David Teten
APRIL 1, 2021
Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants.
Steve Blank
MAY 28, 2009
Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students. We’ll talk about how to reduce risk in each type of market in the next post.
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Haystack
DECEMBER 29, 2018
6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. 2/ The Scooter Phenomenon. And, thus began the Scooter Wars, which saw consumers across major U.S.
Hunter Walker
OCTOBER 31, 2020
All of these areas require real understanding of core underlying technology, not just pattern matching against a business model applied to a vertical. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer And Venture Capitalist (Feld; Mendelson) is the best book to read if you want to understand venture capital, term sheets, etc.
Hearpreneur
DECEMBER 8, 2019
3- Publishing a book. 2019 is a special year because I accomplished one of my life goals which was to publish a book. It took me around 3 months to research and write, I put everything I know into the book. What makes me really proud though is we’ve been 100% bootstrapped for our 3.5 Photo Credit: Paulius Stankevicius.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems.
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