Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2023

I’m going to assume you disagree with this but how do you manage through a changing environment and try to keep a team steady during a business cycle like the one we’ve experienced over the last year? And let’s be clear: The term “culture and employee engagement” doesn’t mean “Happy Hours” and “Pizza Parties.”

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

In my career, I have never seen a position in any industry with more varying criteria than General Partner at a venture capital firm. Interestingly, many different models have worked, but in all cases the criteria by which the General Partner is selected says a lot about what you should expect as an entrepreneur from the firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The main thing you’re concerned about in this phase of your company is maintaing control of your board, which in a legalistic perspective is ensuring that founders & management have the majority of seats on the board. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. how to evolve our management team.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2023

For many companies, the base use case is to deploy an internal chatbot, powered by GPT-4 that can serve employees to search and engage with the company’s internal information (with the right level of access control and data management), without model hallucinations. In 2023 so far, Generative AI startups raised $15.2B so far in 2023.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

The management team of one of the companies sat down for a brainstorming session. Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. Thanks to Roy Morejon, Enventys Partners ! #10- 9- A merger of two companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of the management team, or a sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attributes for every funding equation. While these may be necessary for funding, they may not be sufficient to make your startup the great success embodied in your vision.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2012

I always tell teams I meet with, “The scarcest resource in your company is management bandwidth. And nobody is more important in this regard than senior management. ok, I know our product isn't yet verticalized. Spend it wisely.” ” Every company is built by a team and every team member matters.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

To do this we partnered with the RevGenius community to get a better understanding the challenges mature companies faced. Our research showed that LTV was much higher compared to other verticals we have worked in the past which made the decision to change our approach a no-brainer.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

But the founders also recognized – as many great founders do – that they were going to have to build out an experienced management team to become the billion company everybody believes this can be. Babe Ruth vs. Lance Armstrong. The first move was to bring in digital media veteran Courtney Holt as COO.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

James Kenigsberg is the Chief Technology Officer and a founding team member at 2U , an educational technology company that partners with universities to offer online degree programs. By doing so, we demystify the online education experience and use our technology to empower the students enrolled in our partner programs. .

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. – Thoughtful fund management. Investing is a completely different skillset from being a good manager.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. – Thoughtful fund management. Investing is a completely different skillset from being a good manager.

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View from Seed

MAY 11, 2020

As a firm, we have had a thesis around the unbundling healthcare to create best-in-class, vertical healthcare solutions for the world’s biggest problems. As they were conceiving of this business based on Mike’s own experience with medical treatment for managing alcohol, we were captivated by the opportunity to partner with them again.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

by JP James, Managing Director of Libreum Capital Management. Thinking Aloud deal making deals JP James Libreum Capital Management startup' I have been asked by more than one venture the question, what are the points that I need to consider whenever I put together a deal?

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 25, 2014

At version one, we are big believers in the vertical SaaS opportunity. A mobile-first approach, combined with a laser-like focus on a specific vertical, can create the right toolset to help SMBs achieve huge productivity gains ( I wrote about this nearly a year ago for TechCrunch). That’s where Clio comes in.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

My personal favorite and best fit for GRP Partners was Thumbtack. The idea of aggregation is powerful in a world where your social communications are fragmented and increasingly hard to manage. There wasn’t a bad company tonight but I had a clear favorite. Thumbtack is marketplace for local services.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. Alternative Capital. “ You qualify if you have $5k+ MRR. Bigfoot Capital.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2014

My answers are actually bland, largely because I had a pretty good handle on what the initial 12 months would bring and a great partner in Satya Patel. New VCs are vulnerable to fashionable verticals. Not Understanding Portfolio Management. Chasing Hot Markets. What are some motivations to chase the market?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For example, he sees great potential ‘for co-pilots are “branded” sales people, like wealth managers, insurance brokers, and mortgage brokers’ and re-defining the product surface area, for example: how would AI change customer service or productivity?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

Getting business websites more visibility is what we do, but I want to focus on building a reporting system that demonstrates our progress in a way that non-tech CEOS and managers can understand. 4- Partner and create books. Find (at least) three institutional partners who will use us. Have potential partners reach out to us.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. You will quickly see how crowded the space really is, how big a pain point you are solving and who potential partners are. – PEOPLE.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

The two Data Collective managing partners, who are currently raising fund number two, tell me that the timing is right for a fund committed exclusively to Big Data companies, as the barriers to entry in launching these sorts of startups are only getting lower.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of the management team, or a sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attributes for every funding equation. While these may be necessary for funding, they may not be sufficient to make your startup the great success embodied in your vision.

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The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

The company, comprised of Piers Mummery, Craig Holloway and Christian McGuinness, already has regulatory approval for its first fleet of 25 vehicles from Transport for London and already managed to secure a significant £680,000 seed investment in May this year.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

When your digitally native vertical business selects its ecommerce platform, it’s essential to get the best analytics and security: data is what enables you to plan smartly, and security is what lets you proceed safely. Make sure your digitally native vertical business is smart and secure, by getting the right ecommerce platform.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 19, 2016

Booster partners with large businesses to offer on-demand gas fill-ups on their corporate parking lots. million round from existing investors: Floodgate, Second Avenue Partners, V1, and Rich Barton. In other funding news, Front Desk raised a $3.5 Our new investments and refined investment thesis.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. In my days as a product manager, the conventional rule for user generated content was the 1% rule. New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creator s, Eric Feng. ” Eric Feng.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

If you have the entrepreneurial itch and managed to graduate without taking advantage of these wonderful university programs, or perhaps you’re a few years older and preceded them, you still have access to incubators and accelerators in every high tech hub around the country. Residency in a quality incubator is a plus.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

And, as we brainstormed with today's audience, they suggested other excellent use cases, including one for product managers to discuss feature-function priorities with customers and prospects. Today, instead of going niche and focused, he and his partners are going broader, even, and planning to burn even more money. PTA Portals.

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SVPG

APRIL 28, 2012

Armed with her launch checklist, she schedules a meeting with John, the product manager. My partner, Marty, wrote elegantly about the necessity to split product management and product marketing into two separate roles [link] , and this assumes that model. Vertical/affiliate/evangelist programs.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2020

by Paul Sparrow , Area Managing Partner & CMO with Chief Outsiders. For reliable insights on the economy, an outstanding resource is ITR Economics , an economic research organization that issues monthly economic trend reports by industry verticals and market segments. For example, manufacturers may recognize that new U.S.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

They represent the result of a lot of hard work by the company employees, and external analytics partners. Inspire each Marketer, Finance Analyst, Logistics Support Staff, Call Center Manager, and every VP to move one step up or one step to the right. Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension….

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2019

If you’re not as good at financial management as you are serving up amazing meals, find a mentor or business advisor, take a class, or hire someone you can trust and take their advice. Attend events to scout for any opportunities of vertical and horizontal mergers and tie-ups. Be honest! .

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Yet two smart VC firms, Sigma and Matrix Partners, realized that somewhere in this mess there was value. The first step was to recruit a new management team. Their guess was that they would find value in the high margin graphics business. Why they were looking to me to run marketing wasn’t clear.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

For several months now, my partners and I have spent a lot of time talking about why we’re investing in the Everyday Economy. We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home.

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B2B B2C Vertical Portfolio 120

Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Collectively they have $850M in capital in their most recent funds: [link] Both Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners have filed regulatory documents associated with new fundraising efforts in 2017 so we should all look forward to announcements from them on successfully raising new funds. Corsa Ventures fits this criteria.

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