David Teten
APRIL 1, 2021
Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. Organize events in your vertical.
Steve Blank
APRIL 23, 2018
If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM. Where are the charitable foundations, business schools, and hospitals named after the founder of GM? The founder of what became General Motors was William (Billy) Durant. And a founder of Neuralink a brain-computer interface startup.
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Hearpreneur
JANUARY 28, 2022
Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. Our business name is a product of an online naming contest back when we were still starting. Thanks to Marilyn Gaskell, True People Search ! #9- 9- A merger of two companies.
David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Alternative Capital. “
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
As David Sacks from All in put it: On aggregate, a lot of funding was also deployed to startups in the application layer – investing in founders leveraging generative AI to either solve narrow tasks, or bring automation to tasks to reduce costs, increase accuracy, speed etc.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 18, 2022
Product marketing informs strategic positioning and ensures alignment across the company. It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. Image Source. But success didn’t happen overnight.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
JANUARY 6, 2011
And congrats to Alex Le, cofounder of a prior investment, Serious Business, whose first game since the Zynga acquisition is CityVille.]. Our engineers often come up with great ideas, and they are the most productive when they work on these ideas. As games like CityVille have shown, mo’ fun usually leads to mo’ money!
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