Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. I can’t do every deal. I can’t add value in each situation.

Software Review 150

Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndication 150

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 237

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. PC and mobile interfaces dynamically display portfolio valuations and exposures, along with system-generated investment recommendations tailored to a specific client’s financial goals and risk appetite.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

The most pervasive has been the expansion of passively managed portfolios, such as index funds and ETFs, which allow both retail and institutional investors access to a broad spectrum of investment opportunities at a much lower cost. How are investors thinking and protecting against volatility in their portfolios?

Management 114

Management Portfolio Institutional Investors Government 114

View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

A few years ago, a friend of mine who was coming off an EIR gig at a well-known venture fund in Boston ended up joining one of my portfolio companies part-time as a technical advisor / interim CTO. Repeat founders are often excited to “get the band back together” or aggregate talent.

Founder 159

Founder Cofounder CTO Hire Early Stage 159

Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. But rather than just keep the info internal, wouldn’t it be more productive to publicly publish the aggregate results for the whole community?

Early Stage 246

Early Stage Boston Portfolio Silicon Valley 246

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. A Lightspeed Portfolio company. Social Media based Discovery Traffic Breaks Out. In the traditional marketing parlance, Google directed web traffic represents bottom-of-the-funnel users who are ready to take an action now.

Internet 114

Internet Media Social Media Advertising 114

David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

The company aggregates a tremendous amount of medical news and research and personalizes it into a user friendly experience. Lakewood-Amedex ( www.lakewoodamedex.com ) is a development stage biopharmaceutical company that is developing a diverse portfolio of broad-spectrum anti-bacterials, anti-virals, and targeted therapeutics.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review New York Accredited Investor IP 128

Version One Ventures

JUNE 16, 2020

We recently wrote that B2B marketplaces need to nail four things : aggregate product catalogs, automate procurement processes, increase trust/social proof, and integrate with key services in the ecosystem. DemandStar is on a great path toward executing against all four of these opportunities. .

Government 125

Government Seattle Software Review Aggregator 125

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Companies are aggregating global audiences and selling direct making new product categories viable which wouldn’t have worked when national distribution limited customers to single countries – companies which build communities around their interest area are particularly powerful in this regard – e.g.

Open Source 102

Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

With all these considerations, I recommend the following steps and considerations for investors newly interested in startups: Build a balanced investment portfolio. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. But these requirements go away with the new Crowdfunding JOBS Act just passed into law.

Portfolio 228

Portfolio Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC 228

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios. Reusable Rockets – Satellite connectivity revenues could exceed $130bn per year in 2030.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. Over 1,000 senior professionals have since signed up for the mailer, which goes out on Fridays. I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

By interconnecting the design, procurement, and construction process into a single software platform, we provide customers with an “aggregated source of truth” for their projects delivering a unified offering to them that streamlines the entire process.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Founder Saudi Arabia Cofounder 128

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? The questions that arise most with respect to any category of IP at the earliest stages include: How will this affect our chances of getting funded on favorable terms ? Barriers to entry ?

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

And they also are great for sports events (I watch the Eagles pregame videos from fans aggregated in one place, for example). We’ve seen portfolio companies like GumGum become enormous by riding this trend. Authenticity / Endemic. Ultimately advertisers want to be remembered and to do that they need to stand out.

Advertising 150

Advertising Iowa Campaign DC 150

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

The outcome in either scenario is a restructuring of the organization that is exquisitely geared towards taking advantage of portfolio optimization. You can even get great first-step guidance about how to rebalance your portfolio from that last column. Related implications of what you want to do in-house vs. out source to an Agency.

Channel 162

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 162

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Staying on the buyers’ lists is based on how well you conduct yourself in the diligence processes, “beauty contest” Banks are aware of your funding situation and your portfolio / investment thesis. Intermediaries.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Patent trolls purchase portfolios containing patents and sue companies for infringing them. Although the data is public, the startup may not have been able to manually aggregate that data on its own, or the owner of the website may expressly prohibit use of the data outside of the services the owner offers. Patent Trolls.

Convertible Security 100

Convertible Security IP Technical Review Software Review 100

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

To not have it as an active part of your marketing portfolio is sub-optimal. Measure retention rate over time in aggregate – or for optimal health, segment retention rate – and measure it for the various objectives you have set for your email marketing program. Is email a key part of your marketing portfolio?

