Version One Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2016

These vertically-focused platforms cater to the specific needs of their users, offering a close networking community around shared interests. One of the most obvious examples of the online portfolio is within the creative community. One of the most obvious examples of the online portfolio is within the creative community.

Vertical 60

Vertical Reputation Portfolio Curation 60

Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2014

On day three, when I’m not looking at email, anything on the web, or checking my phone, I just breathe deeply and say “wow I needed this vacation.” Hint – count the vertical lines carefully. Amy reminds me that I say that on day three of each of our quarterly weeks off the grid.

Dallas 113

Dallas Technical Review Vertical PR 113

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. Yet, we as a planet are beginning to understand just how much of the web is not true. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real. 2/ The Scooter Phenomenon.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

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

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

The fund views its portfolio startups as fulfilling one of the three layers of the “Big Data stack”: 1. The top layer of applications and services that use the innovations of the first two layers to transform vertical markets (e.g,

Early Stage 70

Early Stage San Francisco Los Angeles Southern California 70

Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

The objective of the conference was to understand how APIs will power the next great web and mobile companies and share some best practises in understanding when to use APIs or not and how can API company best market to developers.

API 48

API Fractional CTO CTO Hire San Francisco 48

Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

At NextView Ventures, we have a number of companies in our portfolio which are “marketplace” businesses, where buyers and sellers meet to exchange a good or service. Often this focus can be on a specific geography or vertical. Attract would-be buyers with research/learning about purchasing … suppliers will follow.

Engineer 201

Engineer Vertical Seed Stage Portfolio 201

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Most consumer web/mobile companies focus on user growth and usage early in the company’s lifecycle before shifting to monetization. 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. ATI also works closely with MobileMondayAustin and Semantic Web Austin.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Intellectual Property Incubator Semantic 70

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. Here’s a quick overview of the ins and outs of getting web work done as an SMB — as always, with tight budgets in mind. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.

Small Business 104

Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

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. Personal Portfolios. Personal portfolios are a place for designers and photographers to show off their creativity. via Chartbeat). Image Source. Tweet It!].

Cost 48

Cost Vertical Portfolio Design 48

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

To name a few: Digital Marketing & Measurement Model | Analytics Ecosystem | Web Analytics 2.0. Analyzing these metrics not only fundamentally changes marketing strategy (think tens of millions of dollars for large companies); their insights can change your company’s product portfolio, your customer engagement strategies and much more.

Framework 93

Framework Analytics Metrics Green 93

Version One Ventures

MARCH 26, 2013

So, it appears that the shift to mobile that’s happening across all verticals is mainly a shift of devices, rather than the emergence of new use cases. For starters, every web business needs to design a great mobile experience, as users will increasingly opt for a mobile device to access websites.

Mobile 145

Mobile Vertical Search Conversion 145

Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

Mattermark is a web-based platform that helps VCs weed through the vast amounts of data to identify potential investment opportunities and track existing start-ups and private companies. Or more specifically, how can we as investors better identify and find those start-ups that are primed for success? Why we’re excited.

Venture Capital 160

Venture Capital Vertical Curation SEC 160

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Web Design. You want Smashing Magazine on a Web-enabled TV ? Web pages don’t have to use 12- or 16-column grids, and websites don’t have to follow strict hierarchies. Your organization (or more likely you and your Web-savvy coworkers) adopts a mobile-first strategy. Newsletter. JavaScript. Techniques.

Mobile 101

Mobile HTML Flash Software Review 101

Genuine VC

APRIL 12, 2012

People ask us at NextView all of the time: “What is the typical profile of an entrepreneur in your portfolio?” That perspective goes a very long way into creating a service which can be truly transformative yet integrated in how people inherently interact with the web. The answer, however, doesn’t fit into a neat soundbite.

Vertical 144

Vertical Portfolio Search Internet 144

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Genuine VC

APRIL 12, 2012

People ask us at NextView all of the time: “What is the typical profile of an entrepreneur in your portfolio?” That perspective goes a very long way into creating a service which can be truly transformative yet integrated in how people inherently interact with the web. The answer, however, doesn’t fit into a neat soundbite.

Vertical 109

Vertical Portfolio Search Internet 109

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. Perhaps in direct proportion to the number of “freemium” and “eyeballs” web deals funded.) What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the case of social software all the evidence suggests that the investment theme is strong and there will be more winners in this space, but the next generation will work hard to differentiate themselves from their forbears by specialising in different process areas or distinct verticals.

