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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on Forbes.
In a previous article, I argued that great startups solve large, and even more importantly, immediate pain points for customers by positioning products more like a pain killer and less like a vitamin. This is the essence of product/market fit: […]
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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on Forbes.
Whenever I talk to a startup CEO, the conversation moves quickly to the company’s growth rate for bookings and revenue. Too often, they’re not what the entrepreneur had hoped for. I want to offer a few thoughts on why that […]
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This XSeed blog was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared on Forbes.
Working relationships between startup cofounders are very much like the personal relationships of couples — at times wonderful, draining, magical, frustrating, intimate and stressful. Similar to a long-term committed relationship, cofounders enter into their journey together with the hope […]
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This XSeed blog was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared on VentureBeat.
Oh, you lucky dog! When you started the process of raising money you hoped it would go well, but you didn’t really know for sure. The first few fundraising pitches were a little rough, and you had some doubts […]
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In venture capital, investors strive to find entrepreneurs that are “authentic” to a market and who are also addressing a large problem. XSeed is excited to announce our recent investment in CirroSecure, a firm where we have found both great entrepreneurs and also a big opportunity that is not being adequately solved with existing solutions.
When we first met Vikrant […]
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Lights-out operations of data centers has long been a vision pursued by many IT organizations. In the last 15 years, companies such as Opsware (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), Opalis (acquired by Microsoft) and DynamicOps (acquired by VMware) have led the first two waves of automation that delivered increasing levels of productivity to data center operations teams, from bare-metal servers to virtualized environments. They eventually hit a […]
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This XSeed blog was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared in The Accelerators blog of the Wall Street Journal.
As I recently re-read the opening of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities,” I realized just how prescient he was about modern Silicon Valley.
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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on Forbes.
When asking entrepreneurs how their pitch went to a new VC firm, I often hear, “It was going really great until I got asked this question which really threw me. It was completely off topic. Things didn’t go so great […]
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This XSeed blog was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared on VentureBeat.
For the last several years, conventional wisdom has been that enterprise software is the exciting area in which venture capitalists should invest.
A large number of celebrated exits have occurred with firms such as Workday […]
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This XSeed blog was written by Venture Partner, Jeff Thermond, and originally appeared on Forbes.
When I see something happen again and again in Silicon Valley, I use the phrase “Prevailing Pattern of Practice in the Valley” to describe it. When things work well here, they get copied broadly.
Over the last twenty […]
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