VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

There’s a question on whether all this GPU hogging, and building capacity is not just a bubble waiting to pop, similar to the Telecom crash in the early 2000’s. As a data point, 60% of the 212 startups in the Summer 2023 Ycombinator batch that has just graduated identified themselves as AI startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. it seems that Twitter should have the same Google-like cost advantage. I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. They bought distribution and engineering talent.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. we had about 25 firms contacting us – more than I could manage. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. At the end of this post I’ll tell you what he said.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

One thing led to another, and my husband and I ended up getting an exclusive distribution contract in Canada for a major French brand. After being successful distributing other companies’ products, the next logical move was to create our own–bblüv baby essentials. I always loved languages. 13- After some life changes.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Instead, the product manager should keep iterating on the press release until they’ve come up with benefits that actually sound like benefits. Image source ).

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. Additionally, investment managers are attracted to matching long-dated pension liabilities with the extended duration nature of leased asset.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. Leadership and Managing >. Quality Manager Job Description. Quality Manager Job Description. Recruitment Manager Job Description. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says. Technology | Thursdays.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

Content management, sharing and tracking: Allow teams to manage, share and track engagement on their content (documents, videos, webpages, images etc.) Cost per lead. Lead intelligence: Use them to setup, prioritize and manage meetings. cost per download. Types of sales enablement tools. Examples: Domo , Tableau.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. We paid 10% of the normal costs for the software and that money was for software support. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. And of course then there is our own fund, 500 Startups.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Books don’t cost very much money. And at some point, people figured out that, “Hey, I can take written content that I publish in the real world, and put it online, and it eliminates all my cost and fulfillment. It eliminates my cost of distribution. John Jantsch: Then that was a cost. All really good.”

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. That cost him accounting fees, legal fees, and time because the financing round couldnt close until the arrangements were formalized. Durkin , managing partner with the Boston -based law firm Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP. Leadership.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Typically you want to see a 3x ratio between the contribution margin per rep (factoring in the lifetime value of the customer, or LTV) and the cost per rep to acquire that customer, fully loaded (i.e., customer acquisition cost or CAC). For example if you have a 90% gross margin SaaS software product and assign a $1.1M

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Below are the mistakes that have cost aspiring entrepreneurs a huge amount of money. Does the photo look like something taken on a mobile phone from 2000? I quickly navigated to the official site for buying the product and found that the shipping charge was almost three times the product cost. Who are such companies kidding?

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. We agreed to withhold the name of the fund-of-funds manager and to not post the source documents, as a condition of receiving the materials.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. This transparency policy is a good thing that forces Fog Creek management to keep things fair.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 19, 2013

General simplified thought: The development, distribution and promotion of products and services to suit a specific audience in order to achieve business objectives. Unlike what many lay people believe it is neither about selling or advertising, and is much more about business management in totality.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

“Many of you in this room in 20 years time will be in business and you’ll be managers. Living in the inner city of Manchester gave me the experience to draw on as a manager later in life. There have been a few VCs that I’ve worked with that have management experience in internet businesses.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. Jonathan Weinert is the Marketing Manager with Bosch eBike Systems. Then the key is to drive revenue on items the retailer either creates or controls the distribution channel. Focus on sales where you create or control the distribution.

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Brandanew

JUNE 18, 2015

How much does Content Marketing cost is dependent on several factors including your existing properties. In this post I will try and go through some of the factors that the cost varies with. I will also go through the description of costs that various ranges of Content Marketing plans may incur for your brand.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. Jonathan Weinert is the Marketing Manager with Bosch eBike Systems. Then the key is to drive revenue on items the retailer either creates or controls the distribution channel. Focus on sales where you create or control the distribution.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. Jonathan Weinert is the Marketing Manager with Bosch eBike Systems. Then the key is to drive revenue on items the retailer either creates or controls the distribution channel. Focus on sales where you create or control the distribution.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million! Founding Akamai.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

So, no project can have fewer than, say, three people dedicated to it, plus people management and possibly some form of Product or Project Management. They could have taken the tens of millions of dollars that the product cost to develop, and made their existing operation just 0.01% more effective, and made the same amount of money.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

While 1 second load time would be nice, if you manage to get a load time under 3 seconds, you’re doing fine. Only 25% of the Alexa 2000 uses a CDN. look at the Distributions tab to see page load speed distributions). What will a 1-second delay cost you? Yours can be different. How fast is fast enough?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

This from a man who knows from having made bigger investments that are smaller : Duncan Davidson, Managing Director of Menlo Park-based Bullpen Capital. They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. Brown & Sons, Montgomery Securities. The question is why?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

San Antonio has Geekdom with USAA and Port San Antonio with the Air Force Cyber Command; Houston has The Ion with Rice University, Microsoft and NASA and The Cannon distributed across the city; Dallas has Pegasus Park with UT Southwestern and Lyda Hill Philanthropies; and Austin has Capital Factory with the Army Futures Command.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

But in light of where we are in 2020, especially with regard to the degrading efficiency and sky-rocketing cost of capital through the structurally broken IPO process, SPACs may emerge as a legitimate third option for helping Silicon Valley companies efficiently and cost-effectively transition into the public markets.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

Keeping inventory costs money. Inventory may have other costs too, like spoilage. Because there are costs associated with running out of things, too. The “cost” of code inventory is huge. Have you been wondering about Distributed Version Control? © 2000-2012 Joel Spolsky. Why keep inventory at all?

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. This is an awesome trend and will further lower the cost of startup development. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google].

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. So here we are today designing, producing, distributing close to three million meals per week across 400 cities. So it's been fast-scale.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

My company, Future Workplace, and Virgin Pulse partnered in a study of over 2000 managers and employees in 10 countries. And it lowers commuting costs, of course. John Jantsch: And you know what’s interesting, there’s so many companies today that have distributed workforce. It’s all connected.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. As a result, productivity naturally improves.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

My company, Future Workplace, and Virgin Pulse partnered in a study of over 2000 managers and employees in 10 countries. And it lowers commuting costs, of course. John Jantsch: And you know what’s interesting, there’s so many companies today that have distributed workforce. It’s all connected.

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