Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

And even if they wanted the index return, there is essentially no way to buy (or sell) a broad-based basket of VC funds in the way you can trade the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 or other public equity index. Startup outcomes are a power law distribution rather than a standard distribution. What about fund of funds (FoF), you ask?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%. Now look around.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. While many of my friends bragged about their 5 condos in Florida I kept talking about how the real estate market was in a bubble – their gains an illusion. “Yeah, but there is a shortage of supply.

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Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. Learning could be about product features, customer needs, the right pricing and distribution channel, etc.) distribution channels to reach customers and offer them the value proposition. Microsoft Windows 3.0). Lessons Learned.

Lean 120

Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. 16 years later it’s just another software company. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. 16 years later it’s just another software company. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

A method of solving time-consuming computing tasks by utilizing multiple computers usually united into a parallel computing system is commonly referred to as grid computing or distributed computing. In 2007, the BOINC framework became the home of World Community Grid , a distributed computing project created by the IBM Corporation.

Search 179

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Modern theories of economics and finance teach us that in a world of perfect information, the market will decide what a fair price is for any company’s stock at any point in time based on its current financial condition, results of past operations, analysts’ forecasts of future performance, industry conditions and so on.

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SEC Prospectus United States Technical Review 158

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Using a combination of market data, math, and financial analysis, Professor Damodaran concluded that his best estimate of the value of Uber is $5.9 billion, far short of the value recently determined by the market. The first is TAM, and the second is Uber’s market share within that market. Total Available Market Analysis.

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San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But, increasingly, the Apple hype-fests are a marketing—not a product—showcase. For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. Many who cite 80% include product ideas that never make it to market. Image source ).

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Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Helping American businesses access the information and services that will help them grow, hire American workers, and export to foreign markets. These innovations could lead to entirely new markets and platforms for growth in the economy, increase U.S. design, build, operate/use, maintain, and service).

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Fractional CTO Government Technical Review Analytics 158

Start Up Blog

JUNE 19, 2013

I was asked by a respected colleague from the technology world this question: What is marketing? Mind you, this is a guy who is involved in, and gets marketing. As anyone who works in marketing knows, this is a difficult question to answer. Or even more simply, marketing is a fancy word for business. Place – Access.

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Marketing Distribution Finance Audience 92

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. But builders who see AI as the driving force behind product development and GTM strategy will actually create new markets and experiences that never existed before.

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Generative AI ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 78

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. Breathtaking Scale.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. So it looks like the market leaders are trading closer to recession multiples than bubble multiples. Thirdly, the market is far bigger. In 1998, I was working at Netscape, which owned well over half of the browser market. Currently, the S&P is trading at 22x.

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Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 76

Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

After taking several years away from having a normal law firm employer to help family, while working as a freelance lawyer & writer for other law firms, the job market for lawyers was terrible. One thing led to another, and my husband and I ended up getting an exclusive distribution contract in Canada for a major French brand.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The Inbound Myth written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Inbound marketing is a topic that’s getting tons of attention these days, and for good reason: inbound has had a dramatic impact on the business landscape. The content creation and distribution aspects of inbound get most of the attention.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. They looked nervous at having to speak with me impromptu and without the benefit of financial figures to scoff at, product pitches that they’ve seen 100 times and a market sizing to unpick. Page 1: Market Size. $3 I wasn’t feeling it. But these two certainly were.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Gaurav Dhillon was one of the great enterprise entrepreneurs of the ‘90s and early 2000s. He founded and ran the premier integration company of the era, Informatica, took it public and built it into the number one company in the market. The market change: Software as a Service. Informatica is currently worth over $4B.

Technical Review 77

Technical Review Memphis Software Review Software 77

Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

The company’s familiarity is along what we consider to be the three most important criteria for an investment in a seed-stage startup – team, market, and product: Team – Two of the co-founders were well-known to the NextView partnership years before a line of code was even written. Including how large it is – there is $15B spent on U.S.

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Seed Stage Cofounder Portfolio Curation 199

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

5 Free Social Media Management Tools to Make Your Life Easier written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. You can create designer-level marketing assets using any of the thousands of ready-made designs they have available to you. This post is brought to you by ContentCal. photo credit: Social Media via photopin (license).

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Social Media Media Management Social Network 95

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Transcript of Get Rich Today by Teaching written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. When somebody buys a copy of Duct Tape Marketing, you don’t owe them anything. It eliminates my cost of distribution. Back to Podcast.

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Bandwidth Cost Audience Video 36

ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

There are broadly 5 types of sales enablement tools in the market today: 1. Say, which industries generate the maximum LTV to cost of sales, what is the typical time to close a deal in a specific market or what messaging performs the best with a certain user profile, can be well understood. Why Is This Useful To Marketers?

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B2B Sales Technical Review Software Review 48

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Pension funding was above market using aggressive actuarial assumptions. 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. municipal bond market. Ironically, given the U.S.’s

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Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 129

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

SailPoint also signed a strategic partnership with BMC Software, enabling BMC’s worldwide sales force and distribution partners to resell SailPoint IdentityIQ™ as the identity management component of BMC’s business service management portfolio.

Global 73

Global North America Customer Cofounder 73

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While institutional LPs know big changes are happening, most focus too much on 1) increasing/decreasing fund size or 2) marketing + branding as the major trends. These two divergent groups have optimized for very different market conditions and behaviors. This is a long piece, so if you’re not a fan of inside baseball, skip it.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

There are times when small and slow is the right strategy for a specific market opportunity. Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. Online Marketing. Bringing Innovation to Market. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Brandanew

JANUARY 4, 2016

Blogging is a writing medium that works in sync with modern technology and marketing tactics. Here are a few statistics from Hubspot that really push the point home: Marketers who prioritize blogging are 13x more likely to enjoy positive ROI. More: Top DIY Marketing Tools. Your initial 2000 or so accounts are free.

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Analytics Community Audience Distribution 100

Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. The booming IPO market proved the model of investing in new companies, as some SBICs cash out at attractive levels. The control over distributions and negative incentives to hold or distribute capital often generates bad decisions when companies go public.

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SBIC Venture Capital Colorado SBA 142

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2019

Transcript of Why All Business Owners Should Become Authors written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. And you’re right in saying that for a marketing consultant or a coach or lots of other businesses, everyone has a book.

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Flash Software Review Naming Los Angeles 74

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. The percentage is the 12/31/11 portfolio value (including cumulative distributions) divided by the called capital. Accel Partners VII (2000): 122% (97%).

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Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. Online Marketing. Bringing Innovation to Market. a 50-employee provider of e-marketing solutions to small and midsize businesses, based in Needham, Mass. Copyright © 2000 inc.com. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5

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Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Matt Briel In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Matt Briel. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. (00:50): Great episode.

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