Version One Ventures
APRIL 6, 2021
Despite the obvious challenges, we ended 2020 on a strong note and, so far, our portfolio family has been riding a huge momentum wave. 2021 is proving to be an incredible year across our portfolio – from big funding announcements to significant product developments. Arweave announced its incubator, the Open Web Foundry.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 28, 2010
kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.
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Hearpreneur
DECEMBER 24, 2017
In addition, we were lucky enough to finally find reliable partners, thus adding a few more services to our portfolio – like Locksmith and Childcare. Our 100% recycled mailers and world’s first algae-based ink have set a new precedent in the packaging industry and allowed us to offer the best possible products to our customers.
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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.
Feld Thoughts
SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
Today one of our portfolio companies BigDoor announced the acquisition of San Francisco-based OneTrueFan , a community and web check-in company. Recently the market demand has been outpacing their ability to keep up, so they turned to OneTrueFan as a means of accelerating their product development and overall growth.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 28, 2010
Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico). These are all “billion dollar industries” he says.
Steve Blank
MAY 28, 2009
Our firm has a portfolio of companies across a broad range of markets and the way we look at it is pretty simple – the deals fall into two types: those with customer/market risk and those with invention risk.” The real risk in markets like Web 2.0 is whether there is a customer and market for the product as spec’d.
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