2005 Business Model Distribution Venture Capital 
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). Thus is venture capital.
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MARCH 25, 2016
Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005.
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Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. For a Series A round you want to prove you have built a repeatable and scalable sales/revenue model and understand all parts of the business model. Series B is about proving your net revenue model (can you be profitable?). Business Model.
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JUNE 12, 2010
We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. RockYou (US) was founded in Redwood City in November 2005 by Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 16, 2019
In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” Getting there requires patience, internal buy-in, and supporting content. Instead, it is opinionated, often contrarian content that “has to pack a very real punch.”.
www.vccafe.com
MARCH 11, 2013
Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? free, distributed source code control management system. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? model legal documents.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
How did the Introduction of YouTube affect your business? JibJab has an ad model that relied on exclusive distribution deals with the big portals. In 2005 they realized that this business was going to evaporate over night with the introduction of YouTube. It changed everything.
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