ffVC invests in AppyCouple
ffVC is excited to announce its investment in Appy Life, a technologically-enabled and fashion-oriented company with some big ideas. Appy Life's first product, Appy Couple, is currently in Beta. Appy Couple allows future brides and grooms to plan and coordinate their wedding-from start to finish-through a simple and stylish app. ...
ff Silver Off to a Great Start with ThinkNear Acquisition
Eli Portnoy founded ThinkNear. ffVC portfolio company ThinkNear has been acquired by Telenav, a leading provider of mobile location-based services, for $22.5 million ($18.5 million in cash and $4 million in restricted stock and assumed options). Telenav specializes in personalized navigation, and will be launching "Scout Advertising" with the ThinkNear ...
What’s a Good Conversion rate for a consumer web-site?
Contrbuted by Alan Samuels, CEO of Clearpath Conversion rates are one of the most popular ways to evaluate the marketing success of any company. But what is a good conversion rate? Is there an absolute benchmark? In traditional retail stores, conversion rates are calculated with a simple formula: the ...
Alex Katz Speaking at MIT Enterprise Forum
ffVC Partner and CFO Alex Katz will be a panelist speaker at the MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC Roundtable on October 18. He will be joined by Aron Grossman, the CFO and VP of Corporate Development at Voxy (an ffVC portfolio company), and Beth Brinkman, Director of U.S. Professional Services ...
Why We Chose ffVC
Contributed by Nova Spivack, CEO and Founder of Bottlenose. I am very pleased to announce that Bottlenose has received funding from ff Venture Capital, led by John Frankel. John has been advising Bottlenose since December of 2011 and prior to our launch. This brings our total angel funding to ...
Beyond Engineering: the Silicon Valley "Ops Team"
Contributed by Joe Lonsdale, Founder of Addepar and Palantir/ Partner, Formation 8 In Silicon Valley we build and invest in elite technology cultures to transform global industries. Whether or not they define it explicitly, the great engineers here know what it means to be part of a great technology ...
Social Fortress publicly launches at TechCrunch Disrupt
Adam Ghetti, founder of our portfolio company Social Fortress and an expert in security, publicly presented Social Fortress for the first time at this week's TechCrunch Disrupt Conference. I met Adam and Social Fortress at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York earlier this year; ff became the only ...
Allocating Startup Equity by the Hour
Contributed by Alon Cohen, EVP/CTO at Phone.com. How do you move from a few friends brainstorming on a new startup concept, to actually getting the group to sit down and start working to build a company? How do you deal with situations in which one team member already has a job ...
Free Webinar 9/13: How to Hack Your MBA and Get the Most Out of Your Degree
On 9/13, David Teten, partner at ffVC, will be delivering a free, one-hour webinar on How to Hack Your MBA and Get the Most Out of Your Degree. This webinar will have an estimated 300 attendees from most of the major business schools in Europe and the US. It's hosted ...
The Fall 2012 ffVC Interns
Yong Kwon is currently pursuing a MBA with a focus on Entrepreneurship at the Columbia Business School. Previously, he was an Associate at Performance Equity Management, a global private equity firm, where he worked on buyout, VC and debt investments across multiple sectors and geographies. Yong received a B.S. in ...
