Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

In the 90 days since this deal was announced, car OEMs like GM, Ford, VW, Toyota, and Fiat Chrysler as well as tech giants like Google and Apple and on-demand transportation companies like Uber, Lyft, Didi Chuxing, and Gett all scrambled to form strategic/investment partnerships with each other.

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Virginia Acquisition California Global 100

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2015

Unusual, unique and eye-catching marketing campaigns are often pursued in an attempt to become separate from the herd. Treading new marketing ground can be risky with no previous evidence or case studies to research – however sometimes it does pay off. Others branding case study marketing' Image credit: www.portigal.com ].

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Campaign Haiti Marketing Oregon 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. Those options need to come from somewhere.

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Valuation Liquidation Preference Pre-Money Valuation Term Sheet 405

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 billion market capitalization. The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000. We had recorded $1.8

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In places where international diplomacy had failed, citizens around the world found their individual and collective voices to topple dictatorships and demand better lives for themselves and future generations. What comes next remains to be seen but these revolutions even empowered individuals not touched directly by the uprisings.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The product development model treats all startups like they are in an Existing Market – an established market with known customers. They never understood Market Type. Why does Market Type matter? Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 203

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. It’s what I call “ the evangelical phase ” of a company in which you’re out trying to persuade customers that a product you’ve designed is going to meet their needs better than other solutions on the market.

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Sales Startup Framework Search 393

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Unlike the endless stream of predictions that are about to come out, it’s an analysis of the spread between the public market and private company valuations. Rates have risen significantly in the last eighteen months, pulling capital out of the equity markets and into the fixed income markets.

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DC Equity Hosting Valuation 112

Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

It sent a signal that there is an irrational demand for tech IPOs.&#. As for LinkedIn, as of this writing, its market capitalisation is $6.5 As the chart below shows, if you had invested in technology stocks in any year from 1990 through Q3 1999, you would have outperformed the S&P 500. Nothing, if nobody listens to you.

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Technical Review IPO Silicon Valley Valuation 74

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

What is the future of Pay-Per-View/Video-on-Demand (PPV and VOD)? Video-on-demand alone is estimated to grow from a $1.1 billion dollar business this year to $5 billion by 2012, taking market share away from DVD retailers and intensifying the carriers' ambition to bid for the best (and first run) titles. Has the U.S.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review Distribution 85

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Austin-based Bazaarvoice , the leader in social commerce, has been aggressively building out an incredible suite of applications, furthered by the launch of Social Commerce Insights, which allows marketers to easily and precisely measure social commerce ROI.

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Social Media Analytics Software Review Austin 59

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

He figured out quickly that there was a demand for printed tutorials. He said they found some sh*ty online print on demand service who could take credit cards and went from there. Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand.

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EC2 Social Network Distribution Demand 53

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

In 1999 I was working in the London offices of Andersen Consulting. I had been working on marketing & strategy initiatives for European telcos for the past several years helping them to think through and design Internet offerings. Both Tyler & I are Nihon -files. It was right up my alley in terms of skill sets and interests.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Pursue Global Markets 2. Pursue Global Markets. Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. trillion, by 2020, equivalent to bringing a whole new market the size of Brazil online. These are fantastic new markets for U.S.

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Africa Brazil China India 104

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. Let’s start with the incumbents position in a market. They were serving a latent market need for mid-sized businesses to use CRM.

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Vesting Framework Revenue Technology 376

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

I take my hat off to people like Adam Miller , the CEO of LA-based Cornerstone on Demand, who started at the exact same time as I did (November 1999) and is still the CEO but now of a public company valued at around $2 billion. Its a big to-do list and one that demands someone experienced in operating at this sort of scale.

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Silicon Valley IPO Demand Revenue 150

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

We invested in the company in 1999 during the ascension of the Internet bubble. But a lot of people were funding marketplaces and other online “things” in this arena – well over $500 million of VC capital went into the home improvement market alone. Complete lack of interest in marketing nonsense and overpromotion.

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Seattle Metrics Cofounder Finance 149

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

On some level we felt we did because being a SaaS company in 1999 was trailblazing. But I believe that if you go down this road you will struggle to simultaneously serve the SMB market. The needs are too different as are the sales channels and marketing messages. We started out with such big dreams about changing the world.

