Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Reviewing financial & operational performance. He formerly held many roles at Salesforce including running sales operations and many product teams. In the Early Days. Mentorship.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. It will also be my last venture capital deal. For me, I don’t mind sharing how I think about it. Consider this.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Austin-Based Venture Capital Firms There are a eleven venture capital firms based in Austin that are actively investing today, six of which are first funds. VC Firms Actively investing in Austin Companies Finally, there are a group of venture capital firms that are not based in Austin that are active investors here.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. The competitive landscape should be a very comprehensive overview of the market you are operating in – companies that are ancillary to your core business should be included.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

This focus has helped me recruit the best and the brightest in the field, build a world-class operation, and most of all, with all the knowledge in a specific vertical, help build a leading agency for food & beverage manufacturers that are looking to build a direct to consumer channel. 11- Four things. Photo Credit: Mac Fadra.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Each month, we pick an up-and-coming vertical or theme and do a deep dive (with the help of Mattermark – portfolio plug). As a team of two who are usually working in different cities and/or countries, Boris and I constantly review our investment processes and internal operations. Here’s to an awesome year two!

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I was consulting for the two venture capital firms who between them put $12 million into my last failed startup. (My No one was actually quite that good, but some VCs had “golden guts” for these kinds of operating issues. Yet when I talked to my venture capital friends, they said, “Well, that’s just how startups work.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

The net effect is powerful: it empowers all of us (no matter who we are or where we are) to learn more quickly, make better decisions, and operate more efficiently. Thus, it should come as no surprise that we are now seeing Venture Capital being disrupted by these forces as well. Today, the boom of information (i.e.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 11, 2013

Every venture capital firm narrows its investment focus one way or another…perhaps by geography, sector, and/or stage. For example, at version one ventures, we’re focused on early-stage (seed and Series A) opportunities in e-commerce, SaaS, and marketplaces/platforms across North America.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

The appealing qualities of capital efficiency and high scale up are actually inherent to eCommerce companies. Outsourcing, for example, is a common thread among many eCommerce companies and supports capital efficiency by enabling dedicated focus. That marketing, however, is dependent on capital, and that capital means Venture Capital.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As the pandemic drags on and patients grow to telehealth services, let’s take a look at three industry verticals which are being driven by startup innovation. Pitchbook reports venture capital funding of US mental health startups as already surpassing the entirety of capital raised for 2019. Mental health.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

In my career, I have never seen a position in any industry with more varying criteria than General Partner at a venture capital firm. Some firms hire pure investors, some firms hire operators, some Wall Street analysts, some firms hire sales people, some firms hire lawyers, and others hire reporters. DMX, Who We Be.

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deal architect

JANUARY 25, 2024

He is in constant touch with entrepreneurs in the EU discussing go-to-market, operational metrics. For the 112th episode of Burning Platform we have Ton Dobbe of Value Inspiration. Ton and I regularly participate in our respective podcasts and video series.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

And we also look at companies that are creating the best product for a specific vertical – including bio/healthcare and other emerging tech. Having run our own companies, we try to pass on as much of our operations knowledge as possible. Acknowledgements and gratitude. And last but not least, we thank our investors, the LPs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.;

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

By all accounts, the Utah-HQ’d company did everything the right way, was an overnight success 16 years in the making, and only raised venture capital as a growth company after years of bootstrapping. Qualtrics focuses on experience data, SAP focuses on operational data. Qualtrics could help SAP expand into CRM offerings.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The OEM Business Convergent’s business was selling desktop computers (with our own operating system and office applications) to other computer manufacturers – most of them long gone: Burroughs, Prime, Monroe Data Systems, ADP, Mohawk, Gould, NCR, 4-Phase, AT&T.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

That’s groundbreaking in accounting, where margins are thin and the overheard of operating in-office with year-round staff is high. We’re aiming to bring that boost in productivity and cost-efficiency both to CPA firms and other professional services firms in other verticals (i.e.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types « “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch Closure » 21 Responses Tweets that mention Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development « Steve Blank -- Topsy.com , on November 16, 2009 at 7:20 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

It reminded me of “earlier days&# , when I was just starting out in running business operations for startups. Reply bjorn , on March 23, 2009 at 5:18 pm Said: these stories really livened up the whole concept of “customer discovery&# for me. i have your book, but stopped at the 4th chapter.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As is the case in other countries with a relatively new, rapidly growing tech sector, e-commerce is Russia’s fastest growing vertical. QIWI plc is the largest Russian operator of electronic payment systems and was founded by a group of iTech Capital LPs. Since the date of the IPO, the company has tripled in size.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

It wasn’t until I found the extremely obscure Lanchester Strategy for market share that I realized that these ratios had their basis in operations research and the Lanchester’s Laws.) Our company’s graphics boards were designed to speed up a key part of the Macintosh graphics operating system called QuickDraw.

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

To me, it makes sense, because “tech” is no longer a vertical – it’s seeping into every sector horizontally. While I don’t think founders expect a SWAT team to show up and build their startup with them, they do expect some high-leverage support in business development, executive recruiting, and capital formation.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

But I am doing this from the vantage point of an investor / Board member, not an operating executive. Because early in a technology company's life, a true operating executive is NOT what the company needs. But I am doing this from the vantage point of an investor / Board member, not an operating executive.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. The first reaction from my CEO was, “that’s why you’re running the department.” And yes, we could have built a top-down, command-and-control hierarchy.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

It is time to fix your key SaaS metrics: P&L: MRR = MRE: you control your destiny when your monthly revenue equals your monthly expenses Sales & Marketing: Your cost of capital doubled, so if a CAC ratio > 0.5 Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare? Venture Capital. (3). Explore Venture Capital.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Follow Craig on Twitter @unleashcraig #Investor #VeteransInTech #AspenInstitute Dan & Lisa Graham run Notley Ventures , an umbrella group that brilliantly combines for-profit investing with non-profit and social impact philanthropy. Notley also serves as a powerful resource platform for scaling innovative nonprofit organizations.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I tend to think of this group as distinct from the business advisors with whom you may discuss operational strategy, but all the better if there is an overlap in capabilities. This is useful for a number of reasons, the most obvious of which is to help you navigate the right channels in your vertical and open doors to potential customers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

The Stanford records showed that his group received more funding than any other and I assumed it was for construction of these operational systems. I made the leap too far to credit VIllard with the projects. steve Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

All the radar operator would see was noise, rather than airplanes. Radar engineers had observed if you cut a strip of aluminum foil to 1/2 the wavelength of a radar transmitter and throw it in front of the radars antenna, the radar signal would reflect perfectly. making nothing but jammers to put on our bombers.

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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.

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