View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

A lot has changed since 2013. Last year, NextView co-founder and partner David Beisel asked our portfolio startups which service providers they use to make up the nuts and bolts of their businesses, which he published as the first edition of a potentially recurring resource. More Snaps were Chatted.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

By Lauren Drell 2013-06-10 14:46:07 UTC. Or maybe the co-founders have a poisonous relationship that will hinder the companys growth. Check out the tips below from founders, CEOs and investors alike. Young founders tend to complicate things too much, from structuring partnership agreements, financing, leases, etc.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

purchasing power in 2013, with African-Americans comprising $1 trillion and Asian-Americans comprising $700 billion. In addition, 83% of companies had a racial composition that was entirely Caucasian, while only 12% of founders were Asian and less than 1% of founders were African-American. Conventional Founder Background.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. Previously, he was the COO of digital gift card start-up Giftly from its inception in 2010 to its acquisition by Giftcards.com in 2013.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 19, 2013

In 2013 Homebrew lost two opportunities and each time we learned something about our process and how to improve. Loss 1: Offered a Substantial Secondary Slot But Passed Since We Seek to Lead/Co-Lead. This opportunity looked juicy: two founders we knew previously, mission-driven, attacking a big market.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented. As I wrote about in my post on Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing , this is painful and you must have a diversified portfolio to practice angel investing and actually make money. and I bet he’ll be back.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

Following is a guest post by Zack Rosen , co-founder and CEO of Pantheon. Pantheon is one of the Silent Killers in our portfolio – and I’m immensely proud of the progress they are making and excited about their future. Date: Thursday, July 18, 2013 2:19:42 AM. From: Zachary Rosen. To: Pantheon Staff.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. Acquirer/ Investor. Angel groups using Gust. 2009) [ii].

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

The reality today is that capital is more available than ever and entrepreneurs have become more sophisticated, so founders are looking for more than just cash from their venture backers. I’ve seen many founders not fully grasp how the venture capital business works and what incentives investors have.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Date: September 4, 2013. Today, he’s the co-founder and CTO of Artillery , bringing console-quality gaming to the web browser. And even though I was the tech guy surrounded by capable business-focused co-founders, I knew that building a successful company was going to start with a lot more than a command line.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. Sunday, January 27th, 2013. Alexia Tsotsis: Let’s see, what about other companies that aren’t in your portfolio? Which enterprise companies that aren’t in your portfolio are you interested in? Previously, Andreessen developed Mosaic and co-founded Netscape.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 10, 2015

Our early stage fund Homebrew debuted just two years ago in early 2013 but already I’ve witnessed a dramatic change in how BigVC thinks of seed. In 2013 BigVC was putting small checks to work in lots of companies for a variety of strategic motivations (marketing, first looks at promising startups). Uh oh, potential conflict.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

My talk was about the 7 lessons I’ve learned on the journey from founder to CEO. with the portfolio to show for it. I started off my talk emphasizing that the journey matters most in your transformation from founder to CEO. So here we go with the fourth lesson from The Entrepreneur’s Essentials. in our Series A.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

by Solomon Ali, Co-Founder of Revolutionary Concepts. Other ways that patents can be added to your financial portfolio is through acquisitions – in plain English, buying up other people’s patents. This is typically a way of adding additional intellectual property to a patent portfolio (collection of multiple patents).

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

IDC estimates that there will be 1 billion mobile Internet users by 2013 and that estimate may very well be low. Suli Ali, TinyCo’s co-founder is just that type of guy. We further announced that my partner Marc would be joining their board of directors. Here are the three reasons: 1. A Big Frackin’ Market. There are currently 4.5

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Viljakainen, founder of No Fear Community and author of “ No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age “ Right now Samsung is the biggest technology company in the world. There is no digital device or development that Samsung doesn’t have in its portfolio. He is also the founder of No Fear Community. by Pekka A.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? About VC Cafe.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. You then came back to Europe and joined a venture firm before co-founding BlaBlaCar. How did you go from VC to founder? The same is true of investors.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

