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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Where Stealth is Good – There’s a lot of discussions on the web about whether startups should be stealthy before they launch or not. My general rule is that it’s good to be stealth in the early days while you’re building your product and testing your market. Most people totally advise against stealth.

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Breyer Capital Austin?—?End of Year Update

Austin Startup

In addition to building transformative companies that we’re lucky to have in the portfolio, Data.World and OJO Labs respectively, they’ve helped with introductions, investment diligence, and broader portfolio support. ai , a Breyer Capital early-stage investment, list on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users.

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Reinventing the Office: How to Lose Fat and Increase Productivity at Work

David Teten

As the New York Times recently wrote, sitting kills. We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode). The way in which most people stay in shape is fundamentally broken. Motion is better than no motion; stasis kills. Office Setup.

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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

just months after it came out of stealth. For example, if you’re a wine retailer in New York, missing a payment to your supplier by just one day means that your next shipment will have to be paid on delivery, putting a huge strain on your cash flows. Managing the timing of payments is critical and can have dire consequences.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

These are 20 th century relics of the lack of data available from each team and the lack of comparative data across a cohort and portfolio. By re-evaluating the strategies that produce wins on the field, the 2002 Oakland A’s spent $41 million in salary, and were competitive with the New York Yankees , who spent $125 million.

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New Year, New Fund

Seeing Both Sides

Our geographical focus continues to be centered around our offices in New York City and Boston. We had an exciting 2015 - we made eight new investments out of the new fund and have a ninth that is closing this month (see our fun Year in Review ): Jibo, NS1, Omni Storage, Raden, Redox, SmackHigh and two stealth companies.