Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. Seed-round investment.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2012

To begin with, the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly. Building on my earlier post about free publicity , I wanted to share some additional thoughts.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

The past year saw startups on the rise, an increase in venture capital funding (both in real dollars and numbers of companies funded), a resurgence of IPOs, and the rise of David against Goliath, as best represented by Groupon’s spurning of a $6 billion offer from Google. Investors will be bullish on startups.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies. As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He shepards you through a sales process and the family nets about $390 million after taxes. Unlike a venture capital firm that states its criteria on its website and has forms, e-mail addresses, etc to encourage outreach, your site does a lot better job of saying "Go away!". It's time to think about selling the company.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

I emphasize that the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. Exploit social media and establish a voice for your company on Twitter and Facebook. Headliner (ff VC company) is a powerful tool to amplify your message via social media. Enter into personal competitions.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Last September I wrote a post outlining my view of the venture capital industry: increasingly evolving like the beer industry as it continues to mature. All of that choice becomes a double-edged sword for entrepreneurs, but in the end is of course net positive.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

some fun, big tech issues like privacy, net neutrality, location-based services and real-time data. Entrepreneurs should also use social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) Net neutrality (1:09:00). What is wonderful about this interview is that I got Tom on the record on: what angels look for and how they work?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

I have to say that it has netted far more than I would have thought. Matching Algorithm ► October (15) eLearn 2009 Presentation – Twitter Along Los Angeles Technology Connector – Kurt Daradics Online Business Networking Los Angeles Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospec.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

“There are so many places you can go on the Net where you can find your community. Certainly if you look at eCommerce & social media – women are the ones using these products. Take a little break but keep your skills fresh. I would tell women to find them.&#. Make sure 50% of the people you hire are women.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Social media. Question: Thoughts on how to use social media to generate deal flow? 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.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Just this week, entrepreneur and investor Tim O’Reilly wrote a powerful piece in which he challenged Hoffman’s blitzscaling strategy, which often encourages companies to grow as fast as possible by raising venture capital to dominate new markets, a strategy leveraged by Uber among other unicorns (i.e.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

They are high net worth individuals who are also accredited investors. The requirement for accredited investors either $200,000 in annual income or over $1,000,000 net worth. You’ll need an excellent marketing campaign, with a special emphasis on social media. Angel investors. Startups burn cash like no tomorrow.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

If this figure is accurate – it’s certainly a very large business even when you look at net revenues. Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (Jeremy Liew)(lead), with existing investors: U.S. It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era.

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VC Cafe

MAY 5, 2010

Cotendo hopes to ride on that wave, by offering solutions to high-volume transactional enterprises, online retailers, financial services companies, advertising networks, professional news and social media sites. Tags: Cotendo Sequoia Israel Tenaya Capita Venture Capital Funds bechmark benchmark cdn sequoia DSA.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2014

This data includes insight from their companies’ web and social media traffic, from its e-mail send and open rates, from its lead tracking systems and sales logs, from its product fulfillment records, and from its accounting software as it records revenues, expenses, and cash flows. How do they do it? Then Click Here to learn more.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Thirdly, we invested in marketing automation, Apps, and artificial intelligence tools for lead management, nurturing, social media, and other functions. That’s when I started looking into other means to make money as a safety net and when I learned about blogging. 12- Officially Incorporated and more.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2017

Usually, people who take this strategy are extremely social, go to tons of events, consume and retain information they read on social media, techcrunch, Medium, etc. My last word of advice – think hard about whether you really want to pursue venture capital.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

We so like to talk about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other fresh stuff! A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Keith Rabois about Venture Capital and Business | by @trengriffin – buff.ly/1AxbgY1.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 7, 2015

is poised to be a net oil exporter. In so many of the growth industries of the 21st century - Mobile, BioTech, HealthcareIT, Robotics, Social Media, Internet of Things - U.S. In addition to the massive flows of capital and wealth created and distributed by the top tech. Low Interest Rates. Technology Leads the World.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 10, 2020

Nic is also the author of one of Europe’s most popular venture capital blogs – www.theequitykicker.com. The industry classic is NPS – the Net Promoter Score; and we encourage all our companies to track that as soon as they can. Let’s start with the obvious question. And what are the metrics for customer love?

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

. “In the past, funding was the biggest need but today it’s recruiting,” says Ravikant, himself a serial entrepreneur who founded Epinions and Vast.com , and currently runs HitForge and Venture Hacks , in addition to AngelList. Social-media marketing. After recruiting comes funding, then advisers. Cofounders.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 8, 2011

By the way, I didn't add social media as a tip because, if you're reading this blog, you probably already use it. At the same time, if someone rubs you the wrong way, treats people poorly, or generally isn't all they crack themselves up to be, they can grow like a weed in your social graph. 1) Be Discerning.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

On Friday Silicon Valley Bank released a survey of 375 executives at startup technology companies in the 4 core venture capital investment sectors – Software/Internet, Hardware, Life Science, and Cleantech. Here is what they found: Tech. Are Bullish. energy independence.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Writing, Social Media, Graphics, Editing content, research, etc. m Reply Broadening my Reading: 10 Sources I’ve Come to Love « Man in the net :: Ontology :: Semantic :: Knowledge , on December 30, 2009 at 1:13 am Said: [.] We try to keep the families aware of what is going on and often ask for their involvement.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It. He calls this “the secret of the market.”. Do you know a specific market’s secret?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Passive income can be handy for bolstering your bottom line and an important safety net for lean seasons. Social Media. As a new, up-and-coming business owner, you’ll also want to take full advantage of the inexpensive and easy exposure that social media marketing offers you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The media, our leaders, people on social media keep mentioning this idea, as if we've never seen anything like this before. Every day, you go on social media. I think something that's not super well understood on the policy side is that net new job creation fundamentally comes from entrepreneurship.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

They’re not setup to take inbound, so they don’t put up websites or participate much on social media—so it’s nearly impossible to tell who from the family office world is legitimate. It’s certainly a very nice strip mall—but is it really the epicenter of investment activity for billions of dollars of family office wealth?

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