ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2021

My co-founder and I consider his sister to be a trusted confidant. To give you some context, my co-founder and I operate a website called Solitaired , which ties classic card games to brain training. But after my co-founder had a frustrating experience with another site’s help center, he started to question that decision.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. My own anecdotal evidence indicates that the number of tech startups being founded is on the rise again. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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Genuine VC

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The benefits have been touted previously : an anchor for attracting and retaining talent in Boston, as well as a breeding ground for the next set of great Boston entrepreneurs and founders. This entrepreneurial HubSpot spirit has — and will continue to have — a ripple effect throughout the Boston early stage startup ecosystem.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

I became a venture capitalist, specifically a seed investor, to provide early support to the dreamers and builders working to positively change how we live, work, learn, play, and care for our planet and each other. Together, we’ve co-invested and competed, commiserated and celebrated.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. It sounds interesting.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. The only problem that faces startup investors now is how to mine this new data layer efficiently to increase returns.”. 1) Market fund.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

of teams’ online pitch decks and recorded videos, as well as loved the dozens of second-round video conversations which we had with Founders working on quite compelling startups. Many of these Founders we wouldn’t have had an opportunity to connect with if we hadn’t launched this program.

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View from Seed

JULY 17, 2019

Although you still hear stories of investors that require founders to move to SF, it’s more likely these days that investors see a winning business outside of the Bay Area as a positive, given the costs and competitive pressure in that local market. How should a founder go about it? But doing this takes extra work.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Pre-launch customer development data is another way, sometimes in the form of user surveys for consumer companies or interviews with potential beta customers for B2B businesses. One of our portfolio investments, a B2B SaaS company, was a pre-product startup at the time of the seed round. B) Post-Product Companies.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Singapore-based technology startup incubator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator – better known locally as JFDI.Asia – today unveiled a lineup of eight technology startups set to participate in its 100-day accelerator program this year. “Early-stage business is becoming less of an art and more of a science,” he adds.

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View from Seed

JULY 28, 2015

While the startup environment in Boston has vastly improved over the last several years , I continue to hear the sentiment that it’s really tough to build a great consumer startup in Boston. In other words, some of the best marketers in modern consumer internet startups are exactly the type of people that Boston has in spades.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2018, after two short years and $3 million raised in startup funds, recruitment AI company Ansaro shut down due to bad market fit. It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2017

by Karla Friede, CEO, co-founder, and member of the Board of Directors at Nvoicepay. Earlier this month, my co-founders and I raised our sixth round of venture capital funding for Nvoicepay. However, we do know that only about nine percent of entrepreneurs in venture capital backed technology startups are women.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But Chicago-based startup MentorMob ( www.mentormob.com ) wants to change that – the free, community-based collaborative service aims to aggregate and organize the best online educational content on any topic, so it’s easier to find. “The With MentorMob , you spend more time learning and less time searching.”.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The past year was a wild ride for startups and founders, giving a whole new meaning to the ”rollercoaster” aspect of being an entrepreneur. A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad.

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Hippoland

DECEMBER 16, 2016

About Pedro (from his personal website pedrosorren.com & his words): Pedro Sorrentino is a Venture Associate at FundersClub, focused on early stage and series-A investments. In his first 12 months as a VC Pedro sourced 9 deals for FundersClub with founders from 5 different countries.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period. The pressure to protect portfolio startups seen as potential fund returners will be profound.

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Rob Go

JULY 18, 2019

Although you still hear stories of investors that require founders to move to SF, it’s more likely these days that investors see a winning business outside of the Bay Area as a positive, given the costs and competitive pressure in that local market. How should a founder go about it? But doing this takes extra work.

San Francisco 48

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. Sales are the bloodstream for most businesses, and tech startups are no exception. However, figuring out the way your startup should make money could be challenging, especially for us left­-brained founders. Direct sales are common with B2B startups.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

As a founder, it feels like a long time, but it’s really a blip on the radar in the scheme of things. We don’t have such a section on our website (yet) and in some ways, the seed/early stage is more amorphous. Founders: Repeat Founders: 8. First Time Founders: 9. Introduced by a co-investor: 5.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Like many things in life, the VC/startup ecosystem is one of cycles. But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. 2009-2011: Retrenchment. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Few startups set out to compete with the biggest leaders in their respective industry. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, or that success for the challenger startups isn’t possible. What’s more, says Hoffman, most of the competition comes from fellow startups rather than the large incumbents. “If TRANSCRIPT.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Few startups set out to compete with the biggest leaders in their respective industry. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, or that success for the challenger startups isn’t possible. What’s more, says Hoffman, most of the competition comes from fellow startups rather than the large incumbents. “If TRANSCRIPT.

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Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Like many things in life, the VC/startup ecosystem is one of cycles. But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. Reading Time: 5 minutes. 2009-2011: Retrenchment.

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The Next Web

JULY 8, 2013

I recently stumbled upon this great read by Sam Altman, the co-founder of Loopt, and number 10 caught my eye: “ Growth solves (nearly) all problems.”. My startup reached product market fit, meaning that customers love our product and we are actually producing value for them. So far we have raised $2.3M

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 12, 2023

As an early-stage startup or a small business, you have significant influence over the culture—but what happens when you’re one of many? Tune in to follow the shifts in Jeff’s career journey, hear about the lessons he learned firsthand, and get his advice for founders looking to scale. “I You just learn more.”

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VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2021

Israeli startups raised over $2 billion in March 2021 alone. As the startup ecosystem in Israel scales, so must the teams leading the growing number of Israeli unicorns. How should Israeli startups think about marketing? And running fast as an early stage start-up is so important. I focussed on small experiments.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 28, 2011

Its CEO, Ron Gura, was a mentor at Seedcamp Tel Aviv 2011 , an early-stage micro seed investment and mentoring programme. Startup Intelligence recently interviewed him for VC Cafe. Ron Gura, co-founder and CEO of The Gifts Project, believes his B2B platform solves this problem.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

For this reason, we’re excited to announce that we have closed on NextView’s $50M third fund, with a mission to champion founders who are redesigning the Everyday Economy. . There are countless B2B startups that are enabling this digital transformation and how consumers experience the Everyday Economy.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. of venture capital deals.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. and Path Intelligence.

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