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View from Seed
JULY 31, 2014
More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. Network Effect B2B. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups. But network effects can be an integral component of business-focused services as well.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 1, 2009
Check out this interesting piece on PEHub talking about how Stanford is discreetly looking to sell it’s asset portfolio ! It is also a result of pent-up demand. In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary. Want to know how bad it is to raise money as a VC right now?
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Version One Ventures
OCTOBER 18, 2012
This trend is particularly true in markets that are highly susceptible to network effects, such as online auctions and social networks. Even beyond auctions and social networks, the web tends to prefer the category leader. Let’s take my own portfolio as an example.
SoCal CTO
JUNE 9, 2010
When I do a quick mental query of headcount across our entire portfolio of ~30 companies, I think at least 50% and maybe as much as 60% of the entire headcount of our portfolio is in either product or engineering. This is a great configuration for a starting team. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public. This is a structural shift in our industry few have talked about publicly. The iPhone was released.
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. Dropbox (cloud storage). Netflix (video streaming).
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 19, 2011
Connect on social media. Add a QR code to your contact information, and you can make it easy for people to automatically connect with you on social networks. Digital portfolios. Put a QR code on your office name plate to link to your online calendar for availability and contact information. Mobile class newsletters.
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