Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I trained the Startup Weekend Next Beijing mentors and instructors, presented to several hundred entrepreneurs, and had a great fireside chat with Zhen Fund founding partner Xu Xiaoping in front of another roomful of entrepreneurs. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009.

Silicon Valley 269

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 269

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

TokBox launched a no-download consumer video chat/video conferencing service in 2007, but in November 2010, changed its business model to allow any business that wants to engage consumers on their site in completely new ways to do so, via mutli-way video. The new premise is: Group video chat made simple.

Business Model 96

Business Model API Startup Social Network 96

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 4 One of the most common forms of online marketing for small businesses is to have a website. The problem is, with today’s increasingly social and mobile web, a web site just isn’t enough. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

Web 37

Web Social Media Small Business Social Network 37

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I trained the Startup Weekend Next Beijing mentors and instructors, presented to several hundred entrepreneurs, and had a great fireside chat with Zhen Fund founding partner Xu Xiaoping in front of another roomful of entrepreneurs. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009.

Silicon Valley 161

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 161

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. It was 2007. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Sit back and watch usage. Holy sh*t!!!

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2011

A number of web based technologies such as Poll Everywhere have cropped up of late making it very affordable to poll audiences by having them use SMS and their own mobile device. For an event, this technology requires that there is a web connection available, but you can also use this in print or other environments to collect data.

SMS 73

SMS Marketing Mobile Social Media 73

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2011

Facebook is a social network, built from the ground up for that purpose, by a company that does nothing else. My view is that no one thing can slow Facebook, they’ve simply grown too large and too important for too many people. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

Small Business 71

Small Business Social Media Social Network Flash 71

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2011

The unfiltered nature of sharing stuff on Facebook and other social networks remains a business challenge. I think this is a tool that will be adopted and added to Web pages as thoroughly as the Like button as it presents some functionality that has long been missing.

Social Media 67

Social Media Social Network RSS Engineer 67

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2011

Scale the Wall Lots of companies out there want to provide apps for Facebook tabs and interactive welcome pages, but you must understand that the way people actually view your presence on Facebook is different than on, say, your Web site.

Small Business 78

Small Business Social Media Networking Engineer 78

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

It’s easier to establish these relationships than ever, thanks to social networks. And since social networks are where content sharing happens, it makes sense to begin making those relationships early on. Help to be Helped The key is to follow and be useful to people who are also producing content in your niche.

Social Media 41

Social Media Social Network Small Business Matching 41

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. It was 2007. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Sit back and watch usage. Holy sh*t!!!

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

This requires a visual web-editor (assuming you’re building a web-application). Personally I use Visual Web-Developer from Microsoft - it’s free and powerful. However, it is also very complicated to use, as it’s a full web-development environment. Posted by: Matt | October 4, 2007 2:18 AM Interesting post, Matt.

Web 40

Web AJAX Software Review Development Team Review 40

thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Contact The Startup Lawyer: Home Page About Contact FAQs Glossary Ryan Roberts Law: Home Page Social Networks: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flickr Delicious Digg Last.FM Contact The Startup Lawyer: Home Page About Contact FAQs Glossary Ryan Roberts Law: Home Page Social Networks: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flickr Delicious Digg Last.FM

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Founder Preferred Stock Startup 40

Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. million from Lighthouse Capital Partners , which ultimately became critical to our balance sheet and they turned out to be a great partner as we worked through the equity financing process. Tuesday, January 20, 2009.

Venture Capital 28

Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. The key is to ask the right people what they think – not your friends, parents or partner. However, i need a technical person (web developer) who can bring my vision to life. That like quickly choosing a wife.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Current round: $31.0mm in Series C by Insight Venture Partners (Jeff Lieberman). Free experience is web and mobile app-based, has ads, limited skipping, and limited listening time (40 hours/month). Social network app developer and ad network.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Los Angeles Oakland Asia 217

VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

SupersonicAds – a dominant leader in virtual currency monetization for online games, virtual worlds and social networks. Cellcom partnered with Citi Bank to offer its customers a mobile payments solution and money transferring, to be launched by the end of 2010. The company was founded in 2007. Miscellaneous.

Media 109

Media Stealth Venture Capital 109

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Google bought web 2.0 Originally founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin Slide.com was known as the largest third-party developer of Facebook applications until Google purchased it to “make Google services socially aware.”. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The fund generated $17 billion in returns in 2007. These advantages can include: Network Effects : This is the primary — though not the only — justification for blitzscaling. Social networks such as Facebook or LinkedIn are a clear example of the power of this long-term advantage, as are two-sided marketplaces such as Airbnb or eBay.

Startup 28

Startup North Dakota Acquisition Europe 28

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. When I first got into the industry it was 2007. I introduced my partners, we spent weeks with the team and felt good rapport.

Stock 305

Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

VC Café is privileged to support the event as the main media partner. Celeno and its partners deliver to the market Wireless Video Systems that solve the home wiring problem for HD video streaming. Funtactix builds and operates a top notch, white-label, virtual world of multi-player web based games, in a few months.

Media 145

Media Social Network Flash 145

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

owing to projected weakness in the economies of Israel’s main trading partners, the United States and Europe. a leading Israeli provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul, 3G and 4G wireless and wireline broadband networks. YAHOO BUYS ISRAELI WEB ADVERTISING FIRM DAPPER.

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Environment aware roaming – seamless roaming between WiFi & cellular networks including sophisticated handoff mechanism. Ceragon Networks -Ceragon Networks (NASDAQ/TASE: CRNT) is a leading provider of wireless backhaul networks. LogNet’s Account Manager Suite offers a complete web based platform for bill.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics. No wonder people had to raise $5 million just to get started back then. We raised $16.5

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

These results are then relayed back in real time to the program manager in an easily understandable and actionable dash board format, via a secure web platform that offers wide flexibility in data analysis and report generation. Flash Networks. ITS Telecom. - Logia Group. Perfecto Mobile [profitable and well funded].

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2011

It’s simply the act of plugging in and listening to what people that are important or potentially important to your business are doing and saying in all of the social networks they participate in. That’s right, you can derive immense benefit through social media tools without actually doing much more than listening.

Social Media 75

Social Media Small Business Media RSS 75

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

If you’re an OEM who wants to move more hardware but you don’t have the muscle to create an entire media ecosystem then you’re best off finding a partner who can build a software OS, app platform and search capabilities. So it is unsurprising to see companies like Sony, Logitech & Intel partner with Google.

Distribution 386

Distribution Audience Video Internet 386

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

Media 210

Media Los Angeles Russia Viral 210