VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

Notable portfolio companies include Uber, Slack, Jet.com, FlatIron Health, Kobalt Music Group and many others. Typically invest in series C and above, notable portfolio companies include Stripe, Lyft, Robinhood, UI Path, Snap, Duolingo and many more household names. The website lists a handful of portfolio companies.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2012

I particularly urge you to review SpeakerNetNews ; it contains a tremendous amount of curated wisdom from professional speakers: how to be a more powerful speaker, deal with distracting audiences, etc. E.g., See ffVC’s blog post about the JOBS act, which discusses portfolio company Indiegogo. Photo credit: Zitona.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2020

To help you in that quest, we’ve curated some of the top remote work utilities that have become absolute essentials for today’s transformed workforce. Here are some of the key features and benefits of deploying PDFelement as part of your software portfolio. 1: PDFelement 7 Pro.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly. Enter into personal competitions.

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Transformify

APRIL 19, 2018

Personal portfolio. You need a personal website to show a curated version of your work. On top of that, you have complete freedom on the style of your portfolio. Make sure you have a personal domain and a professionally-looking portfolio. Most importantly, you need to curate what you show in your portfolio.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

AI to make IRL matches – What if you could chat with a bot that learns about you on a deeper level and uses this information to make a curated set of matches? Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios. Autonomous Logistics – Global autonomous delivery revenue could reach $900bn by 2030.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

And that’s the idea of the portfolio career. And that's the idea of the portfolio career. And rather more like a portfolio to cure rate as an, as an artist would, or an investor would, are lots of different kinds of portfolios, but it's this sense of our professional identity goes so far beyond our resume.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

The role of the project manager is to act as gatekeeper, curator, editor, and leader and this guidance is vital to the project’s success. Because many crowdsourcing communities are open platforms which have low barriers to participation, the quality of the submitted work can often be subject to great (ahem) variability.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

On paper what could possibly go wrong with creating or curating content with a eye to driving sales or influencing current or future customers? Teach your company to optimize their digital strategy for a portfolio of outcomes, macro plus micro. Everyone is contenting a lot of content about content marketing. For two simple reasons: 1.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2012

The advent and growth of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and, now, Pinterest has heralded a new era in the Internet where people are connected to one another to share, discover, curate, and collaborate. Lightspeed Portfolio Company. How do you think about building the next large scale mobile app? I’m all ears.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

You can also get great recommendations from your existing network; just be sure to research portfolios, websites and references thoroughly before making a decision to work with a particular developer. Familiarize yourself with the agency’s portfolio and get recommendations from colleagues whenever possible.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

It showcases our personality, while simultaneously showcasing the accomplishments of our portfolio. It’s easy to focus on the accolades and accomplishments of today, but what did the NextView portfolio companies look like when they first started their journeys with us? The new website is colorful, it’s exuberant. Check it out!

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

The Market Opportunity Navigator is a useful adjunct to the curation and prioritization steps. In three simple steps the Market Opportunity Navigator can help you: Identify a portfolio of market opportunities stemming from your technology or unique abilities.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly. Enter into personal competitions.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. The curated approach gives advertisers and publishers more comfort in knowing the quality of content they will be amongst. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. Parrot AR Drone Review [VIDEO] View More » Web Video Local FOX Station Airs Hilarious Soci.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. Parrot AR Drone Review [VIDEO] View More » Web Video Local FOX Station Airs Hilarious Soci.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I will use some examples from Parachute and some other portfolio companies to give you examples from our experiences of watching successful brands grow. Curation There are really multiple forms of “curation” that I think can build sustainable differentiation in products vs. the retailer that is selling them.

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Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

One Jackson is a new online children’s clothing retailer which is surprisingly fresh – all of its designs were created by independent designers and then curated with love from its community of parents. For us, the investment is certainly fresh and newest in our portfolio, but it also feels familiar.

