YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The market for our product was global, and we had unique advantages in terms of our product and how we distributed it to customers. VCs want to see that there’s a demand for your product and that you’re able to meet that demand. Ultimately, these advantages helped us secure the funding we needed. Prepare to prove your worth.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Due Diligence Early Stage Differentiation 140

David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility. Without systems in place to manage distributed spending, finance teams will leave money on the table.”. Best Practices in Spreadsheet Design.

Agile 60

Agile Management Forecast Silicon Valley 60

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. What are the customer’s alternatives?

Startup 150

Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

PC and mobile interfaces dynamically display portfolio valuations and exposures, along with system-generated investment recommendations tailored to a specific client’s financial goals and risk appetite. in mathematical logic and senior portfolio manager at the time, started an AI-program trading small amounts. Transaction Processing.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It’s also the same one we apply to demand generation. You (supposedly) do demand generation—or you would if you just ran LinkedIn ads, too. But demand generation isn’t a pile of tactics. It’s hard to do, which is why most demand generation advice merely advocates adding another channel or tool to the heap. You email them.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Let’s not even get started with “on-demand” or “subscription e-commerce.” Normal distributions do not exist; standard deviations are meaningless. As a result, any public market downturn will immediately impact unrealized returns of the fund they are managing due to the late and growth stage companies in their portfolio.

Harvest 60

Harvest Vertical IPO Early Stage 60

The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

Like the stock market, Cryptocurrency can be bought and sold based on supply and demand. When demand is high the price people are willing to pay will go up. If you are familiar with investing and willing to do your own homework, then investing a portion of your investment portfolio in Crypto may make sense.

Stock 148

Stock Institutional Investors Demand Portfolio 148

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Matt Blumberg, who runs one of Fred’s portfolio companies, Return Path, follows up with an additional three : Don’t be a bottleneck (make sure you aren’t holding up people’s work). But this isn’t restricted to distributed teams, multi-country environments or even large companies. Lived it.

Ireland 319

Ireland Sales Bankruptcy Germany 319

Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

I think that the number of players in this devloping class of what I’d call “Micro VCs” will continue to increase over the coming years: the model fits into an opportunity on the capital supply side, as well as more importantly becomes the right product for many entrepreneurs on the demand side. Structural.

Seed Stage 175

Seed Stage Technical Review Dilution Offshore 175

View from Seed

MAY 28, 2020

Advances in technology and changing consumer preferences have long been transforming the way food is created, distributed, and consumed. The food supply chain has been rattled with distribution shifting from restaurants to grocery and with food production bottlenecks resulting from fewer employees at work.

Memphis 256

Memphis Distribution Bankruptcy Operations 256

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Other companies have only seen a slight decline and may be expecting demand to return to normalcy later in the year. The reality is that when unemployment sinks in demand is likely to get worse. Biggest Advice I Give to Portfolio Founders? That may happen. But I doubt it. 22 million filed in just 4 weeks?—?for

Marketing 263

Marketing Valuation Churn Rate Balance Sheet 263

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This is as much of a game-changer (due to a new distribution model based on the social graph) as going from offline to the Internet was in the 90s. This marketplace will help bring price equilibrium to media supply and demand thereby further increasing the marketing budget spent on this medium. A Lightspeed Portfolio company.

Internet 110

Internet Media Social Media Advertising 110

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Early liquidity.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

Architecture 113

Architecture Stealth Agile Distribution 113

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2017

The cars on the road may be familiar to him, but now, he can also magically hail a car on-demand or pay ludicrously low prices to get from place to place by sharing rides with one or two other passengers. Mobile computing means that he has the world’s information and entertainment at his literal fingertips.

Denmark 244

Denmark Vertical eCommerce Internet 244

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

His first reality reset is that now, maybe for the first time, he really has a boss, or several bosses, and often very demanding ones at that. Your startup is now part of someone’s portfolio, and here are a few of the ways in which you should expect to be monitored by your investors: One or more seats on the Board.

Advisory Board 241

Advisory Board Entrepreneur Venture Capital Angel Investor 241

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The other half is more distributed, but consists on tools for content creation and distribution and finally a minority of tools focused on admin tools (fintech, managing the business, back office, etc). I’ll mention the top 4 in my opinion: There are riches in niches – understanding where there’s demand.

Startup 207

Startup Social Media Venture Capital Audio 207

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

For what they bring to the table, startups are indeed changing the economic landscape in ways that extend to job generation, innovation of products and services, and equal distribution of opportunities among businesses. Things You Need to Know About Starting a Startup Business. Rationale for Startup Investments.

