Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. 2010 Net Income: $8 million. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Founding Date: 2004. Headquarters: Norwalk, CT & Concord, MA.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

Unfortunately, the blueprint and operating manual for how your CEO brain works doesn’t really come off in a pitch meeting. Well, at 125 words per minute, 48 minutes of podcasting will net you a chapter. Well, they’re certainly going to think that if they’re sending your Medium post to their other ecommerce founders or retweeting it.

Founder 103

Founder .Net Term Sheet Aggregator 103

Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis. The first is most salient, as it tells us how much revenue Chewy generates from a particular cohort as it ages… it basically nets out effects of some customers dropping out with those that stick around buying more stuff.

Leadership 100

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

If you’re thinking about building an online video network today you need to think about: Producing your own content (not just aggregating). Developing O&O (owned & operated) businesses (outside of YouTube). Selling at smaller retailers will net you fewer customers and higher margins.

Networking 366

Networking Media Distribution Video 366

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Many people still find this idea challenging, even for companies that operate solely on the web. With staged releases, time provides a (somewhat illusory) safety net. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. On the other hand, it is scary as hell.

Continuous Deployment 151

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki 151

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

A simple concept wound up netting him $17,000 from Canon and MediaCorp, proving that one doesn’t have to bog down ideas in needless complexities to produce something valuable. Beh Weng Wei at Tech65.org Rather than fad chasing, take away from his story a lesson in noting more permanent consumer desires and catering to them.

Entrepreneur 231

Entrepreneur Cofounder Washington Bangladesh 231

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 30, 2019

In other words, you go to a website and they’ve got all these glowing reviews on their website, but then there’s Google who is aggregating these theoretically in a sort of impartial way. John Jantsch: Okay, so on Google’s five point or five star scale, is there a perfect aggregate score that you should be aiming for?

Software Review 67

Software Review Reputation Small Business Aggregator 67

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

But a lot of it is also just getting the data, aggregating it, being able to take action on it. We're no longer operating at the speed of government. We're operating at the speed of need in this because people are there to just do it. That's been the second wave of needs. A lot of it is similar. Some of it's communication.

New Jersey 60

New Jersey Government CTO America 60

Venture Chronicles

APRIL 20, 2014

When I took over the team in the 4th quarter of last year I made a couple of quick changes, most significantly breaking up the demand gen team into distinctive task teams focused on net new customers, base expansion, and retention outcomes.

B2B 45

B2B Marketing SEM Bandwidth 45

Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

Under the crowdfunding provisions, the aggregate dollar amount of securities that an issuer can sell in a crowdfunding transaction is limited to $1 million (less the aggregate amount of securities sold under other exemptions) over a 12-month period. such other information as the SEC may prescribe.

SEC 58

SEC Securities and Exchange Commission Accredited Investor Private Placement 58

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

These 6 KRIs are The CHICAGO MetricsR and are the result of an aggregation algorithm based on any number of tactical metrics. Financial cushion” is a common expression used to describe a safety net of cash, there to help you out if you need it. Thanks to EdwardMarchewka, CHICAGO MetricsR ! #3- 3- Name description.

Naming 152

Naming India Chicago Entrepreneur 152

ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

What’s So Special About The Net Promoter Score? Net Promoter Score is a customer loyalty metric developed by (and a trademark of) Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company, and Satmetrix. You calculate your Net Promoter Score by subtracting the percentage of Detractors from the percentage of Promoters. Image Source. Image Source.

.Net 48

.Net Metrics Retention Aggregator 48

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. To maximize value and sale price, wider net is better There is a lot of un-invested capital sitting in funds and outside-in it is hard to tell the internal dynamics, so casting a wide net increases chances of a good outcome. Intermediaries.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

healthcare system does not operate as a free marketplace with the type of open-competition that we often associate with capitalism. As an example consider Pediatrics After Hours which operates in Dallas as a pediatric urgent care facility. Likewise Walmart operates Care Clinic in many of its stores. Who Is the Actual Customer?

Customer 59

Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Instead, they prefer to buy through large distribution companies that aggregate products from lots of suppliers and then make that inventory available to retailers to purchase. This is the sum of your Operating Expenses and COGS. Net Profit. Retail Distribution. Total Expenses. Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

No other metric so holistically captures as many critical aspects of a web site – user design, usability, performance, convenience, ad effectiveness, net promoter score, customer satisfaction – all in a single measurement. Unfortunately, conversion improvements typically are the aggregate gain of 100 tiny improvements, not one silver bullet.

Metrics 93

Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

2:17) Some of the teams and projects Sam has been impressed with and how inspired he's been by the way the biotech industry has pulled together and operated with newfound speed. (6:56) All the other things that matter, aggregating talent, getting people to care, all of that stuff that's hard in a boom and easier now.

