VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Mature startups with proven business models and the potential to reach the public markets within a few years will be the safest place to park any new venture capital that comes into the ecosystem. The pressure to protect portfolio startups seen as potential fund returners will be profound.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Sablotsky continued her professional career as Vice-President of Portfolio Development for Jacobs Investments, LLC. Her responsibilities included: strategic counseling, business modeling and deal negotiation for the various for medical startups in the portfolio and is a limited partner at NGT3 Medical Accelerator in Israel.

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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. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

So yeah, I, there there's some confusion around these terms, partner, marketing partnership, marketing affiliate market, and you have influencer and B2B. I, I think there is this convert urgents where affiliate marketing was a model that used technology to, to work with partners at scale. This will work for any kind of business.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This is especially true for those with a media / ad based business model (e.g. But B2B startups need to take a different tack. We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. The typical quota for a sales rep varies by type of business model (SaaS vs. perpetual), product gross margin (e.g.,

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. There are countless B2B startups that are enabling this digital transformation and how consumers experience the Everyday Economy. It’s a question every VC asks themselves and the entrepreneurs they invest in.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. ARR of $500K+.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly The firm’s portfolio includes the likes of Gist , Lijit , Brightleaf, Memeo, SimpleGeo , StockTwits and Zynga. Gary Vaynerchuk: Personal branding master and creator of Wine Library TV, Gary Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with an expanding portfolio of companies.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of the 21 st century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, while startups search for scalable business models.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

But for B2B sales, meeting people in person is often mandatory. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. Tech stack.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

Yesterday I was having a discussion with one of our executives on the strength of network effects inherent in the data.world business model. This led to a far ranging strategic discussion that got us both really excited about the huge potential of our business. It is one of the key ingredients we look for.

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View from Seed

JULY 19, 2019

JDCC stands for “Jaw-Dropping customer value through a Competition-Crushing business model.”. Customers who experience this kind of product can’t help but talk to other people about it, whether it’s friends & family in the consumer segment -or- other business partners & peers in the B2B space. Asking “Is it JDCC?”

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Version One Ventures

MAY 28, 2020

As we’ve been spending time on B2B marketplaces and dev tools/platforms, we’ve come to realize that there’s an interesting sub-category that combines elements of both: the API-as-a-marketplace. Patch : developers can use this API to connect businesses to carbon offset providers. What is an API-as-a-marketplace?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

More than a third of our investments at NextView is B2B, and here’s why: We want to invest in companies that directly affect how people experience the world in any context , and even if they’re not directly interacting with or purchasing from the startup. Types of B2B Everyday Economy Companies. Impact First, Business Models Second.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Pre-launch customer development data is another way, sometimes in the form of user surveys for consumer companies or interviews with potential beta customers for B2B businesses. One of our portfolio investments, a B2B SaaS company, was a pre-product startup at the time of the seed round.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2022

I was recently in a board meeting for one of my portfolio companies, and we had a discussion that must happen in almost every board meeting. Sequoia shared this advice on sales efficiency with portfolio founders in their recent ‘adapting to endure’ series. Sounds pretty normal, doesn’t it?

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

With a focus on seed investing in the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise and business models that harness the power of network effects, our entrepreneurs have successfully been able to raise over $200 million of financing following our initial seed investment. finally, this theme is also applicable for b2b.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

This is why I’ve made a habit of profiling our portfolio quantitatively and why we write summaries announcing pretty much all of our new investments. So, here is our annual quantitative summary of our portfolio. A Stroll Through Our Portfolio. Type of Product and Business: Consumer vs. B2B. Consumer: 9.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

From expert AMAs tailored to your pre-seed needs to hands-on mentorship from relevant, established entrepreneurs within the NextView portfolio to founder-only sessions that create a safe space for sharing and supporting one another, our programming is created to meet you where you are and propel you forward in the direction we believe you can go. .

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 25, 2015

With help from the Marketplaces Facebook Group , we have curated a list of recommended B2B tools by marketplace founders. The bottom line is if you’re building a marketplace, leverage good tools wherever you can, so you can focus on more valuable tasks like making connections and refining your business model.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

As a seed fund, we tend to layer in “ capital efficient beginnings ” to the mix given our investing model and belief about the best way to build internet and software businesses. As a vertical community, the business of GrabCAD was never going to look like that of a social network or social media company.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

With a focus on seed investing in the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise and business models that harness the power of network effects, our entrepreneurs have successfully been able to raise over $200 million of financing following our initial seed investment. The other big theme is one of big data. As they say, the rest is history.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Remember, a year from now no one wants to be the CEO of a company out of business whose lament is, “I did what the board told me to do.”. This plan has three parts: Pivots to your new business model, changes to your operating plan, and what initiatives you save for the recovery. What does your board suggest?

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. 2) B2B startups have high margins. Many serial entrepreneurs tend to gravitate towards building B2B startups. B2B companies can have great unit economics.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. 2) B2B startups have high margins. Many serial entrepreneurs tend to gravitate towards building B2B startups. B2B companies can have great unit economics.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. 2) What is the business model and the potential unit economics? Certain investors tend to gravitate towards certain business models. This one is pretty investor-specific.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. 2) What is the business model and the potential unit economics? Certain investors tend to gravitate towards certain business models. This one is pretty investor-specific.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts. However, as we know from the cable industry, subscription businesses can be very profitable over time. For a direct, enterprise sales business model, these thresholds are likely to be around $80,000-100,000 CMRR (approx. $1-1.2M Michael Kassing.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. INTERNET BUSINESSES. Business Services (B2B). MANUFACTURING BUSINESSES. "Were just getting more light on the entrepreneurial process," he says. Other Travel & Transportation. Passenger Transportation. - Social Services.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. broken vc model. Business Culture. Business Model Canvas. Business plan.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Go to the B2B dancing monkey video (what!). No company in the Milky Way has succeeded without having a balanced portfolio of acquisition channels (fancy word for source of traffic). What to look for: I am really looking for a balanced portfolio of traffic sources. See how it looks. Go to the product pages. How's yours?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. RADWIN 2000 is a portfolio of carrier-class products providing high-capacity, long-range connectivity at highly competitive prices.

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Rob Go

MARCH 2, 2017

In consumer businesses, this is because of the breadth of choice available to consumers and the challenges of getting attention. For B2B companies, it’s because incumbents are often quite entrenched and there is resistance against trying new software unless the benefits are jaw droppingly obvious.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

So with that, and that’s at all levels of the organization, that’s consumers, that’s B2B clients, they don’t know where to look, they don’t know who to trust. Ron Tite: I think that what it is, is it gives them the opportunity to diversify their portfolio in a way that still reinforces their brand belief.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. “Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. 2) Business model-defined funds. For example, Point Nine Capital focuses on B2B SaaS and marketplaces at the seed stage, across many industries.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

And I said, well, actually in fact, because I think that our whole business is things that fail a lot, and then suddenly you have the right idea and the right thing for these markets and the right way of pulling together. Maybe even what your business model is in its mature, large form. You know, maybe I’m wrong.”

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