Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

The hype cycle for “Remote Work” and “Distributed Companies” has reached a fever pitch, and everyone has an opinion about it. Here are some lessons I’ve picked up after watching them work with clients distributed across the country, which should be adopted by leaders of a newly remote workforce. They always come prepared.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

We see this trend increasing in 2016 with innovative platforms from organizations such as Seedrs in the UK and socially aware Chuffed, based in Australia. Investing in a more secure option of data sharing and a document repository will be an important line item for 2016 budgets. 2016 Presidential Election winner.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

That is to say, I DMed her on Twitter in 2016, impressed by the work she was doing but without a preexisting relationship. Like everyone else, we went distributed overnight in March 2020. “Admirer from outside of the cap table” is how I approached Kieran Snyder , Cofounder of Textio.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

We’re off to a fresh start here at the beginning of 2016. Potential for instant global distribution (mobile app stores, Facebook, etc). We may find here in 2016 that #1 and #2 are more cyclical in nature. Looking back at 2015, the standout theme in the VC/startup ecosystem was unicorn hunting.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Charging gifts by credit card or mailing a check before the end of the year nails down a charitable contribution deduction for 2016. For those age 65 and older, 2016 is the last year for a 7.5 Take your required minimum distribution (RMD). If you have a medical FSA or dependent care FSA at work, use up your 2016 contributions.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. It cost less than $1k to build, and they released it in 2016. Their growth since their MVP release in 2016? Qualified.io

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2016

The right channel for marketing and distribution is one of the basic “four Ps” of business (product, promotion, price and placement). Treat distribution partners as part of your team. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 06/01/2016. Recognize that terminating an exclusive arrangement is costly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2016

The free and growing open source software community, which covers most mobile and web apps, oppose software patents as impeding or prohibiting the distribution of free software. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 01/15/2016. Patents are counter to open source initiatives and free software.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Kahn had a better idea – several, in fact – that led to the Smart Parka, the first product of North Aware that launched in 2016 with the help of a highly successful Kickstarter campaign. Things like negotiating distribution channels and partners and how to handle market expansions.

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Brandanew

MAY 2, 2016

Content Marketing and brand storytelling have been around from thousands of years and as a Startup or small business, it’s not just a good to have, but necessary in the 2016 world. Top 50 Content Marketing Resources You Need In 2016. Top digital marketing trends for 2016 and beyond. What is Content Marketing? Grab these!

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Much of this would fly in the face of conventional Silicon Valley lore, but today are usually considered basic norms. Raise here, but deploy elsewhere” is not a crazy strategy in today’s times.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Businesses often settle on one social media or distribution channel based on initial testing, and never look back. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/06/2016. Initiate new strategic partnerships and investigate acquisitions versus in-house changes. Define and use market metrics to tune your plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2016

It may be small feature extensions, packaging and distribution that can make your solutions attractive and more competitive for new market segments. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 03/16/2016. Identify your built-in biases and define compensating development and marketing strategies.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2016

A series of high profile business delegations to Israel ensued in 2016. The complexities of Japan’s distribution and regulatory environment are important considerations. We can help with issues like regulation and distribution to reach Japanese consumers”.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. It cost less than $1k to build, and they released it in 2016. Their growth since their MVP release in 2016? Qualified.io

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Peterson Institute for International Economics (2016): “There is a statistically significant positive correlation between female leadership (C-Suite and board) and net margin and gross margin company profitability”, among a global dataset of 22,000 publicly traded companies. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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David Teten

APRIL 28, 2016

I hope you’ll join me next week at Flashpoint NYC’s Demo Day 2016. The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), ff Venture Capital , the HBS Alumni Angels of New York , and Alpha Venture Partners , are co-sponsoring their 6th New York City Demo Day, next Tuesday, May 3, 2016, from 10 to 12 AM.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. We’ll have to see what next year’s data reveals, but what’s certainly become clear over the past year is that the cloud world is a very different one from the one we mapped back in 2016.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Here are a few trends that you can watch out for in fin tech for the year 2016. It is estimated that $12 billion was distributed through loans by marketplace lenders in the US. 2016 is definitely going to be the year of fintech and only time can tell who will be the biggest winner this year.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Scale Horizontally (or “scale out”): Add more nodes to a system, such as adding a new computer to a distributed software application. My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. I’m looking forward to 2016 on both dimensions.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

Too add, by implementing Profit First, within the first two weeks of starting the business, the company took their first distribution check! In the fall of 2016, my wife Carol Lynn and I are going to spend a year being location independent and are going to travel the United States while working on growing our businesses. Our Guests.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Co-founded in 2016 by the mother and son duo, Lillian Arinoviche and Alejandro Russo, Candela is now scaling its distribution and is available online and throughout Florida, California, New York, and the Dominican Republic. We interviewed Alejandro to get more insights into his startup’s launch and his entrepreneurial journey….

