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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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility. Entrepreneur Jeff Magnusson provides a sample agile budgeting workbook. This agile approach is not restricted to small startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Ben Deda from FullContact convened about 100 execs from our 60 or so portfolio companies for the day. Amongst other things, it describes a start-upper’s most valuable core attributes: fire, ability, agility, adaptability, and clear, concise communication skills. As I read this wonderful post, I got very positively charged up.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. To do the same, Alex recommends building two things: a business portfolio map that recognizes invention as necessary and an updated organization chart. So that gives us two different management structures for these two different portfolios.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Founder’s Journey To truly succeed, a founder needs resilience , a consistent capacity to innovate, and the agility to adapt to an ever-changing market. It’s our focus on understanding market needs and adapting with agility that has anchored our success.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

According to Pitchbook, “The median return of emerging fund portfolios narrowly exceeded that of their established counterparts, while the top-quartile figure delivered by emerging managers significantly outperformed.” Stay Agile and Evolve Emerging managers must be ready to pivot their investment thesis as markets change.

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Agile VC

MAY 13, 2013

While our portfolio at NextView is roughly equally weighted to consumer facing and B2B companies, it seems that for consumer companies in particular being first mover confers little benefit and the drawbacks probably outweigh whatever weak advantage might exist.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2020

Here are some of the key features and benefits of deploying PDFelement as part of your software portfolio. Though not strictly adherent to “agile” project management protocols like its sibling, Jira (also from Atlassian), it offers a compelling interface that uses drag-and-drop, click-to-edit, and other such convenient features.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

They matter in the sense that GPs only earn carried interest if they generate absolute gains on their portfolio, regardless of how their fund does relative to other VC funds or even other asset classes. Even if you’re top decile for your vintage year (e.g. 3.0x+ cash on cash) is profitable.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

Why Every Designer Should Have a Portfolio – [link]. What You Need to Know About Agile UX – [link]. Mobile Web Design: 10 Tips To Better Usability – [link]. 30 Collections of Creatively New Photoshop Tutorials – [link]. 16 Magazine Covers and Layouts Design Examples – [link].

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Informed decision-making is not just about approvals but also portfolio management and risk mitigation strategies. Whether reviewing applications, checking approval statuses, or accessing critical data, a mobile-friendly platform empowers lenders to perform tasks on the go, increasing responsiveness and agility in decision-making.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

When Rob, David, and I started NextView nearly five years ago we thought it was important to enlist a small group of talented entrepreneurs as we built and helped our portfolio over time. So if they’re not just names on a page, how are these entrepreneur advisors involved with us at NextView and our portfolio companies?

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

As much as I seek to empower our portfolio companies to do what they think is right and to avoid over-planning I sympathise with these ‘traditional managers’ in the sense that when you switch from operating with a detailed operating plan to operating without one it feels like you are flying blind.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture.

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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. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Talking to potential customers and competitors customers. Expo SF (May.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

When Rob, David, and I started NextView nearly five years ago we thought it was important to enlist a small group of talented entrepreneurs as we built and helped our portfolio over time. So if they’re not just names on a page, how are these entrepreneur advisors involved with us at NextView and our portfolio companies?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Even at its simplest, it’s a great place to manage and make new connections, to find and hire employees, and to build a portfolio that showcases your skills, experience, and abilities. Don’t have a website or blog? Start creating your personal brand here. Branding and design tools for the DIYer. canva.com.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Jeff Bezos , CEO of Amazon, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. VCs are committed to servicing existing portfolios.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

Seeing that Web developers take a lot of pride in their online portfolios and keep their LinkedIn profile up to date this just appears incredibly dated. First of all the cases where the integration of the new small agile and innovative company into a large corporate worked are few and far between.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2015

Instead, take the time to compose a nimble, agile sales team that has worked in the industry you’re looking to penetrate, understands the fluctuating nature of a startup and is willing to do the dirty work: segment the market, make cold calls, automate sales and implement a sales process that is unique to your company and product.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

For example, one of the angels I pitched to cared deeply about our competitive landscape, whereas another wasn’t too concerned about the competitive landscape, he was more interested in our financial assumptions and my team’s ability to implement in an agile fashion. Angels vs. venture capitalists.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 8, 2014

Raj Bhargava (CEO of JumpCloud ) and I have been talking about how startups can leverage DevOps and Agile more. We created a conference on DevOps last year for our portfolio companies and it was a huge hit. The post Q&A on Startups, DevOps, and Agile appeared first on Feld Thoughts. My Investments DevOps jumpcloud'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Jeff Bezos , CEO of Amazon, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. VCs are committed to servicing existing portfolios.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In fact, a recent survey showed that 80% of responding companies said they were using Agile practices in one way or another. By adopting the Scaled Agile Framework, or SAFe, you can keep your business operating as efficiently and effectively as possible long term. How We Can Help You to Master the Scaled Agile Framework.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Today, scaling an existing business in a large interconnected environment is generally easier than growing a disparate portfolio. This requires continuous communication up front, agility in adapting to change, and continuous innovation improving satisfaction and experience.

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2022

Agile Delivery. Their portfolios give you a quick overview of how good their work is. It helps that freelancers are inherently competitive as well, so you won’t be lacking in willing recruits. Freelancers are well-known for providing quality work at a surprisingly quick pace.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. While these theories explain how to think about innovation in a company they didn’t tell you how to make it happen. Fast forward to today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Brian Cohen , chairman of the New York Angels, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. VCs are committed to servicing existing portfolios.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Not everything will work.

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SVPG

MARCH 10, 2015

” How about the flavor of Agile they wish to use? Importance of Integration: In some companies, the portfolio is a set of related but largely independent products, where integration and leverage is less important. Should they be able to select the programming languages they wish to use? What about user interface frameworks?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 12, 2018

As clients, we’ve done our fair share of portfolio reviewing and research. They Build Skill and Agility This one’s a gimme: passion projects are opportunities to learn and test new skills, techniques or approaches efficiently. It’s a win-win. Or is that a win-win-win? Pssst… like what you read?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2017

Business intelligence (BI) is the gateway for achieving greater agility. Agility in this sense means the flexibility to make more informed decisions based on a diverse array of data outlining consumer patterns and purchasing behavior. by Dan McCarthy, event manager for Venueseeker.

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SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

Think in leaps, but iterate in steps" - I attribute this to Google, and I like it because it helps to highlight the need for both product vision and for Agile methods, and to help teams understand why these goals are not in conflict. "Be And my favorites change over time and depending on the company.

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