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Startup Early Stage Demand Channel 389

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2011

An old market adage states that the best time to buy something is when no one else wants it, the general thought being that demand comes in cycles. Yes, you must be passionate about your “idea” and making it become a market reality. Like the weather, if you wait long enough, things will change for the better.

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Cleveland Matching Small Business Government 145

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2014

This topic is front of mind for me as many of the companies I’m on the board of are growing extremely fast and the demands on the CEOs are significant. Another great CEO I’ve had the honor to work with is Matt Blumberg who has led Return Path since founding the company in 1999. It’s really hard to be a CEO.

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Startup Portfolio Demand Audience 139

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In November 2017 I wrote: “It’s important to note that a fair amount of the recent capital in the market is driven by speculation from the astronomical returns that cryptocurrencies have achieved in 2017, and a ‘fear of missing out.’”. In the heady days of 2017, my hairdresser asked me to show him how to buy crypto.

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SEC Valuation Institutional Investors Global 45

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. eBay is likely the most efficient “accelerator” to have existed to date.

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Silicon Valley India Africa Burma 45

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of.

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Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of.

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Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! I also like the segment on characterizing your market. and I am not sure if that is (a) a new market or (b) a segment of the existing market for energy. I like your comment on “get liquid in a bubble&#.

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Customer Development Developer Silicon Valley Customer 217

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The laws of supply and demand, and marginal pricing, withstand the test of time. Demand matters: IPOs are a bull market product Gauging demand for an IPO can be difficult, in part because so many IPO order books are over-subscribed. The tl;dr: It’s Economics 101.

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IPO Securities and Exchange Commission Demand SEC 36

YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

All businesses begin with a specific idea in mind, and although some stick to exactly what they started with, it’s much more common to find that a business has grown and evolved over time to keep up with changes in supply, demand, and even resource availability. In 1999, Goodrich became the No. billion in September 2011.

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Mississippi San Francisco Minnesota Bankruptcy 209

BeyondVC

JUNE 8, 2004

I have always been a big believer of the hosted software or ASP (application service provider) model since we made our first investment in LivePerson in January 1999. One of our main competitors of that era was Kana, which at that time, did way better than LivePerson in terms of customers, revenue, and market capitalization.

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Demand Bandwidth Hosting IPO 60

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. Berkeley Pizza: from pizza in the farmer's market to a sit-down restaurant. One example is in their marketing, which in today's environment requires providing value.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I left a great job, Director of Marketing for Snapple, to start my own speaking business. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. It was through marketing my business idea that I was offered to head a new organization, Immigrant Women in Business, but my gut told me not to do it.

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Entrepreneur Australia Software Review LLC 48

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2017

Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil. Parallel to this, social media has grown as well, allowing businesses from anywhere in the world to market to anyone,” he says. Attracting Overseas Customers.

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Global Small Business Asia Singapore 145

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

Capital Markets Advisory Partners cleaves the demand for pre-public VC-backed equities into two worlds: “Demand Pull (Buzz) and Supply Push (No Buzz) companies. … We have a stock market that works for one kind of buzzy (Demand Pull) stock but is a disaster for the rest of the economy. It is intentional.

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Valuation Social Media Media IPO 50

ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2013

In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”. Marketing communications need to be consistent with the region.” This is no longer the case. Do Your Prep Work. More lucrative, too.

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Global United States Intellectual Property Malaysia 60

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. This financial commitment from our investors will help us capitalize on increased market demand, and accelerate our market lead.”. Most people don’t really think of pricing as an elastic thing. An item’s price is the price.

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Balance Sheet Private Equity LP IPO 67

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.

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Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Communication Secrets Of The World’s Greatest Salesman written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Carmine Gallo. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Carmine Gallo. Take The Marketing Assessment: Like this show? Connect with Carmine on LinkedIn.

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Seattle Silicon Valley Conversion Naming 62

Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

Well, for starters they a) pursue global Markets b) place company culture above all else and c) They embrace the Black Swan within and without. They Pursue Global Markets. Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. How do you market to them? •

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Africa Brazil India China 76