This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

When you back women and you’re trying to encourage the expansion of their network and the building of their personal brand, you cannot help but review all of your own actions after listening to the compounding emotional effects of their professional experiences. There is strength and support in numbers.

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View from Seed

JULY 6, 2020

You are a native of NYC tech with a strong network. You know the ecosystem and have a network that is additive to the rest of the team. . You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. Who Are We Looking For. You act as an “ invited guest.”. You are hungry. What Will The Job Be Like.

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Technical Review Software Review Hiring Seed Stage 257

VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

A few months ago, VC Cafe launched a series on startup engagement and outreach programs of large tech companies. After covering Google startup outreach and support (from first hand experience), today I’m happy to add Amazon and AWS, by looking into the variety of ways startups can engage with the commerce and cloud giant.

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2025

By Gayle Jennings OByrne Though interest rates have gone down slightly, ongoing market volatility means that funding for startups is still difficult. Participants are given instruction, connections, and a network on which to build and improve their young businesses. appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley Startup 78

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Pitchbook estimates that there is about $290 billion of VC “overhang” (money waiting to be deployed into tech startups) in the US alone and that’s up more than 4x in just the past decade.

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Technical Review Pre-Money Valuation San Francisco Valuation 416

Hearpreneur

MAY 31, 2020

Networking in business helps you reach more clients and more importantly, share your lessons and successes with other business owners. Of course, they’re various other ways you can benefit from networking. Here’s how entrepreneurs and business owners leverage networking in their businesses. #1- 1- Begin conversations.

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Networking Entrepreneur Social Media Channel 149

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

I have often been asked about Startup Funding by entrepreneurs. Many myths surround the subject of startup funding. Here is Startup Funding, a Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs. You must have seen a lot of startups giving out promotions, discounts, and incentives at the early phase of their business. Debt investors.

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Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2012

Intros.They’re the lifeblood of networking – the currency of mavens. Usually it’s on behalf of a portfolio company. I frequently tell startups that the best way to get a meeting with money is to get a highly-qualified introduction. They think they’re doing the startup a favor by casting a wide net to VCs.

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Email Portfolio Technical Review Aggregator 359

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Building Startups for Basecamp. You need to say “no” faster to things you know you’re not going to fund based on fit, focus, geography, quality of concept, conflicts with portfolio. They usually have strong networks to begin with so suddenly you’re hit up by everybody you know who has a friend.

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Technical Review Incubator IPO Email 317

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. Of all the Chinese government programs, the Torch Program is the one program that kick-started Chinese high-tech innovation and startups. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 287

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. Climate tech – We have a fair chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change if startups offer commercial solutions to decarbonize society or remove carbon from the atmosphere.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

One example is that they introduced a program where their founders can pool together shares from their company and exchange them for a small portfolio of other First Round Capital companies. As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Cofounder Cram Down 284

VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

Below is the first landscape of Israeli startups building the Metaverse, which we published last month in Calcalist , which helps explain our view a bit. We mapped over 50 startups that collectively raised more than $3.5 The Israeli startups building the Metaverse (Source: Calcalist / Remagine Ventures ). Gaming + web3/NFTs.

Startup 187

Startup Community Social Network Portfolio 187

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As we do at the end of every quarter, we’ve summarized some of the key highlights and activities across our portfolio. . The Globe and Mail included three of our portfolio companies Ada (#11), Jobber (#87), and Top Hat (#230) on its list of the 400 top growing companies in Canada. . Announcements. Version One updates.

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Portfolio Software Review Cofounder Canada 94

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today’s Normalization.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

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).

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Cloud B2B Software Review Technical Review 205

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. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively. I launched my first startup in 1999 so I know the economics of launching from first-hand experience. The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5 What Does This All Mean for Seed Investing?

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Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage IPO 328

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. His hard-won lessons from Return Path show up in Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business.

