ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

Our discussion today was around prioritization of the next few critical steps around customer acquisition and validation. The company has distribution through about 50 retailers in Chennai, and is looking for ways to market their product through online channels. As for business model, Jigar wants to sell services like refilling cards.

India 119

India Guerilla Entrepreneur New Zealand 119

The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

Crowdify also has its own Start-Up Incubator and is uniquely positioned to advise the next generation of potential UK Unicorns (start-ups which reach a market valuation of $1bn). And that’s what Crowdify is all about,” says James Rix, the 36-year old entrepreneur and CEO of Crowdify.

Marketing 94

Marketing Agile Social Network Valuation 94

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. A third is incubators and makers’ spaces. ” A good number of companies focus on the easy part, which is, “Let’s have an incubator/accelerator.” Innovators are not entrepreneurs.

Incubator 332

Incubator Lean Programming Government 332

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

For example, for a company that has been reliant solely on paid acquisition the growth team should experiment with developing organic channels such as search engine optimization, content marketing, or social media marketing to complement the paid efforts. Taking Moonshots.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. Meaning events, magazines, blogs, they read, so you could distribute your content there. We were expecting twins.

Community 52

Community Kuwait Cofounder Bootstrapping 52

The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

He mentors young startups at Singapore Management University and True Incube Thailand , a 500 Startups Partner. If a big corporation is pushing a new product, you might expect them to take out TV ads, online ads, maybe hire a PR agency and set up big distribution partnerships. Why does it work? Why does it work?

Thailand 167

Thailand Social Network PPC Singapore 167

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

To replace them, employers spend $11,500 average per healthcare employee acquisition cost (20% of the annualized salary plus hiring incentives is considered customary for acquisition cost). Distribution Channel for Product Companies. why not become a retailer of the same basket of products that he wants to distribute?

India 115

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 115

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

But these VC’s aren’t Lean because they fund startups with web-based distribution models. But scaling customer acquisition may take the same amount of dollars as a traditional software startup. ). YCombinator, Techstars, et al, have been described as incubators but in reality they are the new “Lean Angels.”

Lean 262

Lean Internet Silicon Valley Venture Capital 262

Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Home prices are moving in lock-step with higher salaries, to the point where many investors are hunting for deals outside the area, where teams are now starting off distributed or with a plurality of offices to locate some functions outside of the Bay Area costly square footage.

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IPO Private Equity Valuation Acquisition 76

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Justin is looking for a more efficient customer acquisition model, and my suggestion to him was to look into using distributors, instead of trying to do all the development and then also all the distribution himself. All three of today's roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar.

Bootstrapping 113

Bootstrapping IP India Silicon Valley 113

Bryce Dot VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

is not a back up school for your failed attempt to get into some other incubator, accelerator or a grander catapult to launch you into the world or traditional VC funding. terms that were most important to us and to founders: cash distributions and contingent equity conversion. Distributions The heart of the indie.vc

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San Francisco Distribution Equity Delaware 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Secondly, they had an owned & operated (O&O) website – Google.com – and Overture had shut down GoTo.com at the request of their very profitable and large distribution partners. Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business.

Product 350

Product Tuvalu Dilution Incubator 350

K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

Top engineering talent today has a bimodal distribution. The Series A is now the fourth round of funding for a company — the first is usually friends and family, or an incubator (~$50K), then pre-seed (~$500K), then seed (~$2M), then Series A (~$6M-$15M). The Seed round is larger — closer to and sometimes upwards of $2M.

Mezzanine 134

Mezzanine Seed Stage Early Stage IPO 134

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Influencer collaborations: Clients will contract an influencer to leverage their social expertise in creating a piece of content but will also have them distribute it to their organic following. To start, our team is made up of media and technology experts who have sold companies or been a part of acquisitions/IPOs.

Software 49

Software Marketing Entrepreneur North America 49

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world. Lock in customers with loyalty and high cost of change.

Silicon Valley 136

Silicon Valley Differentiation Angel Investor Incubator 136

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Acquiring a growth-stage private startup can provide a faster ROI at lower risk than the acquisition of an early- stage startup. For example, Google’s acquisition of Nest (which had customers, revenue and a distribution channel) allowed it to enter the connected home market immediately.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage 120

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Whether or not the new distribution models ultimately took off, its a good bet that the world would be a little less red today. Sometimes youll incubate a bit longer, sometimes shorter. It was yet another Web 2.0

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

So, we chose a business concept, established the pain point, discussed the solution, identified monetization and customer acquisition strategies, and assessed market opportunity. Acquisition. Then, FounderDating had us split our group up into two and have the teams come up with a quick pitch to the other team. Angel Investors.

Cofounder 47

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. Even though most of this message was already drafted, we also had a Hail Mary of a final acquisition conversation that closed the following morning. Obviously, it did not convert. We side-hustled.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Acquisition / Lifetime Value, etc. Typically it goes one lead: $200K+, couple medium pro’s: $50-$100K, then strategic guys at $25K (sometimes $10K for ultra strategic / domain expertise / distribution / etc). customer acquisition, like Launchrock, you called that something, what was that again? So build a strong base.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

No distributed teams, no overseas teams, and definitely no companies that rely on “outsourcing” to build their core technology. I’ll give the example of the acquisition of CardMunch by LinkedIn. One of the investment criteria that I set for K9 Ventures is based on geography.

Silicon Valley 124

Silicon Valley San Jose Portfolio Cofounder 124

K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

No distributed teams, no overseas teams, and definitely no companies that rely on “outsourcing” to build their core technology. I’ll give the example of the acquisition of CardMunch by LinkedIn. One of the investment criteria that I set for K9 Ventures is based on geography.

Silicon Valley 112

Silicon Valley San Jose Portfolio Cofounder 112

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? How do I strengthen my market position through acquisitions and innovation? That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential. We think so.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Thus, I have come to the conclusion that if I could help a million entrepreneurs globally reach $1 million in revenue (and beyond), that would be the foundation of a robust, distributed, and sustainable economic value creation that would add up to a trillion dollars in global GDP. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

Programming 116

Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Incubators and accelerators. Startup incubators and accelerators often give many startups resources simultaneously, and fund the most promising businesses upon their exit. First, let’s consider the existence of Special-Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) and the nature of corporate VCs. Angel investing. Conclusion.

Initial Public Offering 117

Initial Public Offering Startup IPO Equity 117

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Having founded and published the internationally distributed indie magazine INTERLUDE, and toured extensively as a live music production professional, she enters the venture investing world from an unconventional path.

Technical Cofounder 48

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 48

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

great web customer acquisition tutorials. free, distributed source code control management system. Incubator List/ Local Startup Resources/ Startup Q&A. List of Startup Incubators. Israeli Center of Incubators. mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Analytics blog â?? good analytics tutorials.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Those numbers are likely conservative. November 29, 2012.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

And then also another investment that I’ve made through Greylock is Entrepreneur First, which is an incubator. And they’re like, well, all of these incubators all failed, why would we pick up the 70th one? So when I came to my partners and I said, Hey, I think we should try this thing Entrepreneur First. Those things can really matter.

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Incubator IPO Networking Cofounder 36