deal architect

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

I was invited to an analyst summit on SAP's Data and Analytics portfolio of products. What a remarkable difference from last year! I had flown to a similar event in Vancouver - first to Seattle, then taken a bus across.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 5, 2017

Q2 has been busy for Version One and our portfolio companies – here’s a quick recap of select news coverage, funding announcements, and product updates (at least the things we can announce publicly): . Figure 1 announced their $10m Series B and shared how they plan to add AI to their product , starting with electrocardiograms.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

It allows for an ongoing feedback loop, which guarantees that the provided product can adapt to changing needs and allows for rapid revisions. It is important to use project portfolio management (PPM) for implementing your agile at scale methodology or to upgrade your portfolio.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 16, 2023

An investment portfolio acts as both a map of your current investments, as well as representative of your financial asset status. In simpler words, an investment portfolio is a summary of all your various investments. In fact, that is a common mistake which our first of these investment portfolio tips will address.

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David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

Best Practices in Venture Capital Portfolio Company Value Creation. In addition, in light of increasing competition in the startup funding space, a methodology for helping portfolio companies consistently is a strong competitive advantage. I’ve also posted this at Betabeat.). View more presentations from David Teten.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

An investment portfolio will help your money work harder for you and is often designed to spread this risk (although it should be noted, it is not without risk). . In this guide we’re going to look at how to build an investment portfolio in order to maximise returns on your hard earned savings. How do I create an Investment Portfolio?

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View from Seed

APRIL 6, 2021

You have unbounded curiosity for emerging trends, a love for experimentation, and you’re always eager to dive into new products and technologies before others do. You know the ecosystem and have a network that is additive to the rest of the team. You are intentional about developing a point of view on new sectors that we can learn from.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Leveraging Will’s deep understanding of the landscape, the team was able to quickly launch a product that truly resonated with both borrowers and partners. The post Meet Summer: Our Portfolio Company Changing The Student Loan Landscape appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 31, 2023

You may have already known about the Shopify marketplace and how it is one of the best platforms to make money by selling your products and services online. Shopify is an ecommerce platform where you can sell products and services to customers and store owners. What’s a Shopify Expert?

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Editor’s note: At a recent team meeting at NextView, we looked at the high number of startups we invested in which were pre-product at the time. The question arose: What is a seed VC’s process like when a company is pre-product? A big chunk of our investments at NextView have been made pre-product.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

And even as the markets have turned, we continue to be confident that significant value creation is ahead for our portfolio companies that are still experiencing efficient hypergrowth like Attentive, Grove Collaborative, Whoop, Bobbie, Devoted Health, and others. In terms of strategy, many things remain the same.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 14, 2021

link] On the best of days, it is difficult to navigate SAP’s very wide product. As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ) as part of my Analyst Cam series.

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View from Seed

JULY 6, 2020

You have unbounded curiosity for emerging trends, a love for experimentation, and you’re always eager to dive into new products and technologies before others do. You know the ecosystem and have a network that is additive to the rest of the team. . You are intentional about developing a point of view on new sectors that we can learn from.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Marketing, recruiting, building data products & tools, event management, analyzing the portfolio, etc. Listen, I think most of us if you gave us a choice would prefer “just” to be great investors and to spend all of our time on portfolio work. And all the platform stuff. And that Greg Bettinelli chap? What’s he doing?

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 30, 2022

Shellworks , one of our newest portfolio companies, raised $6.2 Product launches . As always, to keep up to date with our portfolio companies, follow us on Twitter. Booster raised $125M in Series D funding led by Rose Park Advisors, with companies including Mitsubishi Corp. and Renewable Energy Group joining the round.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Problem Solution/ Product – show don’t tell if possible Why now? I picked my top 4 below: Poorly analyzed market size: The TAM of a product/solution is an important indication of investment worthiness. Don’t lie about your product or its readiness. If you don’t actually do AI or ML, don’t say that you do it.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In part, the email read: “Everyone at PayPal should use our products where available. Should an investor really be expected to use the 10, 15, or 20 products in his or her portfolio? As an investor, using a portfolio company is easier when dealing with consumer apps and companies. Investors, really? I say absolutely.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 27, 2021

