VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

Towards the end of 2020, however, the company’s shares were trading lower — potentially due to profit-taking — but also perhaps because of the many alternatives that had sprung by then like virtual mushrooms after a pandemic. Vertically-focused startups design products to better meet the needs of particular user segments.

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View from Seed

JUNE 23, 2022

Founder: Dennis Chim. Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. For example, Marques Brownlee is one of the most prolific technology reviewers. He gets first access to review the latest iPhones, etc. Get to know the founders. Company: Influencer Direct.

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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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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. Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2018

Eighteen months later, I’m keynoting at conferences and serving clients in London, Sydney, Singapore, Los Angeles, Lisbon, Vancouver, and 50 other cities,” says Logan Young, the co-founder of BlitzMetrics, a Facebook dashboard and advertising company. Learn, Do, Teach: Build Your Expertise First.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 3, 2020

I am welcoming the 20’s with an enthusiasm I haven’t felt in awhile and more bullish than ever on technology and investing in general. This one directly pulled from Range and the original Game Boy that has the infamous spinach colored screen and still dominated against full color competition due to these constraints.

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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! Votem is a complete end-to-end platform that takes your organization from registration through to results and review. With the exception of Votem, what tech trend is your team most excited about?

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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. Who does it serve?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

Instead, we’ll be covering the core use cases that customer data platforms address and explore whether Segment or Mparticle ultimately deserves a spot in your tech stack. David Raab Founder at CDP Institute. The average business already has 17 unique technology applications housing customer data. G2 Reviewer.

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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. Bigfoot Capital.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Let’s explore the status and implications of each vertical. . This shift from Big Tech to NFT as an authenticator will have all kinds of interesting consequences for user experiences. infinite tail emissions, slowly adjustable block size) that make it the best hedge bet if Bitcoin dies due to some black swan event.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. (Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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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. In this article, I’ll share what I’ve learned and detail the exact steps you should take to put yourself in a position to succeed.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

But have you ever had the opportunity to pick the brains of founders who created amazingly successful startups and companies like Envato , Backblaze , Simple , or Treehouse ? Few people like talking about their mistakes, but thankfully nine founders took some time to share some of their hard-earned knowledge with you. Find your niche.

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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. Due to the nature of the subscription model, SaaS companies need to focus on certain metrics to ensure profitability. Implement the right workflows and technologies to gather and process the data.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Reviewing financial & operational performance. Founder’s perspective.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2023

” That was the email one of Ethena’s founders sent to me and Melanie Naranjo on 8/21/21, a bit over two years ago. Hunter Walk: One of my favorite things to do for founders is speaking with people who are considering joining their startup. I know you’ll really enjoy chatting.”

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

My recent years have included many thousands of hours of mentoring, coaching, advising, teaching, and encouraging startup founders with prospective ventures across a wide range of disciplines. In those situations, I have watched over business issues and opportunities so the founders have been able to stay focused on their visions.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Whatever it is, it helps diligence opportunities, win deals or service the portfolio in ways that make the founders and GPs feel good. You have access and relationships with a pool of talent that will produce founders. You’ve got some operational superpower. Maybe it’s statistical analysis, growth marketing, or deck making.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 11, 2020 One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , DrumG is a global technology firm that builds and operates financial market applications and networks. Consisting of a veteran team of financial market and technology executives, blockchain leaders, valuations/product experts and experienced engineers.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Benjamin Nadareski of DrumG , which solves data ownership and a broken valuations industry The Forrest Four-Cast: February 11, 2020 One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , DrumG is a global technology firm that builds and operates financial market applications and networks. What is the most over-hyped tech trend?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

As Jerry Chu , CEO and one of the Lofty AI Founders, explains, “our results speak for themselves. See the Lofty AI pitch in the category of Innovative World Technology , 5 pm to 6 pm Saturday, March 14, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. With the exception of Lofty AI, what tech trend is your team most excited about?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 16, 2017

at the time and best highlighted in our end of 2015 review: SaaS 2.0, We also see older school SaaS companies being rebuilt with more flexible back-end technologies like microservices and reimagined with a more responsive and beautiful UI. So what can a founder and investor do in this changing world? So why is this the case?

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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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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

In fact, JW Player was the technology that ran the earliest version of YouTube. It has continued to offer technical capabilities at the forefront of online video. The technical features of JW Player have attracted enterprise-level publishers (e.g. Implementation is technical (i.e. developers required) but scalable.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Passbase Co-Founders: Felix Gerlach , Mathias Klenk and Dave McGibbon The Forrest Four-Cast: February 26, 2020 Passbase is tackling a huge and essential challenge: how to build a secure, private, and convenient digital world. With the exception of your Passbase, what tech trend is your team most excited about?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

To integrate a biometric system into HMD platforms, they have developed the most VR compatible brain-sensing technology, Looxid Link. With the exception of Looxid Labs, what tech trend is your team most excited about? Its AI system is designed to decode the users’ cognitive and emotional states using their biosignals.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

This SaaS company, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , enables global organizations to analyze and resolve pay gaps due to gender or race and stay in compliance over time. Coffee, tech, mountains, and saltwater. With the exception of your own product, what tech trend is your team most excited about?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

A version of this article appeared in the Harvard Business Review. If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM. Where are the charitable foundations, business schools, and hospitals named after the founder of GM? And a founder of Neuralink a brain-computer interface startup.

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View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

You can find another shootaround on voice tech here. I think where we are looking as a firm is more in a technology-enabled marketplace like that or a company that builds a product, rather than one that primarily operates with a services model. We’ve seen two camps of founder types, and their converge or not will also be interest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

He was an engineer, so his first act was to buy one of each of these computers, and disassemble them in his office (a practice frowned on in IBM at the time – due to lawsuits). IBM had traditionally done all its own vertical technology development, so this outside vendor thing broke all the rules. mHz, now 3.0

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 1, 2023

The underlying technology is here and in game progress should be transferrable. We are still in the middle of the streaming wars, but its clear that casting to screens is becoming normal in our house 5/ the US power grid becomes a focus point for conversation from a major disruption due to an attack. 2022 Predictions Legend = -1 = -.75

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The underlying technology is here and in game progress should be transferrable. We are still in the middle of the streaming wars, but its clear that casting to screens is becoming normal in our house 5/ the US power grid becomes a focus point for conversation from a major disruption due to an attack. 2022 Predictions Legend = -1 = -.75

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

UbiQD enabled this innovation with safer, cheaper, and more reliable quantum dot technology that it’s licensing from M.I.T., UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. Your team has had incredible reviews on the UbiGro agricultural product. How do you choose which to focus on?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Scott Parazynski, founder/CEO of Fluidity Technologies The Forrest Four-Cast: February 26, 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. Growing a tech startup is probably the hardest thing I have ever done?—?harder

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Below is a recap of some of September’s Israeli tech headlines: Investment rounds. With verticals such as web, gaming, mobile and desktop software, utest has managed to tap into the vast market of companies that don’t have in-house QA teams. SimpliVT , a new venture in stealth has raised $9.2

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