View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

Pros: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections. Having someone who the founder or founding team has worked with before can be a good validator to other syndicate investors and future investors that they all work well together.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn about how a demand generation manager benefits an organization and which qualities they need to fuel your sales pipeline. What is a demand generation manager and why do they matter? The role of a demand generation manager (DGM) is to manage the team and the campaigns that create awareness and interest.

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VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

A few months ago AngelList announced Syndicates - enabling investors on AngelList to create fund-like groups of investors to invest together in AngelList companies (following a single lead investor). It’s a great idea and at Foundry we quickly decided it would be an interesting experiment to form our own syndicate.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

4:32] Is that was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated? [5:48] Is that, was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated. Even the blogging software is really referred to as just content management, mm-hmm software systems.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 30, 2012

Usually community service also encourages striking up relationships with strangers, where you are free to talk openly about hiring needs for your business as a conversation topic. Thanks to Kenny Jahng of Big Click Syndicate LLC. I’ve found the conversion rate in this type of recruitment to be extremely high and stress-free.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

PROS: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections. Having someone who the entrepreneur(ial team) has worked with before can be a good validator to other syndicate investors and future investors that they all work well together.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 19, 2020

Software has been eating venture funds by simplifying syndicates, managing SPVs, and even traditional fund management. One of the most interesting conversations I can have with founders is what they *really* want to do over the next 10 years without forcing the conversation of venture funding.

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VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

A few months ago AngelList announced Syndicates – enabling investors on AngelList to create fund-like groups of investors to invest together in AngelList companies (following a single lead investor). It’s a great idea and at Foundry we quickly decided it would be an interesting experiment to form our own syndicate.

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Pascal's View

JULY 9, 2017

However, many VCs experience vexing discussions with CEOs, and many CEOs belatedly realize that this is because they made a mistake: issuing multiple series of notes at various valuation caps without actually sitting down and figuring out the pro forma post-conversion equity ownership.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

PROS: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections. Having someone who the entrepreneur(ial team) has worked with before can be a good validator to other syndicate investors and future investors that they all work well together.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

Perhaps your site’s ecommerce performance isn’t up to expectations, or you’re not getting as many conversions you’d like. You use A/B testing to determine if a change or addition will improve conversions. A redesign or revamp might be the thing you need to fix these issues. This isn’t the case, however.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

Once objectives are identified and prioritized, your podcasting plan should outline strategies and tactics, which include format, frequency, duration, host/s, point of view, guests, research, syndication, and marketing. podcast directories) pick up and syndicate your podcasts for free via RSS feeds. From there, podcatchers (i.e.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. Btw, here’s our startup [link] We are bringing yield management to the restaurant industry. Still, the job of simultaneously raising money and managing a fast-growing company strains every sinew. A lot has changed.

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

I’ve never written before about those other “potential business opportunities” that our team was exploring along with our prior investment syndicate, Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures, Greg Sands from Costanoa Ventures, and Brad Feld from Foundry. Brad’s visceral response in this conversation was a very clear, “you should hire Jenny.”

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The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2013

Editors Note: This is syndicated guest post by Walter Chen , co-founder of iDoneThis, an easy way for your team to sync up on its daily progress. Bezos’s anti-pitch certainly made it tough to hire in Amazon’s early days, and it frustrated his management team who were desperate to staff up.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 19, 2013

I’ve had similar conversations in the last year or so with other folks looking to begin, or ramp up, their activity as angel investors. I think the most important thing any new angel investor can do is to candidly assess their motivations for making startup investments. ” But as an angel one can overweight this factor.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. Others follow independent financial lead investors and most require that independent investors be part of the syndicate. There is tremendous value in conversations around what’s the latest in areas that matter to the operating units.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

In the informal conversations during and leading up to the event, I noticed a bit of a sentiment that angel investing was somehow less appealing or less interesting than being an institutional VC. The reason is that most seed syndicates have room for 5-10 angels or more, but only room for 1-3 funds.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

How do you manage these relationships? You met a great team and you want to see what they can do, but you know there’s a great syndicate around the table so you figure that you’re not going to be depended on that much for day to day work. Investors have the same issue.

