David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

The bad news is that we see a lot of “wantrepreneurs” who suck up some of the available VC dollars, VC bandwidth, and technical talent. Fred Wilson wrote about a similar dynamic at Union Square Ventures. . Analytics and Data ff Venture Capital Management Venture Capital'

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

That being said, VC bandwidth is limited—so if there are times when more people are pitching versus less, or when they are working more or less, that might have an affect. When a company is beating its plans and a team is super compelling, a VC will go out of their way to fund something no matter what time of year it is.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

Plus, there are tons of expenses like servers, bandwidth, office space, travel and the time of many professionals. For example, Acquia runs its Drupal infrastructure on more than 8,000 AWS instances and serves more than 27 billion hits a month (or 333TB of bandwidth). Because they are open source. What will come next?

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. PEVCTech.com , a community for investors and technologists responsible for investing in private companies, primarily at private equity and venture capital funds. I don’t have bandwidth to engage in substantial conversations on Twitter. .

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth – [link]. What I learned from raising venture capital – [link]. Tips for small business (and startups): Negotiating With the New Recruit – [link]. Growing Your Small Business Using Social Media: The Facts – [link]. – [link].

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

Doug and his co-founder Vivek Nair , were not planning on raising any venture capital money yet. They had already done one startup before that was venture-backed and they realized that they should only raise venture capital once they are ready. .” But it wasn’t that simple!

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. The point is that the number of angel investments that you would need to hold to significantly increase your chance at finding those 1-2 deals that really make the whole thing work is probably more than you have the bandwidth to make.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 20, 2013

This saves energy, mistakes, cost, time, client computer memory and bandwidth. Angel Investor early stage founder Hawaii SaaS Scalability startup startup CEO Tom Nora angel investor CEOing first revenue leadership software Software Development The Next Level tom nora twitter venture capital' It vastly reduces computer waste.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

In the 2000s, the company might rent space at a colocation facility; buy, install, provision and maintain its own servers, storage and networking equipment (as we did at MySpace , putting several new servers online per day ) ; and enter into a series of contracts for ever-changing amounts of bandwidth.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 23, 2016

Harry has done a phenomenal job of getting some of the top people in venture capital on his show and had high-quality, high-bandwidth, and chock full of good information conversations with them in a medium that is highly conducive to listening in those few spare minutes of time when your eyes may be busy, but your ears are still available.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2013

End users, well, we''ve already been mindlessly seeking out open wifi nodes like little bandwidth zombies for years. Venture Capital & Technology' SocialSignIn , software that turns wifi into an engaging social marketing channel, operates on the same premise. Tons of venues are already providing wifi. WIFI=BRAINS!!

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APRIL 25, 2013

The chances of that happening are so remote that it isn''t worth wasting my mental bandwidth keeping an eye on everything and certainly isn''t fair to entrepreneurs. Venture Capital & Technology' I''m never going to do that. It takes a ton of time to keep reading persistant e-mails, but takes very little time to just say no.

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APRIL 17, 2013

Here''s what else I believe: Bandwidth will continue to be an issue. Verizon and others know this and will undoubtedly encourage as many mobile devices as possible to get out of the tower bandwidth and into the fiber on the ground. Venture Capital & Technology' I still walk into stores. Identity is important.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

Recruiting isn't hard work--it just takes bandwidth--a dedicated effort. On top of just tracking, actually assigning someone responsibility for it is a surefire way to actually improve the numbers. Who goes to sleep at night worrying about whether you've interviewed enough people this week?

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MARCH 5, 2015

7) If you thought that the bandwidth issue was soon going to be solved, think again. As quickly as they invent 4G, 5G, some hacker is going to create a mobile thing that sucks up a ton of bandwidth again. Venture Capital & Technology' Instagram is a lot better brand medium. Some will, some won''t.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2008

In my previous post , I claimed that “Venture Capital is a people business in every sense of the word. What early-stage venture capital is betting on is people. The other form of scaling in venture capital is that of the size of the venture funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Understanding Venture Capital. I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. Bandwidth and hosting charges were expensive. I like the way he thinks.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The cycle of creative destruction of the old being replaced by the new continues, fueled by angel and venture capital. If you’re talking to the right investors, this approach can generate a high-bandwidth conversation because you’ve given them an opportunity to critique your analysis of failure, risk, insight and opportunity.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

80% is Good Enough” frees up bandwidth for more new stuff to be anticipated and experienced. Business Planning Entrepreneurship Financing Investing Jay Turo Management Venture Capital' And excitement, because of dopamine, is dependent on “new stuff” - new projects, tasks, relationships, and the like. “80% And thus more fun.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

So over the course of a couple of weeks engineering cobbled up a board with dedicated silicon that could process the full bandwidth for NTSC and fill an entire window. Peter Barrett digitized some files and we delivered the board and computer to Bruce.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Mobile payments, content creation, advertising, infrastructure (managing bandwidth requirements for data as more smartphones are sold, security), and location based marketing are all areas poised for growth, as are localized solutions in the emerging markets.

