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Q2 2020 Quarterly Update

Version One Ventures

And while these past three months have been far from typical, there was a lot of activity across our portfolio. Cape Privacy emerged from stealth and announced a $5 million seed round , which we co-led with Boldstart Ventures. At the end of every quarter, we publish a quick recap. Here are some of the highlights: . New Investments .

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. Exactly right!

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You Are What You Measure, So Choose Your KPIs (Incentives) Wisely!

Occam's Razor

An optimal inbound marketing portfolio will have balanced Owned, Paid and Earned channels.]. I was advising a stealth mobile application company (hello future one billion Facebook dollars!) Where is the structure that will ensure you build out a real credible asset for your company? So do the right thing. Don't shout.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

How many entrepreneurs opening words are about how stealth their project is, followed by a 10-page NDA to hear word one? Every VC will tell you that they will take meetings with 100% of the companies that their existing portfolio founders recommend. Guarding The "Big Idea". I was totally guilty of this back in the day.

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