Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. He set up Blackbox.vc, a seed accelerator for technology startups (and one of the tour stops for entrepreneurs from around the world.) ——-.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

I’m very interested in additional ways to use technology to extend each of these! At HOF Capital, we support our companies through 7 main levers (i.e., the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. On Funding?—?Shots We do other things, too.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This round was led by the prestigious global funds of Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital. It is understandable why venture capital money is flooding in, as Lightricks is seen as a leader in a fast-growing market. At the time of funding, their revenue for the year to date had already exceeded $200 million.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

On August 14–15, the Air Force, through AFWERX , hosted a two-day Spark Collider event at Capital Factory to bring newly awarded 19.2 SBIR Phase I companies together with relevant Air Force and venture capital stakeholders. Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Candidates must have a proven track record of scaling consumer applications, growing world-class technology teams, and delivering fast iterative business results. The ideal candidate has experience with eCommerce systems, emerging mobile and social technologies, as well as RoR. " "Hit it."

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. It proved to be fortuitous because it allowed me the time & space I needed to get to know tons of founders and VCs and to hone my craft.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Ad Serving Technology. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital. About VC Cafe.

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Pascal's View

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Denis Dougherty of Intersouth Partners was recently interviewed by Brian Gormley of The Wall Street Journal on the decade-long liquidity crisis that continues to plague the venture capital industry. Venture capitalists that have an inventory of acquisition-ready companies will do well.”. I agree with Dennis.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As David Sacks from All in put it: On aggregate, a lot of funding was also deployed to startups in the application layer – investing in founders leveraging generative AI to either solve narrow tasks, or bring automation to tasks to reduce costs, increase accuracy, speed etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). High Road Capital Partners Deal Sourcing Keynote. Fitzsimmons, High Road Capital Partners. Intermediaries.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This post was originally published on the personal blog of NextView founding partner Lee Hower. Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). Subscribe here for more.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! To date, Salesforce has been focused on small tuck-in technology acquisitions, so it is an interesting move for them.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. We were obviously wrong about Untitled Partners’ ability to grow through the subsequent downturn. #19

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

T he second quarter of 2010 has come and gone and despite the depleting VC and incubator capital in Israel, the quarter has brought approximately 40 deals with over $400 million invested. Looking at the aggregated list gives a quick sense of what funds are actively making investments. Ofakim Hi-Tech Ventures Ltd.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

T he second quarter of 2010 has come and gone and despite the depleting VC and incubator capital in Israel, the quarter has brought approximately 40 deals with over $400 million invested. Looking at the aggregated list gives a quick sense of what funds are actively making investments. Ofakim Hi-Tech Ventures Ltd.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

-The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy (..)

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

This year’s conference will highlight twenty promising early-growth companies; all based in the Rocky Mountain region and a majority of which are focused on clean technology, a burgeoning industry in the area. RavenBrick delivers innovative solar-controlled windows, which reduce energy costs by up to 50 percent.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Twenty Companies Ranging From Seed Stage to Mezzanine Will Showcase Next Generation Technologies from Various Industries at the 27 th Annual VCIR Winter 2010 Conference. Companies from Colorado represent the majority of presenters and constitute all of the clean technology and new energy companies participating in the conference.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Bloch was previously a partner in Jerusalem Venture Partners and an active member of the board in the Israeli startup Wix. In addition, MySupermarket developed a technology which shows the nutritional values of food products, to help the user decide between competing brands. "You

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. But it was an attractive time to enter because the successful internet companies were scaling and in need of capital. 16:35-19:35). 40:30 –41:30).

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

This year, the panel included Steve Jurveston from DFJ, Vinod Khosla from Khosla Ventures, Josh Kopelman from First Round Capital, Roger McNamee from Elevation Partners and Joe Schoendorf from Accel. Audience: 90 percent voted “Yes” 8) Venture capital 2.0 Venture Capital. (3). Newer Post.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

 Obviously, WSGR has a much larger sample size and the fact that they make it public (in aggregate) is impressive.   Not surprisingly, WSGR Partner Yokum Taku, who I've previously written about , is the key co-conspirator behind making this tool public.    Building that must have been crazy. . 

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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. At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. Check out the Digital Capital LumaScape below.

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Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

One of my first mentors in venture capital explained to me that the key role of a VC is to “aggregate talent.” When we thought there may be a match, my partners and I would introduce someone who we knew was looking for a new job straight to a portfolio company. But it seemed like it wasn’t enough. We could be doing more.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 22, 2010

In the post I described the entrepreneurship education event I helped put on with Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners – then at Sequoia Capital) and Mark Siegel (Menlo Ventures). Alex Moore is am working on Baydin with a partner from Dartmouth, making email clients smarter and more useful. These are the active companies.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. 41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding. Add to this that 72.7%

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Most importantly, the phrase “ bootstrapping a startup ” translates into “growing your business with little or no venture capital or outside investment. It is also important to realize that, statistically speaking, most startups become operational without any venture capital or external funding sources.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

In 2017, as a VC, I’m still fascinated by the topic of melding human interactions and feedback mechanisms with the latest advances in technology. I learned early in my career that technology itself doesn’t solve problems – it is the applications of technology that solve problems.

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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. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Venture Capital. (3). Explore Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Arnie Gullov-Singh (ex-EVP of product, technology and operations for MySpace) also joined as CEO, as Sean Rad will assume the role of President. currently has 70,000 publishers reaching 45mm readers.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 25, 2010

The rest of you will just have to go to one of these events to try to find human life partners: Monday, January 25th 6:00PM The Future of Music: with Lyor Cohen, CEO Rec. On the invite list, as always, are the top Advertising, Music, Media & Technology professionals. Thursday, January 28th. RSVP: [link] Friday, January 29th.

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