Private Equity 159

Private Equity Startup Incubator Social Network 159

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2010

His first reality reset is that now, maybe for the first time, he really has a boss, or several bosses, and often very demanding ones at that. Your startup is now part of someone’s portfolio, and here are a few of the ways in which you should expect to be monitored by your investors: One or more seats on the Board.

Advisory Board 231

Advisory Board Entrepreneur Venture Capital Angel Investor 231

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

I recently had the privilege of assembling an all-star group of media executives in Beverly Hills to discuss the challenges they face in distributing, monetizing and delivering their video content. Video on Demand. Recording Industry Association of America. People were quick to draw parallel comparisons for video: Music. A la carte.

Business Model 155

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 155

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

These companies get the prevention-promotion balance right by evaluating every aspect of their business model—making near-term changes that reduce costs now and after demand returns (unlike layoffs). Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. Progressive. Image source ).

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Version One Ventures

AUGUST 25, 2015

However, a marketplace is unique in that it deals with distributed supply (and demand) and there aren’t many marketplace-specific tools out there yet to help with this. This is especially true given the rise of the 1099 worker from the on-demand economy.

Product 60

Product B2B Curation Demand 60

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 3) Developer Driven Sales.

Sales 50

Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

At the first stage, it is necessary to analyze competitors, explore the market, develop a business plan, define prospects, correctly distribute tasks and available budget, create a «skeleton» with which the developer can already work. But before you start looking, you have to know what you’re offering and where you’re going.

Hiring 189

Hiring Developer Software Review Development Team Review 189

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) As a result the young company is now saddled with an expensive, scaled-up sales organization frustrated trying to execute a losing sales strategy and a marketing organization desperately trying to create demand without a true understanding of customers’ needs.

Customer Development 241

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 241

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. 3) Raise capital. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2016

Editor’s note: We’ve seen a lot of demand for content marketing talent in our portfolio, including the need for freelancers and consultants. Relevant Resource from NextView: How some founders are using content to go distribution first, product second. Relevant Resource #2: Should startups blog?

Hiring 120

Hiring Marketing Startup Portfolio 120

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. DST invested $180mm last fall.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Hunter Walker

MAY 18, 2015

They provide assistance to Californians in building a vibrant, successful and inclusive society, distributing more than $1.5b Anne Dinneen: Nothing has contributed more to the growth of the Irvine endowment over the years than our venture portfolio. And what leads to adding or removing a fund from Irvine’s portfolio?

LP 48

LP Portfolio Early Stage Institutional Investors 48

Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. The Clubhouse is Now On-Demand | Partake. Check out which Capital Factory startups are looking for you to join their team!

Semantic 48

Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Driven by strong customer demand for its award-winning identity governance solution, SailPoint achieved record growth in 2010, with revenue up 200% over 2009. Our 2011 plan includes extensive additions to our engineering, support and sales teams as we respond to increasing customer demand around the world.”.

Global 73

Global North America Customer Cofounder 73

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The pressure to protect portfolio startups seen as potential fund returners will be profound. TVPI = total value to paid in capital (paper gains) DPI = distributed to paid-in capital (real cash gains, paid out). portfolio values on paper that will likely be marked down and not be returned.

Founder 174

Founder Technical Review Down Round Liquidation Preference 174

Rob Go

JANUARY 21, 2016

The ride experience is better in an UberX than a taxi, uberX is cheaper than a taxi, and on demand mobile booking, payments, etc make it way more convenient. Convenience tends to be an area where incumbents struggle, especially when convenience is tied to new forms of distribution. Some companies have all three. Uber is the trifecta.

Disintermediation 28

Disintermediation Distribution Demand Flash 28

K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

That’s 7 out of about 29 investments that K9 has made to date and so that’s almost 1/4 of the K9 portfolio. In at least one case, one of my portfolio companies wasn’t able to source the parts they would have really wanted because Apple had locked up the entire supply chain for that part!

Software Review 48

Software Review Forecast Portfolio Distribution 48

VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

“We’re not AdTech investors,&# I’d push back, “we just have a bunch of companies in the portfolio that are working in and around online advertising.&# While this is about 20% of our active portfolio, we’ve never considered AdTech a theme. And for a while that worked pretty well. They are: Scale. Performance.

Disintermediation 82

Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 82

K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

Most of these funds are <$100M, with the majority of them being clustered around the $40M mark (that’s the point where the fund economics start to work in terms of management fee and ability to take a meaningful stake in portfolio companies). The low supply and high demand is driving up the valuations and deal sizes.

Mezzanine 134

Mezzanine Seed Stage Early Stage IPO 134

Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. This massive data creation and the potential for new data insights has driven explosive demands for systems that perform at both scale and speed. BlazingDB is the third in this series, after RackN and Appbase.

Peru 58

Peru Fractional CTO Artificial Inteligence Database 58