2012 Business Model Networking Portfolio 
Austin Startup
MAY 29, 2019
Yesterday I was having a discussion with one of our executives on the strength of network effects inherent in the data.world business model. This led to a far ranging strategic discussion that got us both really excited about the huge potential of our business. But most of the time it is just that?—?hope,
YoungUpstarts
MAY 28, 2014
Social networking is so last year. The best place to start is to figure out a big real world problem. Focus on solving those problems and then it’s gravy if you can spin the business model to get their end customers involved. Good examples include: Ycombinator, Techstars, Startup health and Rock health. Kickstarter.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 30, 2015
Google’s gross and operating margins improved sequentially in 4Q14, and even as they continue to be lower than when desktop search advertising was at its peak in 2011 and early 2012, TBR believes margin growth is of lesser importance to Google than consistently growing total revenue and gross profit between 10% and 15% year-to-year each quarter.
Version One Ventures
JULY 21, 2020
We raised our first fund in summer 2012. By 2016, we had begun to specialize into a thesis-driven firm , focusing on businesses with potentially large network effects built around people and/or data. . We still think that network effects are incredibly valuable. Fast forward to today.
David Teten
JULY 12, 2013
We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. Sign up for Helpareporter.com (HARO), one of the secrets of the PR business. Nominate company representatives as speakers for tech or entrepreneurship conferences. Photo source: [link].
Ben's Blog
AUGUST 28, 2012
In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators. In fact, many new companies employ no IT people at all.
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