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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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

While Marcus’ memo touches on numerous high-level debates like passion vs. paycheck, there’s one important message for start-ups, managers, employees, and investors alike: Eat your own dog food. Should an investor really be expected to use the 10, 15, or 20 products in his or her portfolio? Investors, really? I say absolutely.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Each month, we pick an up-and-coming vertical or theme and do a deep dive (with the help of Mattermark … portfolio plug). My favorite part about being an investor is working with our portfolio companies, as well as other investors and entrepreneurs. I never anticipated how helpful or relevant my research skills would be in VC.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Vertical integration of different funding risks. I also believe that the ebb and flow of the venture investment cycle has been exacerbated by the recent vertical integration of early, growth, and even late stage venture funds. The investment thesis wasn’t wrong — it’s just that they bet on the wrong horse.

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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. 4) Manage deal flow. Talent Relationship Management tools (e.g.,

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Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2000, they included tentage into their portfolio and since then they have established themself as a premium brand in marriage event management. Most of their business growth was vertical by focusing on food, tentage, and decoration for marrying couples and their families.

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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. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. 10% of Feenix’s portfolio companies have received VC equity prior to their financing. Alternative Capital. “ ARR of $500K+.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2014

New VCs are vulnerable to fashionable verticals. Our strategy isn’t to necessarily be contrarian but we decided there were certain verticals that we weren’t going to pursue in 2013. Not Understanding Portfolio Management. Chasing Hot Markets. What are some motivations to chase the market?

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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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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Each month, we pick an up-and-coming vertical or theme and do a deep dive (with the help of Mattermark – portfolio plug). My favorite part about being an investor is working with our portfolio companies, as well as other investors and entrepreneurs. At Version One, we aim to be as thesis-driven as possible.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

We wanted to learn more about the nuanced industry market forces before applying the same hands-on investing model we do with tech startups in other verticals. Many of these companies, however, exhibit similar characteristics to the things we invest in outside of the health vertical. They can be surprisingly capital efficient.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. This B2B startup allows homeowners and small business property managers renting out their properties on sites like Airbnb to get paid early. BookBub ), hybrid B2C/B2B2C models (e.g.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

I ditched coaching as a product and asked myself, The West Coast are early adopters of innovation in talent management. Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! . #4- I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. The answer was outplacement.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

I ditched coaching as a product and asked myself, The West Coast are early adopters of innovation in talent management. Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! #4- I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. The answer was outplacement.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

We were fortunate to host very talented speakers from our portfolio (Ilya Sukhar from FB/Parse, Steve Marx from Dropbox, Bill Ready from Braintree, Ali Rayl from Slack, Eric Wittman from Atlassian, Sam Mac Donnell from HotelTonight.)

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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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View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

Pros of taking their angel money include the feeder system to venture financing of the next round and the vast network of portfolio CEOs which can be tapped into for connections and help. Cons of an investment from a Super Angel include potential lack of “value-add” because his or her time is spread so thin amongst many portfolio companies.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

At NextView Ventures, we have a number of companies in our portfolio which are “marketplace” businesses, where buyers and sellers meet to exchange a good or service. Often this focus can be on a specific geography or vertical. Attract would-be buyers with research/learning about purchasing … suppliers will follow.

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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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View from Seed

MARCH 15, 2018

Often, these startups tend to fall in areas like home , food , apparel , transportation — but fitting squarely within a specific vertical isn’t a requirement. . You can look to our portfolio for some examples. Markets, though, aren’t always well defined.

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Transformify

JULY 4, 2018

Our clients source candidates across all geographies and verticals. The cost may be too high depending on the efficiency and the quality of candidates each company manages to attract and hire. The job seekers provide a link to their Linkedin profile, portfolio, etc. Transformify Recruitment CRM is a global solution.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

ATI has served the entrepreneur community for over twenty years and focuses on the IT, Wireless, Clean Energy and Bioscience verticals. The current portfolio ranges from 60 Ghz chip sets (Nitero) to enterprise 2.0 ( InXero ) to family media ( Famigo ) companies.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 9, 2016

Typically, when people think of false bottoms, they think of vertical scrolling. Since vertical scrolling is more familiar to most people, let’s start there. Personal Portfolios. Personal portfolios are a place for designers and photographers to show off their creativity. via Chartbeat). Image Source. Tweet It!].

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

Analyzing these metrics not only fundamentally changes marketing strategy (think tens of millions of dollars for large companies); their insights can change your company’s product portfolio, your customer engagement strategies and much more. Following them is the layer for managers, who make even more frequent, tactical decisions.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Both venture firms sought my advice for their portfolio companies. Wasn’t something fundamentally wrong with the way everyone organizes and manages startups? We’ve managed startups like this forever; there is no other way to manage them.” It was a long way from Ellis Island.)

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 6, 2016

Here’s a quick recap of some of this quarter’s news clippings for V1 and our portfolio companies. They are all yet to be announced but include our first Fintech company, a dev tool company and knowledge management company. Portfolio companies in the news. Data analysis for large verticals. Funding announcements.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 2, 2019

Each week we like share our thoughts on a range of topics from vertical markets to general startup advice and our reflections on investing. Among our Silicon Valley-based portfolio companies, every company past “A” has a distributed team. Happy new year! Changing the narrative on distributed teams in Silicon Valley”.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

PROs of taking his angel money are the feeder system to venture financing of the next round and the vast network of portfolio CEOs which can be tapped into for connections and help. CONS of an investment from a Super Angel include potential lack of “value add” because his time is spread so thin amongst many portfolio companies.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

Platforms upon which their community of users continually expands into new verticals. And they have been ably managing the operations amidst simply explosive growth. Providing economic opportunity and empowerment to their sellers/hosts, enabling them to earn meaningful income. Helping to make inefficient commerce efficient.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Techstars provides their accelerator portfolio companies with access to financial, human and intellectual capital to fuel the success of their business. I am very excited about this year’s incoming class,” said Amos Schwartzfarb, Techstars Austin Managing Director.

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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. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 26, 2013

So, it appears that the shift to mobile that’s happening across all verticals is mainly a shift of devices, rather than the emergence of new use cases. Frontdesk and Jobber , two portfolio companies in the vertical SaaS space, have built mobile-only solutions for managing a service business.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

If you haven’t already, check out previous posts detailing Andrew Chen’s (Uber) fireside chat on growth strategies , Anthony Marino’s (ThredUp) talk on managed marketplaces , and B2B marketplace dynamics from Shippo’s Mikhail Ledvich. Expand into different verticals. Don’t spread across verticals too fast.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 4, 2012

A couple other things I’ve written on this specific topic recently include: The Peter Principle Applied to Management , which focuses on keeping people as individual contributors when they’re not able to move vertically into a management role within their function or department, and. Moves like this don’t always work.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

However, as an investor watching my portfolio companies and other start-ups in the market, I can see how large rounds negatively impact the culture of budding business. I’ve seen many start-ups rush to hire new staff and tackle brand new verticals or international markets when it’s just not time yet.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

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