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View from Seed

JULY 15, 2020

For example, a 2015 vintage fund is adding new portfolio companies in 2015, 2016, and perhaps 2017. Unevenly distributed, but broadly optimistic. As you can tell from my first two points, the effects of Covid have been quite unevenly distributed within a VC portfolio. But that remains to be seen.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JUNE 13, 2017

Turnover of CEOs is already high, about 14.9 % a year as of 2016*. PwC 2016 CEO Success Study. Does Any CEO Have the Luxury to Ignore Digital Transformation and Innovation? Gregg Fraley and Karen Kirby, copyright 2017. Innovation + Business + Technology = Digital Leadership. And, introduces disruptive approaches to customer value.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 2, 2017

Largely yes, but the pot of gold might be more modest than some of 2016’s notable transactions suggest (Jet, Cruise, Dollar Shave Club). We had our first taste of this trend playing out early in 2016 when GM acquired self-driving tech startup Cruise for north of $1b. Next Level: Buying Customers/Revenue/Distribution.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We loved the product, but weren’t convinced it would get much distribution quickly. We met Sonder’s founder Francis Davidson many times between 2014 and 2016. And, we passed on the opportunity to invest every single time as we were too hung up on their dependency on AirBnB for distribution. Carta (prev. Sonder (prev.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” It took more than two years—and far more homepage designs—before “conversational marketing” made its way into the homepage headline: January 2016. March 2016.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

What are the main channels for app marketing and distribution today? Think with Google study 2016 – How people discover, use and stay engaged with apps ( Source Think with Google and Ipsos). Ads – targeted advertising is perhaps THE most reliable channel to market and distribute a consumer app.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 6, 2016

Based on a combination of observations in the sector, the rapid growth of the number of solutions in particular areas, and the findings of corporate studies, we have compiled a list of seven business technology trends for 2016 that will help to drive performance to facilitate growth for your small business. The workforce goes virtual.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

A method of solving time-consuming computing tasks by utilizing multiple computers usually united into a parallel computing system is commonly referred to as grid computing or distributed computing. In 2007, the BOINC framework became the home of World Community Grid , a distributed computing project created by the IBM Corporation.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

In India, there are about a dozen mobile payment players in the field including Paytm, Mobikwik, Oxigen, Citrus Pay, Freecharge, M-Pesa, ItzCash, Itzcash, Airtel Money, mRupee and MoneyOnMobile which has serviced over 170 million cumulative unique mobile phone subscribers through over 306,000 retail distribution points across India.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

The B2B video examples below were distributed on LinkedIn or other social channels, as well as YouTube. In 2016, Hootsuite blended entertainment into a product update by parodying Jimmy Kimmel’s popular “Mean Tweets” segment. (So link] [Video] pic.twitter.com/drV5ARcl2a — Hootsuite (@hootsuite) January 29, 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

WINTER For starters when we conducted our annual VC & LP survey in December of 2016 to prepare our annual Upfront State of the VC Industry report we found that twice as many VCs cut their investments in 2016 relative to 2015 with > 30% of VCs having cut investments. Unless of course something Trump’s our good weather.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

Pete Newell, Joe Felter and I met over coffee in 2016 to discuss our common goal – how to get students in research universities who would never consider working on national security problems engaged in keeping the country safe and secure. Here’s what we’ve done to get started. And why I did it. ————-.

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Eric Friedman

MARCH 10, 2020

who has been building since 2016. How the mission + vision of Monday fits the original thesis Focusing on sales and providing value + charging for it Cracking getting VCs to pay for software The referral loops for the job boards they now power The team, structure, workflow of the team (spoiler alert; its a distributed global team!)

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

I was recruited as CEO of test IO in May of 2016. So if a customer is developing an application — usually a consumer-facing app — and wants to ensure that it works properly, we distribute it to testers with the right instructions, and they get back very detailed reports on any issues those testers encounter.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

And as applications have trended towards a more distributed, data-centric, and segmented architecture, keeping them up and running reliably has become more of a challenge. Needless to say, it’s a fun time to be a software developer. But, as with every revolution, new problems emerge.

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