BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We had another solid year filled with learning, growth, laughter, and new projects and partners. Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. We are truly grateful for your support.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Almost a year ago, my partner Barry Eggers and I met with Craig Elliott and Scott Hankins to talk about their vision for a new company, Pertino. From a business model perspective, the Pertino team observed how the shift to the cloud was enabling an entirely new class of IT services that could empower the little guy.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to use data visualization to scale your organization through partner networks, sales enablement, and product-led content. For internal visualizations that integrate with Google Cloud: Looker 3. Let’s look at how to do this through three channels: partners, sales, and product. Stream charts 6.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

The Cloud has simplified and accelerated time to development, Big Data has made applications smarter and more predictive, and Microservices are changing the way we think about our application architecture. Over the past few years, there has been an incredible revolution in the way that software applications are built and run.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Our partners include IBM and one unannounced Fortune 50. That is why we are also so excited about Mstate. 2017 Recap. 2018 will be the year that many Fortune 500s that are piloting this tech will bring applications into production.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

What events sparked the major revolutions in business models and distribution? /1 We are bullish on the future of gaming as the leading form of entertainment for anyone under 50 and are excited about the potential that new technology like generative AI or blockchain has on the future of the gaming industry.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Everyone involved in the business, whether it’s your uncle that does accounting, or your teenage kids that distribute surveys, needs to know how to protect your data. In the broader sense, this step is about making sure everyone knows they play a part in data management. Gather and Centralize the Information. Review your Dynamic Plan.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2013

There’s much ado about how Big Data – data sets so large and complex that it requires exceptional technologies to efficiently process such large quantities of data within a certain time-frame – will be the next frontier in computing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

While we’ve been pushing hard on the teams, this week the teaching team was about to get its socks blown off. Last week the teams tested their hypotheses about Customer Relationships (how do they get, keep and grow customers.) Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators.

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Board Effect

MAY 23, 2023

A Shift in Community Healthcare According to Scott Sette, partner at Heidrick & Struggles , healthcare patients and communities demand more digital and personalized care than ever. It’s about giving board members access to the right information at the right time for more effective data-driven decision-making.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

They share strategies and techniques of how they implement Profit First, which has become a great tool to keep minority partners actively involved/supportive of the business. Too add, by implementing Profit First, within the first two weeks of starting the business, the company took their first distribution check! Corporate Partners.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

At the same time, a week doesn’t go by without another story about a quantum technology milestone or another quantum company getting funded. So why the excitement about quantum? Impact of a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer (CRQC) Skip this section if you don’t care about cryptography. The Quantum Market Opportunity.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2016

Before the advent of cloud technology and the Internet, company files had to be stored away in physical data rooms (PDRs). A 2012 study done by IBISWorld revealed that VDRs experienced a steady growth of about 17 percent annually as a result of technological advancements as well as the growth of global demand for these storage services.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about “ growth hacking ” and why I thought it was wrong that people were hating on the term unnecessarily. Product is simply about defining a physical good or service that would be valued by consumers of the product more than existing alternatives based on functionality, quality and/or price.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

How To Think About The Future. Big success was Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in which ARD invested about $2.1M in equity & loans which was ultimately worth >170x ($355M) when DEC went public about a decade later. Some disgruntled younger partners left to go start a new firm in 1965 called Greylock.

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Transformify

JULY 27, 2023

With the widespread use and distribution of information, it’s more difficult for companies to monitor and safeguard their data from unauthorized access. Availability Availability is about ensuring that the system, products, or services are accessible for operation and use as agreed upon. Who Needs SOC 2 Compliance?

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

As the Greylock team has learned after decades of partnering with early-stage founders, the best approach is establishing a core set of fundamental questions that can be tailored to each individual company, rather than looking at a rigid set of metrics. WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT EARLY-STAGE INVESTING IN THIS MOMENT?

