Hearpreneur

JULY 17, 2020

Smart or Self Driving Cars, IoT Devices, Smart Homes, Medical chip implants, Bots, and Robots to assist you; in short, everything will be connected to the internet and cloud. One such industry is the Network Marketing, which entirely depends on customer acquisition. The future is the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

As the holiday season is behind us and 2015 is firmly underway, we wanted to take a moment to both announce and celebrate the collection of top entrepreneurs who have agreed to return as our Entrepreneur Advisors. These individuals have all graciously agreed​ to continue their prior commitments to NextView-backed startups and entrepreneurs.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2017

If we look through the statistics, it’ll show us that mobile phones are gradually becoming more and more popular. They follow the way of websites: a couple of decades ago having a page in the internet was considered to be luxury, though now you cannot surprise customers with online presence. Idea vs. real app.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

As the holiday season is behind us and 2015 is firmly underway, we wanted to take a moment to both announce and celebrate the collection of top entrepreneurs who have agreed to return as our Entrepreneur Advisors. internet sectors that we focus on here at NextView? These individuals have all graciously agreed? At their core all of ?the

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Yet, even though our team had experience with several previous successful acquisitions, after the initial rush of excitement, the hard reality of bringing together two separate entities set in. Integrating an acquisition is difficult in the best of circumstances and can often fail to meet stakeholders’ expectations.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This is not about running a startup badly, it’s about not doing the things that are not core to your business. I came on board on Captricity at the beginning of September and I got to learn about a lot of these first hand. Paper Trail – Log acquisition, merging from multiple servers, and analysis.

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Technology EC2 Mobile Startup 251

Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Even though technology is getting better every day, he talks about why the modern world wasn’t ready for a disaster of this size. Andreessen is open to suggestions about what needs to be built to solve the aftershocks of a post-pandemic world. Shipping means a product worth using. So what exactly does shipping mean?

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Engineer United States Software Engineering Bootstrapping 78

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2020

Think of Blockbuster and Toys ‘R’ Us , both of whom missed customer changes and the move to online. I’m not talking about just making incremental improvements in their products and processes, but more fundamental changes to the business model, such as the following: Announce a new market launch that fits your core competency.

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Customer Institutional Investors Channel Acquisition 359

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". Buttons are good — why not use them?

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Software Review Technical Review Viral Software Developers 261

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

I have often been asked about Startup Funding by entrepreneurs. Many businesses around us have grown without any funding. Let’s take an example – In the case of an internet or app business, the user traction and market penetration is a must. Equity investment is the most popular and most talked-about avenue for startup funding.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2024

Products, Problems, and People What’s always made us unusual as a firm is that we don’t have the typical answer to the question of “focus”. For example: Technologies: AI, IOT, Cloud, Blockchain Areas: Vertical SaaS, Crypto, Security, Consumer, Deep Tech There is nothing wrong with this approach, but it has never been native for us.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 21, 2017

Could one possibly imagine a great coach - a Bill Belichick , a Nick Saban , a Mike Krzyzewski - not investing gobs and of time and resources into knowing everything about their next opponent? Now, a final word as to how to best intake these data sets and use them to regularly and reliably output better business decisions and action plans.

Software Review 69

Software Review Technical Review Acquisition Search 69

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Danielle goes through some commentary from Bill Gurley, Fred Wilson and Marc Andreessen about burn rate and then goes on to discuss her own burn rate and others publicly weigh in. it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 if you have a good use for it and we’re excited about your company – fine.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

I have thought a lot about the issue of how to stimulate a region's entrepreneurship over the years. Today, building Internet businesses, or businesses that are primarily marketed through the Internet, is viable for entrepreneurs all over the world. And, we at 1M/1M are trying to do something about it. CustomerDiscovery.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 16, 2012

Mergers and acquisitions have a notoriously high failure rate and as a result investors knocked a couple of percent off Cisco’s share price yesterday following the announcement of their $5bn acquisition of NDS Group. This is the money quote: Many acquisitions fail.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2014

In the last two weeks there’s been a flurry of articles about the implications of a 25% decline in the public market value of a bunch of Internet stocks. We probably had about $150m committed and were running around trying to get to $300m for what we had positioned as a dedicated Internet VC fund.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Typically in M&A, all-cash offers are more common when the acquirer dwarfs the target in terms of market cap; otherwise, M&A usually involves stock in the mix, which leads us to believe Cylance wouldn’t have accepted anything but cash — which makes sense given the company was reportedly booking $130M/year with 3,500 customers.

