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Q1 2024 Portfolio in Review

Version One Ventures

Upcoming Events PLGTM 2024 (hosted by Inflection.io ) is happening in San Francisco on April 16th and 17th. PLGTM brings together GTM and Growth leaders from the top product-led companies – it’s a great event for anyone in marketing, sales, success and growth at a product-led company. Jam announced their $8.9M

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. I would see Marc Benioff in the line for Starbucks at One Market in San Francisco and probably few could pick him out of a line up then.

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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

United States San Francisco Bay Home to Silicon Valley, which houses some of the most prominent tech startups and multinational firms, the San Francisco Bay area remains one of the top startup hubs in the U.S. Competition is tight, but recent layoffs and uncertainty have created new possibilities for entrepreneurs.

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Honor Technology Closes $370 Million in Financing, Plans to Triple its Engineering and Product…

Austin Startup

The funding will be used to further invest in hiring remote workers, with an emphasis on the greater Austin and San Francisco areas due to Honor’s existing office footprints, and to expand Honor’s groundbreaking operations and technology capabilities across the Home Instead network, which has three offices in the greater Austin area.

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“I’ll see in 2022 if I can turn The SF Minute into an actual business that’s somewhat sustainable”

Hunter Walker

The SF Minute is a San Francisco-based newsletter that highlights the top local stories of the day. I wanted to learn more about what was happening in San Francisco and (although we have some good publications here) I wasn’t satisfied with any particular product that brought the news together in a simple way.

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

Local politicians wanting to see local job creation rather than jobs at tech firms all migrating to San Francisco should be heartened. The more people that see your brand as the innovator the more “earned media” the company gets and the product becomes synonymous with the category. Brand matters. How does the Bird service work?

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[Infographic] What Does It Cost To Run A Startup?

YoungUpstarts

That’s great, but do you know how much it will cost to hire the talent that would make take your idea from concept all the way to a market-ready product? Planning to start your own technology startup? And even if you do, did you know that where you’re based also matters when it comes to doing up the numbers?

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