Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In the past year, we learned that Bitcoin probably has a large enough worldwide distribution that it’s hard to stop. This area is also in the very early stages, but I am increasingly excited about the concept of DAO’s (decentralized autonomous organizations). Wave 4: Disruption of what a firm means (pre-product market fit).

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Venezuela Argentina China Technical Review 68

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

LPs have been feeling great about venture capital due to holding valuable paper positions in companies like Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Dropbox, all of which they feel confident will drive large cash distributions in the future. Without some cash distributions, eventually LPs will become stretched.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. Our name Reality2 stands for Reality2.0. We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. I've known Farida for quite a while. Maybe ten years.

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Early Stage Southern California Los Angeles Marketing 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

I became aware of Sam several years ago as I started noticing his name repeated in the comments section of my blog. I looked up his bio, “UVA, banking analyst, doing some early startup work” and thought – sure – come meet me for a coffee. I don’t believe in distributed teams in early-stage business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

msuster looking for an inspired post on when an exclusivity deal (w/ major industry player) works (cons as well) for an early stage tech co. — If a company wanted to distribute software on a mobile device it need to sell via a “portal” (US term) or a “deck” (UK term) of a mobile carrier.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Funding for pre-revenue startups used to be the domain of angel investors, but they have moved up-stage. File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. Register some intellectual property.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

I told them that True Ventures had stuck to their brand name and submitted a totally clean term sheet. This states how the proceeds from a sale or dissolution of the company will be distributed. Privately some early-stage VC’s talk about participation helping them to “juice their returns&# on smaller exits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Funding for pre-revenue startups used to be the domain of angel investors, but they have moved up-stage. File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. Register some intellectual property.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

This could include anything from a clever domain name in the coveted.com TLD to issued patents or patent applications that could serve as barriers to entry for potential competitors. The amount of investment in IP in any direct sense is generally small for early stage startups. In practice, this leads many U.S. By 2013, the U.S.

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Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

What are the main channels for app marketing and distribution today? Ads – targeted advertising is perhaps THE most reliable channel to market and distribute a consumer app. Therefore, my recommendation for startups who are pre-monetisation is to experiment with new organic distribution ways.

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Where to Play

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

These unique abilities can be utilised for many different applications, including inspections, surveillance, deliveries, or entertainment – to name a few. The external risks seemed low, because competition is limited and success is not dependent on other parties. The overall challenge was therefore estimated as ‘low-mid’.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Ansoff Matrix , named for its strategist creator Igor Ansoff, can be a helpful tool as you evaluate growth opportunities. Strategic alliances with other brands to develop offerings or leverage each others’ distribution channels. Getting to know the 4 major types of growth strategies in marketing. Partnerships. Diversification.

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Marketing Framework Metrics Channel 115

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. CB Insights , Preqin and Mattermark were also named as platforms that are regularly updated by GPs.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

It’s probably not too controversial to say that the median level of sophistication of early stage entrepreneurs in Los Angeles is lower than that of Bay Area. Go to any of the LinkedIn profiles of entrepreneurs in Bay Area and you see names like Google, eBay, Apple, Yahoo, PayPal, and Facebook littered throughout.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve Hoffman (06:08): If you don't get the right people on board, you know, hire them really hard to succeed, marketing, getting your name out. That is the role of the CEO in an early stage company. It's just not the same when you're distributed and talking remotely. We were early on in the ecosystem in San Francisco.

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Up and Running

APRIL 23, 2012

Every investor is well aware of early stage investing risks, and all investors know there is no success guarantee with any company. Hi, my name is. Don’t say or do any of the following, and you’ll have a leg up on the competition for those investment dollars. This is a no fail deal”. Equity is unsecured.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

Many VCs will have a distribution curve where they’ll do a small number of early-stage deals (say $1.5–3 3 million invested at a $6–10m pre-money), a larger number of “down the fairway” deals ($4–5 million at a $15–25 million pre) and a few later-stage deals (say $8–10 million at a $30–40 million pre).Of After all?—?we

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VC Adventure

MAY 5, 2022

Gone was the J-curve (named because often early fund returns are negative – mostly due to fees that drag down NAV prior to initial company write-ups). How many of those valuations will hold remains to be seen, but that kind of market clearly advantaged funds that deployed capital very quickly. Many will not. But not now.

