VC Cafe

APRIL 13, 2023

Naturally, a technology like generative AI has the potential to transform and impact many industries, if not all. To me, however, the entertainment, media, and gaming industry seems the most obvious industry to be disrupted by this technology, far beyond any other. However, the current hype around generative AI feels different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2016

Update your technology to reach new customer segments. Make sure you website is mobile-friendly, totally user-friendly, includes a blog and provides for customers review and feedback. It may be small feature extensions, packaging and distribution that can make your solutions attractive and more competitive for new market segments.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher. Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain.

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Africa Benin Seychelles Nigeria 75

Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

The hype cycle for “Remote Work” and “Distributed Companies” has reached a fever pitch, and everyone has an opinion about it. Meanwhile, we have bigco tech employees complaining about not getting their free food delivered to their apartment in Noe Valley. In a distributed environment, work is often solitary.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. Qualified.io

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” of 3,981 VC funds below $2b in size returned at least 2X Distributions to Paid-In Capital (2X) or more. (co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Now it’s all about how fast you recognize and adapt to market change, new competitors, and new technology. Businesses often settle on one social media or distribution channel based on initial testing, and never look back. Regularly update internal process tools and technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. No, thanks.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2016

As the tech industry has exploded over the past couple of decades and millennials have risen to power, companies have innovated wildly to keep up with relentless customer expectations. No matter how high tech your service becomes, you’re still serving human beings. Better, faster, easier! is the battle cry.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I use a more restrictive definition: A growth team is a product tech team that’s focused on acquisition instead of core product features. Using the same playbook that I developed at KISSmetrics, we ran non-stop A/B tests on our email subscription funnel, driving 480,000 leads in 2016 and smashing our lead goals for the year.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

That is to say, I DMed her on Twitter in 2016, impressed by the work she was doing but without a preexisting relationship. Today, you’d look at Textio and say it’s an HR Tech company. Like everyone else, we went distributed overnight in March 2020. But that’s not really how we saw ourselves when we started.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Welcome to Lean Startup Week 2016 TL;DR: Before you dive into the details, here’s a quick look at what you can expect during your week with us: On Oct. If you’re thinking about joining us at the conference for your annual innovation training on Oct. 6 in San Francisco, we’ve got a pass for everyone.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Some of my projects that I burnt the midnight candle never saw daylight either due to a sudden shift in the organization structure or my projected was de-funded due to another competing project. I started Pneuma Nitric Oxide, LLC in order to take my nitric oxide technology into the skin care and beauty arena.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2016

A series of high profile business delegations to Israel ensued in 2016. The complexities of Japan’s distribution and regulatory environment are important considerations. To reduce risk, many foreign technology firms maintain R&D abroad, with local distributors overseeing localization, sales and marketing.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. Qualified.io

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Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JUNE 13, 2017

Innovation + Business + Technology = Digital Leadership. Turnover of CEOs is already high, about 14.9 % a year as of 2016*. The conversation CEOs need to be having, to remain in the shrinking 85.1%, is about how to integrate digital technology and seize new pathways to industry leadership. PwC 2016 CEO Success Study.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

All I have access to is just a cursory review of their digital existence. You can still put together a quick dashboard that will allow Jim and Bob to do a quick review of the data and make smarter decisions about how to invest their limited budget on digital upgrades. Yet, you won’t notice it in my KPIs. A quick best practice.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

I’ve been helping clients with digital marketing (mostly Facebook ads) since early 2016, but this year was able to quit my job to do that full-time. We’re very new to the industry, and while we’re passionate about the product, there have been obstacles every step of the way – production, shipping, distribution, etc.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

In 2016, they had a huge layoff and had to shift strategy. In an A/A test the distribution of p-values is random. The reasons were all technical (bugs). Tech helping us monitor behavior. Challenge data silos (metrics split out by different devices) by reviewing your metrics. Friends referring friends.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. We’ll have to see what next year’s data reveals, but what’s certainly become clear over the past year is that the cloud world is a very different one from the one we mapped back in 2016.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Broadly speaking, this action plan is going to be broken up into three sections: the testing plan, the execution plan, and the review section. And, the very last section— the review section — is really just a list of milestones you create that prompt you to review and revise your plan. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing. So when an investment thesis becomes popular, when a new technology becomes available, when a new media consumption platform becomes dominant, if we believe in the trend, we have to “seed” an investment within the first three years and hope to “harvest” 5–10 years later.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

A 2016 article in Fortune revealed that for the first time, consumers were making more purchases online than in stores. 51% of purchases were made online in 2016 – a significant jump from 48% the year before. The stakes are too high to risk losing business due to weak website design or poor user experience. Content is king.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2016

During this time, the original model of short-term, hourly rentals discontinued in favor of longer duration rentals of 1 day or more due to growth potential. Vrse was founded to utilize VR as a storytelling medium by developing the technology required to create, play, and distribute “immersive VR films.” A Case for Change.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

In our 2016 State of Conversion Optimization Report , which many people in growth roles completed as well, we found that… Only 32% of small companies (less than 500 employees) say they have a documented, structured optimization process. Archive and distribute the learnings. Why You Should Distribute.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

Harvard Business Review explains why such collaboration would be a win/win: Ironically, startups and established companies would both improve their success rates if they collaborated instead of competed. They have huge advantages in procurement, distribution, and manufacturing, as well as sales and marketing advantages.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229. In late 2015, many public technology companies saw a significant retrenchment in their share prices primarily as a result of a reduction in valuation multiples. By the first quarter of 2016, the late-stage financing market had changed materially.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

The CEO writes “Silicon Valley is going to leave Silicon Valley… the technology companies… they’re chasing talent, and talent is chasing affordable housing.” New technologies make it easier to communicate quickly across state borders, but how do you make for serendipitous interactions or peer pressure from being around other startups?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

At every one of them I was the person who wrote the proposals, did the technical interviewed on candidates, went on sales calls with the Account Managers to make them look good and got put on troubled projects to help right the ship. So I started a gig economy job site, with a focus on transparency of pay estimates and user reviews.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Ukraine is a country rich in talents in the technology industry. Most of the startups in the tech industry, however, are centered around software. It is due to this fact that the grant recipients of this year’s Vernadsky Challenge are very happy today. Hideez Key. The next markets that the product will enter are USA and Canada.

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Las Vegas Ukraine Technical Review UAE 82

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

With more than one-third of the world’s population unbanked and more and more people using mobile phones, there is an outstanding opportunity for mobile payment technology to bring the financially omitted into the economic majority. Mobile payment technology removes the need for direct access to a bank or credit union.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. When women and girls are creating technology on a broader scale, we will also see new usage models emerge.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. When women and girls are creating technology on a broader scale, we will also see new usage models emerge.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. When women and girls are creating technology on a broader scale, we will also see new usage models emerge.

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Burma Rwanda United States SMS 40

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . “Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. However, according to PitchBook Data, since the beginning of 2016, companies with women founders have received only 4.4%

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

To see why, consider the decision faced by American voters in this 2016 presidential election. This is mathematically inevitable, due to having many dimensions of value; naturally any given item will hit on a at least a few of those dimensions. Here you have two candidates which empirically are the least-liked in history.

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