VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2024

Calling Israeli startup founders in Interactive Entertainment, AI & Gaming! Whether it’s text, images, audio, video or even music, new tools are democratising creativity, enabling new opportunities for startups. You may have noticed that the fundraising market for startups has slowed down. Not for us.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

We are taking the screen sharing experience to the next level, so that collaboration doesn’t get in the way of doing great work,” writes CEO and founder Tom Medema. –JJ Oslund, The Startup. Vertically-focused startups design products to better meet the needs of particular user segments.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Steve,&# he said, “you’re missing the most interesting part of vertical markets. Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students. We’ll talk about how to reduce risk in each type of market in the next post.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 15, 2024

Our current investment thesis, “backing mission-driven founders at the earliest stages,” was introduced back in 2020. We’re interested in those rare opportunities where a founder is creating a brand new category. When you’re early into a large wave, there’s so much more design space for a startup and founding team.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

At the front-end of these innovations are startups – organizations the Department of Defense hasn’t previously dealt with at scale. Mrinal and Jeff’s article below explains how startups can adapt and thrive while working with the Defense Department. And how the Department of Defense is learning to work with startups.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle. Here are Richard’s insights and startup advice he shared with us about his entrepreneurial journey….

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Launching your startup in a down economy doesn’t make it any less likely to last. Two conditions that do matter to your startup’s out-year viability are the cost and length of its product development cycle. Founders often deploy minimum viable products in limited release, building credibility and buzz with influential early adopters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

My introduction to startups really came when I first worked in IBM with Philip Donald Estridge back in 1981. IBM had traditionally done all its own vertical technology development, so this outside vendor thing broke all the rules. Tags: entrepreneur startup IBM PC Don Estridge business. mHz, now 3.0 Marty Zwilling.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

However, as a founder of a small business or startup, you’re juggling many things. KPIs Every Founder Should Track. While the right metrics will depend on your business objectives and specific circumstances, there are some basic KPIs you should keep an eye on: Startup KPIs. “What gets measured gets done.” .

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Version One Ventures

JULY 21, 2020

The startup market evolves, and so do we as VCs. Backing the next generation of mission-driven founders”. Backing the next generation of mission-driven founders”. But ultimately, as our interests change, the one constant has been the founder. You’ll note the description “mission-driven founders.”

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

There is a myth among first time tech founders that product is everything. Here are five financial concepts that every startup founder should know to build an everlasting company. The basic lesson that founders can learn about asset valuation is that Accounting is past and Finance is future. Asset valuation.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

What about the second cousin who is a startup lawyer? The more verticalized your startup’s offering, especially if the venture is B2B, the more opportunity there is to identify industry insiders who will care about your company. But don’t just stop at nuclear family or close friends. Affinity by personal background.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups. Let’s dive in.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM. The founder of what became General Motors was William (Billy) Durant.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

However, for a first-time founder, the prospect of building a fully-functioning marketplace can feel quite daunting?—?you’re My big tip here for any new marketplace founder is to go niche. Find your vertical and stick to it (for a few years at least). But they didn’t all start off that way. London) and category (e.g.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

By Daniel Sokolovksy, Co-Founder and CEO, WARP and Troy Lester, Co-Founder and CRO, WARP The dissolution of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was more than just a bank collapse, it was a reality check for both startups and the VCs that fund them. As a founder, ask yourself – does your business actually warrant VC funding?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 21, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Sarah Tuneberg, co-founder and CEO, answered some questions about the company. Tell us about the startup ecosystem there.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2020

So I’ve found that when you’re not already ‘in the door’ at a firm (ie went to school with the senior GP’s kids, worked at a startup they backed) that there are four different types of “qualifications” they are seeking. You have access and relationships with a pool of talent that will produce founders. Synthetic bio. Blockchain.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Startups that succeed with this approach tend to have founders with deep connections in the industry they serve, and often previously worked for one of the large incumbents in the market. Sell to many”: the scalable SaaS approach. Final thoughts.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Pete Martin , founder of CEO of Votem , and classic rock drummer The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Paging Iowa elections officials! What has the startup experience taught you about life? If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17. Never give up.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Observing a handful of companies, such as Uber, Airbnb, Warby Parker, founders were taking those models and trying to apply them to other verticals. A ton of private label vertical commerce. These startups are VERY difficult to start without having one or more key technical members on the founding team.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

We recently invested in a startup that creates a continuum of evidence-based care, integrating previously fragmented resources to treat substance use disorder (in hopes of preventing relapses). I recently caught up with Zak Holdsworth , co-founder and CEO of Hint Health , who gave me some food for thought on new insurance models.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 10, 2013

are what I’d categorize as “horizontal” – that’s to say, they don’t focus on a specific industry but rather try to help a group of startups generally advance their development. Even the most promising founders might be attracted to the incubator because of deep industry focus. (B) Implication?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

Milis Bio CEO and Founder Mike Sheehan winning the 2018 Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of Year prize. Mike Sheehan , CEO and Founder at Milis Bio, earned a B.S. I would love to work with a startup accelerator, if not on my own startup. What has the startup experience taught you about life?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

You’ve decided to undertake a startup, now how exactly are you going to go about that? Allow me to emphasize that native talent and temperament have a lot to do with how you determine your goal, whether it’s golf or creating a startup. They learn how to talk with potential customers and de-risk their plans from the start.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Having recently addressed founders in my chapter “Be Coachable,” allow me please in this essay to address this matter to you providers of help. As you probably know, I prefer advising founders in long, immersive engagements. If you want to share your wisdom to founders, you have many avenues that do not require prior Freudian training.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2019

Elevating startup growth is definitely in the cards for most founders, and there are a number of ways to accomplish this goal. Regardless if daily operations are still happening in your spare bedroom or garage, your startup is in fact a brand. Right now, custom pint glasses are trending, especially in the startup culture.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. The fund views its portfolio startups as fulfilling one of the three layers of the “Big Data stack”: 1. Enterprise. Smartphones.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 1, 2023

I still want this to happen, but as I love to tell founders Hope isn’t a strategy. Funds that raised to M&A struggling SaaS startups take advantage of the lack of fundraising that occurs and they execute on deals they set out to do. Your entire experience and process will be governed by a authentication. 1: Failed it.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 11, 2016

Andy Dunn, the founder of Bonobos and one of the most thoughtful writers I know on ecommerce, penned a good piece yesterday entitled Digitally Native Vertical Brands. It’s a brand, and that brand is vertical. Andy says we are “in the first decade of a multi-century trend” towards vertically integrated ecommerce.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

I still want this to happen, but as I love to tell founders Hope isn’t a strategy. Funds that raised to M&A struggling SaaS startups take advantage of the lack of fundraising that occurs and they execute on deals they set out to do. Your entire experience and process will be governed by a authentication. 1: Failed it.

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