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IRR Metrics Valuation LP 116

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

John Jantsch: So I got to know, what’s in the name? So, in full disclosure, you mentioned about your name, Duct Tape Marketing, when you and I were offline a second ago. So I actually named my company … You’re going to laugh at me now … Nearly Freelance, because you know, my name’s Lance.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2023

Key Takeaway: While significant progress has been made in AI, we are still at the early stages of it’s development. 07:20] Can you name a particular instance in your career where you felt like “This is going to work, this is like what I should be doing”? [09:25] That's all they're doing.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

NAME THAT TECH TUNE. According to the Dow Jones research, 43 early-stage funds raised $3.1 Madrona’s new $300 million fund — while the largest in the firm’s history — certainly qualifies in the early-stage group. WINDOWS PHONE. Mobile News. WINDOWS PHONE. VIDEO GAMES. GEEK OF THE WEEK. TECH EVENTS.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

If a big corporation is pushing a new product, you might expect them to take out TV ads, online ads, maybe hire a PR agency and set up big distribution partnerships. Getting your app’s content posted through a major distribution channel exposes more people to your app and results in more users trying your app out. The By The Way.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

There’s no reason why any company shouldn’t have 50 potential business development partners in their pipeline, maybe 100, and be actively working the phones, inboxes, and pounding the pavement to get the deals you need to get—be it for distribution, revenue, PR, or just to outflank a competitor. The latter is totally underutilized.

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Early Stage Developer Technical Review Widget 138

Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

On top of that, we’re fourth in early-stage funding. They’ve been making a huge impression on the city, along with the rising Siete Family Foods startup which recently raised $90 million and tripled its nationwide distribution. According to Inc. Tom Foster for Inc.’s s “The 50 Best U.S. Getting Austin to the top of Inc.’s

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

In addition, I think that a “peace treaty&# between early-stage investors and startup companies on standard terms (at least at a term sheet level) is a step in the right direction. I suspect that this seems reasonable if there is basically no due diligence due to the early stage of the companies. (By Legal fees.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2024

Ken (03:37): That's a great question because I think we are actually very early on. I think we've made remarkable progress in a very short period of time, but I think it's still, we're at the very early stages. And the way they're doing that is that they calculate what are called probability distribution. (09:35):

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. But all things are never equal.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Created by VentureHacks' Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi, AngelList vets startup pitches and distributes them to a list of angel investors. Initially an email list, now there's a whole website devoted to the endeavor. When you add your startup to AngelList, you will have the option to select pick the angels you think you see your startup.

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Angel Investor Early Stage Startup Matching 117

siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

13) Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome) (0). Name (required). Distributed Systems Software Engineer. You got Your Year on Twitter in my Vizify. (0) 0) Just hack it: Nike launches Nike+ Accelerator powered by TechStars in Portland.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

But while Amazon blew away existing physical distribution channels to deliver products to you, we are blowing away existing physical infrastructure to help you store the things you want to keep – just not at your home. We pride ourselves on being early-stage (thus the name, Upfront) but in this case it’s as early as it gets.

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Technical Review Software Review Cofounder CTO Hire 380

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Naming a Business. Kyle retained the right to name the third board member. Last fall, Arizona Bay launched its own venture capital firm, Arizona Bay Technology Ventures , which will invest from $50,000 to $750,000 in early-stage start-ups. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution.

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Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

We’ve often explained to entrepreneurs that the second fund of a venture firm is very much like the series A for an early stage company. For a seed stage venture capital firm, product/market fit comes down to two questions. Are we hungry to keep innovating and investing internally to build on our early product-market fit?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. Um, he and his partner took Red Hat to an IPO early days, and Bob found himself with a lot of time and a lot of money, and a lot of people wanted to hear his story. Matt Briel (04:35): Yeah, that's right.

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Audience Revenue Distribution Differentiation 86

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. We discussed: 1. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital? TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns. The top 2% do not drive 98% of the returns.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

See my recent post here about naming a product or company. Spending some money and making a financial commitment in the form of a domain name, a logo and a brand also demonstrates that you are committed to the startup idea. Branding - You do not need to be a genius designer to come up with a brand.

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Cofounder Web Founder South Korea 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

Most early stage startups having monthly board meetings. Quarterly is too few for an early stage business. Have a column for board members / investors to put their names against whom they know. This will help because no investor wants to be the one without their name against anybody. We want to help.

Software Review 301

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