2000 Demand Differentiation Venture Capital 
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). The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 4, 2010
The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements.
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The Equity Kicker
JULY 8, 2019
When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. Moreover, if the VC is high quality, the portfolio companies will be high quality and hence very demanding of the value add team. . Low handicaps weren’t good!
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 14, 2022
She has spent twelve years in startups and built three successful companies without venture capital backing. The rise of the on-demand webinar has happened over the last ten years. We turn any video into an interactive webinar that you could set on a recurring schedule or join on demand. This is John Jantsch.
VC Adventure
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
We’ve certainly seen this in the public and private markets as well (for example in the 2000 crash where truly unsustainable levels of funding were driving too many bad ideas into the market and the perception of market value and future growth and profit potential was completely out of balance with reality).
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
With that implicit assumption, startups hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies while marketing creates a brand and buzz to create demand and drive it into the sales channel (web, direct salesforce, etc.) This was possible because in 2000, Donna and Handspring were in an Existing Market.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2012
I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. So why would raising venture capital be any different. GroupOn, Living Social, AdMeld, Gilt Group, Demand Media, ShoeDazzle, Tumblr, FourSquare, etc. Our 2000 fund is the single best fund of its vintage.
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