The Startup Magazine

MARCH 8, 2024

Collect References and Referrals Building a moving company that is trusted and known will require references and referrals, especially if you’re just working to get it off the ground.

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Social Media Portfolio Reputation America 122

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2019

This refers to the order of annual investment returns, and it becomes a concern for retirees who are living off the income and capital of their investments. A planner who’s a fiduciary has multiple ways to reduce sequence-of-returns risk by allowing the portfolio to stay ahead of inflation. Prioritize a tax plan.

Indianapolis 113

Indianapolis LLC Portfolio Technical Review 113

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Portfolio company support & analysis. Portfolio community building. Great networking skills, which are critical when you want to be about to reference entrepreneurs & concepts and bounce your ideas off of other people in the industry. Usually there roles are a combination of: Deal sourcing for partners. Deal screening.

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Jordan Technical Review Portfolio Partner 365

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

When you’re hiring most reference checkers focus on the person’s former bosses. Just literally this week I had breakfast with a guy giving a reference who said, “He’s brilliant. In fact, just a short Google search reveals that I’ve referred to him frequently through the years. But he knows it.

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CTO Hire Cofounder San Francisco Silicon Valley 320

Version One Ventures

APRIL 25, 2017

Our portfolio company, Outreach.io , used this tactic when they tried to raise a seed round after a pivot. So whenever an investor voiced a concern about the category, Outreach simply asked that investor to call a few customer references. Use your customer references appeared first on Version One. It’s like swimming upstream.

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Customer Vertical Stock Portfolio 130

SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

They''ve been in talks with some consulting companies, but don''t quite the know the criteria for evaluating them and things like references(and where to get them). And they should not get to count items in their portfolio that were done at another company/job - yes, that''s quite common, especially in new firms. References.

Web Development 204

Web Development Web Developer Los Angeles 204

View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups. As we look to continue to build out portfolio, we encourage you to subscribe to The View From Seed to keep in touch.

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Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A satisfied customer is more likely to refer others to your service – a powerful form of marketing. This encompasses every aspect of the client’s interaction with your business. From booking appointments to post-cleaning care instructions.

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Balance Sheet Technical Review Business Model Business Plan 108

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

How do you then reference check your VC to be sure that you’ve chosen a good firm and partner? Get a reference list - Most entrepreneurs do almost no reference checks or at least do them very informally. Make sure to call the companies in that VCs portfolio that didn’t succeed. Happy reference checking.

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Term Sheet Venture Capital Stealth Cofounder 298

K9 Ventures

MARCH 20, 2017

Of all the advice I have given founders over the years, one of the most important ones is to make sure they do reference checks on their prospective investors. Here are some tips for founders when making this tough choice: Check references on your prospective investors. Ask investors if it is okay for you to check references on them.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Who else is going to tell a VC if he got a bad reference from an entrepreneur or fellow VC? Who else can provide context if your portfolio isn’t growing as quickly as your peer group, if they believe you paid too high a price on a deal, if they question your due diligence in a given situation or whatever critique they might offer?

Software Review 341

Software Review Customer Technical Review LP 341

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

How do you then reference check your VC to be sure that you’ve chosen a good firm and partner? First, I would say that most entrepreneurs do almost no reference checks or at least do them very informally. Make sure to call the companies in that VCs portfolio that didn’t succeed. Happy reference checking.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Cofounder Partner 288

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2016

Have a portfolio. Rule number one is pretty simple — build up your portfolio. Your online portfolio should serve as a gallery full of your prior work. New projects will grow your portfolio, which will help you land more new projects. It should be updated regularly too.

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Web Design Technical Review Cofounder 100

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Request references and links to web content they’ve written before. Invest an hour a week looking at competitors’ web sites or viewing web designers’ portfolios. If you are a good writer, go for it, but if you are not, don’t try to be. Ask around. Focus the content on the core of what you do. Plan to iterate.

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Elevator Pitch Web Portfolio B2B 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I would call their portfolio companies and ask how helpful or not they’ve been. If I were looking at which VCs to choose I would reference strongly for which ones are supportive in good times and bad. The best way – of course – is to reference check. look at their portfolio list. Startups are hard.

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Portfolio Chicago Sales Incubator 364

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2020

Documentation management does not only focus on creating and storing them but also aims at using them as a reference for the ongoing project as well as future ventures. His experience has enabled multinational businesses around the globe to diversify their project portfolio. Follow his work here.

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Management Software Review Technical Review Security 165

The Startup Magazine

MAY 19, 2020

A stock, which can also be referred to as a share or equity, is a proof of ownership of a fraction or part of a business entity. Stockbroking is the process of buying and selling financial securities like shares, stocks, and bonds via the stock market through a dealer who is generally referred to as a stockbroker.

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Stock Securities and Exchange Commission United Kingdom Technical Review 90

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Basically these sayings are referring to people who talk a big game but then can’t back it up with action. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs. You’ve heard the expression “All sizzle, no steak?” Or the Texan equivalent of “All hat, no cattle?” sidenote: it’s weird that cows feature prominently in both of these].