So my co-founder, Amit Vij, and I built a new database from the ground up, centered around massive parallelization combining the power of the GPU (typically used to quickly process and generate graphics in video games) and CPU to explore and visualize streaming and historical data in space and time—an approach that we then patented.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Steve Kelly, Lead Investor; Godfrey Nazareth, President & CEO; and Matthew Maltese PhD, co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Sean Wise, my co-author for my next book, Startup Opportunities , is a professor at Ryerson University in Toronto. When we first started writing this book in late 2013, we knew that we were going to do both a United States tour and a Canadian book tour. March 25th: Ottawa with L-Spark , Algonquin , and Fresh Founders.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2016

The Monday after AngelList announced their Syndicate product in September 2013 we decided to to jump in with both feet and start FG Angels. of investments with a female co-founder: > 20%. These founders are active members of our portfolio and our goal is to be helpful to them any way we can, given time constraints.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

Today I own and manage a company specifically designed to help people grow their portfolios. By this time, Erin had already spent 4 years in operations at a startup that was in skyrocket growth mode, so she knew her knowledge in scaling operations was as valuable as this idea; she became my co-founder. Image Credit: Janet Wu.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Nathan Parcells is co-founder and CMO of InternMatch , an online platform connecting the best intern candidates and employers. If your interns aren’t walking away with a bursting portfolio, they probably won’t even consider returning. . Connect with Nathan and InternMatch on Facebook , LinkedIn , and Twitter.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Mentor programs, co-working spaces and meetup events over the past few years have increased at an exciting rate. Wednesday November 7th, 2013. There was no Brad Pitt, broken ribs or bars of soap but The Founder’s Fight Club was just as entertaining as the Hollywood film. John Girard, Advisor, Founder, Mentor.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most are sitting on large portfolios of private companies that are raising money now or will need to do so in the future and they know that they’re up against some headwinds. in 2013 and then reverted back to 4x – a little bit below the historical mean. There is reason for despondency. Why do markets adjust so quickly?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Amendments proposed to the 2013 Tax law are insufficient and threaten to destabilize the ecosystem I will not go over the initial regulation proposal, which recommended a 60% tax rate on profits made by entrepreneurs after an exit (basic idea is to apply same tax rate on salary and capital gains). for France vs. 26.5% So why twelve years?

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

I sat down (virtually) with Chainalysis co-founder and CEO Michael Gronager to discuss his learnings from almost seven years at the helm of a high-growth company. I met [Kraken co-founder] Jesse Powell here. ? It sounded fun, so I went to San Francisco to join the team and Kraken launched in summer 2013.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Today in 2013, the majority of LinkedIn’s revenue comes from an enterprise version of our subscriptions product. In 2013, it’s whether you can break through the noise.

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Babbling VC

JANUARY 5, 2014

Michael and I have been working really well as co-founders and I am still shocked at how well he fills in my many gaps. Yet performance was so good in 2013 and I sold far too early on many things trying to lock in gains. Further, some dogs crept into my portfolio and should have been weeded out far earlier.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. Since 2013, when Wix, the first of these companies went public, the Euroscape Public Index has outpaced the Nasdaq by 2.5x, achieving more than 500% growth in seven years. UiPath was another inspiring company.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2019

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on November 13, 2013. Accel put forward Arthur Patterson, the co-founder of Accel and a venture capitalist since 1973, to join our Board of Directors alongside me, Keith, and Bong Suh (our independent Director, and a really terrific mentor even to this day). We all have them?—?no

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2017

This is my favorite business quote because it removes all external factors and focuses on the most important one for launching a business — the founder. The company’s success is a determinant of the founder. In September of 2013, I landed myself into one of the coveted spots on ABC’s Shark Tank. Steve Jobs.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Christian Holst Christian Holst is the co-author of the research report E-Commerce Checkout Usability , as well as founder of Baymard Institute , where he writes bi-weekly articles about web usability and conversion rate optimization. Portfolio Design Study: Design Patterns. Hopefully it will be out Q1 2013. Portfolios.

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