Venture Capital Videos

Scale Venture Partners Managing Director, Rob Theis, who invests in technology infrastructure and applications tells how it is a great time to invest in successful consumer applications that can be brought to the enterprise. His latest investment, HubSpot is an example of such an investment. HubSpot has incorporated the products, processes and methodologies to make best of breed marketing applications for small and medium sized businesses.

Sorry, folks, but a billion dollar payday does not imply success. A bubble, perhaps, but success? Hardly. "Success" is a product of two key characteristics of a natural system: efficiency and sustainability (note that MONEY is NOT part of a natural system). It's time we stopped accepting richness and dollar amounts as our guiding metrics. We know better let's act like it.

Probably a lot more than you realize!

Extreme Collaboration: extreme *business* makeovers!

Mike Brown Jr., Virgin Group: Business Start-ups getting funded in a down market

Ultra Light Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) One of the key tenets of starting an boot-strapped, ultralight company is to rely on third party providers -- be it software-as-a-service (SaaS) or cloud-computing companies -- to avoid large capital expenditures and "variable-ize" as much of your cost base as possible. This conserves cash and gives you the flexibility to scale up or down as needed. But what about those SaaS and Cloud computing companies on whom our ultralight start-ups are built? How did they get started? Is it possible to launch one of those on an "ultralight" budget? How do you handle the capital costs up-front as well as the ongoing maintenance and support costs associated with providing these services to your clients? At the September ULS New York meeting, we plan to delve into these issues with the following panel of experts. Some are in the middle of the start-up process, others have successfully scaled the business and chosen to take external capital. Some of the questions we will ask them to address are: * How did you cover the up-front expense associated with establishing the infrastructure/software for your clients? * How did you win your first clients? As a startup with limited capital, how did you gain the trust of cornerstone clients and convince them to hand over data or integrate your software into their daily lives? * How did you cover support and maintenance costs? Did you have revenue to cover this? * How significant were outages or lapses in service compare to more established or better funded competitors? Did these hurt business? How did you regain trust? * Were you able to scale effectively as a self-funded entity? At what point did you, or do you foresee having to take capital? Moderator: * Ray Bernaz, founder and CEO of Socialibrium LLC Panelists (alphabetic order): * Jed Alpert, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Mobile Commons * Steven Asherman, Founder and President of Base One International * Sam Lessin, Founder and CEO of Drop.io * Peter Stern, Founder and President of Zenbe

Movin' On Up! (to the 4th floor):The construction of the new office is underway, a few of the team members reminisce about the early days of the company.

De-Construction:The location of the new office is decided, as the current office space is becoming over-crowded.

Engine Yard's Co-Founder & CEO, Lance Walley, and Co-Founder & CTO Tom Mornini discuss the ever-popular Ruby on Rails framework, web application deployment challenges, Twitter's scalability issues, and their company's solution to it all so you can go drinking on launch date.

Day of Reckoning:After months of planning and a large investment of time and money, its time for PostieCon. The team hurries to set up before people arrive while Pete and Ted scramble to fix an oversight for their first public demo of SocialSpark.

Veronique introduces Larry.

Casey's first confessional.

Dan is REALLY busy.

After last nights news about the 6.5 million investment in eBuddy we decided to sneak our way into the eBuddy offices this morning to see if we could find the money. We did find SOME money and the CEO of eBuddy. He told us a little bit about the investment and how they celebrated. Check the shocked faces on the employees as we rush in and shout "Where is the money!". I'm glad we didn't get shot OR arrested.

Why Invest Now in Europe and Israel? A Panel of VCs from outside Silicon Valley say the other side of the pond is ripe for Venture Capital, and DailyMotion proves it. Moderator: Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman, Jefferies & Company Christopher Spray, Partner, Atlas Venture Bart Markus, General Partner, Wellington Partners Danny Cohen, Partner, Gemini Israel Fund Tod Bensen, Founder and former CEO, Cazenove Private Equity Yves Kraemer, Team Cote D'Azur