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Startup Matching 145

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

On August 26th I had an equally effusive intro from Ynon Kreiz, also a friend, trusted source and also the CEO of portfolio company Maker Studios. So this was definitely an introduction I was going to take. Andrew & Petri posed a question to me, “If Walt Disney were starting his company today, what kind of company would he build?”

Technical Review 373

Technical Review North America Los Angeles Cofounder 373

VC Adventure

APRIL 16, 2018

A key question my post didn’t consider was what the ideal venture portfolio might look like in the face of these data. . The robust dinner conversation we had back in 2006 essentially asked the question: “If venture outcomes are Black Swans, what does the optimal venture portfolio construction look like?”

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Portfolio Later Stage Early Stage Angel Investor 75

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2012

Usually it’s on behalf of a portfolio company. My belief – unless you know the VC really well (you’re a portfolio company of theirs, for example) I’d always ask for permission first. She looks very competent but you’d have to apply your own filter / check reference. Helping with a Sales Lead.

Email 359

Email Portfolio Technical Review Aggregator 359

Occam's Razor

JULY 5, 2021

Paid Media Marketers (sometimes referred to as Direct Response Team or Performance Marketing) love doing attribution analysis across only paid media channels becuase it allows them to distribute credit only across their work. I refer to this full attribution quest: Marketing Portfolio Attribution Analysis. This does sucks less.

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Analytics Marketing Channel Software Review 148

Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2019

you better make sure you really check their references. I made very few edits to the original post, mostly in the area of readability and grammar (not in substance of content): I’m shocked that more startups, including their Boards and investors, don’t thoroughly check references. and dangerous. I couldn’t see any other alternative?—?I

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Advisory Board Cofounder Hiring Partner 48

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 10, 2016

A friend of mine running a very successful company found himself conflicted over an upcoming reference call. Reference calls to potential limited partners seemingly have no upside to founders. The same goes for VC references by other founders--which I hope founders are asking for. I don't participate in it nor do I record it.

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Cap Table Limited Partner LP Reputation 60

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2014

In other words, customers were satisfied but they weren’t referring new business; why? Partly, it’s because many of the advisors didn’t understand their own customer segments & therefore couldn’t learn more about why or when they were referring new business. If it means asking “Who referred you?”

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Programming Marketing Analytics Portfolio 107

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Time is an investor’s scarce resources, and by definition, that time needs to be split between supporting existing portfolio companies and meeting with new founders. The obvious answer is good backchannel references. You should assume that the starting point for most reference calls is probably a B+ or an A-.

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Founder Lead Investor Portfolio Reputation 280

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.

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PR Technical Review Portfolio Customer Development 279

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2020

Perhaps students don’t know what they want, and need a baseline to refer to. . Designs and portfolios undergo constructive criticism, and users freely share advice. . Perhaps the student prefers a competitive methodology of learning, where he gets assessed in relation to other students from his class.

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Harvest Cloud Video Web 165

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics Natural language processing, commonly referred to as NLP, is a discipline of computer science that trains computers to understand spoken words and text similarly to how humans do. In this way, Daniel Calugar says NLP is really a subset of AI or artificial intelligence.

Algorithm 88

Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Marketing Technical Review 88

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. These terms refer to a class of professional investors who invest their own money, like angels, but have the larger resources and scope of venture capitalists with other people’s money. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs.

Software Review 120

Software Review Sweat Equity Accredited Investor Angel Investor 120

David Cohen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Second I’ll refer you back to our original post on this which is a better source of information than social media, which says: “We know that founders are more likely to succeed when they are plugged into a thriving ecosystem — because no one succeeds alone.

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Denver Seattle Colorado Programming 163

Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2022

Often, freelancers are referred to as independent contractors, self-employed , or individual entrepreneurs. Their portfolios give you a quick overview of how good their work is. This is where hiring freelancers becomes a huge benefit. Sure, they may cost more upfront, but that’s because they aren’t long-term hires.

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Hiring Technical Review Salary Employee 95

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Reference check – oh man how many times do I have to learn this lesson. You can do this on a whiteboard or on a computer. We’re going to move to the on a computer version. Over and over I’m hearing this is the best way to learn someone’s skills. It’s an extremely tight hiring market for software developers right now.

Software Developers 136

Software Developers Software Development Startup Hiring 136

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

The majority had dedicated more time to guiding the portfolio companies through the pandemic. . VCs are conducting more diligence and employing more founder references. Taylor Greene at collaborative commented: “I’ve found that vetting a founder takes more reference calls, more Zoom calls, more ‘getting to know you’ calls.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Early Stage Seed Stage 350

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2019

Web developers may also be referred to as internet engineers, multimedia architects, or web producers. . Their career titles are as diverse as the portfolios they create. They must possess strong creativity and technical skills to prepare them for a career in information technology.

Technology 77

Technology Technical Support Web Development Database 77

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

And to your question specifically, once you start to say, okay, well, where am I in my, I roll on the S curve overall, everything that's required of me, but it very much is a portfolio of curves that you are going to have a number of different curves that you're on within your work. So you're putting together that portfolio.

Leadership 81

Leadership Technical Review Fractional CTO Utah 81

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158