View from Seed

JANUARY 27, 2021

We invest nationally across Consumer and B2B software, while most of our investments are based in NYC, SF/Bay Area, and Boston. We are proud seed investors of over 100 portfolio companies over the last decade, including TripleLift, Grove Collaborative, Skillz, Attentive, Whoop, Dia&Co, MealPal, Parsec, and Code Climate. .

Operations 227

Operations Hiring Seed Stage Software Review 227

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The startup industry is littered with stories of founders being taken for a ride by their app developer. The founder, Managing Director or CEO. Research the founder, MD or CEO of the company. Finally, review the apps they have built. Also consider Google reviews – are they all in one period or spread over time?

Technical Review 147

Technical Review Developer Hiring Software Review 147

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This is a question startup founders ask themselves multiple times a week. It’s not just the competition against the incumbents and the large tech platforms that founders has to worry about, but most importantly is the company’s performance and product market fit. How are we doing? You can get a downloadable version here.

Retention 109

Retention Conversion Churn Rate B2C 109

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. Fintech stack shifting to the cloud From the outset, Melio’s broader platform vision of enabling B2B payments in a contextual way has been key.

B2B 62

B2B Cloud Europe 62

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. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

Founders do not have this luxury. Most founders are going through hell right now, and that is not going away any time soon. For investors and founders, the next several years are going to be very different. Pre-seeds will be tougher as investors gravitate more towards proven founders or folks within their existing networks.

Cofounder 194

Cofounder Software Review Portfolio Technical Review 194

View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B). Network Effect B2B. Our goal at NextView is to help founders give their companies the best possible start. Step-Function Ad Tech.

Seed Stage 272

Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2015

Pioneered by co-founders of HubSpot Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, inbound marketing is a leading Business-to-Business (B2B) digital marketing strategy. Examples of such content (primarily B2B focused) include: Blog articles – the mainstay of content and inbound marketers. Do you know what Inbound Marketing is?

Software Review 100

Software Review Marketing Social Media B2B 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It’s true that we also fund more mundane stuff like B2B software aimed at productivity improvements but we want some big bets in every fund where we feel we can contribute to “making our own little dent in the universe” as the saying goes – by backing ambitious entrepreneurs with that same goal.

Technical Review 150

Technical Review Software Review Founder Boston 150

VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

Slack is looking to build the B2B version of Clubhouse (Slack Virtual Hallways). It has however, a clever marketing launch to build traction: a new user can reserve a username (capture interest), but requires 10 followers (or some hustle) to get an invite code. VC funding, if any, is still undisclosed.

Audio 139

Audio Software Review Open Source Social Network 139

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2019

7 Reasons Why Proposal Software Will Boost Your Sales written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you’ve been writing a lot of them, you may have thought about investing in proposal software to make the process easier. However, is proposal software really all that great compared to writing the proposals yourself?

Software Review 78

Software Review Software Sales B2B 78

ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. And sales enablement software helps arm sales teams with the information they need to close sales. Examples: Clearslide , Salespatron (I’m a co-founder) and Brainshark.

B2B 48

B2B Sales Technical Review Software Review 48

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 23, 2022

Jeroen is co-founder and CEO of Salesflare, an intelligent CRM built for SMBs selling B2B, mostly popular with agencies and SaaS companies. Salesflare itself was founded when Jeroen and his co-founder Lieven wanted to manage the leads for their software company in an easier way. how to get the most out of your CRM.

Sales 77

Sales Cofounder Software Review B2B 77

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.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Marcel Petitpas is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies improve their profitability by streamlining their operations and reporting systems. As well as the head strategic coach at SaaS Academy by Dan Martell, the #1 coaching program for B2B SaaS businesses in the world. Marcel’s LinkedIn.

San Francisco 79

San Francisco Software Review B2B Cofounder 79

Austin Startup

MARCH 13, 2020

Since then, we’ve served 500+ unique customers, worked with 10+ space partners, pivoted our business model from B2C to B2B, signed on advisers, and have raised money from outside investors. Your partner matters To all those solo-founders out there?—?kudos Our biggest example of this was our pivot from B2C to B2B. kudos to ya’ll.

B2C 62

B2C Austin B2B Cofounder 62

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

79% of consumers trust an online review as much as they would a recommendation from a friend. And 94% of shoppers state that just one bad review has convinced them not to buy from a company. You can’t avoid negative reviews, opinions, and comments altogether. Take SparkToro’s Co-founder, Rand Fishkin.

Reputation 134

Reputation Audience Management Social Media 134

Hearpreneur

JULY 13, 2022

Digital transactions are now moving beyond B2C transactions & venturing into B2B, P2P, cross-border remittances, & more. The IT industry is made up of a wide range of sectors, such as software development, hardware manufacturing, and telecommunications. Besides the digital boom cannot be sustained without the fintech industry.

