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. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2014

We were always earnest in our interest and since our default engagement mode is to give feedback, I’d like to think that these meetings were of some value to the founders, but in more of these cases the initial partner should have applied more rigor and conviction. New VCs are vulnerable to fashionable verticals.

Software Review 100

Software Review Vertical Seed Stage Portfolio 100

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.

Later Stage 218

Later Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Limited Partner 218

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. The Grouped Angels.

Angel Investor 334

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 334

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Signal is a fundraising tool for founders run by NFX Guild, which identifies the most relevant VCs for you. . 9% (1 / 12). 1) Market fund.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

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.

Portfolio 154

Portfolio Vertical Operations Hiring 154

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

And we also look at companies that are creating the best product for a specific vertical – including bio/healthcare and other emerging tech. and Canada, offering portfolio companies strong networks and resources on both sides of the border. Having run our own companies, we try to pass on as much of our operations knowledge as possible.

Silicon Valley 127

Silicon Valley North America San Francisco LP 127

Hunter Walker

JULY 20, 2019

While this hasn’t happened to any of our portfolio CEOs in a while, there’s one reason for a VC passing on a funding round that just sets me off: “I wanted to do the deal but couldn’t convince my partners.” ” That’s all part of building trust and visibility for a CEO into the way you operate. .”

Partner 92

Partner Cap Table Vertical Portfolio 92

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2017

We think it’s inevitable that this vertical will undergo the same digital transformation as every other major commerce category and we’ve made two investments behind this thesis ( Paintzen and Renoviso ) and will be expecting to do more around the construction and renovation space in the years to come. Source: Google Finance).

Denmark 244

Denmark Vertical eCommerce Internet 244

Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

To me, it makes sense, because “tech” is no longer a vertical – it’s seeping into every sector horizontally. This impacts portfolio construction and possibly returns, though on the flip side, end-markets are larger and outcomes can be greater — look at Datadog, for instance.

Seattle 130

Seattle Seed Stage Deal Flow Vertical 130

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Both venture firms sought my advice for their portfolio companies. No one was actually quite that good, but some VCs had “golden guts” for these kinds of operating issues. It was a long way from Ellis Island.) Surprisingly, I enjoyed seeing other startups from an outsider’s perspective. Oh yes, company X, they’re having problem 343.

Silicon Valley 125

Silicon Valley RSS Venture Capital Customer Development 125

Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

The net effect is powerful: it empowers all of us (no matter who we are or where we are) to learn more quickly, make better decisions, and operate more efficiently. 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.

Venture Capital 160

Venture Capital Vertical Curation SEC 160

Hunter Walker

JUNE 14, 2018

“Vertical Expertise” – More hands and minds around the industry maze they’re traversing. Founders articulate a certain support they’d like in figuring out operational decisions and growth challenges. The answers I receive typically fall across four categories: 1. ” via email.

Cap Table 81

Cap Table Portfolio Vertical Reputation 81

Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

They were joined by a third co-founder, Nathan Blecharczyk, who brought programming expertise. Platforms upon which their community of users continually expands into new verticals. The website is clean and very intuitive—not surprising, I guess, when two of the founders are designers.

Rhode Island 78

Rhode Island Portfolio Liechtenstein San Francisco 78

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Techstars provides their accelerator portfolio companies with access to financial, human and intellectual capital to fuel the success of their business. This is a very strong group of founders building some of the worlds next amazing companies. For more information about the Techstars Austin accelerator program, see here.

Austin 62

Austin Curation Startup Dallas 62

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Unit economics are something I’ve found most entrepreneurs (and investors!)

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Unit economics are something I’ve found most entrepreneurs (and investors!)

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

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. and Indian companies.

Baltimore 62

Baltimore Africa South Africa Michigan 62

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. 3) Raise capital. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

View from Seed

JUNE 23, 2022

Founder: Dennis Chim. Automating their end-to-end eCommerce operations (from managing inventory to order fulfillment to customer service). Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. Get to know the founders. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. .

DC 156

DC Cambodia eCommerce Social Media 156

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

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.

