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.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. New York ›.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

And it really just, kind of, comes from this problem, that in the aggregate, if you get 10,000 coin flips, we can say something spectacular about the quality of our decisions and what we should learn or not learn from them. You have to invest your product resources — your most valuable asset, your engineers — into specific deliverables.

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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. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. " Become.com is a search engine designed to help consumers searching for products on the web. Portfolio. (3).

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

At Top Tier, we have been continuously refining our database and analytics engine, and we use it and other software mentioned in this article to make better decisions, spot trends, and stay in front of targeted venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. How can accelerating portfolio company value be aided by use of software?

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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. David : If I’m the train, then Maha is the engine.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. Transformations, aggregations and joins at massive scale is where BlazingDB wins! BlazingDB is the third in this series, after RackN and Appbase. By now, a few trends are emerging.

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Peru Fractional CTO Artificial Inteligence Database 58

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Formlabs, makers of a high-resolution 3D printer aimed at engineers and design professionals. RedBearLab, which makes a wearable BlueTooth 4.0 board you can use to interface with an iPhone or Android device. Deezmaker, another 3D printer vendor, this one aimed at making an affordable printer called the Bukobot.

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Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

We practice it religiously in the engineering team at HubSpot and the insights are always there, highly valuable. Peter Cohen www.saasmarketingstrategy.com David Skok Peter, this is a great point, and one which has led to many long discussions with my portfolio companies. David Skok Great feedback and suggestions.

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Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

The outcome in either scenario is a restructuring of the organization that is exquisitely geared towards taking advantage of portfolio optimization. You can even get great first-step guidance about how to rebalance your portfolio from that last column. Related implications of what you want to do in-house vs. out source to an Agency.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

Digital advertising and marketing is a key part of ZQI's multi-channel acquisition portfolio. As is common in these types of educational companies, aggregators rule the roost. The above image only illustrates three segments and their conversions – search, referrals, and aggregators – purely for the sake for simplicity.

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Analytics Aggregator Channel B2B 139

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Start with models like Time Decay and Position Based to understand what the conversion portfolio might look like (last two columns above) and create hypotheses about what a better budget allocation might look like. Roll that out to your entire portfolio (or to a subset as a controlled experiment) and measure conversion improvements.

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Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

The latter is particularly useful as an aggregated view for senior executives. The change required based on this data is not just your marketing portfolio re-allocation, that is almost trivial, what' bigger, huger, crazy-harder is changing how your company thinks. Try it when you are in the Store demo account. Take a break.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

In that context, Real-Time reports are an impressive feat of engineering by the team at Google. Clicking on any one of the channels above, will lead you to a lovely drilldown report that shows detailed performance for that channel… The above report proves my statement, all data in aggregate is crap !

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Analytics Web eCommerce Metrics 60

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These are 20 th century relics of the lack of data available from each team and the lack of comparative data across a cohort and portfolio. Those days are over.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

B2B on-demand is the perfect combination between two of our existing portfolio strengths: The fact that half of our investments are business-focused startups, and our expertise with consumer on-demand services like Paintzen , TaskRabbit , and Scratch. Authenticity to NextView. Now we need to figure out what to do with it all.

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Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

B2B on-demand is the perfect combination between two of our existing portfolio strengths: The fact that half of our investments are business-focused startups, and our expertise with consumer on-demand services like Paintzen , TaskRabbit , and Scratch. Authenticity to NextView. Now we need to figure out what to do with it all.

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Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

SA : I think we've seen a handful of companies now tell their engineers that if you want to take paid time off to go work on a software project related to COVID. ER : Do you mind talking a little bit about your conversations with startups in your portfolio, people who have reached out to you for advice about how to handle a crisis like this?

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. The First Taste Engine. Jinni is a Taste Engine. . – get your free ticket while they last: Israel and UK Digital Drinks.

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Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

There is always one exception to the rule. :) It can be of some value to take aggregated data about your visitors (especially those that converted) and put it into your corporate data warehouse where all other data of your company sits. But even if 110% of the signs point to that first make sure you have aggregated all the marginal gains.

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Analytics Web Metrics Channel 118

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Analyzing data in aggregate is a crime. When you look at all that in aggregate you get nothing. You think understanding Keywords without drilling down to each search engine will be awesome. Most search portfolios (Search Engine Marketing or Search Engine Optimization) have a unhealthy obsessions with our brand terms.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. If you’ve read this far, you definitely should : Try out our Funding Recommendation Engine. Company: Home Portfolio. It’s free.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

You will never obsess about the cost per trade of your E-Trade portfolio, right? And because all data in aggregate is crap , segmented trends are even better! Yes, cost per click is metric. But if you had to obsess about something, obsess about the value delivered to the business. So, don''t obsess about CPC. Thank you.

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Analytics Search Metrics Web 144

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The acquisition of PBM adds another growth engine for Perrigo, which already has a 75% share of the store brand over the counter (OTC) drug market in the US. The British mobile payments and messaging aggregator will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket US mobile transactions hub.

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OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

ScheduleOnce – Scheduling engine to get everyone who needs to meet together at one time. Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents. carbonmade Carbonmade – A free online portfolio showcase.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

at a level of aggregation or granularity you need, and send it into your digital analytics tools. Now you have excellent context for making smarter decisions about the full-value of each acquisition channel in your portfolio. The whole thing is so painful. Essentially, how often did that channel help with a future conversion?

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Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 159

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In this case, fully-burdened is not just the salary, bonus, and benefits of the sales rep, but also allocations for sales engineering support, executive support, marketing expense, and professional service expenses associate with securing the customer. Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue.

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Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Occam's Razor

APRIL 6, 2009

The first source of the data are the logs that store the queries that are done by users on google.com (logs that have this data in aggregate, not by individual histories – you'll see the latter is not necessary). Maximize for the portfolio. #3: You can't. Or you'll never go home.

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Search PPC Matching Analytics 103

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." All standard reports are simply the vendor engineer's attempt to showcase the data in the tool. All data in aggregate is crap.

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Analytics Web Metrics DC 140

Version One Ventures

MARCH 29, 2017

It’s worth noting that SaaS companies could probably do something interesting with all their data in aggregate. Some VCs have data and engineering teams manually wrangle non-standard financial statements and KPIs from their portfolio and pitches and create an internal repository for their own use. 2: Privately held operational.

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Aggregator Startup Vertical SEC 60

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. Google couldn’t become #1 search engine without VC money. A few more stats make that picture look worse. Add to this that 72.7%

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

mobile telephone operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and media agents. Sagarmatha’s core technology is a sophisticated, proprietary data mining engine. The company’s Netrac product portfolio delivers an automated, proactive and customer-centric approach to Service Assurance, spanning fault, performance, and service management.

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Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

In addition, Cellguide’s GPSense engine is chip agnostic and could use pseudo- ranges from any GNSS receiver thus creating a fully featured locaiton and navigation engine. Dasur’s solution is based on a unique, patented pattern recognition engine. Cellint provides the best road traffic information service world wide.

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Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

We got everything from price comparison engines to aggregated user reviews to one-click checkout. A Lightspeed Portfolio company. It wasn’t about how well the dog could talk, it was amazing that the dog could talk at all. The first generation of ecommerce sites were focused on functionality, getting the dog to talk better.

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Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 108

Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

When I search for "avinash" on Google I might rank #1 in the search results because I'm logged into my Google account, the engine has my search history, my computer IP address, it also has searches by others in my vicinity, local stories right now, and so many other signals. So check your keyword ranking if it pleases you.

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Metrics Marketing Search SEO 166

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? hire low-cost international engineering talent. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging.

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