Artificial Inteligence 120

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review 120

Up and Running

JANUARY 18, 2021

That same research highlights the preference extends to B2B and B2C customers, and only 20% of B2B shoppers want to return to in-person sales. However, Amazon’s profits, and those of its founder and CEO, have spurred some conversation about how consumers should spend their money. using the technology to make a purchase.

eCommerce 150

eCommerce B2B Forecast Demand 150

The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 10, 2011

Here’s what they look for in a startup: -2 or more founders (there’s way too much work for just one person). Web, mobile, software, SaaS, tech enabled services, or any other kind of highly scalable tech. B2B focus (i.e. Ability for all founders to attend the 12 week program in Dallas.

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Software Review Dallas B2B 69

Eric Friedman

JANUARY 3, 2020

The need for software and services to accommodate this group looks nothing like the bank accounts, benefits, and tax software we use today. This one directly pulled from Range and the original Game Boy that has the infamous spinach colored screen and still dominated against full color competition due to these constraints.

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Software Review Vertical IPO 79

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

This preference isn’t necessarily due to market size, but rather the structure of the market: are there only a few dozen customers that might buy your product or are there thousands, or even tens of thousands of potential customers? How do we differentiate between B2B start-ups that sell to many vs. sell to a few? Final thoughts.

Fractional CTO 154

Fractional CTO Software Review Viral Sales Cycle 154

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. He is also the Co-founder and Chairman of BrandCycle. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! He's the founder and chairman of the board of global partner marketing agency, acceleration partners.

Marketing 90

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 90

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

Moreover, the indicators that show founders are ready to take on new capital in order to progress to the next phase of company-building – be it hiring, expanding into a new market, launching a product or more – can vary from company to company. WHAT METRICS SHOULD A FOUNDER SHOW TO RAISE A SERIES A FROM A VC FIRM LIKE GREYLOCK?

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Seed Stage Software Review Early Stage 69

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.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2017

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting , and author of “ Sales Recruiting 2.0: In fact, the Harvard Business Review surveyed 1,800 professionals nationwide and found that a sales team with a member who shares a client’s ethnicity is 152% likelier than another team member to understand that client.

Revenue 124

Revenue Sales Cofounder Technical Cofounder 124

ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

Say you work at a SaaS company selling AI software. It can also come up in face-to-face meetings—sales pitches, conferences talks, account reviews, etc. For marketers in B2B sales, the challenge increases. I’m a new user to their product, but they don’t assume I have prior knowledge about their software. Image source).

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Marketing Software Review Audience 133

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

And after talking about this subject at length, I found myself again evangelizing it last week at the Business of Software conference. And these days with how easy it is to build an application, your code isn’t worth much, either. Ideas (and in many cases the code itself) are not worth as much as we think.

Software Review 77

Software Review Marketing Technical Review Software 77

View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

TIM: I would say in between 4 and 5, but specifically in a B2B software. LEE: I agree that the biggest commercial impact of drones will be in B2B applications. DAVID: On investment conviction, I’m a 4, and I agree that the interesting things from a venture standpoint will be B2B. LEE: Conviction scale, Rob?

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Startup Software Review B2B 159

Hearpreneur

MAY 18, 2022

My co-founder and I started our labor-only moving company as the first movers ourselves. While working in a big world-known company, our early process around translation management in software localization consisted of Google Sheets usage. 28- To deliver authentic reviews. Thanks to Simon Hansen, Danglish Reviews ! #29-

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review Jordan 140

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

by Donald Chan, founder and Business Director at IMPACT! Let’s say your company is in the B2B Software as a Service (SaaS) space. The cost per click also tends to be lower due to less competition. Donald Chan is the founder and Business Director at IMPACT! Brand Communications. Except, there’s nothing. No traffic.

Sales 100

Sales Technical Review SEO B2B 100

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Instead, it’s more of a Manifesto about the core beliefs that shape our strategy. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

North America 120

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Signal is a fundraising tool for founders run by NFX Guild, which identifies the most relevant VCs for you. . 1) Market fund. Pitchbot.vc

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

View from Seed

JUNE 11, 2015

Startups and their founders who claim to be in “stealth mode” prior to launch are such a commonplace part of the startup ecosystem that it might seem odd to question its merits. However… The best founders recognize that it’s hard to sustain the mystique longer term, absent real innovation or growth as a business.

Stealth 120

Stealth Seed Stage Startup Software Review 120

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Are Experienced Founders Better? Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over | Re/code - crowdspring.co/Nv1PDw. Court Rules Yelp Reviewer Guilty of Defamation: Review At Your Own Risk? - crowdspring.co/NeImqH. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

What should an early-stage startup founder focus on if they want to implement PLG? What should the founder avoid if they want to implement PLG? But for early stage founders, I think there are two particular scenarios where PLG can be really helpful. What do you feel like early stage startup founders should focus on first?

Product 78

Product CTO Hire Startup Fractional CTO 78

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 19, 2019

A startups seeds are sown and sprouted either because the founder(s) have come up with a unique solution with a product (like a software or a physical product) or service. Failures, on the other hand, occur majorly due to the following reasons: Quitting too early in the process; lack of persistence. Running out of money.

India 131

India Startup Cofounder Software Review 131