Metrics 138

Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 138

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 9% (1 / 12).

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Aggregated search engine level analysis. This is a simple custom report I use to look at the aggregated view: As the report above demonstrates, you can still report on your other metrics, like Unique Visitors, Bounce Rates, Per Visit Value and many others, at an aggregated level. Here's an example.

Search 156

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 156

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

When you’ve been playing the game a bit longer or when you have responsibilities at the fund level you start thinking more about “portfolio construction.” So if you truly want to be great at investing you need all the right skills and access AND a diversified portfolio. You’re thinking about one bullet at a time.

Bankruptcy 294

Bankruptcy Bridge Financing Portfolio Angel Investor 294

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

And to your question specifically, once you start to say, okay, well, where am I in my, I roll on the S curve overall, everything that's required of me, but it very much is a portfolio of curves that you are going to have a number of different curves that you're on within your work. So you're putting together that portfolio.

Leadership 95

Leadership Technical Review Fractional CTO Utah 95

SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

I have literally hundreds that I've aggregated and curated. I also have favorite quotes around portfolio management, product development, process, optimization, roles and leadership. Very hard for me to pick just ten. And my favorites change over time and depending on the company.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Aggregator Curation Agile 69

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We believe this way we can extrapolate insights for our particular business model (portfolio operator VC fund) previously missed out.”. We make heavy use of Slack both internally and with our portfolio company founders for messaging and task progression. How can accelerating portfolio company value be aided by use of software?

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

There is always one exception to the rule. :) It can be of some value to take aggregated data about your visitors (especially those that converted) and put it into your corporate data warehouse where all other data of your company sits. But even if 110% of the signs point to that first make sure you have aggregated all the marginal gains.

Analytics 119

Analytics Web Metrics Channel 119

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2022

And to your question specifically, once you start to say, okay, well, where am I in my role on the S curve overall, everything that's required of me, but it very much is a portfolio of curves that you are going to have a number of different curves that you're on within your work. So you're putting together that portfolio.

Leadership 93

Leadership Utah Portfolio Technical Review 93

Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. Transformations, aggregations and joins at massive scale is where BlazingDB wins! BlazingDB is the third in this series, after RackN and Appbase. By now, a few trends are emerging.

Peru 58

Peru Fractional CTO Artificial Inteligence Database 58

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. . – get your free ticket while they last: Israel and UK Digital Drinks. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution.

Israel 133

Israel Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

Obvious caveats to my POV here, most specifically: exposure is limited to largely the US/SiliconValley ecosystem, driven by our own portfolio, my friends and co-investors, the funds I’m a LP in, and our institutional LP relationships. Many VCs Owned Too Little of Their Portfolio Companies to Begin With. Valuations.

Portfolio 116

Portfolio Cap Table LP Valuation 116

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

With all these considerations, I recommend the following steps and strategies for any investors newly interested in startups: Build a balanced investment portfolio. These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Begin with perhaps 5-10 percent of your total investment base, and be prepared to lose it all.

Liquidity Event 300

Liquidity Event Angel Investor SEC Accredited Investor 300

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Some VC firms have eschewed taking direct investments from public pension funds, as state laws now sometimes require these pension funds to publicly disclose information about their investments that VCs consider sensitive, confidential info, like fund-level returns or individual companies in the portfolio. Endowments. new buildings, etc).

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Version One Ventures

MAY 28, 2020

Here are two examples from e-commerce use cases – both are V1 portfolio companies: Shippo : developers can use this API to connect businesses to shipping carriers. First, you can aggregate the supply especially in antiquated industries where a lot of infrastructure needs to be built for the API-as-a-marketplace.

API 207

API Aggregator B2B Demand 207

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! Portfolio. (3). Also, even if the productivity is increasing, it is still far from the 0.75-1.0 anecdotes. (13).

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Europe 63

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

These are 20 th century relics of the lack of data available from each team and the lack of comparative data across a cohort and portfolio. Metrics visible at a glance are number of customer interviews in the current week as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses, mentor and instructor engagements.

Oakland 330

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 330