Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Early product-market fit can sometimes be illusory or limited in scope to a small pool of early adopters. Sometimes your technology platform changes, and you need to pivot from on-premise to the cloud. It’s easier (but still hard) when you’re running a small, early-stage organization.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

Most of the companies that raised these mega rounds are relatively early stage in terms of product and monetisation (if at all) and about half of the companies that raised large sums, are developing LLMs, which generally requires deep pockets to cover 1) cloud costs, 2) expensive deep learning engineers 3) get the data to train the models.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. For example, in computing platforms, the mainframe was superseded by the minicomputer, which was eclipsed by the PC, which was subsumed by client-server platforms, which in many ways has been replaced by cloud and mobile computing.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

It was too loud to talk so I just watched the steel pour through the clouds of soot backlit by the blinding bright liquid metal. And as I stared through the billowing clouds of soot flashing between black and white took on fantastical shapes as tiny figures on the factory floor scurried around the bucket.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

I was asked recently how NextView evaluates such early stage companies for investment. Here are a couple examples from our portfolio: Vertical Communities: One of the exciting attributes of GrabCAD in the early days was its rapidly growing, engaged community of mechanical engineers.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 20, 2022

Six months ago I published a post on VC Cafe titled, the state of creative automation , diving into vertical applications of AI on content creation of all sorts; from text (GPT-3 and the likes) to Synthetic video (powered by companies like HourOne). ‘add clouds’). We can be reached at info@remagineventures.com.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

As it takes around 10 years for a SaaS company to reach maturity, the explosion we are seeing at the early stage has not yet translated into a significant number of exits. Europe is underrepresented in vertical SaaS solutions – 17% of the companies vs. 23% in the US.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

I previously covered on VC Cafe the state of ‘Creative Automation’ Cloud-based asset management, build, and release systems – Most of the 3D content used in these games/experiences is hard coded and locked. Why can’t the assets be centrally managed in the cloud?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

Tech best sub sectors include cloud computing, machine learning/A.I. A good example is the young firm Fifty Years , an entrepreneur-run early stage venture capital company based in San Francisco, which backs startups that aim to be both massively profitable and make a serious dent in achieving one of the SDGs. and big data.

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