Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

One Jackson is a new online children’s clothing retailer which is surprisingly fresh – all of its designs were created by independent designers and then curated with love from its community of parents. For us, the investment is certainly fresh and newest in our portfolio, but it also feels familiar.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I’m extremely excited about the portfolio of companies my partners and I have put together at Foundry Group which includes some great ad tech companies which you list above. Rather, I’d say that the one truly common trait across our portfolio of companies is the obsession these businesses have with their product.

Technical Review 60

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. In parenthesis is the cumulative distribution divided by called capital.

Naming 49

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Press releases are a tool for getting your company’s name out there — one that should be used strategically. Traditional distribution services no longer work. First, it helps to have a mix of occasional, high-impact coverage, as well as having saturated coverage in more niche communities. Over-the-Top Self-Promotion.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I’ve backed multiple Black founders and entrepreneurs from the LGBTQ community and so I’ve seen a very wide mix of founders pitch, get funded and get passed on. If I was to guess, the demographics of people pitching me are reflective of two things—what my own network looks like and what my portfolio looks like.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Deal Flow Later Stage 190

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Building a great product. Sara Wajnberg, SVP of Product at Oscar.

Operations 177

Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 177

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. can introduce a ‘fighter brand,’ a lower-priced version of the premium offering sold under a different name and backed by minimal advertising.” But your community does matter. Premium-brand market leaders [.] Image source ). Your people, too.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Bryce Dot VC

JUNE 27, 2013

That said, I wanted to use them as an example of a trend we’re tracking closely; namely, Makers going pro. In our first fund we backed a little company called Instructables which had built a community of hobbyists documenting and sharing their weekend hacks and creative projects. The Maker movement is one of those trends.

Open Source 61

Open Source Portfolio Distribution Naming 61

Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

1) How is the portfolio performing? On performance, we are happy with how things are shaping up in our early NextView I portfolio. As a result, we have been able to return a nice chunk of the first fund, with many of our most promising portfolio companies still in play and progressing rapidly. Zillow ), Hyperpublic ( acq.

Seed Stage 69

Seed Stage Early Stage Due Diligence Liquidity Event 69

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

While the historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship, some GPs actively participate in LP/GP communities to find and build relationships with potential LPs. However, 87% of our respondents don’t actively participate in any such community. How do VCs originate investments?

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Transformify

APRIL 19, 2018

We normally ask our students to contribute to open source to engage with communities and companies with distributed teams and workflows. For those who have the opportunity, we also recommend that they attend conferences like Running Remot Conference 23-24 June, Bali where distributed teams gather to talk about remote work once a year.

Reputation 66

Reputation Software Open Source Portfolio 66

Up and Running

JANUARY 16, 2015

Bonus points for the fact that they partner with the social enterprise Vision Spring to facilitate training for optometrists and eye glass manufacturers in the same countries that they donate glasses to (India, Guatemala, and Bangladesh to name a few), so the communities also receive opportunities for sustainable income.

Denmark 60

Denmark Guatemala Bangladesh Cofounder 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Contact : to existing portfolio, to internal team resources, to LPs. – Tax distributions. name of the Fund). name of the Fund). Sean Seton-Rogers, Partner, Profounders Capital, breaks the conversation into three areas: Control: voting/veto for new deals, share of management company. – Clawback scenarios. .

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Partner 60

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Journal Community. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Journal Community.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

And while it can often be the case that “lemons ripen early” (meaning that the unsuccessful companies fail early in a fund’s lifecycle), the harvest cycle for the winners in the portfolio can take what sometimes feels like an eternity. No need to name names. Why did you decide to write a manual like this, especially right now?

Lean 108

Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

They need to reduce volatility, be more bearish on what might happen, and also prioritize their obligations towards their employees, communities and themselves as people. (29:24) Eric Ries : You were one of the first people who when the crisis was breaking, I saw your name all over Silicon Valley, in the Y Combinator forums.

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

It’s well-known—and we ourselves have been publicly frustrated —that white men tend to dominate the speaker rosters for tech and entrepreneurship conferences, not to mention the portfolios of many entrepreneurship programs. That was a small group of people, but the distribution was broad. Did using blind review make a difference?

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Lean Technical Review Programming Distribution 168

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

aweissman.com

OCTOBER 3, 2007

Variable pricing, with tons of social and community elements worked in. For the past year Ive been constructing an investment thesis (and trying to put together a portfolio of investments ) that suggests that enormous value could be created by services that look at models of distribution, production and consumption from a different way.

Distribution 22

Distribution Demand Business Model Portfolio 22

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

After thinking about how much I enjoyed helping her business grow and learning all I could about business structure, marketing, SEO and social media to name a few, I decided to take these new skills and help other small business owners. When I released this information into the community my life became in danger.

