Version One Ventures

MAY 29, 2014

Women are underrepresented as engineers, management, investors, and founders. venture capital deals go to women founders and CEOs. However, there are signs that the situation, at least when it comes to female founders, is improving. There are no articles, blogs, conferences, or reports focused on the number of male founders.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Follow him at @rrhoover or visit his blog to read more about startups and product design. I think you know the punch line… Blogging is the new resume. Blogging is an effective way to illustrate expertise, personality, and most importantly, thought process. Blogging opens doors. We can all benefit from blogging.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. Here’s Why on his Both Sides of the Table blog for a good read and a good lesson. Subscribe by email. Power Pitches.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 16, 2014

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Natalie MacNeil , founder of She Takes On The World , a graduate of my Blog Mastermind and Membership Site Mastermind programs. She’s won an Emmy award, and today is in charge of a half a million dollar a year blogging business.

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View from Seed

APRIL 6, 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. Check out our blog for how we think about company building and investing. Who Are We Looking For.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

But for founders who do their homework, the cost of entry is lower and the opportunity is higher than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Fortunately, many of the top VCs share their thoughts on their blogs and are full of advice for startups, both big and small. Here’s a list of our favorite VC blogs, in alphabetical order. I like to follow these blogs through Feedly, but you can often sign up to get email alerts for new posts from most of these blogs.

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View from Seed

APRIL 3, 2019

Original research on gender diversity and fundraising amongst HBS founders. Historically, there has been a general bias against MBA founders — a skepticism around their grit and hustle. of venture capital went to companies with only female founders (Pitchbook, October 2018).

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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

Yoav Vilner is the CEO and co-founder of Ranky.co , a growth hacking and online marketing team. And as such, you are no stranger to guest blogging. Then, two years and lots of inner rage later, his blog post exploded and turned the blogosphere to an angry mob. Fast forward to 2014. What will the upcoming penalty look like?

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View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

But more so, these decks are about one thing: upping your board game as a founder. Some founders hesitate to spin up a board early, maybe due to the perception that investors would try to control the company, maybe out of a concern of putting too many balls in the air at once. PowerPoint | Keynote | PDF | SlideShare.

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Haystack

JULY 15, 2018

Recently on this blog, I’ve been attempting to unpack how an investor can sort through deal flow and potential investment opportunities. ” Here, the onus is on me to re-engage with the founder and ask for their time. I will meet a founder with great potential. So, now, what happens in the actual meeting?

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In a couple of cases, the founders played lawyer on their own; in the other cases, the founders either used (i) a Web service that did not address IP issues or (ii) an inexperienced law firm. The purpose of this blog post is to briefly discuss the three most common IP mistakes that startups make. code, designs, logo, etc.)

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Here are a few essays, articles, blog posts, etc that I’ve enjoyed recently. Founder Vesting [Jared Hecht/USV] – Jared joined USV earlier this year and it’ll be interesting to see how his writing changes as he adds ‘institutional VC’ to his founder and angel investor knowledge. Was it spon con?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

A few weeks ago I spoke with Boris Wertz, founder of JustBooks, COO of AbeBooks and founding-partner of Version One Ventures. In For the purposes of our own discussion on female founders, the portfolio was the first thing I asked Boris about, and an obvious starting point. The founder drives the culture. Boris Wertz.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

However, as a founder of a small business or startup, you’re juggling many things. KPIs Every Founder Should Track. Depending on the nature of your business, it could be the number of clicks, time on the website, pages viewed, downloads, email/blog subscription, or trial signup. “What gets measured gets done.” .

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

In my post Making Money With Blogs , I have articulated some of my thoughts on the subject and presented some possible models that would enable blogs and small media properties to sustain themselves with a proper revenue framework. One of them is the 1M/1M Affiliate Program we announced today at the roundtable.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Guest post by Mischa Steiner-Jovic, founder and CEO of Awesense Wireless. As a first-time entrepreneur and the founder of Awesense , an early stage tech company focused on helping utility companies reduce inefficiencies and losses in the electrical grid, I’ve had to learn to get used to rejection. You can follow him on Twitter.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 9, 2024

Need banner images for your blog posts? Dabble launched BannerGPT , which reads and understands your blog posts and creates meaningful illustrations to complement your writing. And more news from Patch – A huge congratulations to co-founder and CEO Brennan Spellacy for being named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list !

