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! Back to Top).

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

Are you trying to build buzz, but don’t have the cash to launch a full-fledged PR campaign? I emphasize that the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. In other words, you should focus first on a great product/service, and only after you’ve achieved that worry about PR.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2012

For startup companies trying to build buzz around their brand, but without the capital to launch a full-fledged PR campaign, there are a lot of ways to hack the PR game. To begin with, the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. Reach out to websites that profile entrepreneurs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2013

Martin – Harvard Business Review – [link]. Good reminder from Fred Wilson that your instincts should sometimes guide you when due diligence does not – [link]. Startup PR Tip: To Get Press, Don’t Pitch Your Product – [link]. Martin – Harvard Business Review – [link].

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 3, 2021

Over the past eight months, many companies in the Version One portfolio have released funding announcements including Uniswap , Jam , SilviaTerra , Patch , Premadonna , Cap Hill Brands , Opyn and Cape Privacy. For example, one of our portfolio companies delayed their announcement due to the inauguration. Founder’s announcement.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. Clint Korver, Partner at Ulu Ventures , remarked: “I’d compare this technology transformation as akin to what happened in public company investing. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. .” I still plan to keep more normal pace of investment which is 1-2 deals per year.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 25, 2013

Book Review: Ctrl Alt Delete, by Mitch Joel – [link]. Create a Crowd Competition That Works | Harvard Business Review – [link]. The Right Way to Hire Your Customers | Bill Lee – Harvard Business Review – [link]. Book Review: Ctrl Alt Delete, by Mitch Joel – [link]. Running a SaaS business?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

Tech Start-Ups: Take the Money and Build | by @tullman – crowdspring.co/1jvoIEu. 29 Tips for Entrepreneurs & Women in Tech | Tech Cocktail – crowdspring.co/1oj9QIU. 21 free tools for perfecting your portfolio | Webdesigner Depot – crowdspring.co/1lDrOSB. – crowdspring.co/1j2mWos.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Hacking the Workday | Tech Cocktail – crowdspring.co/165n5YA. 30 Best Portfolio Websites in Red Color | iBrandStudio – crowdspring.co/14azoiL. iOS 7 review: a new look or a new beginning? | iOS 7 review: a new look or a new beginning? | Need to create a tech commercial? Quora – crowdspring.co/1eqfC8P.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A special report from The Economist on Tech Startups. Three Long-Held Concepts Every Marketer Should Rethink | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/M5TsNZ. 10 Portfolio Websites that Will Make You Say Wow | 1stwebdesigner – crowdspring.co/1fdEoaA. You Can’t Beat Habit – crowdspring.co/1dlSylX.

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

Are you trying to build buzz, but don’t have the cash to launch a full-fledged PR campaign? I emphasize that the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. In other words, you should focus first on a great product/service, and only after you’ve achieved that worry about PR.

PR 60

PR Public Relations Startup Technical Review 60

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

11 Ways Big Companies Undermine Innovation | Scott Kirsner – Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1aksObQ. “Life’s too short, and high tech moves too fast, to mess about with mediocrity.” A Guide to Designing a Portfolio Website - crowdspring.co/HarwpQ. ” – crowdspring.co/1adCqDi.

Social Media 94

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2012

PR people continue to struggle with social media – [link]. 65 Fresh and Creative Portfolio Website Designs for Inspiration – [link]. The Economic Clout of Women-Owned Small Businesses – [link]. Can Brands Market on Facebook Without Actually Spending Money on Advertising? – [link]. Less marketing douchebaggery.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2018

This means constantly looking for improvements to our automation technology, using that automation more, and diligently pursuing excellence for each client’s dream website. New technologies have arrived to make people attracted and much more dependant on them. Thanks to Shawn Moore, Solodev ! #2- 2- Two goals.

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Detroit Entrepreneur Technical Review Revenue 97

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2011

Professional Practices They Don’t Teach You In Art School: Portfolio – What Do You Really Need In It! Industrial Design Web Links Review April – Design Juices [link]. Top 10 Most Notoriously Hated Fonts – [link]. 25 Tutorials for Creating Detailed Graphical Text Effects – [link]. 41 Free Texture Packs – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

You Can’t Be a Wimp—Make the Tough Calls | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/H4gLnT. Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2014 | Forbes - crowdspring.co/H47XhY. Design Tips for Building an Exquisite Portfolio - crowdspring.co/1gqnM0o. The New Science of Who Sits Where at Work | WSJ - crowdspring.co/1gq3TGK.

