Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2012

I’m talking in aggregate. Ask yourself the tough question about how you might spend that time more productively getting your job done well. There are also many times where that meeting isn’t really focused or productive. Usually it’s on behalf of a portfolio company. Helping with a Sales Lead.

Email 359

Email Portfolio Technical Review Aggregator 359

View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

The last time they were starting a company at the raw, pre-product/market fit stage may have been quite a few years ago. The context of starting business may have changed, and some of the tools and practices (especially around early product development and go-to-market) might look very different. 2: Pursue side projects.

Founder 159

Founder Cofounder CTO Hire Early Stage 159

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. Popular products”, “Customers who bought this also bought…”, etc.).

Conversion 48

Conversion Product Technical Review Widget 48

David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

The most pervasive has been the expansion of passively managed portfolios, such as index funds and ETFs, which allow both retail and institutional investors access to a broad spectrum of investment opportunities at a much lower cost. How are investors thinking and protecting against volatility in their portfolios?

Management 114

Management Portfolio Institutional Investors Government 114

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. To measure product usage and traction over time, we use tools like Alexa , AppAnnie and Google Analytics. 9% (1 / 12). 1) Market fund. 6) Negotiate deal.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Version One Ventures

MAY 28, 2020

Here are two examples from e-commerce use cases – both are V1 portfolio companies: Shippo : developers can use this API to connect businesses to shipping carriers. First, you can aggregate the supply especially in antiquated industries where a lot of infrastructure needs to be built for the API-as-a-marketplace.

API 207

API Aggregator B2B Demand 207

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

If you still don’t get Snapchat please read the primer or follow me on Snapchat for a week or two because how I create “stories” on Snapchat is more of a use case for modern media than perhaps some teens use the product so it may resonate more with you what the future could bring. Authenticity / Endemic.

Advertising 150

Advertising Iowa Campaign Media 150

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

are products that aggregate data. One example is our portfolio company Defined that is aggregating data on tokens across different exchanges and blockchains. . identity, but innovation in this space hasn’t moved beyond products that simply hold your crypto assets. such as BitClout.

Web 96

Web Aggregator Early Stage Portfolio 96

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

David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Presenting Companies: Axiomed ( www.axiomed.com ) has a 2nd generation Total Disc Replacement (TDR) product that holds promise to improve outcomes for the millions of people that suffer from degenerative disc disease. The company aggregates a tremendous amount of medical news and research and personalizes it into a user friendly experience.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review New York Accredited Investor IP 128

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.”. I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. I’m a big believer in product stability & performance before adding too many features. You Manage What you Measure.

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. The resulting web traffic represents top-of-the-funnel users who are interested in learning more about the products/services, but not ready to commit just yet. A Lightspeed Portfolio company. TV Goes Social via Mobile Devices.

Internet 114

Internet Media Social Media Advertising 114

SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

We all deal with certain truths about building technology products, and I find that certain quotes resonate strongly with people and help them internalize important concepts or ideas. I have literally hundreds that I've aggregated and curated. It helps me to understand their culture and their values. Very hard for me to pick just ten.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Aggregator Curation Agile 69

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. Because people live, shop, and buy in real time, Monetate products enable e-commerce web sites to market in real time. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

But even at the Partner-level, the amount of transition in Venture Capital is much more than you perhaps would expect… especially in a business which should have a long term orientation with portfolio investment-hold periods and Partnerships lasting more than a decade. So why is there so much turnover in Venture Capital?

Venture Capital 204

Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

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 ? Creating product mock-ups , wireframes, etc. What kind of advantage will this create vs. our competitors ? Barriers to entry ? Easier said than done!) trade secret).

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Although to be fair, (i) Second Life is still around and profitable and (ii) many of the design choices we made were quite influential on later products. The “absolutely yes” category was dominated by creators who had branched beyond their initial piece of content and created some persistent space for the community to aggregate.

North Carolina 112

North Carolina Community Media Video 112

Version One Ventures

JULY 19, 2018

In that handbook, our goal was to aggregate all the amazing content out there. With that said, here are some opportunities we see for the next generation of large, venture-scale marketplace businesses: Product marketplaces. This reminded me that it has been awhile since we’ve touched upon this topic on our blog. Services marketplaces.

