View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

WINTER For starters when we conducted our annual VC & LP survey in December of 2016 to prepare our annual Upfront State of the VC Industry report we found that twice as many VCs cut their investments in 2016 relative to 2015 with > 30% of VCs having cut investments. And more than 50% of CVCs said they plan to invest even more in 2017.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2020

Others simply distribute profits to shareholders; an unwise short-term approach given the number of risks on the horizon. In September 2015 the company began investing in gold with a £3,000 initial investment. Take my company Quadrant2Design , which designs and manufactures exhibition stands for large conferences, as an example.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 19, 2023

In their 2015 introductory blog post , the group said We’re hoping to grow OpenAI into such an institution. Can any transition to a venture-financed for profit be truly Open? I’ve only met Sam Altman once or twice but he is clearly intensely curious and interested in future forms of equitable distribution (UBI for example).

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

Over the past year, and especially over the last few days, the Bay Area tech Twitter echo chamber has been tweeting about the advent of remote, or distributed, or satellite teams for their companies across the country and the world. For me, as a seed investor, I started to feel this struggle back in 2015.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Last year we had a “DeFi” summer, where peer-to-peer finance was being conducted through crypto products worldwide. More recently over the past few days, projects such as Loot, the N Project and Bloot emerged that distributed building blocks on the blockchain for people to create their own games and game economies.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

The good news is that there are more routes to financing available to businesses of all sizes in the U.K. The effect has been widespread, but one predictable consequence is a groundswell of demand for credit, loans, and cash flow finance solutions amongst the U.K.’s than ever before. s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. And yet Uber and Lyft are the market leaders, with a combined 98% of the US market , while Sidecar shut down in 2015.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 7, 2015

With a little luck, 2015 could go down as one of the best years ever for American business. In addition to the massive flows of capital and wealth created and distributed by the top tech. Barring that, on balance for entrepreneurs and executives out there seeking to make their mark, 2015 is looking nice and juicy.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As of November 2015, there were 4,144 breweries in the U.S.—more In this two-part guide to starting a brewery, we’re going to talk with brewers who’ve been there-done-that, and we’ll get insights from experts in supporting industries such as insurance and finance, as well as discuss regulatory issues.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

There are different insurance requirements, financing issues to work through and extensive technical product training, just to name a few. Then the key is to drive revenue on items the retailer either creates or controls the distribution channel. Focus on sales where you create or control the distribution.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

There are different insurance requirements, financing issues to work through and extensive technical product training, just to name a few. Then the key is to drive revenue on items the retailer either creates or controls the distribution channel. Focus on sales where you create or control the distribution.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

There are different insurance requirements, financing issues to work through and extensive technical product training, just to name a few. Then the key is to drive revenue on items the retailer either creates or controls the distribution channel. Focus on sales where you create or control the distribution.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 13, 2015

As new distribution and pricing models emerge, and a younger workforce looks for modern software tools even in the most old school industries, some of the hitherto untapped areas are becoming ripe for SaaS to penetrate. What are the areas that haven’t seen a modern piece of software in years?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Learning everything you can about VC first is important for that reason, but also to ensure it’s the right form of financing for your business. In fact, it’s quite the opposite - making sure you have the same goals as your financing partner is probably the best thing you can do as an entrepreneur to maximize your chances for success.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. Today, Europe and Israel have generated 23 public companies worth $231B and private cloud financing reached c.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Despite all of those insecurities, on January 1, 2015 I sent a note to five people and I said hey, this is super low key, but we are going to try this thing. At 10:42, buzz tweets: “Excited to see @Bryce and @OATV kick off 2015 by trying an experiment with a different approach to funding.” Then we put a 5X cap on the distributions.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

And as applications have trended towards a more distributed, data-centric, and segmented architecture, keeping them up and running reliably has become more of a challenge. Takipi launched their product in April 2015 and within a year has gained over 120 enterprise and mid-market customers… all by word of mouth.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 2015, Eddy Lu and Daishin Sugano launched GOAT , a marketplace for the exchange of sneakers. Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

What’s the concept of all of this that you’re talking about and then in financing? I just thought it was a good question to set the context of lean planning and when somebody should use it, because so many of our webinar attendees are in the process of getting financing. What distribution, are we using gems or are we a web?

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent? Will folks be able to buy a house and raise their families here? Will the Bay Area’s cost structure compress the precious runway these newco’s have? These questions have been rattling around my brain.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

In this guide to starting a brewery, we’re going to talk with brewers who’ve been-there-done-that, and we’ll get insights from experts in supporting industries such as insurance and finance, as well as discuss regulatory issues. Watch your finances. Keeping regulations in mind when starting a brewery. Step 1: Planning a brewery.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

This interview was conducted in 2015 with Colleen and Stephen Sheehan, co-owners of Delacata food cart and Elk Horn Brewery. Elk Horn also won “Best New Restaurant” in Eugene Weekly Best of Eugene 2014-2015. Colleen: Currently it’s all about distribution. We make our money in beer distribution, not so much on the food side.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. Step 5: Get financed. Additional resources to help you finance your business: How to Get Your Business Funded. How to Apply for a Federal Tax ID Number.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.”

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

On a global level, venture financing of private companies dropped 33% year over year, from a record $733B in 2021 to $490B in 2022. Sector funding distribution according to Greenfield Partners. 2022 is behind us now and the end of year reports are trickling in. That’s of course part of a global trend. ” Fred Wilson.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2012 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2013; Slack in 2014 (after prematurely saying there wasn’t one); took a break in 2015-16, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; in 2017 it was Coinbase ; and last year, 2018, it was Airtable.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

A survey conducted by accounting and finance recruitment specialists Robert Half revealed that 1 in 10 recruits were considered a ‘poor hiring decision’ by their employers, poor odds indeed. Distributed and connected teams are the new reality. What happened? It’s still the same person, right? 68% of U.S.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Research from BCG, Harvard Business Review, First Round Capital, the Kauffman Foundation, and Illuminate Ventures shows that investors in diverse teams get better returns: Paul Graham , cofounder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. Brighter has rapidly achieved national scale with distribution to tens of millions of insured patients and over 100,000 providers. Here are a list of the new forces pushing the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2016

As the name suggests, you will be in charge of everything including finances, day-to-day operations, and liability if anything goes wrong. Partnerships don’t require many formalities, but most good partnerships use contracts to distribute responsibilities and profits.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

A photo posted by CEO Blog Nation : I am CEO (@ceoblognation) on Aug 18, 2015 at 2:23pm PDT. #1) I never want renters to find themselves in my situation – scared, displaced and worried about my finances. Tell us your story below! business #entrepreneur #startup #story #why #ceo #ceoblognation #CEOs #hearpreneur. 1) Solve a Problem.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

I lost my mom to metastatic breast cancer in 2015. If we create this network of collaborators that solves this problem, that's essentially a distributed biotech Silicon Valley and who knows what innovation that we can't foresee yet would come from that. Eric Ries : I'm sorry. Hannu Rajaniemi : Thank you.

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Transformify

MARCH 4, 2018

temporary-to-hire and full-time roles in the fields of accounting and finance, technology, office administration, legal, and creative, marketing and design. Providing services to Fortune 500 companies in the US and Canada, Insight Global provides services to the IT, accounting and finance, engineering and government sectors.

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