YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Bryan Lee emerged second in the competition for Intraix , a low-cost home energy management system to help reduce energy bills, while Zhang Weiliang and Joshua Chao, came in third for Avetics , which aims to develop miniature UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) for non-military purposes such as land data record management. .”

Singapore 185

Singapore Entrepreneur Asia Aggregator 185

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

April 17, 2011. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

So that was my thesis when I left the Pentagon in 2011. And that’s a very tolerable cost for fully encrypted compute, without having to decrypt the underlying data. As much as the brand-new tools of communication and aggregation and finding community are creating craziness like QAnon and extremist behavior.

Technology 314

Technology Security Internet Video 314

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Present a yummy spreadsheet that quantifies the cost of inaction , how much money you’ll lose by not delivering a 25% improvement every week. Sometimes, by using one of the multitude of price aggregators, you can have an understanding of where your pricing is at an item level. Welcome to Nudging. Direct competitor comparisons.

Conversion 124

Conversion eCommerce Artificial Inteligence Aggregator 124

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Given that 2011 is already behind us, I’d like to take a brief time-out from the usual legal and financial wonkery to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year. How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? will transition to a similar system as a result of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) of 2011.)

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

January 11th, 2011 the Chubby Team 34 Comments. Marc Hedlund of Wesabe talked about this in his post-mortem stating: Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Investors Companies.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

So Westlaw created Peer Monitor, which aggregates anonymized data on firms’ financial and operational performance, collected from participating clients with their permission — and this turned into a lucrative new business. Westlaw, which provides legal research services for law firms, is another example.

Customer 168

Customer Social Media Retention Canada 168

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

For the third consecutive year , VC Cafe puts the spotlight on the Israeli companies exhibiting in the MWC 2011 event. Interested to meet any of these companies face to face at the WMC 2011? Below are the 56 Israeli companies who will exhibit at the 2011 Mobile World Congress: 3G Vision. Allot Communications.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

2009-2011: Retrenchment. Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle.

IPO 202

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Compute ROI: (cost of Facebook campaigns + salary of people running campaigns + agency creative costs) vs. profit from incremental product sales. An additional prove value scope can also be: Cost savings. The reduction in customer service costs – no more phone calls! But not, ever, in aggregate.]. Too strong?

Metrics 165

Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

You could argue that it takes some time to restart the SaaS flywheel after a slow year, but an acceleration in 2010 should at least translate into a stronger 2011 guidance, which is not really the case (10/11 growth median is 18%, so barely above 2010). ► 2011. (2). McKinsey highlight #1: the art of cost cutting or.

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

We graded them on a scale of 1-5, posted our grades and comments to a shared Google doc, and had our Teaching Assistant aggregate the grades and feedback to pass on to the teams.). Lee Redden (MSME Robotics, Jun 2011) Research in haptic devices, autonomous systems and surgical robots, BSME (U Nebraska at Lincoln), Family Farms in Nebraska.

Business Model 237

Business Model Nebraska Peru Germany 237

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2013

While reliable statistics are impossible to find, Bowker says nearly 150,000 — 43 percent — of all print books were self-published in 2011. And how much do they cost? Aggregators. But that doesn’t begin to cover ebooks, which we know total in the millions and are rising exponentially. But their process is hit and miss.

Cuba 168

Cuba Aggregator Iran Social Media 168

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. View more presentations. Intermediaries.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. Aggregated search engine level analysis. If you want to stress test this,… go back to your 2011 (pre- not provided ) data for paid and organic and see what you can find. Logged-in users were switched to using httpS from http.

Search 154

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

2009-2011: Retrenchment. Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle.

IPO 100

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Sidenote: If you run a software business, you absolutely need some form of server monitoring, because the application being down costs you money and trust. Let me try to explain the pricing in words so that you can understand why: It costs $11 per server plus $2 per website. I hate, hate, hate this pricing scheme.

Revenue 62

Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Contributing to the high cost structure was the new culture of working 9-5 Monday through Friday. says: April 16, 2011 at. [.] ?? ????????

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Cell Buddy has developed the only seamless, carrier grade solution, for low cost Voice calls, SMS and Internet, while abroad. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. CellBuddy - Company Website. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution. VivoText - Company Website.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

The company has experienced extraordinary growth: in March 2011, it had funded around 20,000 campaigns in 159 countries. It was created before the Internet age to protect investors by promoting full disclosure of information. For small businesses, registering a company is timely and costly in management fees, accounting fees, and legal fees.

