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. There are of course exceptions, mainly in the B2C world, like Waze, which sold to Google for $1.4 The CEO shared the revenue target for the year at X, and the revenue target for next year at 3X.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

And in the entertainment category, our portfolio company TripleLift provides monetization for online publishers through native ad technology. Startups also can become extremely habitual for a smaller subset of business end-users. Impact First, Business Models Second. BookBub ), hybrid B2C/B2B2C models (e.g.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. I also use these tools, which are specifically for investors and others who work in the tech ecosystem: AngelList , where I post my public portfolio. . Tech stack.

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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. Once you cross the chasm of launching v1.0,

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The consumer subscription business model is certainly not a new concept. And as we’ve been investing in more B2C companies recently, we’re reminded just how popular this strategy to monetization continues to be.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented. As I wrote about in my post on Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing , this is painful and you must have a diversified portfolio to practice angel investing and actually make money. It is just four-years old?—?for

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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). Consumer Services (B2C). MANUFACTURING BUSINESSES. "Were just getting more light on the entrepreneurial process," he says. Passenger Transportation. - Pet Care & Grooming.

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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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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. 2) Business model-defined funds. B2B vs B2C) within the business model preference. . Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. 3) Geography-defined funds.

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