Entrepreneur 62

Entrepreneur Ireland LLC Kansas 62

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Having been a journalist myself, I’ve experienced first hand the pains of sending lists of links or PDF files to editors – or, to anyone interested in my writing portfolio. I started Back Pain Chiropractic Center and later changed the name to Dr. Gil Center for Back, Neck, and Chronic Pain Relief. Thanks to Ric A.

Entrepreneur 130

Entrepreneur Technical Review LLC Software Review 130

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

My name is Eric Ries. Sal Khan : My name is Sal Khan. And then you fast forward a couple of weeks, I live here in Santa Clara County in Silicon Valley, which actually I think had one of the first cases or one of the- Eric Ries : Of community spread, yeah. Sal Khan : first cases of community spread.

California 60

California Silicon Valley Framework China 60

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It was time to take their claim, their rightful place in the international community. I think the name of the game is managing this competition, fostering cooperation where we can. That to me is the long pole in the tent for future multi-domain operations this very distributed approach to warfare, that will be necessary.

Technology 335

Technology China United States Government 335

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Above you see the distribution among the top 100 grossing e-commerce websites in regards to the number of checkout steps they have. But street names, postal codes, etc. Sometimes it’s the customer’s name that isn’t pre-filled from the address step to the billing step. Portfolio Design Study: Design Patterns.

Design 98

Design Software Review HTML Technical Review 98

ConversionXL

MAY 13, 2014

The Probability Distribution – this is a function (if you don’t like ‘function’, just think of it as a rule) that assigns a probability to a result or outcome. In our discussion of sampling we will make heavy use of the normal distribution, which has the familiar bell shape. Hence the name Frequentists. (. The P-Value, Finally!

Distribution 106

Distribution Conversion Analytics Lean 106

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JUNE 11, 2012

Getting To Know The Android Platform: Building, Testing And Distributing Apps. I do think that there is one screen type that is presently overlooked and will become a bigger deal in the future, namely large surface 7ft interfaces such as televisions. Your name *. Portfolios. Related Articles. Tools and Design Strategies.

Web 89

Web Mobile Software Review Design 89

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I think how hard it is for me to be hands-on with a handful of portfolio companies. He was talking profusely about their portfolio company email lists and the knowledge that is shared. I sent out a teaser Tweet without releasing his name. I started to realize that Dave is able to do it because he approaches VC differently.

Valuation 292

Valuation Deal Flow Lead Investor Cofounder 292

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. They basically cannot afford to expose themselves to any more risk in a particular name. Now you make your own decisions.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Carbonmade helps over 100,000 people create online portfolios that require zero HTML skills. Starting as a tool for one of the founders to update his portfolio, co-founders Spencer Fry, Dave Gorum, and Jason Nelson launched a self-funded, $12 per month plan in 2007, alongside their established free plan. The company has over 1.5

Bootstrapping 78

Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Salary 78

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

So my name’s Josh Breinlinger. Pretty much as any early employee will do, I did everything from sales to running product, to operations, and community and customer service, and then really spent the bulk of my time there in marketing and business development. So, first of all, thank you, Josh, for being on the podcast today. .

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Venture Capital San Francisco Boston 60

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. However, we’d argue that for most smaller managers who are not brand names, it’s better to be highly identified in your niche than being a generalist. VC theses are often so vague that they’re meaningless. Most LPs we speak with agree. .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

View from Seed

AUGUST 27, 2014

His name is Jeff, and it was nothing short of a miracle that I didn’t screw it up… It took several years for him to admit this (which is odd because he admits everything bluntly enough to make Louis C.K. Their portfolio trumps their past jobs, and it’s not even close. Why We All Usually Botch This Hire.

Hiring 335

Hiring Startup Technical Review PR 335

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

For now, Sunil answers the question of why leave a well paying corporate job to become an online entrepreneur… My name is Sunil and the title of this blog post refers to me. A small part of my portfolio is purely in speculative plays, but I believe in value investing over time. The arbitrage simply works.

Internet 78

Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 78

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

On the heels of being named principal last week, I am humbled by Boris’s announcement and thrilled to begin leading deals for Version One. My love for data isn’t too surprising given my background and in my “next chapter” of VC, I plan to double down on data projects, including: Building a stronger community around data science and learning.

Artificial Inteligence 60

Artificial Inteligence Canada Early Stage Metrics 60

VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

shout out to our portfolio company Echo3D who’s working on this) Improved collaboration tools By default, both the Unity and Unreal level editors only support a single designer editing a level at a time. It’s going to take time for the technology to reach a stage that is 1) widely distributed 2) ready for prime time.

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Cloud Venture Capital Cofounder Non-Compete 200