Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As a star data analyst, Abhinav started to wonder how all restaurant owners and operators could have the same customer relationships as his mother-in-law, and how technology could help with scale – this is how Bikky was born. This helps restaurants operate more profitably through higher customer retention, frequency, and lifetime value.

New York City 60

New York City Customer Aggregator Retention 60

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. 4 times / 100 means if a customer uses your app frequently (say 10-20 times / day) then they are crashing nearly every day. Customer Acquisition. Do you have a customer referral program?

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

Challenges of scaling Jeff and Jay share conversations about growing and scaling subscription businesses with a customer first approach, check out all the episodes. And if most of them allow for you to be in the sweet spot, then you can say in aggregate, you're in the sweet spot. So you're putting together that portfolio.

Leadership 81

Leadership Technical Review Fractional CTO Utah 81

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Patent trolls purchase portfolios containing patents and sue companies for infringing them. Although the data is public, the startup may not have been able to manually aggregate that data on its own, or the owner of the website may expressly prohibit use of the data outside of the services the owner offers. Patent Trolls.

Convertible Security 100

Convertible Security IP Technical Review Software Review 100

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2022

And to your question specifically, once you start to say, okay, well, where am I in my role on the S curve overall, everything that's required of me, but it very much is a portfolio of curves that you are going to have a number of different curves that you're on within your work. So you're putting together that portfolio. No problem!

Leadership 76

Leadership Utah Portfolio Technical Review 76

The Startup Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

From knowing what customers want to buy and what they can buy, selecting the right places and platforms for product sourcing, building optimized inventory , and keeping shelves full of your best-selling products, setting up your retail store is an in-depth process. . Work Directly With A Manufacturer Or Wholesaler .

Product 157

Product Aggregator Hiring Audience 157

David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

The company aggregates a tremendous amount of medical news and research and personalizes it into a user friendly experience. Lakewood-Amedex ( www.lakewoodamedex.com ) is a development stage biopharmaceutical company that is developing a diverse portfolio of broad-spectrum anti-bacterials, anti-virals, and targeted therapeutics.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review New York Accredited Investor IP 128

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. This discovery/intent web traffic will grow fast in the coming year to become a significant source of users/customers. A Lightspeed Portfolio company. Social Media based Discovery Traffic Breaks Out. Are you ready? *A

Internet 106

Internet Media Social Media Advertising 106

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 2, 2015

generate as much revenue as you can to prove that customers find value and are willing to pay. No matter what business you are in, you need to ensure that your ultimate customer (the end user) is happy and absolutely loves using your product. The post First enterprise customers – revenue or user engagement?

Revenue 60

Revenue Customer Metrics Aggregator 60

SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

Our job is to invent on behalf of our users" - I attribute this to Amazon, as it emphasizes the all-important point that our customers and users can't tell us what to build (they don't know what's possible, and they don't know what they want until after they see it), so it is our job to invent great solutions on their behalf.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Aggregator Curation Agile 69

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. In this time, building a successful business meant building a company that had paying customers quarter after quarter. What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 223

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 223

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Aggregated search engine level analysis. This is a simple custom report I use to look at the aggregated view: As the report above demonstrates, you can still report on your other metrics, like Unique Visitors, Bounce Rates, Per Visit Value and many others, at an aggregated level. Organic landing pages report. " : ).

Search 154

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. That girl now has now has 200,000 paying customers and a profitable run rate of over $40M within 18 months of raising capital. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. How do you like them apples?

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Diverse employee populations and customer bases start with having a diverse board and a CEO (you!) Just as it’s critically important to get the right executives around your (well, now virtual) table, it’s equally, if not even more important to build a board that effectively supports you, your company, and your customers.

Aggregator 71

Aggregator Portfolio Networking Design 71

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? The questions that arise most with respect to any category of IP at the earliest stages include: How will this affect our chances of getting funded on favorable terms ? Barriers to entry ?

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

Today, I’m thrilled to publicly announce NextView’s Talent Exchange, a program helping both top talent and NextView-backed startups connect with each other more easily, beginning with Boston companies (which make up just over half our portfolio). Below, I’ll quickly explain the genesis of this initiative and share a few more key details.

Portfolio 100

Portfolio Startup Boston Seed Stage 100

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Moreover, they can have considerable positive effects on the user experience as well, which translates into metrics that are harder to measure, but are nonetheless of paramount importance to online businesses, such as customer satisfaction and retention. Popular products”, “Customers who bought this also bought…”, etc.).

Conversion 48

Conversion Product Technical Review Widget 48

OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Diverse employee populations and customer bases start with having a diverse board and a CEO (you!) Just as it’s critically important to get the right executives around your (well, now virtual) table, it’s equally, if not even more important to build a board that effectively supports you, your company, and your customers.

