Hunter Walker

JULY 20, 2019

While this hasn’t happened to any of our portfolio CEOs in a while, there’s one reason for a VC passing on a funding round that just sets me off: “I wanted to do the deal but couldn’t convince my partners.” c) You never believed in the first place, and are blaming your partners versus just passing.

Partner 92

Partner Cap Table Vertical Portfolio 92

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. In this episode, I talk with the Founder and Chairman of Acceleration Partners, Bob Glazer, about why diversifying your marketing strategy with other channels — like partnerships — is the way of the future.

Marketing 89

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 89

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.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

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. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

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, especially those with an operating background, can see a company for what they want it to be rather than what it is. New VCs are vulnerable to fashionable verticals.

Software Review 100

Software Review Vertical Seed Stage Portfolio 100

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In some ways it’s ALWAYS to an investor’s benefit to suggest a potential new investment wouldn’t be competitive to an existing portfolio company, and it’s ALWAYS to the current portfolio company’s benefit to suggest it might be. How does the expansion of firm mandate change incentives for its individual partners?

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Early Stage Cofounder Vertical Portfolio 114

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

And we also look at companies that are creating the best product for a specific vertical – including bio/healthcare and other emerging tech. With Angela’s promotion to General Partner , we now have investment partners located in both the U.S. It is a true honor to be a partner of yours! Acknowledgements and gratitude.

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Silicon Valley North America San Francisco LP 127

Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

What makes my particular business operation unique is that we market, tailor, and provide our clinical counseling and treatment services to traditionally over-looked segments of the wider community that typically do not access and/or obtain counseling and treatment services; specifically, many immigrant and newer immigrant populations.

Entrepreneur 89

Entrepreneur Technical Review Harvest Portfolio 89

Version One Ventures

MARCH 4, 2014

For key positions, they should jump in and pitch a candidate to join a portfolio company. Making important early introductions to follow-on investors is one of the best ways to make sure that a portfolio company will be in a good position to rase the next round of financing. Do I have the right people on the team? Related articles.

Portfolio 154

Portfolio Vertical Operations Hiring 154

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

You can stop making new investments, but it will take years to actually work through your active portfolio companies. I’ll also continue to work within the NYC tech community—now thriving at a level I could hardly have imagined when I first got the pitch deck for USV’s first fund as a Limited Partner at the GM pension fund.

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Later Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Limited Partner 218

Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

To me, it makes sense, because “tech” is no longer a vertical – it’s seeping into every sector horizontally. This impacts portfolio construction and possibly returns, though on the flip side, end-markets are larger and outcomes can be greater — look at Datadog, for instance.

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Seattle Seed Stage Deal Flow Vertical 130

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally.

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Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 39

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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Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 257

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&# What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

This is a guest post by Jeff Jordan, General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Platforms upon which their community of users continually expands into new verticals. And they have been ably managing the operations amidst simply explosive growth. Talk about a business with humble roots.

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Rhode Island Portfolio Liechtenstein San Francisco 78

Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

 We had an engaging and candid conversation, which included fielding questions from audience members including  Laurie Yoler, Managing Director of GrowthPoint Technology Partners. 42in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed; vertical-align:baseline;mso-line-break-override:none;punctuation-wrap:hanging">.42in;text-indent:-.42in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;

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Vertical Syndicate Syndication Forecast 28

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

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. Techstars funds all types of startups, working across all verticals, applying all types of business models.

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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.

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Venture Capital Austin Texas Private Equity 54

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active. It’s an impressive portfolio.

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 219

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.

Angel Investor 128

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 128

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

A few days ago, Bessemer West Coast SaaS Practice - David Cowan , Byron Deeter and myself, hosted a CFO Dinner for our SaaS portfolio at John Bentleys in Redwood City. Fifteen CFOs participated - about half of them from Bessemer portfolio SaaS companies (Cornerstone On Demand, Intacct. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare?

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

Even in 2006, when I joined Bessemer Venture Partners, there was still a lot of skepticism in the Silicon Valley around SaaS (one of my first blog post in 2006 was titled: “W hy I disagree with Tony Zingale — CEO of Mercury Interactive — on the future of SaaS "). My SaaS focus at Accel Partners is the natural continuity of this path.

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API Silicon Valley Europe Differentiation 48

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sisu is currently expanding its product portfolio and geographic scale to develop additional cutting-edge, patented, clinically proven medical devices, and to create a system for medical device commercialization in emerging markets. She is the primary inventor of a modular centrifuge that operates with or without electricity.

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Baltimore Africa South Africa Michigan 62

Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Android is, today, a remarkably mature mobile platform and ecosystem and benefits greatly from hardware innovation and a highly extensible core operating system. On the software side the portfolio of Android apps is deep and broad, the only application that I would like to have which is not available is Instagram.

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Metadata Software Review Vertical Software 28

www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

JOB OF THE WEEK: Operations Manager. Microsofts New Enterprise Operating System Is Going To Be A Big Hit. Google Ventures managing partner Bill Maris strongly denied Grahams accusations, calling them "patently absurd.". " Our portfolio speaks for itself.". Thanks to our partners. Clusterstock. Your Money.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup Valuation Venture Capital 54

YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

In the letter, Buffett advised, “Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio’s market value.” Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I You can have the best operations. He cares about longevity. Think Wang.

Stock 157

Stock Memphis Balance Sheet Analytics 157

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.

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Media Los Angeles Russia Viral 210

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Bogdanovich, who’s worked with dozens of companies on Salesforce integration and marketing automation, sketched an order of operations for data acquisition and deployment in demand gen campaigns: Bring clean data into the CRM. Tom Tunguz offers a framework that uses a scale from 1 to 10 to assess demand generation portfolios: 1.

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Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Like Edison and the lightbulb, like Gates and the pc operating system, I would launch a revolution that would transform society while bringing me wealth and fame. At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers. Company : Untitled Partners.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

The time they spend with customers is usually limited to transactional core products sales, generating lower margins – The resource allocation is not always matching the opportunity (geography, customer segment, vertical.) – The rules of engagement for technical resources (solution or product specialists) are not clear.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Europe Software 48

VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

Adding Convergin products to Oracle Communications portfolio is expected to enable customers with next-generation solutions to address network migration to an all IP core at significantly lower integration and hardware costs. Exanet, which was founded in 2000, provides scalable network-attached storage software solutions to OEM partners.

IP 68

IP Analytics Portfolio 68

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). This could mean partnering exclusively with someone who makes products offline (and who is not tech savvy to compete online with you). don’t think about at all.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). This could mean partnering exclusively with someone who makes products offline (and who is not tech savvy to compete online with you). don’t think about at all.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

BeyondVC

MARCH 19, 2007

Sure, they didn’t tell us much in the public sessions as sometimes you can come away with the impression that Microsoft is doing everything and the only opportunities for startups are niche verticals built on Microsoft’s platform.

Acquisition 60

Acquisition Cloud Mobile Vertical 60

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62