Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

General Partners Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp are fixtures in the startup community, and especially in driving forward female entrepreneurship. of deal-making partners in venture capital and 3% of venture-backed company CEOs being women.” - Letter from the Founding General Partner, 09/1/2015. Currently, they’ve raised $19.1m

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2011

How can we attract buyers to our channel before they make purchasing decisions? as well as channel partners and cloud industry technology consultants. They acquired quantitative data by going through the 2008 Agricultural Census. Then different again for direct and indirect channels. Demand generation?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Today’s workforce has radically different expectations, brands are losing their power, physical channels are being destroyed by virtual ones, market share is less important than market creation, and software is eating world. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008. Channels have to be identified through which a startup creates awareness, induces evaluation, enables purchase, and executes the delivery of the value proposition.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2011

Though you shouldn’t let Fear of Failure (FOF) dictate your every move, you can and should channel it to help you stay one step ahead of potential problems, which, if not avoided, could become painful — or worse. In October 2008, I called a time-out on my plans for Max-Wellness, but I wasn’t ready to shelve the idea altogether.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

VCs in seed clothing: Chris Dixon, Mark Suster, and Naval Ravikant interviewed - Venture Hacks , May 5, 2010 I recently got on the phone for a cross-continent conference call with Chris Dixon from Founder Collective , Mark Suster from GRP Partners , and our own Naval Ravikant. SlideShare: VC signaling in seed rounds.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

iPhone & iPad #distribution #ormaybemarketing # 19 hours ago @davemcclure Idea 2: Partner with someone with an established distribution channel, ie. Mint & finances #distribution #andalsoproduct # 19 hours ago @davemcclure Idea 3: Build brand buzz to epic proportions, aka a Purple Cow, ie.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Warm Regards Sean Murphy www.skmurphy.com September 19, 2008 4:35 PM Eric said. Sure, Id be delighted to.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

When smartphone apps first got popular, after Apples App Store was launched in July 2008 , they offered an immediate jump in functionality for mobile content. Compared to mobile sites circa 2008, iPhone apps were attractive and easy to use. In 2008, it may not have been possible to get the functionality you wanted via a mobile website.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2019

In 2008, we founded Confirm BioSciences and I became CEO. Since emigrating from Turkey to San Diego with her husband and business partner Serhat Pala, Zeynep has amassed great success. In 2008, she established Confirm BioSciences, a global leader in quality diagnostic health & wellness testing solutions.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Forget everything you learned about software channels. The internet is your new channel and Technology Enabled Service providers are among the few partners that actually care if you succeed (more.) 2 comments: Peter Cohen Managing Partner, SaaS Marketing Strategy Advisors. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

This is particularly true in New York, where their traditional financial services industry client base has sustained significant damage since the 2008 financial crisis. We’re backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Silver Lake Partners, and individual investors like Ron Conway, among others.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Then, she can start doing partnerships with fraud management system vendors and use their channels to sell, perhaps. The key take away from that discussion is: convert potential competitors to partners. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. If possible, of course.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2012

Remember Dave Carroll, the dude who created a protest song, United Breaks Guitars , when his guitar was broken during a trip on United Airlines in 2008? His YouTube video became a massive online hit, and United was said to suffer some $180 million when its share price plunged from the bad publicity. ”

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. Today, instead of going niche and focused, he and his partners are going broader, even, and planning to burn even more money. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. During today's roundtable, we had some excellent discussions of product marketing for a couple of different concepts.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Had a great chat with Jim Armstrong who is a General Partner at Clearstone Venture Partners today on TWiVC. We also talked a lot about Geodelic , a portfolio company of Clearstone, who is trying to change the metaphor of how people discover location based information by partnering with large companies and brands. AppDynamics.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

In particular, partners will need to: - develop integration capabilities to be able to deliver solutions with good economics - adapt their sales process to be able to articulate a clear business value to line of business managers (instead of IT managers) - Adapt the marketing materials (webminars, events.) ► 2008. (11).

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

In my experience, wealth managers often refer experts to their clients and Ankit could position his service through that channel. Lead Generation & Qualification With a Channel Partner. One of the members of the channel partner team was actually present in the room and shared his point of view as well.

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Transformify

JULY 25, 2016

. “It is too early to say what the ultimate outcome of the referendum result will be, but even prior to this we were concerned about a weakening UK economy combined with high valuations of domestic cyclicals,” said Nick Purves of RWC Partners. I remain confident the portfolio will deliver the returns we have targeted.”