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

They’re the PR and the security. A simple online search should reveal your investors interests as well as the portfolio of companies that he/she has invested in. These are two things that investors will be looking for when they review your pitch or your business plan. Investigate your investor’s portfolio.

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Transformify

JULY 4, 2018

Is it just the technology that has been used or there is more to it? Each CSR program is discussed to come up with a PR and marketing plan to ensure its success and add value to the business and the society at large. Looking at the reviews published online on Glassdoor, Mouthshut, TrustedCompany, etc. Job Alerts.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

The importance of reputation is why, for example, Andreessen Horowitz invested early and heavily in their own PR, adding PR guru Margit Wennmachers as a Partner. . Amar Bhide, my former professor, wrote in Harvard Business Review, “ Strategy is Bunk.” – Technology stack. – Thesis. – Execution.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

The importance of reputation is why, for example, Andreessen Horowitz invested early and heavily in their own PR, adding PR guru Margit Wennmachers as a Partner. . Amar Bhide, my former professor, wrote in Harvard Business Review, “ Strategy is Bunk.” – Technology stack. – Thesis. – Execution.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2018

One of our portfolio companies recently engaged with an industry analyst for the first time with a very disappointing outcome. Unfortunately, it quickly became clear that the analyst conducting the review simply didn’t understand the problem being solved or why this company’s solution was so disruptive to the other vendors.

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Warrant Technical Review PR Portfolio 73

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

Why Every Designer Should Have a Portfolio – [link]. Mobile Web Design: 10 Tips To Better Usability – [link]. 30 Collections of Creatively New Photoshop Tutorials – [link]. 16 Magazine Covers and Layouts Design Examples – [link]. A Crash Course in Typography: Principles for Combining Typefaces – [link].

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. They divided companies’ responses—their “driving” strategies—into four categories: Prevention.

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

Four Mine is a play on words meant to convey both the scientific and technical aspects of crafting the perfect jewelry and the emotional components that are an integral part of purchasing jewelry. In my refreshed state, I reviewed what others said I had accomplished which was; empowering businesses with the ability to manifest sales results.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2018

Crunchbase has an undeniable tech focus, but it’s not by any means off-limits to those who couldn’t tell Ruby on Rails from Python if their lives depended on it. Fortune favors those who cultivate a favorable Yelp rating and review portfolio. Your personal or company page can do the same. Crunchbase.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

That’s 7 out of about 29 investments that K9 has made to date and so that’s almost 1/4 of the K9 portfolio. In at least one case, one of my portfolio companies wasn’t able to source the parts they would have really wanted because Apple had locked up the entire supply chain for that part!

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Software Review Forecast Portfolio Distribution 48

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Well, I’m not holding my breath, but it does give me some hope that technology may save us after all. IdN Motion Gallery on Pratt Portfolios crowdspring.co/1OaQlOL. Optimize Images and Improve Website Performance: ImageRecycle Review – WP Mayor crowdspring.co/1VxIS0p. Or at least give us some modest entertainment.

Small Business 48

Small Business Design Syria Social Media 48

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

And my sense is the trend carries outside of our portfolio these days. However with so many companies being funded these days, just getting a mention in a tech blog doesn’t really impact job seekers. Now the employees carry your technology into the enterprise via their own phone and cloud services. What’s changed?

Technical Review 133

Technical Review CTO Hire Finance Stealth 133

Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Meanwhile our company was pouring an enormous amount of dollars into building tools and video compression technology, while also hiring a lot of high-priced Hollywood talent like art directors, and script and story editors. Bring in some outside professionals to review our progress? Was my response to stop development of the games?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. The perfect competitors are the ones where they unable to respond due to The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. And when you lost customers due to not having project management, your response was to make project management. It’s all been about project management.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

In comparison, the overall technology sector growth was projected at 9-10% in early 2010 and this forecast did not change significantly today. To justify a 60pts difference, we have to believe that the current growth rates of 10% for technology and 20% for SaaS will continue to hold for the next 9 years before converging. Portfolio.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. Then one day it was over.

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Cracking the Code

AUGUST 3, 2011

In search of Europes next tech stars. Portfolio. (3). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. My Yelp reviews. Cracking The Code. at 11:03 AM. said. (1).

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