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. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

7- Making and selling website themes Photo Credit: Sean Stevens If you know how to code, especially front-end development, you can use your skills to make money by making and selling website themes online. With the right property management software and some experience in the real estate market, you might find success as a property manager.

Software Review 118

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 118

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

It’s also important to note that while many climate/energy companies touch the physical world, we are focused on those where the majority of value is driven by software. . The resulting growth in EVs will spur lots of infrastructure and software to manage grid interaction, optimize storage, operate fleet networks, and facilitate financing.

Green 78

Green Technical Review Distribution Software Review 78

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 19, 2015

Reducing DSO is one of the largest challenges for many businesses due to the company-wide strategy that’s necessary to do so. Your customers make up your portfolio of business. With a portfolio, comes credit risk. These firms allow you to check credit on an individual business, a subset of or your entire customer portfolio.

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Metrics Software Review Portfolio Software Developers 100

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

To dig deeper, let’s first review the influence of technology on the core components. 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. However each component will change dramatically.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

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. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? How do VCs originate investments?

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

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?

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Founder Technical Cofounder Technical Review 78

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. This is the implied rate of return of a fund based on the value (mostly unrealized) of a portfolio. at exit due to dilution. Part of the reason to do this was just to reconnect after a long time apart.

IRR 206

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 206

K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Computing and software came a few years later for me as access to computers wasn’t as easy or affordable. Software is awesome as it gives you instant gratification. It requires a higher level of discipline than software does. You make a change, compile, and voila you can see the effect of what you did.

Software Review 48

Software Review Forecast Portfolio Distribution 48

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. This is the implied rate of return of a fund based on the value (mostly unrealized) of a portfolio. at exit due to dilution. Part of the reason to do this was just to reconnect after a long time apart.

IRR 156

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 156

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. Foundry Group, investing primarily in “ Software and Internet ”, follows six major themes, e.g., Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or Distribution. Software is by far the most sought-after class, with 94% of VCs investing in it.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

ONCE A COMPANY HAS YOUR ATTENTION, WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS IN THE DILIGENCE PROCESS? One of the really interesting things that we’ve discovered about diligence is that the smartest people will actually often disagree. Diligence is specific to the company. It’s not an easy question to diligence.

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Seed Stage Software Review Early Stage 69

Up and Running

DECEMBER 25, 2021

This is due to the fact that candidates of all generations ( 68% Millennials, 54% Gen-Xers, and 48% Boomers ) are expected to check an employer’s social media profiles before applying for a position. Create interesting recruitment content and distribute it through all relevant social media networks.

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Hiring Developer Social Media Mobile 84

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. This is the implied rate of return of a fund based on the value (mostly unrealized) of a portfolio. at exit due to dilution. Part of the reason to do this was just to reconnect after a long time apart.

IRR 136

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 136

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

Startup 150

Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y. Re/code – crowdspring.co/1hYEli4. A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y. 10 Code Playgrounds for Developers – crowdspring.co/1jB2aSC.

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. They failed due to: the dearth of deals in the region that have IPO potential and. With a portfolio of at least 20 investments, or you are at risk of the adverse selection problem.)

Early Stage 292

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 292

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. due to inflation, salary increases) to maintain margin in an environment of downward pressure on prices.

Agile 60

Agile Management Forecast Silicon Valley 60

VC Cafe

JUNE 1, 2011

Due to rapid growth of the Israeli market, and of the high-tech, industrial and construction sectors in particular, a further drop in unemployment is expected in coming months. BROADCOM BUYS ISRAELI SECURITY SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SC SQUARE. Sony Classics bought the rights to distribute the film internationally.

Switzerland 79

Switzerland Japan Technical Review 79

David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

Addepar is precisely trying to collect and convert into software these best practices. (ff Teten : I’m not sure I agree, as inevitably some people will look like geniuses in a random distribution of outcomes. They regularly find they have years where they would have had better returns by not changing their portfolio at all.

Software Review 114

Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Portfolio 114

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Following is a guest post from ff Venture Capital winter intern Max Segan , a Colgate senior majoring in computer science, who is starting at Facebook this summer as a software engineer. For phone interviews I recommend websites such as Collabedit to let you watch candidates code in real time. Keep candidates engaged.

Engineer 138

Engineer Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 138

Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Disclosure: * denotes a current or former Greylock portfolio company.). And many of the Silicon Valley technology companies achieve their global prominence due to blitzscaling — which provides jobs, tax revenues, and new products and services to society. Distribution. Distribution. What makes a company Blitzscale-able?

Silicon Valley 53

Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review United Kingdom 53

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2013

Find More Customers for Your B2B SaaS Product with These 5 Distribution Hacks – [link]. MIT Technology Review – [link]. Increase Your Team’s Curiosity | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Can you Crowdsource Your Employee Reviews? Here’s why – [link]. The Habits of Happiness – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Computer Software. 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. Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting. Advertising. Broadcasting & Entertainment. Computer Hardware. Hospitality.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Short run manufacturing is getting cheaper and cheaper due to robot manufacturing and improved supply chain management techniques. Arduino and other open source hardware platforms are reducing costs in the same way open source software reduced costs for web companies. 3D printing is reducing the cost of prototyping.

Open Source 102

Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Global warming, by accentuating drought and melting glaciers, will have a key impact on water resources distribution and will increase the unbalance. Cracking The Code on Facebook.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review San Jose Venture Capital 48

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? To get FDA clearance, Apple reportedly submitted two studies to the FDA (so far none of the data has been published or peer reviewed). They used someone else’s wearable heart monitor to detect the Afib.).

China 67

China Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 67

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. Distribute press releases on free sites like Free Press Release and PRLog.com. If you’re not familiar with the industry, check out this Beginner’s Guide To PR .

PR 114

PR Public Relations Startup Technical Review 114

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. Code Hosting and Version Control. code spaces (svn). WorkingPoint.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Ben's Blog

JULY 13, 2010

Due to radically cheaper computing cycles and storage, the database market moved to the much more easily programmable and more resource intensive relational database model. Based on this design, Salesforce.com radically raised the bar for product and financial performance in the software industry.

Cloud 63

Cloud Architecture Software Review Database 63

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

In addition, we were lucky enough to finally find reliable partners, thus adding a few more services to our portfolio – like Locksmith and Childcare. We’re very new to the industry, and while we’re passionate about the product, there have been obstacles every step of the way – production, shipping, distribution, etc.

Las Vegas 89

Las Vegas Entrepreneur Software Review Community 89

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. But I wonder if the success is due to or in spite of VCs. Now he wanted to go off start his own company.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 120

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Walter Frick - Harvard Business Review. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). GrabCAD – 3D Community and Collaboration (NextView Portfolio Company). Insight Squared – SMB Business Intelligence (NextView Portfolio Company).

Boston 71

Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Because Stewart’s programmers are ten times more productive than they were in 2001 due to massive advances in programming language technology. Software is eating the world. Back in 1994, very few people would have predicted that the largest bookseller in the world would be a software company. What is next?

Technical Review 61

Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 61

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. You collect customers’ reviews and testimonials and show them on your website – it’s that easy. 13- Be around for my kids.

Entrepreneur 130

Entrepreneur Technical Review LLC Software Review 130