of baskets.

Business Model 332

Business Model Technical Review Business Plan Search 332

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Neither is very strategic nor in the best interest of either set of customers that VCs have (portfolio companies & LPs). Tim can match up with any Silicon Valley product manager and has been doing the role for global software businesses for 20 years. Luckily we had history together.

CTO Hire 320

CTO Hire Cofounder San Francisco Silicon Valley 320

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

His reaction reminded me one more time why entrepreneurship is an art, why VC’s manage portfolios of companies and why new ideas come from those who don’t respect the status quo. A match made in heaven? I’m a Domain Expert Damn It. We always assign experienced mentors to our student teams. Not exactly.

Customer Development 224

Customer Development Vertical Agile Lean 224

David Teten

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Job creation is political topic #1, so we have a particular interest in portfolio companies like Identified and TheResumator , which help match employers and job seekers. Identified launched its public beta last month. Effectively, Identified gives you a score for your desirability as an employee. It’s similar in principle to Klout.

Portfolio 141

Portfolio Matching Networking Employee 141

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

The reality for a regional investor is that you have to match the capital you raise to the deal/exit environment you are in. With a portfolio of at least 20 investments, or you are at risk of the adverse selection problem.) This experience has provided me a whole new set of pattern matching filters as an investor.

Early Stage 286

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The abstract version of markets, the one in which they flawlessly create supply to match demand and precisely set prices, is not reflective of the way markets often work in the real economy. Even if they’d like to move, they know they’ll never be able to match the low mortgage rate they locked in years ago. In Canada, the U.S.

North America 118

North America Equity America Singapore 118

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2020

According to Vouge Magazine, Fashion and Esports is a match made in heaven. Our portfolio company Madskil is pioneering an interesting approach in this space. This commercial is a sign of maturity for Esports’s popularity, which has been gaining rapidly during Covid-19 (especially in the US) as other sport events went dark.

Technical Review 167

Technical Review Revenue IP Affiliate 167

K9 Ventures

APRIL 16, 2023

I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company. To put it bluntly, the very American name doesn’t match up with the appearance of someone who is clearly of Asian origin. It has been a while since I posted to the K9 Ventures blog. Like a lot, a lot.

Engineer 69

Engineer Software Engineering Texas China 69

The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

As an industry veteran and owner and CEO of PartnerCentric, I started in affiliate marketing over 16 years ago, personally managing some of the largest programs in the PartnerCentric portfolio today. The numbers I am seeing in my internal analytics don’t match the reporting from my network.

Affiliate 111

Affiliate Marketing Technical Review Channel 111

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

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. We obviously heard what Greycroft’s portfolio companies did and what their vision for the future was. He says this is a mistake.

PR 279

PR Technical Review Portfolio Customer Development 279

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers. There is no time to be changing your culture to match the lifecycle. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture.

Dilution 134

Dilution Merger Flash Global 134

ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2012

They’ll spend nine months in full-time or intern-level jobs at companies in the Bain Capital Ventures portfolio, taking time out to attend events and meet startup founders. We can go to these campuses across the country on behalf of our portfolio, find great kids and match them up with our companies.”.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Matching Startup Silicon Valley 60

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

This is a series of templated websites for matching angel investors seeking investment opportunities with entrepreneurs seeking capital. These groups represent more than 6,500 angels and are funding approximately 800 new companies each year and managing an ongoing portfolio of more than 5,000 companies throughout North America.

Angel Investor 255

Angel Investor North America South America Accredited Investor 255

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Here are the top five, as outlined by Rice in his book, which match my own experience: Management team. Most investors like the idea of adding venture investments to “diversity their portfolio,” and create great up-side potential. The same hold true for venture capital investors.

Cram Down 269

Cram Down Angel Investor Intellectual Property Venture Capital 269

ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2012

They’ll spend nine months in full-time or intern-level jobs at companies in the Bain Capital Ventures portfolio, taking time out to attend events and meet startup founders. We can go to these campuses across the country on behalf of our portfolio, find great kids and match them up with our companies.”

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Matching Silicon Valley Startup 60

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Each stage needs a clearly defined set of objectives, and the right team to match those objectives. These partnerships may take the form of Proof of Concept projects with startups, getting to know VC firms and their portfolios, and familiarizing themselves with university groups doing research in the established strategic problems. (It

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Incubator Acquisition Business Model 120

The Startup Magazine

MAY 19, 2020

It can offer portfolio management, goal planning, security features, education, and customer service all at low fees. It is one major thing that will help you choose a broker that will match your profile. These kinds of services are offered for less service fees. Before engaging a broker, you need to consider some factors.

Stock 90

Stock Securities and Exchange Commission United Kingdom Technical Review 90