You are a “digital native” with a strong interest in new technology and have hands-on proficiency with many online tools for managing social media interactions, event production, and project management. You will also spearhead internal initiatives to help support the success of our 100+ exciting existing portfolio companies.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Through these applications including its core product CareBook, DataLink helps healthcare payors and providers by resolving gaps in patient care while also improving quality performance metrics. As leader of Hauser Private Equity, Mark Hauser has played an instrumental role in developing the firm’s portfolio within the industrial sector.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have unbounded curiosity for emerging trends, a love for experimentation, and you’re always eager to dive into new products and technologies before others do. We lead or co-lead most of our investments and invest very early…80% of the unicorns we have backed were pre-product at the time of our investment. Who We Are Looking For.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Manage Product Portfolios: Businesses often own several different products that they sell to other targeted consumers. Each product has a diverse customer base and demand trends. Not every product aims at the entire market. Such information is vital in making production and marketing decisions.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 8, 2019

Q4 was an important quarter for our firm and portfolio companies. Product Launches and Updates. Follow @VersionOneVC for the latest news from us and our portfolio! The post Q4 2018: Portfolio News and Activities appeared first on Version One. As we move ahead into 2019, we can ride some great momentum. Announcements.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 6, 2021

Despite the obvious challenges, we ended 2020 on a strong note and, so far, our portfolio family has been riding a huge momentum wave. 2021 is proving to be an incredible year across our portfolio – from big funding announcements to significant product developments. Product Launches and Updates. Patch raised a $4.5M

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2022

Here are some of the many (public) highlights across the portfolio. . Product launches. Shippo announced Shippo for Platforms , a new product launching with Shopify as their first platform partner. Spring is here, and we’re well into 2022! As always, there’s never a dull moment in the Version One family.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Product Updates & Partnerships. And as always, to keep up to date with our portfolio companies, you can follow us on Twitter. Top Hat was the recipient of the Best HR Communication Strategy award at the 2022 Canadian HR Awards , which showcase Canada’s most outstanding HR teams leaders and employers. . Happy Fall everyone!

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 28, 2020

The tumultuous nature of the plummet highlighted a burgeoning need for investors to have proper portfolio diversification; advice commonly given out, but scarcely followed. Manufacturers were asked to halt production while the crisis was addressed. Portfolio diversification spreads your risk, as you can invest in multiple industries.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The incredible pace of the start-up market in 2021 is also reflected in the Version One portfolio: . We made 15 investments in new portfolio companies in 2021, roughly twice our yearly average. Our portfolio companies raised well over $1b in follow-on capital this year, with about half of that number raised by Dapper Labs.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

To this end, a number of commercial green buildings have been designed with features that promote workplace productivity and ambiance. Healthy workplace and enhanced productivity – new research suggest that the state of indoor building environment and physical characteristics can impact worker productivity and their health and well-being.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 30, 2021

Here are just some of many activities and accomplishments in the V1 portfolio during the past quarter…. We have been active investors in DeFi for almost three years now and you can read about why we’re thrilled to add Defined to our portfolio. . Product Announcements and Partnerships. And what a busy first half it was.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

We often see one category filled with dozens of start-ups competing with a similar product for the same customers. And with “age” often come sub-optimal products, tech debt, inflexible business models, etc. The amount of money that has poured into this space has made enterprise SaaS highly competitive.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2022

A couple of weeks ago I was did a fireside chat with Alon Grinshpoon, founder and CEO of Echo3D , a CDN and CMS for 3D content in the cloud and a Remagine Ventures portfolio company, as part of an entrepreneurial finance MBA class in Tel Aviv University. We were discussing both sides of the table and the relationship between founders and VCs.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

When hardware maker Quirky went out of business, Ben Einstein at Bolt had this to say : "A good company builds one product, learns from its customers, and iterates to make that product exceptional. Design and production cycles are long, and you can't upgrade the physical parts on the fly. Check out their video for more info.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 17, 2022

Inflection is the only marketing automation solution purpose built for B2B product-led companies. But most people don’t want to engage with salespeople – not if they can actually experience the product they’re buying. Some of today’s most successful B2B companies are product-led.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Alow users to generate, refine, and stitch different content types in one workspace Enabling in-platform refinement – AI products can help users identify what can be improved, and then automatically make these changes. Iterating with intelligent editors – products that enable users to take an existing output and refine it (ex.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2022

Laser cutting is a great addition to elevate the end product of graphic design. Laser engraving is the key to giving products a nice design. After all, there’s no need to use your hands to do the engraving on your products in the modern age when a machine can do it for you. 2. Tablets with Styluses. 3. Cloud Storage.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Essentially, show that you can build a great portfolio and deploy all capital pre series A.” Supporting innovators in bringing cutting edge products, powered by technology, to solve society’s biggest needs. Kudos to all the emerging managers and early stage founders, who are out there and continue to grind against the odds.

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