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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.

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Q1 2021 Portfolio Review

Version One Ventures

Despite the obvious challenges, we ended 2020 on a strong note and, so far, our portfolio family has been riding a huge momentum wave. 2021 is proving to be an incredible year across our portfolio – from big funding announcements to significant product developments. This marks the first IPO in the Version One family. .

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How Sin-Mei Tsai, Shippo’s VP of Engineering, Defines Code Quality

Version One Ventures

This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company. The first and foremost category of quality for engineers is the mainstream definition of quality: “Did the code work as designed?” Technical design quality. Nothing feels as satisfying as an elegant design.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes was small – the famed “pivot”. The result?

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

In addition, I’ve noted a few multi-product lending firms, e.g., Kapitus and United Capital Source , which provide RBI as one of many structural options to companies seeking capital. . We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”.

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Abstract launches private alpha to redesign the design process

Version One Ventures

Last week, one of our newest portfolio companies, Abstract , launched their Private Alpha. Josh was previously the principal designer at Twitter. Abstract is building a common infrastructure to support the modern design workflow. We need help managing our work and how design relates to the rest of the organization.”.

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