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Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 195

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

So let’s talk about what to do if you’re a startup CEO who doesn’t know how to sell: Watch videos of great salespeople and storytellers : This doesn’t necessarily mean literally sales technique videos, although I’m sure there are some solid ones out there. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs. Boom is building a supersonic aircraft.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Startup Matching 161

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. This name (www.

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Intellectual Property Portfolio Valuation Non-disclosure Agreement 363

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2024

Below, I’ve listed a bunch of attributes a startup might have and how they push the decision-making needle one way or the other. doesn’t really buy you many points with an investor—but coming off like a startup n00b really tanks your chances. If I’m known to invest in mobility startups, I review a ton of different business models.

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Technical Review Cofounder Startup Equity 165

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It’s a great topic, his post is well written and given that he’s going through it right now in his startup it’s worth reading his point of view on the topic. Startups often make this mistake. Like everything, I screwed this up in my first startup. I was too much Accenture, not enough Startup.

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Warrant Germany France Cost 333

Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

General Bucky Butow – Director of the Space Portfolio. ” Team 2: Networks. For semiconductors, the White House Coordinator for the CHIPS Act – Ronnie Chatterji, and the CTO of Applied Materials – Om Nalamasu. For Artificial Intelligence, Lt. Along the way the course acts as a strong call to public service.”

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology China 376

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

At the highest level we’re looking for somebody really intelligent, digitally native, financially numerate and interested in startups. If this isn’t you, we’d probably still have a look if you did something truly exception – probably at startup or tech firm. Responding to portfolio company requests.

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Los Angeles Technical Review Due Diligence Venture Capital 290

The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2022

Multiple organizations are now offering work on real-world projects to build your portfolio and gain experience. Even smaller startups know the importance due to the increased attacks by hackers. Consider how much is at stake if a company’s network fails for even a few hours. 2- Digital Marketing Management.

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Cloud Software Review 158

Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Chad is the CEO of thoughtbot, a consulting firm that makes web + mobile apps for early-stage startups. I shared a link to Code Climate with a number of CTOs/VPs of Engineering in my network, both inside and outside the NextView portfolio, just asking for their quick opinion.

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Software Review Chad Ruby PHP 191

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Building a great product. We want to talk to you!

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Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

Things like winning startup competitions, getting selected to a startup incubator, partnering with a large company, are all good ways to show traction and some proof that you’re creating value. Good examples include: Ycombinator, Techstars, Startup health and Rock health. Social networking is so last year.

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Security Incubator Technical Review Bootstrapping 200

ReadWriteStart

MAY 7, 2021

10 Important Hiring Tips for Startups in Post COVID Era. With more jobs going remote, it is time to move your hiring process online with virtual events, networking with different platforms to connect with the right candidates. Instead of resumes, ask applicants to submit their work portfolio and review their achievements.

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Hiring Technical Review Software Review Startup 159

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the first stage the Outpost focusses on networking and partnering in the Innovation Cluster in which it is based (i.e. Stage 1: Networking and Partnering – the Technology Connectors. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams. It may invest in a few startups in this Stage but that’s not the goal.).

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Silicon Valley Incubator Acquisition Business Model 120

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have a strong network in the NYC startup ecosystem that is additive to our team. You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship. You will spend 70-80% of your time helping to identify new investment opportunities and expand NextView’s network and presence in NYC. consumer, etc.).

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Technical Review North America Seed Stage Bandwidth 156

Version One Ventures

JUNE 30, 2023

Edtech startup Antimatter announced a $2M seed round led by V1, in addition to launching numerous products (activities, courses, iOS, and organizations). Their mission is to build the world’s most valuable peer-to-peer learning network, centered around memes. Read more about the Filebase Startup Program on the Filebase blog.

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Portfolio Software Review Technical Review ChatGPT 60

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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Founder Term Sheet Cofounder Venture Capital 187

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

– there have also been some major breakthroughs on Bitcoin’s native layer 2 scaling solution, the Lightning Network. Lightning is a network of bi-directional payment channels that allows for instant settlement between parties and routing of payments over a TOR-like p2p network settled in units of bitcoin.

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Networking Global OTC Security 168