Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

So when an investment thesis becomes popular, when a new technology becomes available, when a new media consumption platform becomes dominant, if we believe in the trend, we have to “seed” an investment within the first three years and hope to “harvest” 5–10 years later. Vertical integration of different funding risks.

Harvest 60

Harvest Vertical IPO Early Stage 60

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In fact, a recommendation from a founder we passed on is one of our best performing portfolio companies! However, this is not to say that I don’t spend time on nor invest in AI, dev tools, vertical SaaS, marketplaces, etc. (as as our portfolio shows ). Be a generalist and a specialist.

Cofounder 182

Cofounder Portfolio Capital Gains Vertical 182

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

As more investors have more touch points with a “Softbank round” in their portfolio, a picture emerges — rounds here often take a long time to close. In 2017, we learned about how social media feeds were used to surface biased or planted information. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! . #4- I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. 8- Relying on social media for marketing. One of my biggest business fails was putting most of my marketing efforts into social media. and many others.

Entrepreneur 55

Entrepreneur Hiring Delaware Social Media 55

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! #4- I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. 8- Relying on social media for marketing. One of my biggest business fails was putting most of my marketing efforts into social media. and many others.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Hiring Delaware Social Media 54

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. And in the entertainment category, our portfolio company TripleLift provides monetization for online publishers through native ad technology. 2) Pervasive Tools.

B2B 120

B2B B2C Vertical Portfolio 120

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. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 9% (1 / 12).

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

ConversionXL

MARCH 9, 2016

Typically, when people think of false bottoms, they think of vertical scrolling. Since vertical scrolling is more familiar to most people, let’s start there. Polled social media, maybe. Personal Portfolios. Personal portfolios are a place for designers and photographers to show off their creativity.

Cost 48

Cost Vertical Portfolio Design 48

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This is especially true for those with a media / ad based business model (e.g. We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses. But B2B startups need to take a different tack.

Revenue 234

Revenue Product B2B Marketing 234

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

ATI has served the entrepreneur community for over twenty years and focuses on the IT, Wireless, Clean Energy and Bioscience verticals. The current portfolio ranges from 60 Ghz chip sets (Nitero) to enterprise 2.0 ( InXero ) to family media ( Famigo ) companies.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Intellectual Property Incubator Due Diligence 70

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search.

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Transformify

JULY 4, 2018

Each job post is automatically indexed by 50+ job boards worldwide and shared via the social media channels to attract the right candidates actively looking for a job. Our clients source candidates across all geographies and verticals. The job seekers provide a link to their Linkedin profile, portfolio, etc.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Database Algorithm 40

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2017

We think it’s inevitable that this vertical will undergo the same digital transformation as every other major commerce category and we’ve made two investments behind this thesis ( Paintzen and Renoviso ) and will be expecting to do more around the construction and renovation space in the years to come. Source: Google Finance).

Denmark 244

Denmark Vertical eCommerce Internet 244

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. The fund views its portfolio startups as fulfilling one of the three layers of the “Big Data stack”: 1. → Learn More.

Early Stage 70

Early Stage San Francisco Los Angeles Southern California 70

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! This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

Small Business 104

Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

Effectively analyzing and acting on Bounce Rates requires the following: * A deep understanding of owned, earned and paid media strategies. * Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension…. My reason for that is the broader influence of Bounce Rates. Knowing the content, including its emotional and functional value. *

Analytics 93

Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

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. Techstars funds all types of startups, working across all verticals, applying all types of business models.

Austin 62

Austin Curation Startup Dallas 62

Hunter Walker

JUNE 14, 2018

“Vertical Expertise” – More hands and minds around the industry maze they’re traversing. ” In reality, across a multiyear relationship with a portfolio company we end up doing all four of these, but it’s important to start off understanding expectations.

Cap Table 81

Cap Table Portfolio Vertical Reputation 81

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. Potential competitors: Gilt Groupe , ShoeDazzle.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 27, 2014

Luke Wroblewski speaks about this in a great talk (discussion of shift from one media to another begins around 10:30). It’s an entirely new form of media that’s unique to itself. Every new medium needs a new way of thinking. A mobile device is not just a smaller or less powerful version of a desktop computer.

