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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Almost a year ago, my partner Barry Eggers and I met with Craig Elliott and Scott Hankins to talk about their vision for a new company, Pertino. Veterans of the networking industry, Craig formerly served as the CEO of Packeteer, a high-flying networking appliance vendor that he took public in 1999 with Scott as his director of engineering.

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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active. It is related to business model.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I had really positive experiences such as working with Greg Gretsch at Sigma Partners where he championed us to a partners’ meeting where we sort of got crucified. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. And covered we did.

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How to Write a Business Plan for Raising Venture Capital

Growthink Blog

In describing the competitive landscape, show how your business model creates competitive advantages, and – more importantly – defensible barriers to entry. how it will work, the financial terms, the types of customer leads expected from each partner, etc.). market research). Demonstrate barriers to entry. Concept vs. reality.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

It had a gut-wrenching pivot as the first business model didn’t work and today is thriving with its new one. Our pivot wasn’t a business model pivot?—?it We started Coremetrics in 1999 selling to dot-coms. It started in 2007 here in Austin and was founded by my friend Matt Cohen. it was a target market pivot.

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Bazaarvoice Launches Social Commerce Insights

Austin Startup

I founded Coremetrics in 1999 to bring accountability and insight into the emerging world of eCommerce, and Bazaarvoice was built from the ground up to offer the most robust analytics capabilities available in the social commerce arena,” said Brett Hurt, founder and CEO of Bazaarvoice.