View from Seed

JULY 6, 2020

You are a native of NYC tech with a strong network. You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You know the ecosystem and have a network that is additive to the rest of the team. . Who Are We Looking For. You act as an “ invited guest.”. You are hungry. A Final Note.

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Technical Review Software Review Hiring Seed Stage 257

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder series , we sat down with award-winning entrepreneur Elizabeth Colón. To get us started, describe what the NAWBO does in 10 words or less: Elizabeth: It provides women business owners with leadership, education and networking. We love hearing your story and appreciate your accomplishments.

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Founder Chicago LLC Leadership 158

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have 5-10 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, and/or investor. You have a strong network in the NYC startup ecosystem that is additive to our team. You have a deep desire to hone your skills as a venture capitalist and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. consumer, etc.).

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Technical Review North America Seed Stage Bandwidth 156

View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Through all of this, what has been obvious is her hunger to serve founders and desire to work with entrepreneurs to bring about the kind of world changing impact we seek to be a part of at NextView. We have a model that allows us to be very flexible in how we engage with founders and co-investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

But it will be patiently deployed, waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to 2021 valuation metrics. 40% of our deals are done in Los Angeles but 100% of our deals leverage the LA networks we have built for 25 years. What is a VC To Do? I can’t speak for every VC, obviously. super size or super focus.

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View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

We can stay busy by expending time and effort supporting the existing portfolio, which is the right thing to do and a good use of time. Founders do not have this luxury. Founders do not have this luxury. Most founders are going through hell right now, and that is not going away any time soon. Wait and see.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You are a native of NYC tech with a strong network. You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You know the ecosystem and have a network that is additive to the rest of the team. Who Are We Looking For. You act as an “ invited guest.”. You are hungry. A Final Note.

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Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage Cofounder 120

VC Adventure

JUNE 14, 2022

Top among them is generally access to capital, but often on the list is the hope that raising capital from experienced (and well-networked) investors will have other positive impacts on their business. There are venture firms that have dozens of people employed in the service of their portfolios. . The answer may surprise you.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Portfolio Venture Capital 150

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

As I’ve worked to build out HOF Capital ’s portfolio acceleration platform , the #1 question I think about is: how do we scalably support our companies? Many VCs offer (or strive to offer) a bundle of levers and support structures to help their portfolio companies. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees.

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Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

Version One Ventures

APRIL 19, 2016

If you’re not already familiar with the startups and founders making up the V1 portfolio, here’s a summary of some of this quarter’s news clippings. Portfolio companies in the news. Beyond funding announcements, several portfolio companies made the news this quarter. Funding and Follow-ons.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio San Francisco API Software Review 60

David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many are reporting that they’re seeing a more diverse pool of applicants than traditional equity VCs… even though virtually none have a particular focus on women or underrepresented founders. In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

When I first met Will Sealy , co-founder and CEO of Summer , two things jumped out to me – his knowledge and his passion. Will and his co-founders Paul Joo and Vincent Tran honed in on a segment of the student loan market that has a huge, unaddressed need – providing customized recommendations for loan forgiveness opportunities.

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Portfolio Cofounder Government Finance 295

View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. Network Effect B2B. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups. But network effects can be an integral component of business-focused services as well.

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Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

A few weeks ago I spoke with Boris Wertz, founder of JustBooks, COO of AbeBooks and founding-partner of Version One Ventures. In ” At present, Version One Ventures portfolio includes startups from all over the United States and Canada. Version One Ventures does not look at founders in a gender specific light.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.) I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. We also talked about how he’d want to be interviewed if approached by a non-technical startup founder. (I’ve office, right in the heart of MIT.

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Technical Review Engineer Software Review Founder 120

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 177

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Telemedicine is game-changing as it opens up the possibility of addressing a national market, so long as you have a network of providers licensed to practice in specific states. As the landscape continues to evolve, we look forward to working with founders bringing unique perspectives and innovations in digital health. .

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Vertical Software Review Portfolio Demand 156

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The new technologies and capabilities that will be central to military advantage in the future – artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous systems, distributed networking, advanced manufacturing, and commercial space, etc. are technologies largely driven by commercial innovation and commercial companies.

Technical Review 381

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology United States 381

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2016

By Dan Bochichio, co-founder of Bocain Designs. Have a portfolio. Rule number one is pretty simple — build up your portfolio. Your online portfolio should serve as a gallery full of your prior work. The Network Effect. New projects will grow your portfolio, which will help you land more new projects.