Disintermediation 110

Disintermediation B2B Differentiation Aggregator 110

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

We can guess our brand terms and product keywords, but the wonderful harvest of category-type, and beyond, keywords is gone. Another important reason historical data becomes stale pretty quickly is that any nominally functioning business will have new products, new content, new business priorities, and all that impacts your search strategy.

Search 154

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Carrie Jaquith , Lazard – VP, Digital Product Manager & Head of Emerging Technology Group. Buyside members generally draw from Portfolio Management, Research, Trading, Data Science, Risk and Innovation roles. billion, and 12 have been acquired for more than $6 billion in aggregate since presenting at the AIR Summit.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Cofounder Aggregator Equity 60

David Teten

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. From the point of view of a limited partner, the great challenge is scaling the business. . - Providing standardized operational support for portfolio companies. They’re also inflation-hedged.

Early Stage 148

Early Stage Private Equity Portfolio Aggregator 148

Version One Ventures

AUGUST 16, 2017

George Psiharis (the awesome VP of Business Operations at Clio ) reached out with a great suggestion: connect the data teams across our portfolio companies with the goal of building a peer network to share best practices, and together push the bar on data science innovation. What’s the problem with this?

San Francisco 86

San Francisco Metrics SQL Portfolio 86

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Bikky aggregates customer data from many disparate and traditionally siloed sources: point of sale, payments, online ordering, loyalty, and reservation data. As a former data scientist, I can say that Bikky’s product is awesome – just ask for a demo to see for yourself! can be made efficiently.

New York City 60

New York City Customer Aggregator Retention 60

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

And when to spend time deciding or not, especially when not all decisions are equal and some may seem bigger and more impactful — whether it’s investing in life decisions, like getting married, or business decisions, such as what product to invest in, or what strategy to pursue, or what market or what investment. Jeff: Yeah.

San Antonio 36

San Antonio Aggregator Jordan Stock 36

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m an Ashley Mayer superfan so beyond the affinity, have been fortunate enough to also bring her into Homebrew as an advisor to our portfolio companies, and invest in Coalition , a venture firm she founded along with three other amazing female operators. We had overlapping circles and then became friends.

IPO 91

IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 91

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Mike built a white label product that let large publishers leverage text based ads by building their own marketplace rather than using Ad Words. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. ESPN, Forbes, AOL were customers. 37:00-40:30).

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

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. Baggins, Bilbo Baggins.”

Business Model 159

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 159

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. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 18, 2015

They identify four strategies (there’s more detail on each in the original post): Identify unique inventory – sellers who don’t otherwise have an online outlet will list on your site (provided it’s easy to do) and you can use their product to drive demand. Etsy is a good example.

Seattle 60

Seattle Affiliate Aggregator Demand 60

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. Of the 21 investments that Correlation Ventures has made so far, four are in life sciences startups and 17 are in technology, or consumer products and services.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

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). SaaS 13 Index*.

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 2, 2015

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. I have seen countless situations where a startup extracts initial dollars top-down from an enterprise but ultimately cannot get traction because the end users don’t love the product.

Revenue 60

Revenue Customer Metrics Aggregator 60

The Equity Kicker

MAY 15, 2012

Here are some of the highlights: they had a ‘fundamental understanding’ of their product and why people use it. Here are some of the highlights: they had a ‘fundamental understanding’ of their product and why people use it. they have a team of great people and a unique culture. they have a team of great people and a unique culture.

Viral 108

Viral Framework Aggregator Retention 108

Genuine VC

JULY 22, 2012

On one side are the large VC firms resembling Budweiser-type macrobrews, competing based on scale and brand with a standardized product across multiple geographies, sectors, and stages. But again, the aggregate numbers are being driven by just a few of the largest macrobrew firms.

Venture Capital 164

Venture Capital Aggregator Portfolio Search 164

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

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. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. This is one book-end of the cycle.

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Second, a portfolio of investments, even in angel investing, is a great approach. However, once investors had a portfolio of at least six investments, their median return exceeded 1X. The production of cash is highly concentrated in winners; 90 percent of all the cash returns are produced by 10 percent of the exits. It is risky.

Angel Investor 152

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152