TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. When the market tanked they had the “triage problem&# – which portfolio companies to save, which to kill. Maybe he’ll reveal our conversation when he announced. August 2011.

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Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I had an enjoyable conversation this morning with a young team straight out of college this morning and they were calling to ask advice on how to approach fund raising (angels vs. VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) I would call their portfolio companies and ask how helpful or not they’ve been. look at their portfolio list.

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Portfolio Chicago Sales Incubator 364

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. to $1.10) and you can focus on improving conversion (i.e. increasing conversion from 12.5%

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Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

We can stay busy by expending time and effort supporting the existing portfolio, which is the right thing to do and a good use of time. Like most VC’s, we’ve been engrossed in helping our portfolio company founders navigate these challenging times while thinking through how we will approach this market going forward. Wait and see.

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Cofounder Software Review Portfolio Technical Review 194

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

On August 26th I had an equally effusive intro from Ynon Kreiz, also a friend, trusted source and also the CEO of portfolio company Maker Studios. and had several phone conversations after that. So this was definitely an introduction I was going to take. We met in August (so much for VCs taking the Summer off!)

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Technical Review North America Los Angeles Cofounder 373

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

However, sound investors would do well to remember that although their prevalence has certainly made these industries a popular topic of conversation, they are by no means the only viable option for significant returns. Private equity investments offer access to growth in more scaled businesses. Photo by Tiger Lily from Pexels.

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Private Equity Equity Technical Review Software Review 165

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2021

When friends ask me to reflect on the impact of 2020–21 on startups one of the observations I shared is how dramatically the urgency increased around conversations that were more about culture, behavior and values than just strategy, financing and product. Other times it was their teams, customers or reporters probing for their POV.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

You can see this trend in the excellent data from Cendana below where the number of seed extension rounds has gone up dramatically in their portfolio and the time from seed to A has extended. This data seems pretty consistent with what we’ve seen across the industry. What Does This All Mean for Seed Investing? Why Has Seed Investing Declined?

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View from Seed

MARCH 11, 2020

Conversely the VC is able to benchmark the maturity of your data and analytics function against other similarly staged companies as well. This includes things like: Making intros to portfolio companies that are potential customers. Having conversations with your existing investors. Meeting with other members of your team.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Seed Stage 279

VC Cafe

MARCH 7, 2025

Sesame has introduced hyper-realistic AI voice models, Maya and Miles, under their Conversational Speech Model (CSM). Alibaba Group ‘s Qwen team has released QwQ-32B, an open-source AI model designed for advanced reasoning tasks. Anthropic has just raised $3.5bn in a round at a post-money valuation of $61.5bn.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

It’s a conversation that creeps up from time-to-time. But mostly when they do it’s just because they consider you part of their early stage investment portfolio where they’re less sensitive about ownership percentage. This post was prompted by an email exchange I had with a young entrepreneur. million round.

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Early Stage Startup Venture Capital Seed Stage 360

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 31, 2023

A Strong Portfolio of Your Previous Work After getting accepted in the Shopify Experts Marketplace, you will have a page to list your portfolio items, experiences, locations, and rates. Therefore, you should have your site on WIX, Weebly, or WordPress to build your portfolio.

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Curation Portfolio eCommerce Programming 140

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2015

An example might be a business development conversation, a first customer meeting, the first candidate in a recruiting process, the first time you talk with a journalist at TechCrunch or the first meeting to consider your business strategy. I worked with a successful portfolio company recently that had to make some big moves in the market.

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VC Adventure

JUNE 14, 2022

Indeed, many firms even institutionalize the practice of providing help to portfolio companies through extensive platforms that may include PR, talent, marketing, technical, and other help (sometimes offered for free, sometimes offered ads a pay-for-service, but often at below-market rates for those services).

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Technical Review Due Diligence Portfolio Venture Capital 150

The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Not only do SEO and CMS skills stand out on a resume, but they can also be demonstrated in a portfolio to further impress recruiters. Ideally, digital marketers can optimize PPC marketing campaigns so the conversions (sales) from the ad nets more revenue than the cost of the campaign. How do marketers promote a company’s content?

