David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Our categorization is not a technical one. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

We are not in a technology bubble. We have not even taken a major step towards a technology bubble. So let us first ask if “a very high percentage of the population&# has bought into a distorted premise about the future growth prospects for technology. All of those companies trade at high multiples.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

AdExchanger just posed an interview that I did with them that touched on some of our ad-tech investments as well as our overall investment philosophy. Unlike many venture capital firms that invest in certain geographic regions or specific technologies and sectors, Foundry Group’s investing activity is largely driven by a thematic approach.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. Clint Korver, Partner at Ulu Ventures , remarked: “I’d compare this technology transformation as akin to what happened in public company investing. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The top 20 tech billionaires globally have lost $480 billion on paper in the past year. This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. The pressure to protect portfolio startups seen as potential fund returners will be profound. billion in 538 deals. In Q3/2022, $2.6

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Major technology platforms tend to last about 25 to 30 years. The platforms then sustain for an additional 5-10 years due to inertia and lock-in. When I was a young man in 1990, I designed and deployed Silicon Graphics’ first wide area network using technology from a little known networking startup called Cisco Systems.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Building a great product. We want to talk to you!

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Now the newly passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) offers many new incentives that may decrease the cost of climate tech by 40% – more room for innovation! Our friends at Climate Tech VC have a great summary of the IRA investments that we highly recommend reading. Renoster and Calyx Global are working on this, as is NCX*.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. Global and Local. The global story is undeniable, but what about what’s going in the USA outside the Bay Area?

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We argued extensively in our book, Blitzscaling , that these strategies and tactics describe why Silicon Valley Bay Area – which has a population of less than 4 million – generates such a massively disproportionate number of global technology companies. Disclosure: * denotes a current or former Greylock portfolio company.).

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. Sign up for Helpareporter.com (HARO), one of the secrets of the PR business. Nominate company representatives as speakers for tech or entrepreneurship conferences. Write guest columns.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. Sign up for Helpareporter.com (HARO), one of the secrets of the PR business. Nominate company representatives as speakers for tech or entrepreneurship conferences. Write guest columns.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Some of my projects that I burnt the midnight candle never saw daylight either due to a sudden shift in the organization structure or my projected was de-funded due to another competing project. I started Pneuma Nitric Oxide, LLC in order to take my nitric oxide technology into the skin care and beauty arena.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. The Wall Street Journal.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

People + Process + Structure] > [Data + Technology]. This will ensure that the people, process and structure will be smart enough to take advantage of the smart and wizbang tech. Culture is a stronger determinant of success with data than anything else. Including data. It seems hard to believe. Yet, it is so fantastically true.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2013

Find More Customers for Your B2B SaaS Product with These 5 Distribution Hacks – [link]. MIT Technology Review – [link]. Study: LinkedIn Positioned To Become First Global Economic Graph, Business Platform On Par With Google And Facebook – [link]. Can you Crowdsource Your Employee Reviews?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

It’s a repeatable model that we’ve been able to apply globally to everything from autonomous vehicles to drug discovery. We began by being content-producers focused on serving the 18-24-year-old demographic right after graduation from Virginia Tech. Thanks to Adam Karp, Lively ! workforce.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Potential partnerships with media and telecom giants make it attractive enough though, and hopefully there will be cross polination between the Israeli startups and the great tech cluster in London. Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This has lead to a massive checkout database with 508 checkout steps reviewed, 975 screenshots, and 3,000+ examples of adherences and violations of the checkout usability guidelines. steps, counting from the shopping cart to the step where the order is actually placed — often a “review and confirm order” step.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Most employees work diligently to deliver against set expectations. Too much emphasis was on Averages (remember averages suck, distributions are better ). In this case this was technically a micro-outcome in this case (conversion is offline). Are your little team, or your giant division, solving for the global maxima?

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Tech. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. » More. » More.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

billion in 2007, as investors worldwide tightened their belts in the wake of the global financial crisis. real GDP growth for Israel in 2010 in the absence of extraordinary developments, and Fischer has said the economy may grow more than that if the global recovery accelerates. Foreign direct investment in Israel reached $3.8

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

More and more, people are experimenting with these new technologies that enable anyone to write better, brainstorm, invent, craft and get inspired with text, images, video, voice, music and more. While ChatGPT is most famously known, there are over 750 generative AI globally.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

These are good things to think about and companies to study as we move back from consumer to Enterprise in the tech cycle. And so we think that the model flipped to a model where, today, where the most interesting and advanced new technology now comes out for the consumer first. Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. Exactly right!

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Xing XING – A global networking and contact management site for business professionals. CEOWorld.biz – Global networking for managers, entrepreneurs, and senior execs. ProofHQ – Online management and review of designs, artwork and documents. Cambrian House – A free crowdsourcing app.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

But for us, revenue is not a hard prerequisite because some of our bets are based on our conviction around technology or platforms that might take a little more time to build out and get going.”. ONCE A COMPANY HAS YOUR ATTENTION, WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS IN THE DILIGENCE PROCESS? Diligence is specific to the company.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Most people want to visit your site, do some research, go away, visit other sites, come back to yours, get more confidence about your brand, go back to Google and compare reviews/prices, come back to your site and add the product/service to the cart, go and ask their spouse/boss for permission, come back and buy from you (or the other site).

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

If you want the site to translate ancient Arabic poetry to Spanish to increase global tolerance, just say, “Translate paragraphs from Arabic to Spanish.” They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Be succinct. Programmers love that.

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online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. TECHNOLOGY. more in Tech. What countrys GDP is the size of the global app economy?

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. I attended yesterday the 10th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends organized by the Churchill Club at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. This opens a large opportunity for water purification related technologies (in particular technologies to convert sea water into drinking water). Portfolio. (3).

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Girls in Tech. Ad Serving Technology. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Tech*if*er0*urs â?? Seed Startups.

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