Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies. What Rob wrote in his post is right. Please meet her while she’s there.”

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David Teten

JULY 30, 2013

I met some time ago with Brad Wisler, co-Founder of SproutBox , and shared with him our research on portfolio value creation by venture capitalists. SproutBox might accurately be placed in the Mentor category or Portfolio Operator category, but our primary value is very specifically in hands-on product development.

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David Teten

JULY 30, 2013

I met some time ago with Brad Wisler, co-Founder of SproutBox , and shared with him our research on portfolio value creation by venture capitalists. SproutBox might accurately be placed in the Mentor category or Portfolio Operator category, but our primary value is very specifically in hands-on product development.

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Portfolio Indiana Cofounder Operations 114

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. in our portfolio. 4 Operating Philosophies Affecting Series A Raises. Foster product development and marketing which creates organic (or somewhat organic) user traction.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

A light “railway” using high density busses in dedicated traffic lanes is also due to start operating in 2011, and a cable-car connecting the bay area with the academic institutions in the upper part of the city is planned for 2013. Israeli Researchers pursue brain-operated computing. billion in 2010. billion in 2010.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Here in 2021 startups operate in a more distributed fashion earlier in their lifecycle, a trend which preceded COVID but certainly was accelerated by the remote work environment for knowledge workers brought on by the pandemic.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. Ideally, the economics of a development investment look like those of a cash investment; typically, a seed investor will get no more than about 20% of a company for his capital. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Unlike political regimes, technological rulers are comprised of products rather than people. These aging products, developed in earlier times now represent bankrupt ideologies, weak paradigms and byzantine complexity. Which side of history will you be on? The nature of the IT revolution. So what will become of IT?

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Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Both venture firms sought my advice for their portfolio companies. No one was actually quite that good, but some VCs had “golden guts” for these kinds of operating issues. It was a long way from Ellis Island.) Surprisingly, I enjoyed seeing other startups from an outsider’s perspective. Oh yes, company X, they’re having problem 343.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 12, 2020

While many large companies invest millions to protect their intellectual property portfolio, startups in their early stages can forget to look into their intellectual property altogether or make decisions that have a negative impact later on when the business develops. i) Assuming your intellectual property is not important.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 14, 2018

Information, relationships, pattern matching for marketplaces, SaaS, financial services, agriculture, media, etc etc – our backgrounds and/or portfolio suggest that we might have ability to help the founders move faster and with greater accuracy in testing their market hypotheses.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Canary , a portfolio company of mine, takes advantage of this in the security space. Perhaps this is a common theme in my portfolio. SocialSignIn , software that turns wifi into an engaging social marketing channel, operates on the same premise. Snap it on and then--just do what you normally do. Walk, eat, sleep, done.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 22, 2021

He has a background in theater and storytelling and left Carta to start his own podcasting operation. Above is a clip of me and Theo Miller, founder and CEO of Hit Start Media, having a lively discussion about the role of data and instinct in product development.

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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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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

And I understand the nitty gritty operations required to do these customer acquisition methods, so that gives me conviction that with the right team, this type of business can fly. On the flip side, I am definitely the wrong person to help with a fly-business. All the investors whom I pitched who believed that email was dead didn’t invest.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

And I understand the nitty gritty operations required to do these customer acquisition methods, so that gives me conviction that with the right team, this type of business can fly. On the flip side, I am definitely the wrong person to help with a fly-business. All the investors whom I pitched who believed that email was dead didn’t invest.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 29, 2010

Accept has built a set of products for “innovation management&# and while I reflexively gag at the word “innovation&# when applied to large companies, I actually think Accept has the right approach for delivering a solution to the problem of connecting customers with product development.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Do we believe “startup-driven” innovation (innovation that comes from relationships with external, early-stage companies) should be part of the corporate innovation portfolio? Innovation Outposts most often fail when they come up with innovations no operating division wants and/or the company refuses to fund.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Unlike political regimes, technological rulers are comprised of products rather than people. These aging products, developed in earlier times now represent bankrupt ideologies, weak paradigms and byzantine complexity. Which side of history will you be on? The nature of the IT revolution. So what will become of IT?

Romania 44

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 10, 2020

Where we used to talk about Eric Ries’ concept of Minimum Viable Products, we now talk about Minimum Lovable Products: consumers have got to love a product enough to move away from their current alternative. As you operate at the early stage, how do you help a company scale?

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

He said, “First, the founders are their startup and define the company it will become. […] Second, the company must eventually own the product development and maintenance functions in-house. Thatcher Bell was previously a “mentor VC” at Gotham Ventures and North Hill Ventures , and is now Managing Partner, CoVenture.

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BeyondVC

MAY 30, 2007

In one portfolio company, we had some of the standard issues of coordinating product management with engineering and balancing sales requirements with engineering priorities. This is a standard problem I have seen time and time again as companies transition from startup and initial product development to company growth and expansion.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

With current locations in San Francisco, Boston, London, and Shanghai, the medical giant’s innovation centers work on developing new approaches to a range of diseases. The planned Israeli branch will operate as an incubator and will be located in Rehovot, near the Weizmann Institute.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

This conversation seems to come up very frequently these days both with portfolio companies and with entrepreneurs just looking for mentorship. Every conversation about fund raising should start with what your current operational needs are and the stage of your business. they make it incrementally harder to fund raise.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

If you’ve ever looked for a design and development agency to build your product, you know that lack of options is not a problem in this industry. In fact, it’s quite the opposite: thousands of agencies, from one-man shops to full-scale operations, want your business. Who, specifically, is going to be working on my product?

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2020

By Lihi Pinto-Fryman, co-founder and CRO and Gal Aga, VP of Sales at Syte.ai , a visual search startup and Remagine Ventures portfolio company. As a result, it will become easier and faster to solve problems, create more growth channels, and enhance customer confidence in your products or services.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

I use “sales cycle” loosely – by this I mean the time it takes to get a product paid for, and so this involves both product development and time to get a check from a customer). Unit economics are something I’ve found most entrepreneurs (and investors!) don’t think about at all.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

I use “sales cycle” loosely – by this I mean the time it takes to get a product paid for, and so this involves both product development and time to get a check from a customer). Unit economics are something I’ve found most entrepreneurs (and investors!) don’t think about at all.

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Venture Chronicles

JULY 27, 2010

Brightidea calls this “innovation management&# … whatever we agree to call it we intuitively recognize that it is a process that every service and product company engages in. Any company pitching an ideation solution is going to be challenged to straddle marketing and product R&D opportunities, IMO.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Great for visualizing work of product development. In addition, TheFunded.com allows entrepreneurs to view and share term sheets, to assist one other finding good investor, and to discuss the many facets of operating a business. VC Portfolios. project management visually see and interact with your work. Kanbanery â??

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

We are trying to… This is the operative word: Trying. An optimal inbound marketing portfolio will have balanced Owned, Paid and Earned channels.]. We are trying to figure out if our latest redesign was a success ("Look, time on site moved from 3 mins to 900, awesome!"). The reality is that there is a vacuum there.

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