Portfolio 202

Portfolio Cap Table Early Stage Valuation 202

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

What’s the n°1 startup that you wish you had in your portfolio? Do you consider yourself as competing with US VCs for SaaS startups? We are a global VC, therefore we’re competing — and at the same time partnering! — with with VCs everywhere in the world. Zendesk — the 1st SaaS EU company to be listed on the Nasdaq.

API 48

API Silicon Valley Europe Differentiation 48

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

It’s an impressive portfolio. I don’t think you need operational experience to be a good VC but Mark Suster’s great new post illustrates the difference. [.] So founders might be tempted to first shoot the arrow and then draw the target around it, by choosing the ‘soft’ metrics that puts them in the best light.

Customer Development 219

Customer Development Web Developer Customer 219

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

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. He is the founder and former Co-Chairman and CEO of Motion Computing. link] Click here to download a PDF with all of the tables above. Edward’s University.

Venture Capital 54

Venture Capital Austin Texas Private Equity 54

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Bogdanovich, who’s worked with dozens of companies on Salesforce integration and marketing automation, sketched an order of operations for data acquisition and deployment in demand gen campaigns: Bring clean data into the CRM. Tom Tunguz offers a framework that uses a scale from 1 to 10 to assess demand generation portfolios: 1.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

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. He's the founder and chairman of the board of global partner marketing agency, acceleration partners. He's also the co-founder and chairman of brand cycle.

Marketing 90

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 90

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. Both AOL and Time Warner had existing VC operations. Revolution, what is it?

Cofounder 277

Cofounder Merger Founder Venture Capital 277

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

And What This Means For Founders. In some ways it’s ALWAYS to an investor’s benefit to suggest a potential new investment wouldn’t be competitive to an existing portfolio company, and it’s ALWAYS to the current portfolio company’s benefit to suggest it might be. So what’s a founder to do?

Early Stage 115

Early Stage Cofounder Vertical Portfolio 115

Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 13, 2019

At its root was they didn’t want to violate a commitment they’d made to another CEO in the portfolio. I didn’t know Ben at the time – and we’ve really only met casually a few times since – but it was one of those moments of operational clarity that gave him evergreen cred in my mind.

Portfolio 57

Portfolio Term Sheet Seed Stage Vertical 57

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Like Edison and the lightbulb, like Gates and the pc operating system, I would launch a revolution that would transform society while bringing me wealth and fame. When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. Post-Mortem Title : How My Startup Failed. Company : BricaBox.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

His reaction reminded me one more time why entrepreneurship is an art, why VC’s manage portfolios of companies and why new ideas come from those who don’t respect the status quo. The mentor tried his best to get the team to look at the actual operating data that exists for this kind of service and the likely regulatory hurdles they will find.

Vertical 332

Vertical Agile Customer Development Lean 332

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

His reaction reminded me one more time why entrepreneurship is an art, why VC’s manage portfolios of companies and why new ideas come from those who don’t respect the status quo. The mentor tried his best to get the team to look at the actual operating data that exists for this kind of service and the likely regulatory hurdles they will find.

Customer Development 224

Customer Development Vertical Agile Lean 224

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. It’s a bunch of vertically integrated snowflake applications with a mouse and a keyboard and a screen.

Artificial Inteligence 388

Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Technology CTO 388

Version One Ventures

MARCH 29, 2017

Others are looking for baseline information on operational expenses (i.e. Mission : To provide answers to those questions that founders/operators frequently ask their investors and peers, and to replace anecdotes with data-supported answers. Founders and startups use SaaS (i.e. 2: Privately held operational.

Aggregator 60

Aggregator Startup Vertical SEC 60

www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

JOB OF THE WEEK: Operations Manager. Microsofts New Enterprise Operating System Is Going To Be A Big Hit. Our portfolio speaks for itself.". So ultimately, setting the cap has become a proxy for what founders and investors think a startup is worth. Wow, The iPhone 5 Is Going To Be Pretty Thin. Clusterstock. Your Money.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup Valuation Venture Capital 54