A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. That revenue is in on 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents. Every day, 5% of the entire online world visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more Public-company tech investors creates competition in late-stage financings and these investors can afford to be less price sensitive if they choose. Summary: Cheap, mobile, social, global, always-on, one-click-purchase =. more than 5 years ago?—?and

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The Exit Problem. Today’s Normalization.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and Cloud Computing business. As we get close to the end of the year, I thought it would be interesting to put together a post on how to approach the 2010 planning. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Global Warning!

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 14, 2010

Thursday, January 14, 2010. Happy New Year 2010! ▼ 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Yahoo Finance. Cracking The Code. at 5:00 PM.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Europe Venture Capital 48

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. It’s also provided a global forum for networking among philanthropists.

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Government Technical Review Global Distribution 98

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2012

Founded in 2010, Las Vegas-based startup ExhibitMatch ( www.exhibitmatch.com ) hopes to solve that particular problem – it is a global online interactive bidding platform that matches trade show exhibitors with stand builders from around the world. The backbone of ExhibitMatch is its database of 35,000 events.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

An early example occurred in 2010 when UBS Analyst Neil Currie accessed satellite imagery to monitor activity in Walmart parking lots, running the data thru a mathematical regression to translate it into customer activity for better earnings forecasts. Underwriting. It’s the SWIFT’s of the world that need to totally reinvent themselves.

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Finance where needed. In particular part three talked about what happened if we saw a double dip in 2010-11 or a “lost decade.&#. 2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. We need some visibility. Cut where needed.

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Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. But we never lost the finance bug. We look for projects and protocols that can rethink major classes of global commerce. We were infatuated with tech.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

by Anthony Coundouris , trade finance evangelist for ApexPeak. Alternative finance has grown slowly in these countries, because both are the historical treasurers of Asia. In Asia Pacific, the volumes in alternative finance have come from South Korea and China. For many businesses, alternative financing was the alternative.

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Singapore South Korea Finance Asia 100

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent? Global and Local. and seen the rise of absolute juggernauts with deeply global ambitions such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi. These questions have been rattling around my brain.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 30, 2007

Global warming: a plague for humanity? After all, global warming might not be a bad thing for everyone. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning!

Software Review 48

Software Review Global Technical Review Europe 48

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

This power is wielded through a combination of a country’s diplomacy, information, its military capabilities, economic strength, finance, intelligence, and law enforcement. led liberal international order and replace it with its own neo-totalitarian model where China emerges as the dominant regional and global power.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 3, 2021

Boundless Immigration , a company we’ve been investors in since they spun out of Pioneer Square Labs venture studio, raised a $25 million financing last week. When PSL started ideating on Boundless, I was lucky to be at the PSL office and participate in one of the extended sessions.

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Government Green America Programming 171

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Trade in 2010 between Israel and the other countries that comprise Mercosur, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay, reached $1.8 Citigroup intends to open a technology research and development center in Israel in December to support its global activities. ISRAEL TO TRADE FREELY WITH MERCOSUR; ARGENTINA – ISRAEL SIGN FTA.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I call it drip-financing. Most entrepreneurs have no choice but to avail of this sort of financing along with the mentoring and the contacts that could come with it (doesn't always come along, though). In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. SaaS companies projected to grow 18% over this period in January 2010 and this projection moved up only to 20% today. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

2011 is going to be a great year for entrepreneurs – even better than 2010. But this investment will happen globally and the US may see a decline in VC-funded startups in 2011. The Labor department reported that in 2010 the total number of businesses in the US actually declined, while new businesses are opening at a frantic pace.

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Technical Review Venture Capital India Startup 93

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Investment in training, adherence to process, global knowledge sharing systems, quality control / partner reviews and campus recruitment programs that attracted the right talent. And coming to the end of 2010 I feel a sense of reminiscence of some of the trends from a decade ago. The things that always differentiated Accenture?

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Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Yahoo Finance. . ► 02/20 - 02/27. (1). SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble? ► 11/07 - 11/14. (1).

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Software Review Europe Technical Review Spain 95

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Sunday, November 07, 2010. ▼ 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Yahoo Finance. Cracking The Code. A Quick & Funny Summary of AdTech. Raj Kapoor.

Software Review 59

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Europe 59

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

As I keep reiterating, 99% of the businesses that go out for financing get rejected. Ledface is not ready for financing, even though that was one of their first questions. As I keep reiterating, 99% of the businesses that go out for financing get rejected. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. on a global scale.

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Cracking the Code

AUGUST 3, 2011

► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Yahoo Finance. . ► 02/20 - 02/27. (1). SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble? ► 11/07 - 11/14. (1).

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Software Review Europe Technical Review Search 67

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Similarly, the government’s decision to make the Global Positioning System (GPS) freely available has fueled a vast array of private-sector innovations ranging from navigation systems to precision crop farming, creating massive public benefit and contributing significantly to economic growth. ProjectOpenData on Twitter.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

Meanwhile, financing the company will be quite challenging, and I advised Satya to manufacture parts based only on signed contracts and advances against orders, to avoid getting into an inventory-rich, working capital-poor situation. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. These resellers buy devices from the U.S.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

as global head of corporate communications because he was “low-key, knowledgeable and battle-tested.”. Do you have gaps on your finance team? The time it takes to fill an open position has doubled since 2010. Banking juggernaut Goldman Sachs recently hired former U.S. Siewert Jr. Rethinking roles based on skill reveals gaps.

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Hiring Silicon Valley Technical Review Agile 133

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Mint & finances #distribution #andalsoproduct # 19 hours ago @davemcclure Idea 3: Build brand buzz to epic proportions, aka a Purple Cow, ie. link] # 4 hours ago Going #lean and testing with imagemaps, cuz concepts are cheap and code is expensive. # 4 hours ago @davemcclure Idea 4: Make something very useful drop-dead simple to use, ie.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Zendesk is heavily financed by Benchmark and Charles River and has 10,000 customers. Outsourcing is spreading at a frantic pace today with a global footprint and players like oDesk and eLance have made it very easy for companies to connect with outsourcing vendors. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Wednesday, February 24, 2010. ▼ 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Yahoo Finance. Cracking The Code. A funny perspective on Google innovation.

Software Review 54

Software Review Technical Review Europe Venture Capital 54

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, is acquiring Provigent, an Israeli company which develops system-on-a-chip products that enable wireless system vendors to deliver broadband wireless backhaul systems to network operators.

Java 79

Java Database Argentina 79

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

Illinois 114

Illinois Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Chicago 114

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Existing companies are starting to feel the pressures of new technologies and the massive wave of new entrants fueled by the explosion of investment from a recent form of financing – venture capital. But by 2010, this technology cycle moved into the Frenzy phase of innovation investment.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Venture Capital United States Technical Review 120

David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

I published in 2010 a research study on best practices in how private equity and VC funds source investments. These groups include Astia Angels, a global network of angel investors focusing on women-led ventures, and the Comcast Ventures Catalyst Fund, which focuses on minority entrepreneurs.

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Venture Capital Los Angeles Cofounder Technical Review 114

Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

With the 2010 election of Prime Minister David Cameron, a platform policy of the U.K. One of the five main objectives is to support co-ops, mutuals, charities and social enterprises by establishing a Big Society Bank, which will provide financing for social enterprises and other similar ventures. Back in the U.S., and the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Parallel6 is already clocking over $1 million in revenue and is looking to enhance its customer acquisition and also raise some financing. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Statisco Economic Analytics. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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