Fresh insights for all phases of the company lifecycle
Did you know that XSeed Partner Robert Siegel is also on faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business?
Robert teaches Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, Formation of New Ventures and Entrepreneurial Finance. In these classes he has led research and written cases on companies including Google, Box, AngelList, SurveyMonkey, Zuora, Minted, […]
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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on VentureBeat.
You are running your first startup. You are starting to build your team and gain customer traction. You have taken advantage of a wealth of blogs about the right hygiene for starting and building a company. It is starting to […]
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This XSeed blog was written by Partner, Alan Chiu, and originally appeared on VentureBeat.
At XSeed Capital, we invest in seed-stage startups that are often still searching for the right product-market fit. As they start to see the tantalizing evidence of something compelling, they need to decide what to include in the product, and, just […]
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This XSeed blog was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared on Forbes.
One of my favorite writers, Rick Reilly, penned a great column in 1995 entitled, Unwritten Rules. The piece laid out many of the great “known” rules of sports –things that athletes know to […]
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XSeed Capital is very excited to announce our recent investment in Chatous, an online and mobile service that enables people to have conversations with others around the world in a safe, private and protected manner. The company, which began as a project in one of Jure Leskovec‘s classes at Stanford University, matches individuals with others based […]
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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on Forbes.
In a previous article, I described many unappreciated risks in competing in a crowded market. This article explains when to try and how to succeed in attacking a crowded market.
Research has […]
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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on Forbes.
One of the first things venture capitalists consider when they see a new pitch is, “How crowded is the market space in which the startup wants to compete?” If the investors express concern that the market is crowded, this should […]
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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on Forbes.
Life is good: You’ve got an enterprise SaaS startup that is getting a lot of buzz. You have scores of customers, and some of them look ripe for upgrades which could deliver a 100% increase in bookings. Your VP of […]
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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on Forbes.
LinkedIn and other companies draw hundreds of millions of users every day in large part thanks to their ability to acquire, transform and leverage many types of data. The use of a data roadmap, which is a disciplined way to […]
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This XSeed blog was written by XSeed CapitalPartner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared in The Accelerators blog of the Wall Street Journal.
One of the biggest challenges of technology businesses is maintaining a consistent focus on the critical activities that will help grow a company as quickly and sustainably as possible.
When a […]
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