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 29, 2023

I’d guess that 9 our of 10 founders have Imposter Syndrome at least once during their founder journey. This may be even more true for founders from underrepresented populations, but it happens regardless of demographic. Being a founder is inherently unnatural. Founders, it’s ok. Take a step back.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. We’re also seeing a wave of folks who were not founders, but were star players among the first 25 folks at a unicorn company also starting new companies.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 3, 2024

When the founder of WordPress/Automattic says all he wants for his birthday is for you to blog , well, you blog. I’ve known Matt for, gosh, 15 or more years, and although I don’t see him as much as I’d like, I do admire what he’s built here and the spirit with which he lives.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2014

Blog and be an active contributor within the blogosphere. In addition to maintaining a regular blog, we suggest engaging with other bloggers. Make sure you’re engaging with relevant blogs though. If you’re venturing into gourmet cuisine, you’re hardly going to want to be spending all your time with fashion bloggers!

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? Better to do personal outreach to blogs/local media. Start a blog. The best early PR is a product that people actually love plus a genuine story to tell from the founder. I’d love to get involved in Founders Institute.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 25, 2023

I am fortunate in my current job to spend a lot of time talking to other founders and CEOs. The best founders are the ones who take time to watch, read, and learn. The best founders are the ones who take time to watch, read, and learn. They read blog posts, articles, and books. 1 – They are students of the game.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

This blog started from a series of conversations I found myself having over and over again with founders and eventually decided I should just start writing them.It I see founders who think they can be at every conference, advise multiple companies, do side investments in angel deals, leave the office at 6pm and have a balance life.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. Are we solving the right problem? We can do better by focusing on process instead of personality.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

DECEMBER 2, 2019

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Stitcher | Spotify | Raw RSS ] Back in 2008, I interviewed Alborz Fallah about his million-dollar car blog, CarAdvice.com.au. He wanted to start a car blog of his own. He's since grown his car blog to a multimillion dollar empire.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. As an immigrant founder, this is a topic that I can relate to and care about.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

Founders Dilemmas: Equity Splits. The following is an excerpt from HBS Professor Noam Wasserman’s new book, The Founders Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. On average, the founders who keep the most control over their company make the least amount of money. Lessons Learned.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your offering, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. The biggest excuse most startup founders mention is too much to do building a product, mapping strategy, investors, etc. Find potential partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2011

I covered what I call “the co-founder mythology.&# Either you’re not technical and you think you need a technical co-founder or vice-versa. It is increasingly popular to have “founder dating&# or “startup weekend hackathons&# of some variety or the other. Hire your co-founder. Vested over 4 years.

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Austin Startup

MAY 10, 2016

Blogging is one of the highest ROI tactics that founders can employ to accelerate growth across the company: revenue or users, employees… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

“Personal Branding” The term is fingernails on a chalkboard-level cringe for many of the best founders—mostly because it feels most of the people who spend time building their personal brand don’t actually have much there there behind it. Unfortunately, this has real consequences for founders. So how can founders differentiate?

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David Cohen

JUNE 19, 2021

On today’s blog, I am doing something different, by amplifying the voice of my colleague, Neal Sáles-Griffin, Managing Director, Techstars Chicago. Investing in and supporting black founders is opening a path forward to generational wealth and social change. – David. With gratitude, Neal Sáles-Griffin.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

There are traits that successful founders possess that tend to be weaker or absent in people who are never quite able to make it work. So today I want to focus on a handful of lesser known traits that will contribute to your success as a founder. Successful founders don’t tend to waste time.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 17, 2022

Jared’s a really talented NYC entrepreneur who recently started blogging more. As Jared notes, “The irony is that withholding the truth is the opposite of being founder friendly. It’s something I try to do when I invest in companies and work with founders. There is a market for those who can do this exceptionally well.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 21, 2014

On the positive side for a founder, directly stating a high valuation expectation up front can anchor the negotiations to a higher level, assuming that an investor takes the leap of faith to invest. After angels, larger venture firms are probably next in terms of how variable they are when reacting to seed pricing asks by founders.

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