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blogs.hbr.org

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Im not arguing for long, pointless, unstructured conversations with everyone you meet. But many of my most fruitful relationships have resulted from a meeting or call in which I was not entirely sure what would or would not come of the conversation. More on: Entrepreneurship , Managing yourself , Networking. Kathryn Minshew.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 5, 2011

One of the conversations we had in the interview was around the topic of building the company vs. building the business. In the end, a good CEO and management team must be concerned about getting both elements right if they want to build an enduring stand-alone company.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. The James Altucher Show — James makes a long conversation feel short. The third wave of podcasting. Podcasts have been around for some time.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

 We had an engaging and candid conversation, which included fielding questions from audience members including  Laurie Yoler, Managing Director of GrowthPoint Technology Partners. working with outside consultants to address team and other management issues. -.38in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 10, 2010

With that pre-amble, let me describe the story of Trada – a company that helps businesses more effectively manage their search marketing campaigns via its marketplace through which paid search experts work collaboratively and competitively to maximize the effectiveness of Trada customers search marketing campaigns.

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Syndicate Syndication Due Diligence SEM 74

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

They also did a lot of self-directed research checking all sorts of sources, from social media to syndicated content to category- or industry-specific resources.” – Beth Caplow, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester [via Forrester ]. For example, Optimizely is a hero to web developers that want to improve their conversion rates.

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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. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

APRIL 5, 2010

Initially, like blogging, I had no idea what this term meant, but with some quick research I learned that podcasts and podcasting are all about creating audio files and syndicating them online via things like RSS. Six months after first starting this blog in 2005 I came across another form of online communication called a “Podcast&#.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

While ownership and control of the management company matters , these stakes are rarely monetizable at least in the VC business (unlike the buyout world where huge firms like Blackstone, KKR, and Apollo have IPO’d to the great financial benefit of the founders). To a lesser extent the desire for greater industry prestige is a factor.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

That book, the Practice of Management, had a lot to do with forming my thinking. The Practice of Management is probably one of the fundamental reasons that I’m in the career that I am in today. Although it’s funny because when we start thinking … I’ll talk about another big conversation. Robert Rose: No.

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entrepreMusings

JANUARY 30, 2011

The future is in finding relevance, curating for context, and syndicating this to the right audience at the right place. The value is in how to aggregate, curate, display relevant content, create participation around the conversation, and analyze how it drives real business metrics. Is there real value in that data?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

We’ve also seen an increase in the syndication of investments from firms outside of Austin into specific Texas-based companies such as Studio VC, Goodwater Capital, and Highland Capital Partners?—?all These limited partners add to the available capital in the state and provide funding for capital managers. all Bay Area firms?—?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Demandbase’s costs place it in the 96th percentile for “Marketing Account Management” software. For example, if multiple users from a company (usually identified by IP) are reading about how to reduce their corporate real estate footprint, it may flag that company as a strong prospect for a seller of space management technology.

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 28, 2011

There was a brief conversation about big data as it relates to database architecture, as in relational vs. non-relational (e.g. In my mind the more interesting trend is the move to entirely in memory architectures for data management. 2) Database Architecture.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Be very careful to not over think it when you frame this step-one to your management team. Again, for your management team you don't have to over think it. Now that our management team is bought into one facet of YouTube, is time to dip our toe into a content strategy. Why not extend the conversation there?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The Three Layers Of Business Success As I conversed with the speakers, watched their presentations and talked to attendees, I noticed some interesting distinctions about where people were coming from and what they focused on. Each of these layers is important, and it’s not wrong to focus on any one particular level.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

If the investors ideal size is smaller than your need, you ought to ask about syndication. If they don’t like to syndicate, or don’t have a track record of doing it, you will want to consider your options. Underlying this question is really “How will you manage the risk in this opportunity?”. past round one. past round one.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. We ended up agreeing a term sheet for $16.5 Yes, this was stupid.

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