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Technical Review Seed Stage Software Review Early Stage 69

VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

More and more, established companies are leaning into generative AI by either adding generative AI features to their existing suite of tools or partnering with AI companies (mostly OpenAI or the open source HuggingFace) to launch entirely new products. There’s an interesting thing happening in the generative AI world. The list goes on.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 17, 2020

Smart or Self Driving Cars, IoT Devices, Smart Homes, Medical chip implants, Bots, and Robots to assist you; in short, everything will be connected to the internet and cloud. People care more about their mental health and are more aware of it than they used to be. Trends that could spur investments in Technology.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review Artificial Inteligence 127

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Sophisticated Cloud Solutions. These days, every innovative company hosts its data on the cloud. There are significant advantages to cloud infrastructure compared to on-site, static servers. Logmore’s cloud solution boosts data transparency by transmitting data to stakeholders throughout the supply chain.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 20, 2014

We are at the beginning of a new hardware revolution , and at Version One, we believe that platforms are key to accelerating this revolution by commoditizing and simplifying all the steps needed to take a product from prototype to mass production (Boris wrote about this topic earlier this year for GigaOm ).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In it I talked about how I believe that Netflix has a very strong lead in the battle for the “head end&# of the digital living room. It’s the most profound book I’ve read on thinking about how the Internet is changing business. In Netflix’s case this is their DVD distribution business. No time soon.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

If you have ambitions about creating a startup, then do it now. With new online technology, lean resources (think food cart/truck versus restaurant), cloud everything, you can “test” an idea with low risk and not too much money. There are about 78 million baby boomers and they feel they are not going to die. Enter Netflix.

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San Diego United States Technical Review Lean 100

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2020

With in-person classes canceled, we’re about to start our online versions of Hacking for Defense and Hacking for Oceans (and here ). One upside is that you may now be able to get access to people who normally have a cloud of administrative gatekeepers around them. How can you test distribution/deployment? Are they the same now?

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 28, 2022

SaaS companies offer cloud-based applications that allow users to pay for the product or service monthly or annually. This software can help businesses distribute their content across the web and have it appear in the news feeds of people interested in similar topics to themselves. Partner with Other Companies in Your Niche.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 13, 2017

I therefore value business partners who share my values and vision, and who don’t just see me as an investor, but as a member of the team. My current focus is the cloud computing company Blade. Finally, the Paris startup space is now receiving private sector support through more than 60 incubators.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Nowadays, only 2% of VC dollars go to companies with female founders , and the percentage is about the same for minorities as a whole. After spreading the word about her Spanish book review content among friends and existing Facebook groups, she promptly garnered support from 20,000 followers.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 23, 2020

ServiceNow , a cloud platform that helps manage digital workflows, is a great example. In addition to the options above, many publications and ad partners allow for in-feed ads optimized specifically for social media consumption. Here are the key steps: Learn how your audience talks about your proposed topic and product.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Software Review Audience Advertising 105

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. 1) Twitter. It’s not that simple,” he says.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

Considering how much time and efforts we have put into it and how long it has been my dream to have a fully automated booking system, it is only normal that I get so excited about it. In addition, we were lucky enough to finally find reliable partners, thus adding a few more services to our portfolio – like Locksmith and Childcare.

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Las Vegas Entrepreneur Software Review Community 88

Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

Micro VCs will continue to come in many flavors with slightly different strategies, but there are a few distinctive defining characteristics: On a per partner basis, each investor is investing less than $25M in any given fund. The capital deployment velocity is notably higher than a traditional 1-2 investment per partner per year.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I had no idea about pricing, so I Googled around and asked for pricing tiers from several vendors in the space. Let’s jump on a call for a demo and maybe we can talk about pricing at the end.” I can send you more links to more information about our product if needed.” Choosing what to talk about. Of course not!

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Agile Social Media Audience Software Review 139

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

We do this by combining elastic cloud computing abilities, powerful and efficient service management tools, and a wide range of enabled experiences – far exceeding video streaming. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution. More about the Movie Genome. Interested to learn more? Evolero - Company Website.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2015

One great example of a joint venture is the billion dollar video service Hulu, which came about through the collaboration of Disney-ABC TV Group (The Walt Disney Company), Fox Broadcasting Company (21 st Century Fox), and NBC Universal TV Group (Comcast). The credentials of your prospective partners. Video streaming service Hulu.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Exit Strategy Due Diligence 60

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Israeli startup Blaze Meter , a load testing in the cloud compatible with open source Apache Jmeter, has recently raised an undisclosed round from Yoav Leitersdorf’s YL Ventures. I’ve contacted Blazemeter’s CEO Alon Girmonsky , to learn more about the product and the load-testing market. It will cost you about $160.

Cloud 106

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Tell us about your startup. What is it about? I’m lucky that both Jason and Andy were very understanding about my plan to spend the summer in Ibiza. I thank my lucky stars for having partners that allow me the freedom to do things that are important for my life. and Andy had also been through a divorce.

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