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

A persona is an aggregate of all the traits that your customers have, so that it becomes your most common customer. In this screenshot, what it’s showing you is this particular business needs to get a loan or it cannot operate. This is your projected profit and loss, and you can see your net profit. We tell you.

Forecast 60

Forecast Video Business Plan United States 60

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Oh, so you actually do understand numbers , and so much of this is about giving yourself permission to operate in both modes. And then you show them some of the numbers and they say, Well wait a minute, I really wanna look into that. Yeah, yeah. Because it's inherent in as we have that ability.

Framework 86

Framework Technical Review Audio Conversion 86

Up and Running

JULY 7, 2020

Although experts estimate that these costs will comprise upwards of 15-20% of your total net sales, the only way to know how much your business truly needs to budget is to calculate these numbers for yourself. You’re either operating your own warehousing and fulfillment operations OR, you are using a fulfillment company to achieve this goal.

eCommerce 99

eCommerce Cost Forecast Operations 99

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

He’s also the chief operating officer of Raidious. Peter: The net result is they ended up self-publishing under this company called Robot Paper. These companies, SageWorks, SizeUp, and there’s others, basically aggregate anonymously thousands and thousands of companies’ information. It’s a digital agency for content marketing.

Small Business 60

Small Business Email Startup Aggregator 60

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The British mobile payments and messaging aggregator will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket US mobile transactions hub. Amdocs is an Israeli founded provider of software and services for billing, customer relationship management (CRM) and operations support systems (OSS). Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.

OTC 68

OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

In 2013 Kohl’s was looking for ways to significantly cut operating costs. After the test completed they determined that were was no significant loss of sales by decreasing the amount of operating hours, and the resulting implementation of this test was massive winner in terms of cost-saved. Not really right?

Marketing 133

Marketing Metrics Programming Design 133

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This is very different from the way most of us think about investing; in our personal lives and in most operating businesses, investors try to spend as little as possible for the maximum results. I don’t think that a Net Present Value calculation is appropriate for every company. In aggregate, angels are significant investors.

Management 114

Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A smaller portion of the total capital in the VC ecosystem comes from high net worth individuals. The income these investments generate then help fund the operations of those organizations or capital investment (e.g. new buildings, etc). Insurance Companies.

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. If you over-fund the industry, aggregate returns fall. This is uncharted territory.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A smaller portion of the total capital in the VC ecosystem comes from high net worth individuals. The income these investments generate then help fund the operations of those organizations or capital investment (e.g. new buildings, etc). Insurance Companies.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

In other words, they've more than proved their plan can work--so much so that Bitwise now operates in two more cities and plans to keep growing. They are now operating in nine States. I do not have a safety net. Seven years later, they've trained about 5,000 students and created over 1,000 new technology jobs in Fresno.

Fresno 60

Fresno Community Technology California 60

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

If viewed holistically, this data is just a generalized aggregation of disparate data points. Grouping all these visitors under the same umbrella would be akin to me saying that the average net worth of Warren Buffett and myself is $31.6 In other words, it’s a bunch of useless, out-of-context numbers. See what I’m getting at?

eCommerce 78

eCommerce Analytics Revenue Customer 78

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

This single number is the key to determine your level of sales and marketing investment and is very simple to calculate by looking at a quarterly GAAP P&L: you just have to divide the annualized net gross margin added during the quarter by the sales and marketing costs of the previous quarter. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law # 4.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

Another great example of linkable assets are pages that aggregate industry stats, like this one. If you have no idea how to find blogs that publish posts like “XX resources to learn Topic A” or “Weekly Digest of XYZ,” take one of the following approaches: Use advanced search operators to find sites publishing such content.

B2B 142

B2B Social Media Email Campaign 142

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

A few weeks ago, Coinbase , which facilitates buying, storing and purchasing cryptocurrency and also operates a cryptocurrency exchange, went public. Coinbase was founded in 2012 and operates a cryptocurrency exchange. It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. How did it come on your radar for the first time?

IPO 113

IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. However, enough on digital, so Sarah, please stop with the positive news- where will VC go to invest outside of net negative or zero ROI on green? A few more stats make that picture look worse.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Especially when the brand normally operate in an invisible category like washing powder. The net effect of all this, is that being authentic is now becoming a cost of entry, rather than a point of difference.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

i-nigma was successfully deployed by hundreds of enterprises, among them operators, advertisers, integrators and solution providers. This highest quality of the traffic information, never achieved before, together with the perfect applications generate significant revenues for the operator and maintain customers’ loyalty.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103