Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

You have been 2,950 to visit the site in 2007 and you looked at 3,920 pages. Looking back at 2007, I wanted to give a quick overview of the investments I have been involved with, since I have not blogged about any of them yet. This has proven to be true in 2007 and we will see how resilient these trends are in a recession.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

This “gain” ($34B last year alone) is a result of a direct wealth-transfer to these individuals FROM the previous owners of the company — founders, executives, employees, and venture investors. Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. Party B: The investment banks.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2012

His informative articles often have an inspiring bent, like “Do You Dare Your Employees to Dream?” ” and “How Are You Helping Your Employees To Be Your Organization’s Heroes?” Since 2007, Estill has been writing about using time management principles in leadership on his CEO Blog, Time Leadership.

Leadership 263

Leadership Aggregator Naming Social Media 263

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. Shamir Optical reported revenues of $142 million in 2009, generated mainly in Europe and the United States, and has about 1,400 employees. is acquiring iSkoot Technologies Inc.,

Bandwidth 80

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 80

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

2007 was a turning point for the SaaS industry with the successful IPOs of NetSuite, SuccessFactors, DemandTec, Salary.com, Aprimo and Constant Contact. The 23rd started with a quick overview of the achievement of our Software and SaaS portfolio in 2007 presented by Byron Deeter, the co-head of our West Coast SaaS practice.

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

For example, if a person clicks on the hashtag #purplemarkers, they’ll typically see a page that aggregates all content with the same hashtag. Chris Messina , a former Google employee who, among other things, helped to design Google+, was the first person to suggest using a # sign in messages on Twitter. As in #barcamp [msg]?

Small Business 80

Small Business Social Media Marketing Social Network 80

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

The term “impact investment” was coined in 2007 — an approach that deliberately builds intangible assets alongside tangible, financial ones. Israel, a hub for Impact Tech? Israel has the highest number of startups per capita in the world, making it a potential global leader for positive impact via technology excellence.

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Global South Africa 174

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

You invest in your employees—mentoring, conferences, training. Employees take other jobs. It moves knowledge from the head (or hard drive) of a single employee into an accessible, company-owned repository. That transferability is a competitive advantage: Critical knowledge stays with the company, not the employee.

Retention 128

Retention Technical Review Social Network Wiki 128

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). return on investment after 3.5

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. I was also pretty convinced that we would live in a world where online video would be pervasive and so we started NewTeeVee in 2007.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Logia offers Mobile Operators a range of solution for their Apps Stores starting from Content Aggregation, Billing aggregation to full white labeled Apps Store. Logia has the unique combination of being both a content aggregator and a billing aggregator. Mce Systems. MailVision.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

They are generally high net worth (accredited) individuals who have done well in their career, either as entrepreneurs or as executives and early employees at some of the companies that have done well (in the Valley that usually means Paypal, Google, Facebook etc). <$50K in aggregate. Lots, 20-100. 1-2 per partner. Individual.

Preferred Stock 125

Preferred Stock Seed Stage Incubator Early Stage 125

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

Using an aggregated set of over 15 billion actions analyzed by Mixpanel each month during August, September, and October 2013, they were able to establish new, industry specific benchmarks for retention. Before 2007, O2 Ireland, part of Telefonica Europe , had a ton of disparate data and very little insight as to what it all meant.

Retention 106

Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106