Acquisition 94

Acquisition Vertical eCommerce Flash 94

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

As he grows, he can simply focus on increasing the restaurant portfolio and getting more corporate clients. Edward Varghese from New Delhi, India, pitched i-Globify , an outsourcing service catering to the niche travel vertical, focusing on building Web 3.0

India 116

India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical 116

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I am on record as saying that my opinion is that Web 2.0 “And importantly Web 2.0 “And importantly Web 2.0 But less considered is the fact that the success of the Web 2.0

Term Sheet 303

Term Sheet Mobile Cofounder Early Stage 303

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

DOs for a systematic rather than haphazard startup job search: Pick a specific vertical or theme (e.g. For example here locally in Boston, dedicated startup job boards are actually fairly fruitful: VentureFizz , Greenhorn Connect , and Web Innovators Group. Look for specific roles in specific outlets for general opportunity.

Startup 148

Startup Portfolio Later Stage Hiring 148

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

A contemporary analog to this type of vertical integration is Comcast/NBC-U. When Facebook was opening up their platform, these guys thought that it was an interesting way to do user acquisition and preference acquisition of individuals and that they would be able find a way to monetize it in commerce-oriented verticals.

Cofounder 277

Cofounder Merger Founder Venture Capital 277

Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

This isn’t true for every single one of our portfolio companies, but in at least half, we had a thesis about why this company had some sort of unfair advantage or head-start when it comes to getting their product out into the market. This is increasingly true in both consumer and business facing companies.

Distribution 66

Distribution Vertical B2B Viral 66

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

Offer portfolios  Many different people like to showcase their work online. Now there are free portfolio tools for almost every type of individual. Once a site is successful in gaining users for their free portfolio tool, you end up having solved your initial supply challenge. Provide value to one side. See: Ebay.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Curation Demand Portfolio 101

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Attaining that level of attribution—the key to improving outcome measurement—breaks down in a couple of spots: Web analytics. The amount of data you pass from your web analytics tool(s) to your CRM is a major fault line. Tom Tunguz offers a framework that uses a scale from 1 to 10 to assess demand generation portfolios: 1.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Sans serif are better on the web.

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

These are easy calculations to make with the availability of cheap or even free stock analytics tools available on the web. In the letter, Buffett advised, “Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio’s market value.” He cares about longevity.

Stock 157

Stock Memphis Balance Sheet Analytics 157

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.

Media 210

Media Los Angeles Russia Viral 210

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one. Facebook is another example.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

A 2009 report from the SANS Institute Report called web application attacks from open source breaches one of the top cyber security risks for companies. We see incredible opportunity in the road ahead, and view this as an excellent fit for our early-stage investment portfolio.”.

SQL 59

SQL PHP Database Open Source 59

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 15, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Why there won’t be an Uber in every vertical – buff.ly/1KNtdUj. Portfolio Design Tips and Examples – Design Milk crowdspring.co/1KQ07Em.

Small Business 48

Small Business Design Social Media Startup 48

www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Our portfolio speaks for itself.". Y Combinator especially invests in Web or mobile. Google Ventures managing partner Bill Maris strongly denied Grahams accusations, calling them "patently absurd.". " I dont know what Pauls thinking," Maris said. Its just not true. More » Owen Thomas. Contact: e-mail: othomas@businessinsider.com.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup Valuation Venture Capital 54

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We did find some specific industry verticals where the model works (some high schools, some boxing and mixed martial arts events, some exclusive conferences), but not enough to warrant a large market and an independent company. Post-Mortem Title : Lessons from Kiko, web 2.0 Company: Home Portfolio. startup, about Its Failure.

Software Review 79

Software Review Technical Review Startup Vesting 79

Rob Go

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Consumer web is overheated. In our own portfolio, we’ve made a few investments here. Custommade takes the difficult process of finding an artisan to craft a custom product and brings it to life on the web. These are NOT examples of megatrends. Consumerization of IT is hot. Beware the series A crunch. Quantified self.

B2B 62

B2B Internet Vertical Early Stage 62

BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

That being said, most of the fund’s portfolio companies (90%+) are not using a.Net platform. On the consumer side, one big value for Microsoft has been its hold on the desktop as Tim Oren strongly points out , but as we move more and more into a web-based world its strength is diminishing.

.Net 60

.Net Java Limited Partner Venture Capital 60