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. This could be similar to Hint, as an example, where people buy memberships for standardized services in a particular vertical (i.e.

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Social Network Vertical Cofounder Software Improvement 100

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. – Network. – Portfolio company diversity.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. – Network. – Portfolio company diversity.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

As more investors have more touch points with a “Softbank round” in their portfolio, a picture emerges — rounds here often take a long time to close. cities flocking to these machines, downloading apps for each network, and paying just a few bucks to get from Point A to B. 1/ Social Network Interference.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Following the inevitable ups and downs of the VC investment cycle, and what founders can do when it all turns cold. Out of hundreds of social networks launched, only one changed the world. Vertical integration of different funding risks. The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing.

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Harvest Vertical IPO Early Stage 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 9% (1 / 12). Source: Knowledge.VC , based on scraping firm websites

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

So to successfully raise a seed round of capital, founders should possess at least a basic understanding of the different types of angel investors they’ll encounter. It can also help founders better approach angels in the first place. The Domain Angel. The Previous-Colleague Angel. At the end of the day, all money is green.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

You can stop making new investments, but it will take years to actually work through your active portfolio companies. It’s been incredibly rewarding to be able to offer relevant advice or a connection at the right time and to see when a founder builds on that key turning point and it leads to success. No more founder pitch meetings.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It’s an exciting time to be launching a new fund as our focus on network effects and broad geography are driving opportunities in both existing and emerging markets. We invest in companies and platforms that leverage network effects. and Canada, offering portfolio companies strong networks and resources on both sides of the border.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As we do at the end of every quarter, we’ve summarized some of the key highlights and activities across our portfolio. . The Globe and Mail included three of our portfolio companies Ada (#11), Jobber (#87), and Top Hat (#230) on its list of the 400 top growing companies in Canada. . Announcements.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. Through all of those posts, we’ve received one common question from founders: Are all Everyday Economy startups consumer-facing? The answer is no. BookBub ), hybrid B2C/B2B2C models (e.g.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 4, 2014

The right investor should help a founder with all three of those questions: 1. The best investors are instrumental in helping founders recruit the perfect team. For key positions, they should jump in and pitch a candidate to join a portfolio company. And is there enough cash in the bank to keep the lights on? Related articles.

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Portfolio Vertical Hiring Operations 154

Version One Ventures

JULY 6, 2016

Here’s a quick recap of some of this quarter’s news clippings for V1 and our portfolio companies. Portfolio companies in the news. And in June, Figure 1 – which started out as a photo-sharing app and network for medical professionals – announced it’s adding direct messaging to its platform. Data analysis for large verticals.

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San Francisco Syndicate Syndication Seattle 104

Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

start-up databases/networks like CrunchBase and AngelList ) has led to unparalleled access to investment capital as more seed funds, angels, and syndicates emerge on the scene. In just a few clicks, you can find everything from the company’s tagline to information on founders and investors, number of employees, funding rounds, etc.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 10, 2015

There are lots of implications for founders – both positive and less so – so they should go into these opportunities thoughtfully, but at Homebrew we’ve enjoyed co-leading with some BigVCs and anticipate we’ll happily continue to do so when it makes sense for the entrepreneur. Uh oh, potential conflict.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, announced the 10 startups selected for the 2020 class of Techstars Austin. Techstars provides their accelerator portfolio companies with access to financial, human and intellectual capital to fuel the success of their business.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Last week, one of our newest portfolio companies, Abstract , launched their Private Alpha. You can read co-founder Josh Brewer’s announcement here. We’ve written about the rise of the vertical reputation graph and how the enterprise is still a nascent area for collaboration. That’s where Abstract comes in.

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Design Cofounder IP Vertical 60

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

A strategy for meeting these investors in Austin is to figure out the board schedule of their portfolio companies, as they they will likely travel here for those meeting. In 2015, a research study was released looking at the effect of funding networks on the amount of venture capital invested in local metro areas across the United States.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. 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.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 13, 2015

It’s certainly an important topic to any founder or entrepreneur looking to break into an existing market. His second point is that an upstart can unbundle a generalized marketplace and focus on creating the best product for a specific vertical. For example, StubHub vs. Craigslist and HotelTonight vs. Expedia.

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Vertical Portfolio Mobile Conversion 60

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

There’s a sea of information, both in the blogosphere and residing in the heads of everyone your informal network, which an individual job-seeker needs to wade through to find strong startup and the right role in it. The right approach is to think broadly but network and search to ask specifically.

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Startup Portfolio Later Stage Hiring 148

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

Equity 78

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. He is also the Co-founder and Chairman of BrandCycle. More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. He's the founder and chairman of the board of global partner marketing agency, acceleration partners.

Marketing 87

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 87

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

For this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we teamed up with the Indian Angel Network (IAN). As he grows, he can simply focus on increasing the restaurant portfolio and getting more corporate clients. I advised Gurdip to figure out how he would do the reconfiguration because his business depends on cracking that nut.

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India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical 116

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Bessemer started the idea of the “anti-portfolio” – the companies that you passed on, but ended up doing very, very well. . After Honey was acquired by PayPal for $4B a few weeks ago, we thought it was a good time to share the Version One anti-portfolio: Honey. We met Sonder’s founder Francis Davidson many times between 2014 and 2016.

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Portfolio Cap Table Early Stage Valuation 201

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

As a consequence, they need a VC that has a strong international network and can help them develop their go to market successfully in the US. What’s the n°1 startup that you wish you had in your portfolio? Lastly, SaaS startups can only thrive if they become leaders in the US. More and more champions will be built out of Europe.

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API Silicon Valley Europe Differentiation 48

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

There are many ad networks that offer very low monetization rates and take a large sales commission. If you decide that the way you want to address all this is by becoming, yourself, an ad network, that is certainly one way of addressing the pain point. It's just not worth it. You can participate in further discussion here.

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Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis. It had the audience, the people, the network, everything! Revolution, what is it?

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

And I enjoy working with founders immensely. Having raised money before for my startup and having coached a lot founders on fundraising over the last few years, I’ve grown to love it. You need your founders to get downstream capital. 1) It is absolutely the best job in the world for me.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

And I enjoy working with founders immensely. Having raised money before for my startup and having coached a lot founders on fundraising over the last few years, I’ve grown to love it. You need your founders to get downstream capital. 1) It is absolutely the best job in the world for me.

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Salary Capital Call Bootstrapping Cofounder 48

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 6, 2011

KY Ho – founder of ATI Technologies Inc. Stashed in the recently found (almost perfect) vertical laptop bag. To view the portfolio presentation, please visit my online profile at [link]. Before getting rid of our TV cable (now use a HD antenna from a box store and get great HD reception) I watched the Food Network.

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Canada Design Community Vertical 69

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. For this reason, we’re excited to announce that we have closed on NextView’s $50M third fund, with a mission to champion founders who are redesigning the Everyday Economy. . How We Plan to Invest in the Everyday Economy.

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Seed Stage Portfolio Cofounder B2B 273

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders. Post-Mortem Title : Key Lessons from Cryptine Networks’ Failure. Company : Cryptine Networks.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. My first two calls were to True Ventures & Founder Collective.

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