Agile VC

MAY 13, 2013

While our portfolio at NextView is roughly equally weighted to consumer facing and B2B companies, it seems that for consumer companies in particular being first mover confers little benefit and the drawbacks probably outweigh whatever weak advantage might exist. Dropbox (cloud storage). Netflix (video streaming).

Cloud 205

Cloud B2B Software Review Technical Review 205

Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 31, 2012

While the technology is the enabler for these movements, social reputation plays a key role in their adoption. My favorite excerpt is below, but you can read the full article – the Role (and Future) of Social Reputation - here. What do you think the future of social reputation holds for companies?

Reputation 108

Reputation Social Network Technical Review Portfolio 108

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Check out this interesting piece on PEHub talking about how Stanford is discreetly looking to sell it’s asset portfolio ! It is also a result of pent-up demand. In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary. Want to know how bad it is to raise money as a VC right now?

Technical Review 269

Technical Review Stock Hawaii Early Stage 269

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. If nothing else, it shows how many billions Meta is willing to commit in order to advance Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the future of the Internet. Here we go! Epic Games. but still lost $2.8

IP 206

IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

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. 1/ Social Network Interference. In 2017, we learned about how social media feeds were used to surface biased or planted information.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

As the old joke goes, “on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog.” In short I ended up having to deal with what is affectionally called on the Internet – trolls. And I accept that anonymity is inevitable on the Internet. ” So I have gotten comfortable with pseudonymity. But context matters.

Technical Review 329

Technical Review Reputation Naming Internet 329

Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2012

The advent and growth of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and, now, Pinterest has heralded a new era in the Internet where people are connected to one another to share, discover, curate, and collaborate. However unlike the intent oriented desktop Internet search, the mobile platform is about discovery.

Mobile 60

Mobile Application Development Curation Distribution 60

Version One Ventures

JULY 9, 2020

Thanks to the Internet, you can find all of the needed resources from a variety of global experts to become world class at almost any subject or skill. A project portfolio that leads to income. For starters, it’s probably NOT more content. Want to learn to code for free? Freecodecamp and Codecademy have proven, thorough curriculums.

Portfolio 134

Portfolio Curation Open Source Networking 134

Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

The firm is solely focused on capital efficient business sectors, most frequently but certainly not always internet-enabled companies. Portfolio construction favors early-round capital allocation vs. company life-cycle allocation. Initial investment in a company is among the first non-founder capital raised. Structural.

Seed Stage 175

Seed Stage Technical Review Dilution Offshore 175

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. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 9% (1 / 12).

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. In fact, many new companies employ no IT people at all. Final thought.

Romania 77

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Earlier this week Mary Meeker published an update to her by now legendary internet trends presentation and Nielsen published their Social Media Report 2012. Taken together they tell us clearly that mobile and social are still growing very fast. Mobile apps are used nearly five times as much as mobile websites.

Mobile 125

Mobile Internet Social Media Portfolio 125

Babbling VC

AUGUST 18, 2011

Research the fund you are applying to: read their website, review their portfolio, find some press clippings on recent deals and research the partners via LinkedIn, Xing or whatever other social network gives you access to their backgrounds. . Know about two or three of their portfolio companies! OK, I'll be honest here.

Portfolio 75

Portfolio Software Review Partner Networking 75

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2014

This is the most common model touted by Internet startups today, the so-called Facebook model, where the service is free, and the revenue comes from click-through advertising. This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs and medical devices that solve critical health problems.

Revenue 287

Revenue Startup Business Model Retention 287

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2012

This is the most common model touted by Internet startups today, the so-called Facebook model, where the service is free, and the revenue comes from click-through advertising. This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs that solve critical health problems.

Business Model 282

Business Model Revenue Portfolio Differentiation 282

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

On the other hand, the best firms have developed strategies to capture more value while their best portfolio companies stay private. There are significantly more Internet users and we’re no longer newbies b. Some of the earliest-stage funds have set up SPVs because they are at times easier and faster to raise than new funds.

Venture Capital 292

Venture Capital IPO Mezzanine Early Stage 292

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2013

This is the most common model touted by Internet startups today, the so-called Facebook model, where the service is free, and the revenue comes from click-through advertising. This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs and medical devices that solve critical health problems.

Product 290

Product Revenue Business Model Retention 290

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

As recent as 2016, for example, many business ideas from great minded entrepreneurs came to life, including those related to cancer cure, fast internet connectivity, business news, self-driving trucks, drones for relief operations, and so much more. Professional Social Networking Sites. Rationale for Startup Investments.

