Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

There’s a couple different forces I see at work: 1) Selling & Customer Acquisition - In the last 5 years, the biggest force in business software was the impact of the cloud as an infrastructure layer and product/service delivery mechanism. companies on user acquisition are increasingly being applied to SaaS companies.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). We’re just a little start-up with a big, big dream…We’ve just launched [link] in December 2010. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Great post! You do a great job articulating.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The size of the red bars (IPO’s) versus blue (mergers and acquisitions) illustrates that while venture-backed startups did get acquired, the IPO market was booming. Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 2000-2010. New, agile and adroit venture firms with new business models have emerged to deal with the reality that 1) web 2.0

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Software By Rob

APRIL 6, 2010

Reviewing NHProf.com April 6th, 2010 | Website Reviews Building your startup? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Check out my book Like this post?

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

It was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Regarding social networking, Yahoo! Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

On the consumer facing side, the number of companies doing multiple acquisitions of $100M+ was extremely short… Google, eBay/PayPal, Amazon, and Microsoft are at the top of the list. <$100M) acquisitions for several years now, but they’ve mainly been acquihires. IAC and Yahoo! Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 8, 2010

April 8th, 2010 | Website Reviews Building your startup? I’ll still be handling the reviews myself, publishing twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays. If you want to add your site to the queue, email me at rob -at- softwarebyrob dot com. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. What are your hypotheses around customer acquisition costs? Gina Bianchini , Ning.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

by Dr. John Sullivan May 10, 2010, 12:16 am ET. May 10, 2010 at 6:26 am. May 10, 2010 at 9:39 am. May 10, 2010 at 10:09 am. May 10, 2010 at 10:47 am. May 10, 2010 at 11:33 am. Browse Articles by Tag. advertising. assessments. coldcalling. corporatecareerswebsite. corporaterecruiting. economicdata.

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Austin Startup

JULY 27, 2010

I think it’s safe to say that early stage funding is going strong in Austin in 2010. Austin technology veterans Hank Weghorst and Suaad Sait have shown through their 10 week beta that they’re agile, responsive to user feedback, and rapid in rolling out new features.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 21, 2010 What is a startup? To see proof of this, simply observe the results of the large majorities of corporate acquisitions of startups. Fundamentally, the lean startup is a methodology for coping with uncertainty and unknowns with agility, poise, and ruthless efficiency.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. What’s the customer acquisition cost? Reply Amit , on January 22, 2010 at 11:34 am Said: Great article!

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

Back in 2010 we were observing more and more new B2B startups emulating the product and customer acquisition strategies of existing consumer web companies which my partners & I have long been familiar with. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Pingback: [link]. Pingback: [link].

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

In the fall of 2010 I laid out reasons why all the tech “bubble” chatter was really more the hallmark of a reasonably sustained boom , and then revisited the topic almost one year ago to the day. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. Read More ».

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

He was constantly looking at the multiple lines on the ALR-20 display and could see the Soviet radar order of battle: ground to air communications, what radars were around (search, acquisition, tracking, etc.), Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. If your app has incredibly strong retention, you will probably do very well with the current PR/new app system of acquisition. So what can you do?

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

These companies report gross ad revenue but then subtract out “TAC” (Traffic Acquisition Costs) which is basically accounting-speak for the revenue share they pay to the partner sites where the ads actually appear. In fact Facebook’s ad revenue dropped in absolute terms slightly (about -3%) from Q4 2010 to Q1 2011.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

Salesforce is trying to create a platform both through internal efforts on Force.com and acquisitions (e.g. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Microsoft has two massive platforms in Windows and Xbox, and has been thrashing about for a decade trying to build one in mobile. Read More ».

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Here’s the Netflix homepage back in 2010, focusing on the benefits of the product: Image source. Strategy expert, Gary Fox , defines growth marketing as: “An agile and adaptive marketing methodology that focuses on how to get, grow and keep customers.”. Those with the highest customer acquisition costs can be scaled back. .

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The first of these to exit was recently announced, with Groupon’s acquisition of Hyperpublic , though most of the portfolio will continue to build for a long time. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. PMarchetti. Congratulations! Read More ».

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Why, we just unified acquisition and engagement! I do think the concept allows us to unify acquisition and engagement, and is important for that reason. helping you balance engagement vs acquisition. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, March 25, 2009 9:16 AM Jesse Farmer said. Expo SF (May.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

Some great posts from April 2010 that talk to me in terms of being a CTO at a Startup. Ben Casnocha: The Blog , April 15, 2010 Everyone I spoke with loved the idea. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2010

Agile Development, meet Agile Business. But the number one question you need to think about when going after this Agile Business approach: At what point is it worth spending the time to truly automate this? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Check out my book Like this post?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If you haven’t figured out the ecosystem, growth is useless – whether it is a acquisition-only viral loop, like Tagged, or an advertising blitz like countless dot-bombs. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, They get focused solely on growth. They get focused solely on growth. Expo SF (May.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Infographic on entrepreneurs’ state of mind in 2010 – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. PSFK list of most relevant brands of 2010. Good analysis by @msuster about Twitter’s acquisition of Tweetie & what Twitter should do at Chirp – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Infographic on entrepreneurs’ state of mind in 2010 – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. PSFK list of most relevant brands of 2010. Good analysis by @msuster about Twitter’s acquisition of Tweetie & what Twitter should do at Chirp – [link].

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2016

While Twitter’s growth is currently disappointing investors , it grew rapidly from 2010 to 2012. For optimizers, those descriptions are a bit different… Acquisition: Optimizing emails, PPC ads, etc. It had a lot to do with the fact that they exponentially increased their testing velocity. Twitter moved from 0.5

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2010

When we were looking for funding for IMVU (the company where Eric Ries first implemented Customer and Agile Development and where the Lean Startup was born,) I thought of Shawn. Instead, he realized that most VC-backed startups would exit through a merger or acquisition- at a sale price of $20 to $100 million.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

3) Repeatable, cost effective customer acquisition – Nothing whets a Series A investor’s appetite like a startup that’s shown $1 of incremental marketing spend will yield $2-3 of gross margin. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Filed under Uncategorized. Read More ».

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

We were trying to broaden the conversation beyond just viral customer acquisition. Sometimes you have to state the obvious, I guess :) April 28, 2010 2:45 AM JakeR said. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Today, I was comparing notes with Ed Baker (one of the gurus of viral growth). Expo SF (May.

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

His co-founder/CMO Alex Cote has run customer acquisition programs that have attracted millions of users via a range of channels. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Thanks Ahmed, appreciate the feedback and hope you have an oppty to check out Cloze’s beta. Read More ».

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

Here in Boston both Microsoft and Google have made significant expansions in recent years in Cambridge, and PayPal/eBay is poised to do the same in downtown Boston through acquisition and organic growth. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

But while it was a little less understood outside the payments world, their acquisition of TxVia theoretically gives them some of the plumbing they’d need to create a store of value or couple a Google mobile payments product to existing financial accounts. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

As of 2010 I still have a lot more years that I spend in the traditional data warehousing / business intelligence world than in web analytics. This allows you to do strategic analysis of you web acquisitions in context of retail, call center, etc. Not page level analysis type (that's tactical!) Be flexible.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. As with many Silicon Valley failures, a flawless PR launch turned into a flawed customer acquisition strategy. Labels: agile , customer development 5comments: William Pietri said. Even a great architecture becomes inflexible. We can skip the chasm. Great post!

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