Version One Ventures
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
This funding is big news, particularly since 2016 was a weak year for Ed Tech funding. Generally speaking, Ed Tech has proven to be a tough vertical, primarily due to the fact that it’s hard to charge consumers (students) directly. They took an innovative approach to distribution. The post Top Hat Raises $22.5M
Mucker Lab
OCTOBER 12, 2016
The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing. Normal distributions do not exist; standard deviations are meaningless. Vertical integration of different funding risks. Following the inevitable ups and downs of the VC investment cycle, and what founders can do when it all turns cold. Betting on the wrong horse.
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Version One Ventures
JANUARY 27, 2014
Distribution strategies are different. ” And many distribution strategies that worked on the web (like long-tail SEO), simply don’t work in an app ecosystem. ” And many distribution strategies that worked on the web (like long-tail SEO), simply don’t work in an app ecosystem.
Up and Running
JULY 26, 2016
Between January 2015 and January 2016, we grew our platform Slidebean from $1K to $20K in monthly recurring revenue. Still, it’s become one of our most profitable acquisition channels, and more importantly an excellent way to test new customer verticals and target markets. Search ads are expensive, however. this drops by $0.30-$0.50
Hearpreneur
DECEMBER 11, 2017
Influencer collaborations: Clients will contract an influencer to leverage their social expertise in creating a piece of content but will also have them distribute it to their organic following. May 2016 – #paid signs deal with PepsiCo to launch Mountain Dew Kickstart. July 2016 – #paid pivots to hybrid solution.
Version One Ventures
DECEMBER 3, 2019
We loved the product, but weren’t convinced it would get much distribution quickly. Unfortunately, at the time we had a few DTC / vertically integrated commerce companies in our portfolio that didn’t do super-well, so we decided that we didn’t want to add another investment. Carta (prev. Sonder (prev.
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. We’ll have to see what next year’s data reveals, but what’s certainly become clear over the past year is that the cloud world is a very different one from the one we mapped back in 2016.
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