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Finding new Market Opportunities in Food Business: A Case Study of GOPA Pakistan

Where to Play

In 2000, they included tentage into their portfolio and since then they have established themself as a premium brand in marriage event management. This analysis highlighted that Gopa has strong competencies in Event management, Cooked food supply, Decoration, and Human resource management for events.

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Money Doesn’t Talk. Why Most Startups Aren’t Announcing Their Seed Financings

Hunter Walker

And my sense is the trend carries outside of our portfolio these days. You Don’t Need to Show Off for the Fortune 500 CTO: Funding announcements used to be the credibility you’d need to get a meeting with the CTO or other management with purchasing power and a RFP. The individuals and team managers have more sway.

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Flyability: safe drones for inaccessible places

Where to Play

Adrien Briod , the co-founder, envisioned how a collision-tolerant drone would assist in managing such dangerous situations. This strategy clearly defines your primary focus, and a smart portfolio of Backup and Growth options that you will keep open- to make sure you maintain your agility over time. The Challenge.

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Cracking The Code: Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud.

Cracking the Code

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is the service and management layer of the cloud platform, and is evolving dynamically to include things such as intelligent provisioning, as well as application and network management. Employees are now powerful customers, not just their managers! Portfolio. (3). sales and marketing. (10).

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The easiest path to growth and profit is up: why startups should focus on the long-tail

Version One Ventures

For example, Clio , a company in my portfolio, first focused on providing legal practice management for solo lawyers and very small firms (today, Clio is now serving firms with over 50 lawyers). In addition, by focusing on selling to smaller companies in the long tail, you’ll benefit from shorter sales cycles.

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Serve It Up

Austin Startup

Those are investments they can easily add to their portfolios. Large deals take the same management time and attention as smaller ones and are a better use of partner resources. Angels, even if they are not recurring players, will see other deals. As to institutional VC’s or PE investors, many of the same general rules apply.

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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017

BeyondVC

Before diving into the standard year-end predictions on the enterprise, I thought I would share some data on our firm and our founding teams from 2016: we welcomed 9 new enterprise founding teams to the portfolio including Workrails (started by venture partner Jeff Leventhal), BigID , Hypr , Init.ai , and 5 stealth companies.

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