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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

Mamoon Ismail Khalid, Venture Associate at Quake Capital Partners in New York City, describes their deal sourcing approach as follows: “We use a new Web Interface to collect information from our applicants in a standardized manner. How can accelerating portfolio company value be aided by use of software?

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Later stage companies have some additional concerns: What favorable impact could IP have for PR, marketing and investor relations purposes, or as an attraction to potential acquirors? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ?

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? In 6 months? In 3 months?

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The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summit

Cracking the Code

A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). This invite-only event for our portfolio companies and close friends of the firm was designed to be fairly intimate and interactive. Labels: Portfolio , SaaS , software.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

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. It’s unreasonable to think that everything we do on the Web should be free – even socializing. Add to this that 72.7%

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2008!

Cracking the Code

Overall, I spent about 1/3 of my time looking at Web 2.0 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. Portfolio. (3). Thank you for your time and consideration.

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Cracking The Code: Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends

Cracking the Code

the rise of CleanTech, and the next wave of web applications and services, with a hint to the potential of the baby boomers. The idea is that all your personal data captured when you browse and transact on the web today is held in silos (Amazon, Netflix, Google.) Portfolio. (3). anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1). internet.