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. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We’ve come a long way these last ten years, and we wanted our new website design to honor that time; retracing our steps, while also walking forward in the direction of digital trends on the horizon. What story are you looking to tell with the new design? . Let’s design the future we want to live in, shall we?

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2016

These vertically-focused platforms cater to the specific needs of their users, offering a close networking community around shared interests. One of the most obvious examples of the online portfolio is within the creative community. One of the most obvious examples of the online portfolio is within the creative community.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

We’re excited to announce our investment in EnPowered , an on-bill payment platform designed to make it easier for businesses to invest in energy-efficiency projects. It’s similar to how Stripe removed friction from taking payments for many verticals. EnPowered joins our growing portfolio of energy and climate startups.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA. The INTRO tool is available to non-portfolio companies as well. 20% initial ownership.

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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. I love landscapes as they help organise the categories needed to define the vertical.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

” Discover how business-owners can design workshops that are fast, deliver strong results, and eliminate stress from the process. We're going to talk about her book, the Two Hour Workshop Blueprint, how business owners can Design Workshops, fast, deliver strong and without stress. So vertical, you're the expert.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2014

Hint – count the vertical lines carefully. While some of that came through, “The Company” (a thinly designed version of Microsoft) was too over the top ridiculous and many of the satirical moments fell flat for me. For example, here’s me painting a horse. As with most of my vacations, I read about a book a day.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

However, Cabinet members who are responsible for vertical portfolios still manage the government’s large functional agencies, and there continues to be significant overlap between those who handle commercial, defense, and diplomatic policy. It is this organizational design that creates blurred bureaucratic lines and weakens U.S.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 9, 2016

Typically, when people think of false bottoms, they think of vertical scrolling. While it’s hard to make universal recommendations, we’d suggest that designers use the cue that works best in its context. Designers should choose cues for scrolling based on the content, the business category and the overall design.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

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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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

Leveraging consumer P2P and design principles (Matan previously led Consumer P2P Payments at PayPal), the Melio team has given small businesses an easy-to-use app that places cash flow control back in their hands. The integration of Melio by Vinosmith is a good example.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. And in the entertainment category, our portfolio company TripleLift provides monetization for online publishers through native ad technology. BookBub ), hybrid B2C/B2B2C models (e.g. Alignable ).

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 1) Market fund.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Meanwhile my partner was in heaven working with his newly hired group of game designers directing and producing our first games. Stop annoying our game designers and start working on selling and marketing the games.” However the VC’s are managing a portfolio while you, the entrepreneur are managing one company – yours.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Our design team is comprised of top talent who have been laid off or have grown disenchanted with the big corporate models of major fashion brands (though by requirement they all have at least 5 years of major corporation experience). Thanks to Stefanie Tacata, Stateless Fashion Design and Consulting. #2 crew, Aeropostale, etc.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. Each of Feenix’s portfolio companies receives an investment in debt or equity and utilizes a subsidiary of Feenix as its credit card payment processor (“Feenix Payment Systems”). 10% of Feenix’s portfolio companies have received VC equity prior to their financing.

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View from Seed

MAY 11, 2020

Our mantra at NextView is to “ design the future we want to live in ”. As a firm, we have had a thesis around the unbundling healthcare to create best-in-class, vertical healthcare solutions for the world’s biggest problems. You can read more about the company here and see their segment on GMA from a few weeks ago here.

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Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2000, they included tentage into their portfolio and since then they have established themself as a premium brand in marriage event management. Most of their business growth was vertical by focusing on food, tentage, and decoration for marrying couples and their families. Step 3: Agile Focus Dartboard.

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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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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

We were fortunate to host very talented speakers from our portfolio (Ilya Sukhar from FB/Parse, Steve Marx from Dropbox, Bill Ready from Braintree, Ali Rayl from Slack, Eric Wittman from Atlassian, Sam Mac Donnell from HotelTonight.) It is not very polished but was designed for a fast read. gathered at the event.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2017

We think it’s inevitable that this vertical will undergo the same digital transformation as every other major commerce category and we’ve made two investments behind this thesis ( Paintzen and Renoviso ) and will be expecting to do more around the construction and renovation space in the years to come. Source: Google Finance).

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

As a vertically integrated company, oWOW cuts costs which are then passed on in the form of lower rental prices to tenants. Already, Haber’s efforts are paying dividends, with multiple big projects in the portfolio, notably 960 Howard Street, 674 23rd Street, 316 12th Street, and 1919 Market street.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search. 37:00-40:30). 44:00 -49:30).

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

The fund views its portfolio startups as fulfilling one of the three layers of the “Big Data stack”: 1. The top layer of applications and services that use the innovations of the first two layers to transform vertical markets (e.g, Powered by Personforce. Latest on TechCrunch TV. Gillmor Gang: Remote Wipe.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Web Design. Design Patterns. UI Design. Responsive Design , Strategy. Designing websites for smartphones is easy compared to retrofitting those already in place. Prior to the iPhone’s introduction in mid-2007, designers could rely on windows at least 700 pixels wide (if they ignored accessibility).

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia met at the Rhode Island School of Design and became roommates in San Francisco in 2007. A prominent design conference was coming to town and the nearby hotels were sold out. Platforms upon which their community of users continually expands into new verticals. Talk about a business with humble roots.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 15, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Why there won’t be an Uber in every vertical – buff.ly/1KNtdUj. Logitech Pulls Millions From Mice, Invests It In Design crowdspring.co/1dQPRkB.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Both venture firms sought my advice for their portfolio companies. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. It was a long way from Ellis Island.) Surprisingly, I enjoyed seeing other startups from an outsider’s perspective. To everyone’s delight (and my surprise,) I usually could quickly see what needed to be fixed. Blog at WordPress.com.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

You can also get great recommendations from your existing network; just be sure to research portfolios, websites and references thoroughly before making a decision to work with a particular developer. Also make sure that you’re communicating well with any web developers or designers you hire.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 26, 2013

So, it appears that the shift to mobile that’s happening across all verticals is mainly a shift of devices, rather than the emergence of new use cases. For starters, every web business needs to design a great mobile experience, as users will increasingly opt for a mobile device to access websites.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

When designating a metric as a KPI, this is your foremost consideration: depth of influence. Analyzing these metrics not only fundamentally changes marketing strategy (think tens of millions of dollars for large companies); their insights can change your company’s product portfolio, your customer engagement strategies and much more.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2011

While many boutique firms focus and specialize on specific verticals, Drummond says they take a more active approach with their clients. “Rather than designing our company to specialize in certain areas of expertise as many do, we try to create a unique blueprint completely individualized specifically for each client,&# she explains.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 12, 2016

At Version One, we connect some of our start-ups to world-class growth hackers, designers, and other leaders in their field. When I was running AbeBooks , my Director of Product Management came from Amazon and he had a completely different (and more ambitious) perspective on product and growth opportunities.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. I had no idea what I wanted to do next, and would get paid to think about it?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. What Do VC’s Do? One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. .&#

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