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2014

Back in October 2013 Simon-Kucher & Partners , a global marketing & sales consultancy, published a survey that found 33% of shoppers did not name prices as the primary driver for online shopping. Don’t think of your marketing channels as a way to un-creatively pitch – nobody cares about that. image source.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Tech Channels ▾ Cleantech ›. Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner. Health IT ›.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

Saturday, February 16, 2008. Publicly-traded firms and others facing regulatory scrutiny may fear the consequences of an unguarded comment on a quasi-official channel, and rather than manage that risk they opt to deny employees the ability to participate at all. ▼ 2008. (9). Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

My knowledge base has grown immensely too because I have had the opportunity to work with many new clients and partners. Entrepreneurship allows you to take that energy and channel it into your dreams first; more importantly, it lets you teach others to do the same for themselves along the way. Global Financial Crisis in 2008).

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2011

Ad verification startup DoubleVerify has raised a fourth round of $33 million from private equity fund JMI Equity and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). According to Ynet , the deal values DoubleVerify at $200 million. JMI knows quite a bit about display advertising, having bought DoubleClick before its $3.1

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Private Equity Valuation Equity Acquisition 87

Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

This episode explores how to think about growth in turbulent times, according two growth experts: a16z general partner Andrew Chen, who previously led the growth team at Uber, and Brian Balfour, formerly the VP of Growth at HubSpot, now the founder and CEO of Reforge, a masterclass in growth strategies.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 18, 2011

A leader in mobile commerce and in-store mobile engagement for more than 45 top retail brands, Digby announced today that it has raised $8 million in Series C funding led by Battery Ventures and with participation from current investors including BlackBerry Partners Fund (NASDAQ: RIMM), S3 Ventures and Daylight Partners.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I’ve always thought that Federated was the natural acquirer for Lijit (and we’ve been partners with Federated for some time now). Ultimately Lijit chose a different path – integrating with over 30 buying channels and standing up their own RTB exchange.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

was born on a train from NYC to DC in 2008 when I was reading an article by Annie Prolix in Amtrak magazine about Elizabeth Gilbert, author of “Eat Pray Love.” My business partner and I had only 2 weeks to come up with a new name and didn't feel that Innovative Tap Solutions had the power to build a brand. Photo Credit: Hope Gibbs.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Michaeline is a 1M/1M premium member, trying to make decisions around fund-raising versus growing organically using channel partnerships. In 1M/1M premium, we do invest in certain companies on a revenue sharing basis and create channel partnerships with one or more of our partners.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Andrew Wong, CEO of MAD, has been working with us for almost a year, and we have made a mutual choice to deepen the partnership by making MAD a premiere value-added reseller partner of the 1M/1M program. We discussed its growth strategy, and my advice is to build the ad agency and interactive marketing channels as the primary growth driver.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I started a career in real estate in 2008 (when the market was crashing). Three years after that, I was fortunate enough to find a firm, Land Carroll & Blair, with a same client-oriented mentality and partnered with them. When I met my co-founder and partner, we inspired each other to take a chance and start our own business.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The premium lounge includes an online curriculum addressing the common topics specific to very early stage entrepreneurship; private roundtables that many of you have requested; customer, channel partners, and investor introductions; media and analyst access; and a variety of other value-added services to make our entrepreneurs successful.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

And to engage effectively with them, we need to reach them through all those various channels. I can say this with confidence based on my first hand experience mentoring a number of serious and promising Indian product entrepreneurs in the 1M/1M program, one of which, Freshdesk, has just raised financing from Accel Partners.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I’ve always thought that Federated was the natural acquirer for Lijit (and we’ve been partners with Federated for some time now). Ultimately Lijit chose a different path – integrating with over 30 buying channels and standing up their own RTB exchange.

Denver 48

Denver Acquisition Channel Advertising 48

ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

go-to-market strategy, and I advised him to try to recruit a channel partner like SuccessFactor or Taleo with major presence in the talent management space. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. In one of those accounts, Quadmo is integrating their software with SuccessFactors.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 5, 2011

The purpose of the War of Art was to inspire other writers, artists, musicians, or anyone else attempting to channel his or her creative energies. He has also developed a large and loyal following in the creative community with his short non-fiction work titled The War of Art : Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received. Philippe Botteri.

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