Securities and Exchange Commission 148

Securities and Exchange Commission IRR Entrepreneur Angel Investor 148

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Same thing with the class of 2011, except they’re a different cohort because they share a different common experience in a time period. As the above chart shows, we can compare the average income of the class of 2010 and 2011 over the same relative interval (5 years after graduation) for an apple-to-apples comparison. . Image source.

Conversion 48

Conversion Retention Acquisition Metrics 48

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Recommendations can be powered by aggregate data, which determines the relevance of a certain item in relation to a given context, or user specific data, that fuels personalized recommendations. Another telling example, is when back in 2011 eBay acquired a 2-year-old recommendation engine startup , Hunch for $80 million.

Conversion 48

Conversion Product Technical Review Widget 48

Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

 Obviously, WSGR has a much larger sample size and the fact that they make it public (in aggregate) is impressive. .  Last year, I spent a lot of time attempting to reverse engineer  this data based on a small personal sample size.   Building that must have been crazy.

Term Sheet 52

Term Sheet Intellectual Property Venture Capital Hawaii 52

VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2011

The cost for the startups is 10% of their equity, which is taken by the fund GeekVentures I as payment. Since their inauguration in February 2011, little has been shared on the VentureGeeks program or its participants – until now. They plan to scale by using ecommerce aggregators as affiliates. Dr. Jan Himls and Dr.

Incubator 99

Incubator Startup Florida 99

Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 13, 2012

The Brown bill was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and a hearing was held by such Committee on December 1, 2011, with respect to several pieces of capital formation legislation , including crowdfunding.

SEC 91

SEC Las Vegas Accredited Investor Security 91

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

1) Macro Environment Still Dictates IPO Windows - While 2011 saw dozens of tech IPOs, macroeconomic conditions still dictate when companies can successfully complete an offering. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. I see several dynamics at work in today’s IPO markets. So now what? Author howerl. Previous Entries.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

tells you how much adwords cost. hire low-cost international engineering talent. aggregation. Crunchies 2011. Find the top ten keywords ranking to your websites. SEMRush â?? SEO and campaign management tool. Clickable â?? Pay per click management. Market Samurai â?? SEO Keyword Analysis Tool. Online Marketing Suites.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Scott Edward Walker

MARCH 1, 2012

“The Senate is the place where bills go to die.” – Bill Maher On November 3, 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 407-17 to pass the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act,” a crowdfunding bill which permits startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or social networking sites like Facebook.

SEC 65

SEC Security Accredited Investor Social Network 65

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

When you have limited distribution, the costs of distributing media are so prohibitive that only the largest of media producers (and distributors) are relevant. That couldn’t happen without the advent of lower cost production & distribution. Production costs have plummeted. Why is that? Even a hundred.

Media 302

Media South Korea Distribution Technical Review 302

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We did GroupMe for around three years, turned into a company and ended up selling it to Skype for around eighty million dollars and that was in 2011. The DIY mentality can really bog you down and become a burden eventually, plus it can really cost you more time and money in the grand scheme of things. Just to dive into the first.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. ► 2011. (2). McKinsey highlight #1: the art of cost cutting or. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

The next wave of internet will come from companies aggregating these various data sets and leveraging them to provide more value to the user. This will happen shortly (3-year horizon) as biofuels and solar energy production costs become cheaper than fossil fuels. ► 2011. (2). sales and marketing. (10). software. (10).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review San Jose Venture Capital 48

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. Old media’s problems are the costs not the lack of paywalls. They don’t have to worry. Open Sesame! (A

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ultimately, finding a low-cost, repeatable way to show customers how to be successful with your solution is as important as the solution itself. You put into words what we were thinking for our cost of client. Michael Kassing. Let me just say "Thanks". You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

At first glance, mobile payments seem like a no brainer… consumers [seemingly] want the convenience of paying with a phone rather than cash or credit card, merchants dislike the cost associated with accepting credit cards, and mobile ecosystem players (e.g. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. Is that it? Not really.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

These days, getting that sheepskin from a top-flight university can cost approximately $200,000 in tuition alone. To help temper the high cost of college, a number of high-tech start-ups have been making impressive strides in the realm of online instruction. Diplomas: Time for an Upgrade. We sometimes call a diploma a “sheepskin.”

Non-Compete 78

Non-Compete New York Metadata Programming 78

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B ► 2011. (2). McKinsey highlight #1: the art of cost cutting or. sales and marketing. (10). Small and medium businesses. (2). software. (10). Blog Archive.

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48