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Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

For a small business that means understanding what growth means and having the resources to enable that growth AND the bandwidth to manage it. Go big or go home" is a venture capital conspiracy! The venture guys don't want to waste time on investments that are less than $5 million.In Growth is not a destination.It

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I was living in Sacramento and had worked in venture capital with Intel Capital and a Sacramento-based VC fund. The older infrastructure (3G and 4G) will get repurposed for the IOT, because that requires less bandwidth. The Fantag team came together at the end of 2015.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In the 20th century learning the best practices of a startup CEO was limited by your coffee bandwidth. Filed under: Venture Capital. 2. Information is everywhere. That is, you learned best practices from your board and by having coffee with other, more experienced CEOs.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. Venture capital flows. A basic driver for a private technology market bubble is the over-supply of venture capital into the sector. If too much venture capital hits the streets, valuations will bubble up.

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Genuine VC

JULY 23, 2007

Being in the venture capital industry, I find that sometimes it is worthwhile to take a step back from the day-to-day to take a look at the large impending trends which are just beginning to affect us. Mobile consumption of information. Location-relevant information ubiquity is dauntingly exciting.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

John is currently a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses, and is a Co-Founder of RevUpNet , a performance-based online marketing agency. Equity should be saved for people who will deliver ongoing value to your venture. Launching Venture (33).

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

When I am sitting at my desktop at work with the browser open and high-speed bandwidth at my fingertips and want to program my DVR, I pick up my iPhone. Lastly, lower mobile bandwidth (versus the desktop) increases the consumer benefit of pre-cashed content and UI. On the smartphone it is quick, responsive, and right up front.

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Jason Ball

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Another reason investors say “No” is bandwidth. Excalibur tests or proof points are fine; but be careful that an investor doesn’t have you running around in circles when they have no real intention of investing—regardless of the outcome.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

Price/bandwidth is plummeting. When I started covering space, comm. companies were trading at 50 P/E, then down to 30, now down to 8. Apple 11-12x P/E. Apple, HP, Microsoft, all about the same. When I virtualize, eventually I’m going to buy less. The public markets are forecasting that.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 19, 2005

But with every bubble bursting comes a rebirth and from the last bubble what we have is lots of cheap bandwidth, resilient entrepreneurs who scraped for crumbs to survive, and a mentality to do it cheaply (rise of open source and leveraging commodity inputs).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

As a microwave preamp, it had high gain, low noise and extremely wide bandwidth. Venture Capital, Microwaves and the OSS Dean Watkins the leader of TWT research at Stanford’s Electronic Laboratory, left Stanford in 1957 and co-founded Watkins-Johnson (with R.H. He sold the company to Teledyne in 1965.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

Are you seeking a loan or investment from an angel investor or venture capital firm? From personal funds to venture capital funding, it’s all a possibility. However, when it comes to financing your travel agency, angel investment, and even venture capital funding isn’t completely out of the question. “We

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

In fact, it’s pretty rare that I write much of anything that’s not about technology, venture capital, or occasionally politics here. It’s something that occupies a huge chunk of mental and emotional bandwidth for single people, but talk too much about it in public and you become and oversharer.

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JANUARY 21, 2013

I still use it regularly, but I'll admit that I don't check-in wherever I go--especially in a world of crappy cell bandwidth where it isn't always fast to load up a place and find the venue. It seems that growth and excitement around Foursquare has come down.

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JULY 25, 2012

That's not just a matter of throwing server bandwidth at the problem. Sometimes, the failure of a service is a function of technology. Friendster and MySpace got so slow and broken that they became unusable. That demands reinventing a whole product quality culture.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

While the Klystrons of the 1950’s had too narrow and bandwidth and were too large for airborne use, they could be scaled up to generate megawatts of power and were used to power the U.S. Fred Terman and David Packard of HP joined Varian’s board.)

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