Private Equity 150

Private Equity Startup Incubator Social Network 150

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2015

The Internet of Things offers device vendors like Lenovo the opportunity to diversify their consumer portfolios, increase revenue and profits, and establish deeper relationships with customers. With things in the field, Lenovo will develop its understanding of the full potential of the Internet of Things.

Marketing 100

Marketing China Internet Portfolio 100

thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I overviewed the growth of the global internet and penetration, noting that the future of the Web was going to be driven by emerging countries, as mobile connectivity continues to be more ubiquitous and the West is largely penetrated. Globalization of the Internet. conference in NYC, in September 2010.

Global 59

Global Internet Web Indonesia 59

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2010

This is the most common model touted by Internet startups today, the so-called Facebook model, where the service is free, and the revenue comes from click-through advertising. This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs that solve critical health problems.

Product 247

Product Startup Portfolio Revenue 247

Gust

AUGUST 24, 2014

This is the most common model touted by Internet startups today, the so-called Facebook model, where the service is free, and the revenue comes from click-through advertising. This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs and medical devices that solve critical health problems.

Revenue 184

Revenue Startup Retention Internet 184

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. I’m forwarding it to all of my portfolio companies). I think we’ve all come to accept that “ banner blindness &# is a real phenomenon.

Media 288

Media Advertising Early Stage Algorithm 288

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. In fact, many new companies employ no IT people at all. Final thought.

Romania 44

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

She began the CIA’s Lessons Learned program and led the Agency’s first effort to address the challenges posed by social networks, digital ubiquity, and the emerging culture of collaboration. It basically means like a senior statesman in country … without portfolio. Of course I had to look it up at that time. . …

Wiki 120

Wiki Entrepreneur Cofounder Government 120

Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.

CTO 78

CTO Internet Illinois Cofounder 78

VC Adventure

OCTOBER 23, 2014

We feel we’ve found that in Ello – a social networking business that’s part Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook, but at the same time all its own. I know plenty about selling advertising on the internet – we have many portfolio companies that help publishers do this (or that are publishers themselves and who make money selling ads).

Cofounder 103

Cofounder Social Network Flash Finance 103

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. And many of them view the local government as an irrelevant factor in their business.

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Massachusetts Silicon Valley Washington Boston 33

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Facebook should be more worried about the people (teens and younger) who never use Facebook at all, but instead turn to Snapchat, Instagram, Vine, Twitter or something else as their FIRST social network. Other “home pages” on the internet have fallen from favor before, ranging from AOL to Yahoo to MySpace.

Retention 108

Retention Mobile Social Network Acquisition 108

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. The VC sense of accomplishment or failure is blunted by being slightly removed and by the portfolio effect. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, King makers.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

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. Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Since I got into internet marketing, I’d always heard that outsourcing was the key to having a very successful business. Posting on social networks and getting the word out there. I chose him because his portfolio was awesome, and his hourly rate was pretty low – significantly lower than the other bidders.

Technical Review 77

Technical Review Social Bookmarking Video Restful 77

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2016

They are artifacts of an older time, before the Internet made it so easy for people to share their work with the world. One of the most obvious examples of the online portfolio is within the creative community. In this process, the CV and its lines of text are pretty inconsequential.

Vertical 60

Vertical Reputation Portfolio Curation 60

Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2014

When it’s possible to do the bulk of your holiday shopping on the internet, who wouldn’t be tempted to do it 24/7 and get it out of the way? Just make sure there’s a balance between the time spent talking about Aunt Jane’s ugly sweater collection and the client’s portfolio. Ratchet up your company’s social networking posts.

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Employee Product Ratchet Demand 134

VC Adventure

OCTOBER 23, 2014

We feel we’ve found that in Ello – a social networking business that’s part Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook, but at the same time all its own. I know plenty about selling advertising on the internet – we have many portfolio companies that help publishers do this (or that are publishers themselves and who make money selling ads).

Cofounder 48

Cofounder Social Network Flash Finance 48

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 31, 2010

The internet explosion becomes the definite integration of art and technology for me and I was very interested in every aspect of web design and programing. I got presence in all the social networks but I just use it for personal/photography stuff. Lately I’ve been showing my crowdSPRING logo portfolio on the iPad.

Venezuela 70

Venezuela Software Review Design Programming 70

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 18, 2011

Kevin began his career as a product manager and later co-founded ConnectGroup, a start-up providing high-speed Internet access to the hotel industry. You can view his full portfolio here. Xoom is backed by Sequoia Capital , NEA , Fidelity Ventures , Stanford University, and Peter Thiel.

Cofounder 49

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley San Francisco 49