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Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 148

VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2022

A couple of weeks ago I was did a fireside chat with Alon Grinshpoon, founder and CEO of Echo3D , a CDN and CMS for 3D content in the cloud and a Remagine Ventures portfolio company, as part of an entrepreneurial finance MBA class in Tel Aviv University. We were discussing both sides of the table and the relationship between founders and VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

Every time my posts ended up there the conversation descended into hate and vitriol and a lot of people that don’t really know me calling me all sorts of names. My portfolio investments are littered with people who have worked directly with me and for me and if that doesn’t speak volumes I don’t know what does.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You enjoy meeting new people and have a healthy appetite for conversation. You will spend the rest of your time working alongside the partners throughout the investment process – analyzing investment opportunities, assisting in market research and diligence, and post-investment portfolio support. What The Job Will Be Like.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Besides, taking any shot at moving to new territory or expanding the product portfolio requires strong financial foundations. Ideally, your brand should rise above the simple service provider and position itself as an influential voice, source of knowledge, and conversation starter. Prioritize repeat purchases.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You resonate with the NextView mission to “design the future that we want to live in” You enjoy meeting new people and have a healthy appetite for conversation. You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. What Will The Job Be Like. You will be based in the NYC office. About NextView.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

While a lot of the focus is on getting the initial ‘IN’, if the startup progressed to next level it’s important to keep everyone engaged on the conversation/ round. Most of these can sound like common sense, but you’d be surprised how many founders skip this initial research. Weeks to launch?

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Technical Review Early Stage Cofounder Portfolio 166

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2019

A planner who’s a fiduciary has multiple ways to reduce sequence-of-returns risk by allowing the portfolio to stay ahead of inflation. You utilize other income-producing vehicles in the portfolio. It’s vital to have a tax plan that can fit into your portfolio. Prioritize a tax plan. Create an estate plan.

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Indianapolis LLC Portfolio Technical Review 113

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2020

SEO goes beyond ranking, and is, in fact, about increasing conversion. Even if a website ranks at the top but performs poorly in conversion, it counts as an SEO failure. In its place, invest in reliable SEO services with glowing reviews, proven track record, and impressive portfolio. You Do Not Need SEO Services. Conclusion.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Kristen Anderson , CEO/co-founder of Catch Benefits , was one of the people in my responses asking me to look at my post through this lens, and she was also generous enough to agree to have a conversation with me about it, that we could share as an update to the original post. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs. and @isadwatson.

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Founder Cofounder Metrics Technical Review 133

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 11, 2018

That's when I had a conversation with Max Ventilla, the founder of AltSchool, who at the time was running Aardvark. Add to that having that conversation in a way that's about the code and the people, not about recruiting, even if you know they're actively hiring. When I was a startup founder, I had this same issue.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

Research from Innoppl Technologies reveals that about 65 percent of sales reps who’ve adopted mobile CRM are achieving their sales goals; conversely, just 22 percent of reps using non-mobile CRM met those same targets. Mobile CRM advancements are paying off. GDPR compliance. Xavier was previously Director of Act!

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View from Seed

JULY 15, 2020

One topic of conversation among VC’s over the last few months is how their portfolios are faring during the Covid pandemic. So I thought I’d share my observations, informed by what’s going on in our portfolio and from what I can gather from others in the ecosystem. Reshuffling the deck.

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Portfolio IRR Dilution Distribution 215

Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2018

For each job, write a brief proposal listing the exact scope of work the client expects you to deliver, based on an in-person meeting or phone or Skype conversation. Pro tip: Make a detailed questionnaire for yourself to guide your conversation with your and form the foundation of your scope document. Build a portfolio.

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Technical Review Portfolio Social Media Silicon Valley 126

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. dollars going directly into portfolio companies vs. the funds themselves).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

For some of my more skeptical portfolio companies I simply asked them to run a trial of inbound sales calls and they were shocked. Venture Capital is About Human Capital was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The pressure to protect portfolio startups seen as potential fund returners will be profound. Two weeks ago in San Francisco, a conversation with tech lawyers from the US and Europe was a confirmation of what I read in the news. portfolio values on paper that will likely be marked down and not be returned.

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Founder Technical Review Down Round Liquidation Preference 173

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 11, 2018

LifeLabs Learning offers a good series of workshops and some of our portfolio companies have used Sounding Board for scalable, and affordable, 1:1 coaching. In conversations with Stewart , we are always impressed by how self aware he is about his own strengths and weaknesses. Invest in yourself.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But the value that a strong patent portfolio can give your company is unmatched. A wiser strategy—especially for key revenue-potential products—includes a portfolio of patents protecting the product’s various unique functionalities and component parts. Proper alignment between the patent portfolio and revenue is financially savvy.

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Technical Review Portfolio Startup Intellectual Property 88

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

And while it can often be the case that “lemons ripen early” (meaning that the unsuccessful companies fail early in a fund’s lifecycle), the harvest cycle for the winners in the portfolio can take what sometimes feels like an eternity. Your new book, Secrets of Sandhill Road , is literally subtitled Venture Capital and How to Get It ?

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Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2024

The other day, I had a difficult conversation with a founder who clearly felt like VCs were the problem in her fundraising process. Perhaps the most unfair of all of these is when the founder is known to the investor—a former co-worker at the fund or a portfolio company, or someone they previously backed.

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