View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have 5-10 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, and/or investor. You have a deep desire to hone your skills as a venture capitalist and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. You have a strong network in the NYC startup ecosystem that is additive to our team. You are hungry.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You have a deep desire to learn the venture capital business and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. However, you will serve as a co-pilot on deals with all four partners, across the geographies we cover.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In fact, according to Founders Forum’s survey of 400+ startup owners, 94% of the respondents were already working from home before the pandemic. Often, managers worry that their out-of-sight teams are not sincere about their working hours. Out-of-sync teams: The communication gap between co-workers can throw the entire team off-track.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

Some of these folks are founders and CEOs, but not at high-growth tech startups. Helpful investors should use their sage advice and support of the founder to make them into better, data-driven decision makers to impact a company, instead of relying on their contractually held voting rights. Perhaps they inherited it.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

He also shared that, initially, he was leaning toward building an experience management solution in-house, and that it was only at the insistence of the firm’s CMO that he relented and engaged our firm. If in-house development resources have the bandwidth, why not assign them the important task of creating a new platform or application?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). He knows the ad management and ad network businesses. I’ll explain in detail below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2015

Thus, unless the visionary highlights a cofounder who can take the vision and execute, I assume the worst. My bottom-line recommendation and theirs is that every visionary entrepreneur needs to be matched with a cofounder or key team member who has the required execution attributes. Don’t manage details and hold people accountable.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Algorithms that were designed with enormous datasets, depend upon such large datasets in operation. The legal department wants to give that help while complying with headcount and bandwidth constraints. Most enterprises that have implemented AI tools confront the training dataset problem. The requester wants prompt, accurate help.

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David Cohen

JANUARY 12, 2021

We’ve seen it over and over again in our own investment portfolio – and helped to mentor our founders through these strategic decisions and transitions. As such, we decided to bring in an experienced operator who has seen growth from our scale to more than 10x our scale to lead us through this phase. It’s all part of the journey.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 22, 2014

by Zeynep Ilgaz, co-founder and president of Confirm BioSciences and TestCountry. Scaling operations can be a daunting task, so here are some tips for handling the inevitable growing pains: 1. We hired outside consultants to help with our accounting and HR functions and eventually hired our own accounting manager.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Image source ).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. A pre-IPO board usually had two founders, two VCs and one “independent” member. Technology Cycles Measured in Years.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) But the rest of the management team really skeptical.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. Thus, as your startup matures, many of your operational functions can be successfully outsourced. a deal in which you gain valuable, incremental bandwidth while mitigating your cash outflows. Thanks, Steve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Learn to manage resources like multi-divisional corporations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Thanks to those of you who were willing to fill out the survey, I learned my net promoter score (about 25) as well as some clear other segmentation insights: about 80% of you are founders of or work at a startup, you read many of the same other blogs, and many of you would like to engage with Lessons Learned in formats and venues beyond this blog.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast. How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. It helps you manage, at first a checking account, is where the name came from, through text messaging. It’s Episode 3 my little “ Loveline for startups. Ryan: C-H-E-X-T.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2019

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Learn to manage resources like multi-divisional corporations.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

I mentioned this article in a conversation I had with the co-founder of a new startup. The biggest difference in this Network Computer will be the Operating System and how it handles file storage (common difference to all). He tried to look for it an couldn’t find it and so emailed me to see if I still had a copy.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

I mentioned this article in a conversation I had with the co-founder of a new startup. The biggest difference in this Network Computer will be the Operating System and how it handles file storage (common difference to all). He tried to look for it an couldn’t find it and so emailed me to see if I still had a copy.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

To learn more about the product and the founder’s ambitious vision, I interviewed Erez Pilosof, founder and CEO of Libox who also founded and ran Walla! We analyze your bandwidth and make all your stuff very simple. VC Cafe: You are co-CEOs. He’s in charge of operations and business development.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer. So, almost like clockwork 20 th century startups fired the innovators/founders when they scaled.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. Wealthfront , which began as an automated investment management service and has since expanded into banking (it currently offers one of the highest interest rates on FDIC-insured cash accounts), now manages almost $15 billion in assets.

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