Mobile 161

Mobile Web SEO Distribution 161

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. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

A few days ago, Bessemer West Coast SaaS Practice - David Cowan , Byron Deeter and myself, hosted a CFO Dinner for our SaaS portfolio at John Bentleys in Redwood City. Fifteen CFOs participated - about half of them from Bessemer portfolio SaaS companies (Cornerstone On Demand, Intacct. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare?

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 28, 2012

Software to help enterprises leverage social media was the investment theme that underpinned our investment in Conversocial last year and we have been looking for more companies that leverage the same trends. The first major acquisition of a social business was Salesforce’s acquisition of Radian6 for $326m nearly 18 months ago.

Acquisition 94

Acquisition Vertical eCommerce Flash 94

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Bessemer started the idea of the “anti-portfolio” – the companies that you passed on, but ended up doing very, very well. . After Honey was acquired by PayPal for $4B a few weeks ago, we thought it was a good time to share the Version One anti-portfolio: Honey. We had a chance to invest in a $500K round at a $12M valuation in 2015.

Portfolio 202

Portfolio Cap Table Early Stage Valuation 202

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 26, 2011

Fab.com (First Round portfolio company) just announced a new round of funding and that they reached 350,000 subscribers. I sat down with a super smart marketer who has been a little bit pigeon holed in social media, but is capable of a lot more.

New York City 113

New York City Marketing SEM Acquisition 113

View from Seed

JUNE 23, 2022

DC: Short-term: Do-it-yourself (DIY) social media influencers in the United States with 100K+ followers. Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. Just a few years ago, we discovered products on social media, then went to an online retailer to make the purchase.

DC 156

DC Cambodia eCommerce Social Media 156

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

A social media specialist shares the content. Tom Tunguz offers a framework that uses a scale from 1 to 10 to assess demand generation portfolios: 1. What is the spend on the people, software and media? For MST Solutions, Bogdanovich has focused on executing well on one vertical per quarter, then expanding to other verticals.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2018

Depending on your vertical, total cost of business name change can run into millions of dollars like the attempt to change UTA to TDU. 1) Make it Flexible and Extendable: A good business name should be flexible and extendable: able to accommodate a growing portfolio of additional products, services or territories. Source: Pixabay.

Naming 70

Naming eCommerce Startup Database 70

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Suspects and prospects are everywhere in the vast realm of social media, watching, reading, commenting, engaging. Some vertical ad networks have gone after this opportunity, Glam Media being one of the most successful of the lot. Today, the problem has once again changed definition. It's just not worth it.

Greece 116

Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

The time they spend with customers is usually limited to transactional core products sales, generating lower margins – The resource allocation is not always matching the opportunity (geography, customer segment, vertical.) – The rules of engagement for technical resources (solution or product specialists) are not clear.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Europe Software 48

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2020

We ( Remagine Ventures ) and our friends at Fusion LA are happy to invite founders, investors and media experts to the inaugural Media and eSports Online Annual Conference. The event will highlight startups and technologies in the media, entertainment, gaming and esports domains, with a spotlight on Israel.

Media 120

Media Vertical Portfolio 120

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). This is obvious. Marketing first. Product second.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Their VC firm, In-Q-Tel , has been in business for 10 years, and like most VC firms they have an annual event where they show off their new portfolio companies to their limited partners and other VC partners. Air travel, media that conducts waves, velocity, acceleration.

Silicon Valley 247

Silicon Valley Thailand RSS Venture Capital 247

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). This is obvious. Marketing first. Product second.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

If I can build a partner program using software with a thousand different partners, with a thousand different tactics, I, I have inherently a, a diversified portfolio. Bob Glazer (07:19): I, I, I think it's, every business needs to add the sort of activity to their portfolio. They are the partner and the supplier are all in one.

Marketing 90

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 90

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

They are a national practice but “it would be hard to see a local media success that Revolution isn’t part of&#. A contemporary analog to this type of vertical integration is Comcast/NBC-U. One thing that is abundantly clear is that we are consuming media in new, and changing, ways.

Cofounder 277

Cofounder Merger Founder Venture Capital 277

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

In February, Greylock kicked off “Iconversations,” a new speaker series featuring “icons” across tech, finance, media and culture. Before, I was part of a portfolio, so an allocator who buys stuff and sells stuff, but I never ran anything. We were thrilled to welcome Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi as our first guest to the virtual event.

Iran 39

Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 39