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Web Design Technical Review Cofounder 100

Version One Ventures

JULY 21, 2020

“Backing the next generation of mission-driven founders”. By 2016, we had begun to specialize into a thesis-driven firm , focusing on businesses with potentially large network effects built around people and/or data. . We still think that network effects are incredibly valuable. We raised our first fund in summer 2012.

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View from Seed

MARCH 11, 2020

When a founder is raising money, he/she should expect that any serious investor will conduct some level of due diligence before getting to yes. They tend to have some sort of framework in their mind with a hierarchy of conviction and hierarchy of pain they are willing to put founders through.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Seed Stage 279

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Portfolio company support & analysis. Portfolio community building. Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. a top-down view on HR challenges at startups; and, obviously: a great network. He proved to be invaluable not only in helping portfolio companies but also in helping us run the firm.

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Jordan Technical Review Portfolio Partner 365

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 8, 2019

Q4 was an important quarter for our firm and portfolio companies. Karthik Sridharan, founder of Kinnek , wrote a great article on Medium on what they’ve learned from building the largest North American B2B marketplace. We are excited about network effects that exist in VR/AR, autonomy, etc. Announcements.

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Portfolio Los Angeles B2B Acquisition 139

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The new insight is that the skills of a good innovator – associative thinking, questioning, observing, experimenting and networking are very different to the skills of executives who are more execution focused – analysis, planning, detail-oriented implementation and self-discipline.

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Founder Framework Portfolio Networking 144

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2022

We recently wrote about why we’re so excited about Bikky and Abhinav Kapur (a mission-driven founder!). . You can watch and filter NFT mint and sale activity across 42 networks as transactions happen on-chain. . And as always, to keep up to date with our portfolio companies, you can follow us on Twitter. Read about it here.

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Portfolio Phoenix Portland Europe 60

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. The founders of each company talked and, in between efforts to decimate the other, agreed it might be worth merging to survive. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. .

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Qualification #1: You know how to do something specific that is valuable and needed often in pursuing a deal or servicing the portfolio. Whatever it is, it helps diligence opportunities, win deals or service the portfolio in ways that make the founders and GPs feel good. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs.

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North Carolina Hiring Angel Investor Technical Review 91

Version One Ventures

MARCH 31, 2023

As founder Hugh Karp explained, “ Businesses can now build on top of the Nexus Mutual protocol to share any risk–not just crypto-related risks. launched, bringing big updates to the permanent data storage network. Pickle Robot launched its truckloading robot arm at ProMat this month and also announced it raised $26M in 2021.

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Portfolio Open Source Mobile Demand 60

VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

Again, it’s important to note that this list is by no means exhaustive and we love to learn from founders that bring a unique point of view and are able to help us see opportunities from their perspective. Students cannot easily network with other students and we have all experienced how much fun these zoom sessions can be.

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Startup Community Social Network Portfolio 187

Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

When Chad Pytel introduced me to Bryan Helmkamp , CEO/Co-founder of Code Climate , I knew that I had to pay attention. I shared a link to Code Climate with a number of CTOs/VPs of Engineering in my network, both inside and outside the NextView portfolio, just asking for their quick opinion.

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Software Review Chad Ruby PHP 191

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Accelerators and incubators support the startups with a small amount of funding, mentorship, networking opportunities, resources, and workspaces. ? I have interacted with a lot of founders who funded their initial business expenses through credit cards. Investors usually carry a portfolio of startups. Government programs.

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Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2024

Calling Israeli startup founders in Interactive Entertainment, AI & Gaming! At Remagine Ventures , we’re always on the lookout for visionary founders building the future of interactive entertainment and gaming. If you’re an Israeli startup founder raising a pre-seed round in these spaces, we want to hear from you!

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Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Startup Vertical 141

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The partner at the fund, the VC, gets to do the fun part—the meeting with founders, vetting deals, negotiating, helping, etc. Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. One way to measure that is to imagine the theoretical $500-$1mm angel round that a founder is looking to raise.

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Portfolio Syndicate Syndication Deal Flow 134

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Interest 1: The next generation of patient social networks. Full stack care/services, as coordinated via software, improves patient outcomes because patients get a network of support and accountability. I’m going to continue the trend by highlighting some of the key areas in healthcare that I’m most excited about right now.

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Social Network Vertical Cofounder Software Improvement 100

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The best recommendations are going to come from your community as this is a true ‘word of mouth’ network. Are you a founder who trained themselves to become a better salesperson? Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs. Practice in low stakes environments: For some people it’s Toastmasters. Or go to a flea market and haggle.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Startup Matching 145

BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. AWS Reinvent Survivor Dinner with founders, Fortune 500 execs, and VCs.

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Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79