Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Unlike political regimes, technological rulers are comprised of products rather than people. These aging products, developed in earlier times now represent bankrupt ideologies, weak paradigms and byzantine complexity. So what will become of IT? Power to the people, the new role of IT.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Both venture firms sought my advice for their portfolio companies. I began to gain an appreciation of how world-class venture capitalists develop pattern recognition for these common types of problems. It was a long way from Ellis Island.) Surprisingly, I enjoyed seeing other startups from an outsider’s perspective.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

When they promise to help you with marketing, sales, distribution, integrated product development, etc. But the venture guys don’t make the calls on what the product / business guys do. But even he would feel conflicted when I had to cut the engineering team because he valued our product more than his investment.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Our firm has a portfolio of companies across a broad range of markets and the way we look at it is pretty simple – the deals fall into two types: those with customer/market risk and those with invention risk.” is whether there is a customer and market for the product as spec’d. The real risk in markets like Web 2.0

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 12, 2020

While many large companies invest millions to protect their intellectual property portfolio, startups in their early stages can forget to look into their intellectual property altogether or make decisions that have a negative impact later on when the business develops. i) Assuming your intellectual property is not important.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico).

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SiliconHills

MARCH 7, 2016

The center will serve as the company’s outpost for its digital teams with a focus on engineering and product development for Condé Nast’s digital portfolio. Condé Nast […] The post Condé Nast to Open Austin Digital Innovation Center appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sisu is currently expanding its product portfolio and geographic scale to develop additional cutting-edge, patented, clinically proven medical devices, and to create a system for medical device commercialization in emerging markets. Our top goal is to break into new markets and add new products to our portfolio.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Ben Schippers is Co-Founder, HappyFunCorp , a development shop which recently acquired EastMedia and StartupGiraffe, a company specializing in equity development. Others were more positive, subject to putting appropriate structure in place.

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BeyondVC

MAY 30, 2007

In one portfolio company, we had some of the standard issues of coordinating product management with engineering and balancing sales requirements with engineering priorities.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 29, 2010

Accept has built a set of products for “innovation management&# and while I reflexively gag at the word “innovation&# when applied to large companies, I actually think Accept has the right approach for delivering a solution to the problem of connecting customers with product development.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Unlike political regimes, technological rulers are comprised of products rather than people. These aging products, developed in earlier times now represent bankrupt ideologies, weak paradigms and byzantine complexity. So what will become of IT? Power to the people, the new role of IT.

Romania 44

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2012

My friend Chris Moody , President/COO at Gnip , refers to this as the execution phase of a business and there is no better example of execution in our current portfolio than the team at Gnip. years of product development and varying business approaches, Gnip found their magic moment about a year and half ago.

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 24, 2013

At the risk of overgeneralizing (although to be fair as a VC that’s pretty much my job description) and understanding that there’s plenty of grey area here, I’ve really been noticing recently just how challenging it can be for organizations to move from being product focused to sales and marketing focused.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Product and Engineering. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Product and Engineering. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. First Round Capital. The Review. Plusstartup. The Review.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

It’s this elusive quality that helps organizations achieve more volume and value in their innovation portfolio. Be careful not to over-engineer that discipline and measurement, but you can’t improve what you can’t measure! But innovation comes in many other forms and should be thought of in a portfolio fashion.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

And take what it learns and regularly update the corporate engineering, strategy, VC groups and business unit heads, on technology and market shifts. Corporate VC needs to be part of an innovation investment portfolio with a mix of incubate, invest and acquire. Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems.

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 24, 2013

At the risk of overgeneralizing (although to be fair as a VC that’s pretty much my job description) and understanding that there’s plenty of grey area here, I’ve really been noticing recently just how challenging it can be for organizations to move from being product focused to sales and marketing focused.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. When the value of the studio’s participation is effectively a commodity (like office space, engineering, capital, etc), the equation flips and should be to the advantage of the founders. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. Rock Health).

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 8, 2010

Discounted Tickets As part of their sponsorship, Baseline is offering discounted tickets to their portfolio companies. Discounted Tickets As part of their sponsorship, Baseline is offering discounted tickets to their portfolio companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

In addition to supporting their portfolio companies in coming to the event, they also have taken the additional step of underwriting a limited number of discounted tickets that are available to the general public. Our sponsors continue to support the conference as well as deserving entrepreneurs.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

As a result, second time founders very often shy away from ad-based consumer ideas, but when they do, they think about what viral mechanisms you can implement *first* and engineer the product around that mechanism. Product second. Marketing first. Here is a good case study on LinkedIn (scroll down to see how they grew).

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

As a result, second time founders very often shy away from ad-based consumer ideas, but when they do, they think about what viral mechanisms you can implement *first* and engineer the product around that mechanism. Product second. Marketing first. Here is a good case study on LinkedIn (scroll down to see how they grew).

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2011

As a result, companies that analyze their businesses with off-the-shelf products tend to do a far worse job than companies like Google who use data to achieve massive competitive advantage through teams of brilliant engineers. Christian replaced these two ancient questions with far better ones: How does our business work?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 7, 2018

A recent article “Bay Area Bay Area’s High Costs Drive Away Some Tech Firms” details numerous examples of Silicon Valley start-ups that are moving their headquarters or opening a second location in places like Austin, Denver and Atlanta – and many engineers, marketers, even executives are considering moving.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2009

Hes a very smart guy who, as a Sequoia portfolio CEO, can tell you all about the " RIP good times " strategy. The format is Q&A around a conference table with four "speakers" and a moderator. One of the other speakers is someone I know well: Seth Sternberg , founder of Meebo.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. So again, none of this is me trying to say what you should do for product development, in fact, or what you should write in code in fact. Edwin: I know. Jason: Yeah.

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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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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2020

By Lihi Pinto-Fryman, co-founder and CRO and Gal Aga, VP of Sales at Syte.ai , a visual search startup and Remagine Ventures portfolio company. As field sales temporarily took a back seat, our inside sales engine proved to be effective and is helping us cope with this health and economic crisis. LinkedIn is a mighty engine for us.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 8, 2013

With the work I did on plans and pricing, later enhanced and executed by other teams in the company, we were able to position to the market a consolidated portfolio of services that could be sold to SMB, mid-market, and large enterprise companies all off the same product platform. This is where I cut to Ping.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Alexia Tsotsis: Let’s see, what about other companies that aren’t in your portfolio?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

And no, she was not able to complete her task after 6.3802146 frustrating minutes because neither your navigation nor your internal site search engine got her to the right page. of Search Traffic: This measures the percentage of traffic you receive from search engines, in context of all other traffic sources. This one is more subtle.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

The G/SCORE measures the key milestones a company has achieved in business building along seven factors: overall concept, market opportunity, competitive risk, product development, business development, team, and business model. billion in 2010. billion in 2010. RUSNANO ESTABLISHES RUSSIAN-ISRAELI NANOTECH FUND.

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