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Board Effect

JUNE 24, 2024

No diversity in the financial portfolio In Erin Davison of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Louisiana’s experience, not diversifying your financial portfolio can lead to failure. Board engagement can also be easily seen and measured through the solution.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

If I can build a partner program using software with a thousand different partners, with a thousand different tactics, I, I have inherently a, a diversified portfolio. Bob Glazer (07:19): I, I, I think it's, every business needs to add the sort of activity to their portfolio. They are the partner and the supplier are all in one.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

It showcases our personality, while simultaneously showcasing the accomplishments of our portfolio. It’s easy to focus on the accolades and accomplishments of today, but what did the NextView portfolio companies look like when they first started their journeys with us? The new website is colorful, it’s exuberant. Check it out!

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

We were fortunate to host very talented speakers from our portfolio (Ilya Sukhar from FB/Parse, Steve Marx from Dropbox, Bill Ready from Braintree, Ali Rayl from Slack, Eric Wittman from Atlassian, Sam Mac Donnell from HotelTonight.)

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2020

Your portfolio is going to show your clients what you can really do. And most people already have some sort of portfolio, but you really need to make it stand out. Throwing everything on Instagram, or your Adobe portfolio is probably not going to cut it. Money again. You have to pay taxes.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 30, 2025

It was carefully curated by an educational expert and for nine months, it built up a following of thousands of readers. One of my portfolio companies, Esembly , runs a Cloth Diapering 101 class that nets them more conversions via follow up e-mails than traditional advertising directly to the site gets them.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2019

While many options hit the cutting room floor, we landed with Voleo, a phonetic spelling of VOting portfoLIO. We proceeded to embark on a rebranding exercise that allowed us the opportunity to engage with, and more deeply understand our target markets. A perfect fit for our Investment Club App.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 9, 2023

We encourage all our portfolio companies to add multiple independent directors and build diverse boards. Their approach is simple: they host executive roundtables across the country (remote and in-person) and build curated referrals for board openings for free. We’ve made this an operating principle at Foundry.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

More than 70 percent of the In-Q-Tel portfolio companies have never before done business with the government. In the 21 st century the DOD/IC community have realized that adversaries are moving at a speed that our traditional acquisition systems could not keep up with.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) This is an entirely new way of filming Personalization ?—?to

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Notable examples of companies in this market include our portfolio company Lovefilm (acquired by Amazon for a rumoured £200m ), our portfolio company Graze that sells healthy snacks, shoe subscription businesses ShoeDazzle and StylistPick , and startup coffee subscription business Kopi.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

The end result was a truly ambitious, unique, and international set of curated Wicked problems. Startups vs. Large Companies vs. Governments Innovation at Speed for Horizon 1, 2 and 3 (Managing the Portfolio across Horizons) What is Systems Thinking? How to map stakeholders and systems’ dynamics?

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

The product collects, cleans, and curates data from news sites, SEC filings, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, AngelList, CrunchBase, and more. While we greatly appreciate these introductions from fellow VCs and entrepreneurs (who are great curators in their own right), inbound leads are inherently reactive. Why we’re excited.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

You can see their portfolio of the projects that they’ve worked on and the things they’ve built. Furthermore, most of the platforms that curate talent like Upwork, Fiverr and Transformify , have review features so you can see what previous employers and clients have said about the freelancers and their quality of work.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2022

Across the V1 portfolio, our teams have been accomplishing incredible things during an unprecedented time. We announced our investment in Gadze Finance and welcomed Mike Silagadze and Andrew McGrath (from Top Hat) back to the portfolio. We’re seeing more interest from people to follow their passion and become founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations. Will expand IBM’s business analytics capabilities and become part of IBM’s application and integration middleware portfolio. Current round: $150mm in Series D from Softbank. Total Raised: $366mm. Read more: TechCrunch.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 23, 2015

Another example is Lexoo , one of our portfolio companies. Lexoo and Uber are both curated marketplaces – i.e. marketplaces where the marketplace does some work on behalf of the buyer and doesn’t just rely on market forces to optimise the user experience.

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