Board Effect

JULY 5, 2021

In the philanthropic arena, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, who were inspired by philanthropist Charles “Chuck” Feeney, created The Giving Pledge in 2010 to encourage other billionaires to give the bulk of their wealth away now or in their wills. Some of the wealthiest people in the world have already made their pledges through the campaign.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business Model Affects Metrics and Exit Criteria Web-based Business Model Exit Criteria In a web-business model you’re looking for traffic, users, conversion, virality, etc – not revenue. Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market.

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 224

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

It is the new cocktail party conversation. It’s true that it’s cheaper to start companies now and cheaper to get distribution. But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010. We list it on our bio’s as bragging rights.

Florida 299

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). The power-law curve is when the distribution of returns is heavily skewed.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). The power-law curve is when the distribution of returns is heavily skewed.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 12, 2021

In 2010, when the world began to emerge from the global financial crisis, Techstars started its first wave of real growth. Given the Covid pandemic’s impact on society, we are experiencing a new geographic distribution of people and entrepreneurs. Remote and distributed work is now a given as part of our entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In blue is how much time we spent in 2010 and in blue the time spent in 2014. was the dramatic shift between 2010 to 2014 to mobile content consumption. They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. Transactions, Revenue and Ecommerce Conversion Rate. You have to solve for all of them.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). The power-law curve is when the distribution of returns is heavily skewed.

Valuation 156

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The VSP can be used to reduce bounce rate and increase conversions and is sold through a subscription ranging from $300 a month (self served) to $2500 a month (enterprise). Started by Jonathan (Yoni) Meiri in 2010 and has recently announced a $50,000 seed round. GB over the web.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. But thanks to new distribution technologies like the Kindle, we will soon.

San Francisco 113

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales. As a pay-per-click marketer, now I will look at retail packaging as a source of ideas on landing page design.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2020

Depending on the data source, the unsubsidized Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) of solar in 2010 was between 30-40 cents / kWh. So in 2010, the cost of solar energy was > 5x the cost of fossil fuel based electricity. But that’s a conversation for another article. . cents / kwh in Abu Dhabi and 1.5

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I Hate Business Plan Competitions Yet this same conversation reminded me why every time students at Berkeley or Stanford tell me they’ve entered a technology business plan competition, I question whether they are wasting their time. I now think that was a mistake. You’ll learn a lot.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. Im constantly frustrated by conversations that take place in discussion groups that cant cross the border into the blog world.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

Heat maps are a popular conversion optimization tool , but are they really that useful? In 2010, Dr. Anne Aula, a Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. What is a heat map?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. In this conversation Eren and I talked about his journey from a small town in Turkey to founding the education startup Udemy, also quite successful, to Carbon Health and eventually Carbon Health's vaccination efforts.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. Thanks a million.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Im excited that well get more than the usual few minutes of Q&A, so come with a healthy appetite for conversation. If you or your company is interested in sponsoring someone with a scholarship to travel to the expo and contribute to the conversation, please leave a comment or let me know. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. 14 Comments • Nov 15, 2010 +1 for use of Platonic. Lakshman Prasad • Nov 16, 2010.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

How do you deal with a severely uneven distribution of investment success between individuals or groups of partners? I find myself having similar conversations and really appreciate that you’ve written and shared this. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

And then we would use that simple analytics system I mentioned to monitor the conversion rates of customers from each campaign. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? © 2010 Derek Sivers comments Pam Mark Hall (2010-06-19) # Derek, Yes,Yes,Yes! Thanks you!

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ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

Sean Ellis coined the term “growth hacking” way back in 2010. In our 2016 State of Conversion Optimization Report , which many people in growth roles completed as well, we found that… Only 32% of small companies (less than 500 employees) say they have a documented, structured optimization process.

Marketing 48

Marketing Distribution Retention eCommerce 48

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Some great free resources listed this month that I thought were interesting.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Or massively distributed data persistence systems and algorithms. Or even ways to optimize the conversion flow of a website sign up process. OpenWorld 2010. December 2010 (3). November 2010 (3). October 2010 (5). September 2010 (17). August 2010 (2). July 2010 (1). June 2010 (2).

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 10, 2018

Back in 2010, I watched an interview with the editor of the Austin Business Journal in which he dismissed the value of the CRM concept as ‘low tech’ and, therefore, not important to the future of Austin as it was envisioned by the people with money & power. Additions: distributed manufacturing (e.g., 3D Printing, wearables, etc.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, April 7, 2010 Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem) Lean startups don’t optimize. At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. Or should you focus on user engagement or virality?

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San Francisco Lean Metrics Design 154

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

You need to make sure you dont get away from trying bold new things, using some combination of your vision and in-depth customer conversations to come up with the next idea to try. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

2010 – Sean Ellis, who currently runs Qualaroo , coins the term “growth hacking” in his article, Find a Growth Hacker for Your Startup. So, it’s not surprising that a commonly asked question for optimizers is: What is the overlap between growth hacking and conversion rate optimization? Is growth hacking useless?

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Retention Metrics Acquisition Conversion 48

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The VCIR Winter 2010 conference will be held at the Park Hyatt in Beaver Creek, Colorado, February 23-25, showcasing early-growth companies from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. RavenBrick delivers innovative solar-controlled windows, which reduce energy costs by up to 50 percent.

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Venture Capital Colorado Mezzanine Wyoming 52

startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Finding a Technical Cofounder by Mike Subelsky on September 17, 2010 Advice View Comments Over the past 18 months I’ve had the same conversation with about ten entrepreneurs looking to start a software-based business. TowsonGlobal Tour Today (10/5/2010) - Who's going? Start here. Catchy tune. All rights reserved.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Baltimore Maryland 40

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Twenty Companies Ranging From Seed Stage to Mezzanine Will Showcase Next Generation Technologies from Various Industries at the 27 th Annual VCIR Winter 2010 Conference. VCIR Launches 20 Promising Companies/Page 2. RavenBrick delivers innovative solar-controlled windows, which reduce energy costs by up to 50 percent.

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Venture Capital Colorado Mezzanine Wyoming 52

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

But there were others, too: In 2010, Okta had only ten customers on board. This means more people behind a screen, which means more opportunity across distribution channels. Survey design. recession in 2009.”. The added challenges, Kerrest argues, provided long-term benefits. By 2011, we had 50 customers; today we have over 2,000.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). Premium invitation cards and event stationary that is designed online for online distribution or paper print. LibreDigital. Orchard for e-Books”.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues. « Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee | Main. Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Whats the right set of materials, conversations, etc. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. First of all, they are not selling their product by hand.

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