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Recapping Q2 2017: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

We hope everyone had a great Canada Day and/or Fourth of July! It’s hard to believe that another quarter has flown by. Q2 has been busy for Version One and our portfolio companies – here’s a quick recap of select news coverage, funding announcements, and product updates (at least the things we can announce publicly): . Funding and follow-ons. We announced our investment in Citizen Hex , an Ethereum liquidity company.

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10 Controversial Lessons From Serious Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Most people agree that entrepreneurs have to think differently and take risks to have much chance of building a successful business. Yet I have found that serious entrepreneurs usually go way beyond these platitudes in their actions and thinking, and often won’t volunteer their real views, for fear of alienating “regular” people, and being branded a fanatic.

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6 Ways To Improve Productivity With Your Online Business

YoungUpstarts

by Lewis Robinson. Since the establishment of social media, many entrepreneurs have embraced online businesses. These platforms offer a lot of conveniences when conducting business. This is because customers can order products online. They do not have to take a trip to the physical stores for viewing. In return, entrepreneurs save time as well as resources, since it only takes a phone call or a click on the button availed on the website to make an order.

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10 Simple Ways To Build A Strong Business Reputation

YFS Magazine

We asked 10 entrepreneurs to share how they get people to "know, like and trust" their businesses. Here's what they had to say.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Bridge Group 2017 SaaS AE Metrics Report

For Entrepreneurs

Since 2007, The Bridge Group has tracked the Account Executive (AE) role and gathered data on how metrics and compensation change over time. We’ve partnered together to publish the 2017 SaaS AE Metrics Report and offer sales organizations a set of benchmarks to compare themselves against industry standards. This report offers specific analysis and recommendations based.

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Tips For Creating The Best Office For Your New Business

YoungUpstarts

As a brand new business owner, one of the first things you are going to want to do is to make sure that you are setting up the ideal office space for yourself. This is where you will answer calls, send emails, brainstorm, and work on invoices. It needs to be somewhere that is ideal for you so you can do all of those things while also working on growing the size of your business, at the same time remaining as comfortable as possible.

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Harassment in Tech: Getting Beyond Words & Committing to Action

Hunter Walker

Brave women and tenacious reporters. Those are the people responsible for the escalating conversation about sexual harassment in the tech community. And while it might be satisfying to see a handful of perpetrators publicly identified, the New York Times’ Katie Benner rightfully points out that it’s not just a case of a few bad apples: “It felt like I had flipped over a healthy-looking log to find decay and bugs underneath.

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Tesla Is Not A Car Company

Austin Startup

Tesla may be a car company today, but Tesla won’t be a car company in 15 years. Rather, Tesla will be a full stack, vertically integrated clean energy company. They may still produce cars, but cars will represent a fraction of total profits. For a sense of scale, consider that Tesla generated $7B of revenue in 2016. Of that, Tesla does not even break out non-automotive revenue, meaning that their battery/solar business today is small fraction of total sales.

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Do You Fascinate?

Duct Tape Marketing

Do You Fascinate? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing podcast with Sally Hogshead. Why are you captivated by some people, but not others? Why do you recall some brands, yet forget the rest? In a distracted and overcrowded world, how do certain leaders, friends, and family members convince you to change your behavior? The answer, according to brand innovation consultant Sally Hogshead , fascination.

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How to Conduct Your Mid-Year Money Check In

Austin Startup

Remember back in January, when the air was cold and crisp, and you were strong in your resolve to do better with your money this year? You probably set goals: save for a trip, pay off credit card debt. What a beautiful time. Now we’re halfway through the year and it’s hard to even remember that was once a time when it wasn’t 90+ degrees outside (#Austinproblems), let alone what your financial goals were.

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Israeli High Tech Exits On First Half of 2017 Slowdown and Potential Explanations

VC Cafe

According to the IVC Meitar exits report for H1 2017, Israeli high-tech exits total $1.95 billion in the first half of the year in 57 deals, a five-year low, both in terms of deal number and total amount. The report sums up the exits of Israeli high-tech companies in merger & acquisition deals and initial public offerings, as well as buyout deals, from 2012 to H1/2017.

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5 Reasons Craftsmanship Is Making A Return     

YoungUpstarts

By Terri Alpert , founder and CEO of Uno Alla Volta. Millennials, the largest generation in history, represent 92 million U.S. consumers in their spending prime. They, along with the rest of the country, have moved to purchasing handmade and handcrafted goods. According to Rangeme.com , this tech savvy group is not only socially conscious, they value handmade and locally produced goods that share a history and a heritage.

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We Lead or We Participate

Feld Thoughts

Over the years, I’ve been in many multi-party negotiations. I don’t know the maximum number of participants in a single negotiation, but I’m sure it’s greater than ten active negotiating parties in a transaction. I don’t mean the number of entities participating in the transaction, but the actual number of active negotiating entities.

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The Humanity of Our AI Future

thebarefootvc

In 1991, as an undergrad, I wrote a paper on social cybernetics and its role in robotics. Out of curiosity, I just did a quick Google search on social cybernetics and found this article comparing and contrasting AI and the study of cybernetics. In 2017, as a VC, I’m still fascinated by the topic of melding human interactions and feedback mechanisms with the latest advances in technology.

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25+ Call To Action Examples: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

ConversionXL

The call to action is a core component of marketing, sales, and any persuasion-based effort today. There’s been a lot of content written about how to tweak CTA copy , color , size , and other elements , but sometimes, it’s easiest to learn through examples. In this way, we can see how theoretical principles play out in the real world, and how they can create effective experiences.

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25+ Call To Action Examples: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

ConversionXL

The call to action is a core component of marketing, sales, and any persuasion-based effort today. There’s been a lot of content written about how to tweak CTA copy , color , size , and other elements , but sometimes, it’s easiest to learn through examples. In this way, we can see how theoretical principles play out in the real world, and how they can create effective experiences.

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