Aggregator 48

Aggregator Portfolio Networking Design 48

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 18, 2015

If you are lucky the sellers will bring some customers with them. Aggregate inventory from other sites e.g. through affiliate programmes – scale comes quickly with this strategy, but adding enough value to become sticky can be challenging. Only works in services marketplaces where customers don’t expect an instant quote.

Seattle 60

Seattle Affiliate Aggregator Demand 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 3) Raise capital.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

To bring an additional perspective to the conversation, I invited Lightspeed portfolio companies BloomReach, EdgeSpring, MapR, Nutanix, PernixData and Virtual Instruments who are focused on helping companies store, manage, analyze, and surface next-generation data and content.

Business Model 150

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

ESPN, Forbes, AOL were customers. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. One of Highland Capital’s portfolio companies, Affine Systems, helps solve this problem by extracting search terms from the video images. 37:00-40:30).

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

As an alternative, entrepreneurs have been using crowdfunding sites like Indiegogo , one of our portfolio companies, to raise money for their companies through online donations. For small businesses, registering a company is timely and costly in management fees, accounting fees, and legal fees.

Securities and Exchange Commission 148

Securities and Exchange Commission IRR Entrepreneur Angel Investor 148

YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

In the letter, Buffett advised, “Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio’s market value.” They are close to the desires and needs of their customers. They value Trust, both internal (employees) and external (customers and shareholders).

Stock 157

Stock Memphis Balance Sheet Analytics 157

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

A marketing/PR agency may have a flashy portfolio that impresses you with their big name clients, but for a startup or small business, paying thousands each month to such an agency isn’t going to be good bang for your (limited) buck. Press can drive traffic and perhaps even convert customers , but its typically a one-time boost.

PR 145

PR Small Business SEO Warrant 145

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

It’s important to have a report that allows for a comparison of the quoted or budgeted cost with the actual cost, as well as letting the executive team compare financial performance using custom criteria.

Artificial Inteligence 168

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Management Software Developers 168

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

The SaaS growth recovery does not seem to take a "V" shape 2) Sales productivity is ramping up: bottom was hit in the first half of 2009 However, the sales and productivity of the group, measured by the median "Customer Acquisition Cost ratio" or "CAC ratio", seems to be recovering more steeply. Portfolio. (3). anecdotes. (13).

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

“Sell More Faster” is the only practical playbook that details how startups can build and scale their sales organization from day one, including lessons on product-market direction and product-market fit, building a diverse sales team, testing sales theories and models for scaling, developing ongoing relationships with customers and more.

Austin 48

Austin Management Los Angeles New York City 48

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

By interconnecting the design, procurement, and construction process into a single software platform, we provide customers with an “aggregated source of truth” for their projects delivering a unified offering to them that streamlines the entire process. This entails deploying a DevOps model in our first year of development.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Founder Saudi Arabia Cofounder 110

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

“This investment will enable us to go to market faster and bring new technology offerings to our customers across all three media types.”. In 2010, the company became a preferred content aggregator for the Apple iBookstore and is one of the largest providers of book content to Apple.

Aggregator 54

Aggregator New York Distribution Security 54

VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

“We’re not AdTech investors,&# I’d push back, “we just have a bunch of companies in the portfolio that are working in and around online advertising.&# While this is about 20% of our active portfolio, we’ve never considered AdTech a theme. And for a while that worked pretty well. They are: Scale. Performance.

Disintermediation 82

Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 82

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2014

It’s all just fodder for creating the best possible customer integrated experience. An integrated selling approach looks for ways to filter, aggregate and personalize content to the level of the individual client or prospect. I can picture the social selling experts lining up as I write this.) Define ideal leads.

Social Media 65

Social Media Aggregator Sales Portfolio 65

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Our proprietary data science tool cumulatively looks at 100+ factors within 6 macroscopic categories: Team, Financial Performance, Customer and PR traction, Industry and Competition, Product and Brand value, Valuation, and Exit probability, to quantify an investment “Merit Score”.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Or their could be deals from two or more different categories of customers. We could do this in several ways: Cross sell to add additional products Up sell to add seats, or premium features Develop a scalable pricing matrix that does a better job of charging higher end customers that are willing to pay more.

Metrics 55

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

“We’re not AdTech investors,” I’d push back, “we just have a bunch of companies in the portfolio that are working in and around online advertising.” While this is about 20% of our active portfolio, we’ve never considered AdTech a theme. ” And for a while that worked pretty well. Performance.

Disintermediation 48

Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 48

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

I'll close with a custom attribution model into which you can insert all your biases – sorry, I mean expertise – and get something better than good to make incremental progress from where you are today. Customized/Personalized Attribution Model. Last AdWords Click Attribution Model. Linear Attribution Model.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. As mentioned in previously Spotlights, my goals are: Working with and investing in stellar teams delivering true vision with compelling products to paying customers for MEANINGFUL results. By now, a few trends are emerging.

Peru 58

Peru Fractional CTO Artificial Inteligence Database 58