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Startup Shootaround: Inside a VC Team Meeting on the Drones Hype

View from Seed

So all of us have seen both “horizontal” functions — things like mapping, scheduling, and some of the visual processing — and also “vertical” plays, like managing golf courses and other large amounts of real estate, use cases for insurance companies, for news and entertainment, and so on.

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Founder Interview: Richard Lavina Innovating Accounting Services with Taxfyle

The Startup Magazine

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle. TSM: What is the most important thing you tell other startup founders?

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Introducing NextView III and Our Focus on the Everyday Economy

View from Seed

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. 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. . Improvement is linear and incremental.

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How we can improve the odds of finding unicorns

Version One Ventures

Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures, posted a brilliant analysis on why VCs have to look for billion dollar companies (“unicorns”) to deliver acceptable returns, and how rare it is to invest in one: “The odds are somewhere between catching a foul ball at an MLB game and being struck by lightning in one’s lifetime.”. Vertical SaaS.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

We make a point of keeping our records updated in the major data-trackers tracking the VC industry, e.g., CB Insights , Crunchbase , Dow Jones , Mattermark , Palico , Preqin , Pitchbook , and ThomsonReuters , since they are a source of data to LPs and to potential co-investors interested in us. . Pitchbot.vc 3) Originate investments.

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Why Your Startup's Name Matters

mashable.com

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. Generally speaking, a name is more valuable to a B2C (marketing-driven) company than a B2B (sales-driven) counterpart, so allocate your efforts accordingly. Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share. Create a Google spreadsheet.

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