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Acquisition Artificial Inteligence Balance Sheet Cofounder 62

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

In addition to having my company acquired, I worked with them on the diligence team for a number of other acquisitions. One of them – Interliant (where we were co-chairman) – was a huge success for a while, reaching a peak market cap of about $3 billion on NASDAQ.

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Technical Review Boston Internet Venture Capital 150

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

They taught you about customers, markets and profits. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. VCs or entrepreneurs who talked about building profitable businesses were told, “You just don’t get the new rules.” And some companies didn’t even have to go public to get liquid.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

How To Think About The Future. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. May 26, 2011.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Interesting to hear how you think about this. I help internet companies make money. Vince: Not much.but what do I worry about? A good deal actually as like most of us I’m always pushing for more success. I’d love to get your thoughts at some point about writing for these publications vs. on your own blog.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

As we’ve grown, we’ve generated more cash, which has allowed us to diversify our marketing strategy. If you try to accomplish this through paid efforts, you’ll find it’s quite pricey, and it’s been unprofitable for us. The middle of the funnel is where people start to learn about your core values, brand mission, and products.

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mashable.com

MARCH 20, 2014

US & World. US & World. Company About Us Licensing & Reprints Archive. Contact Contact Us Submit News. Legal Privacy Policy Terms of Use. Make a list of all the different questions you have about the product based on your experience. Brett Farmiloe , Internet Marketing Company.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

It’s like I’ve spent the last almost 20 years of my life building social software, you know, making it so that whatever limited computation you have, you can kind of share something about your experience. Inworld AI – readers of this blog would have already heard about Dall-E, the AI for creating stunning visual art from text input.

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IP Strategic Investors Vertical Early Stage 187

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Granted I have to explain it to most prospects but it really does help us stand out from the crowd. However, we have found our name to be a valuable asset in the world of SEO; the name itself is a keyword that our customers search for, making it easy for us to rank in the search engine results. 6- A dream about a show.

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Naming LLC Entrepreneur Macedonia 98

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

If you’re building a startup, you’re likely to be in one of these two situations: Launching and selling a new product that nobody’s ever heard about, and probably don’t even know they need, or… Improving an existing product or service, which means that you’re going head on against someone with more traction, people, and money than you.

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Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2019

Social media, for one, has potential as a digital tool that more than one-third of internet users turn to when they want to learn more about a product or service. You’ll learn a lot about the traffic you’re getting, where it’s coming from, and whether you can associate revenue with that traffic. Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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Marketing Social Media SEO Entrepreneur 109

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

How To Think About The Future. It also puts another chink in the armor of the meme that monster internet companies can only be built in Silicon Valley (LivingSocial, Kayak, Gilt Groupe, CSN Stores, et al doing damage here too). One of the frequent questions raised about Groupon is what their long run gross profit margins may look like.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2017

In the course of this post, we’ll specifically talk about the cases when you should build a mobile app —a product that is specifically designed to run on smartphone, tablets, and wearables and requires installation; or a web app —a client-server software application that runs in the browser (both desktop and mobile).

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Mobile Application Development Web Software Review 81

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up. Bringing us to today – Viewers or profit?

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Revenue Metrics Advertising Internet 118

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Although it has been difficult for various multinational telecom companies to do acquisition in Iraq, this industry has been enormously growing. An investor is someone who sails in the waves of the market and is knowledgeable about where next to put their money. It completed the AOL acquisition in 2015. And GTE Corp.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2017

They send me a “Come back and your next workout is on us!” NB: Notice this “tripwire marketing” is different from the “tripwire offer” popular in internet marketing circles. That latter term is used to describe an initial offer that generates enough revenue to offset the cost of acquiring a customer. Why use tripwire marketing?

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Bankruptcy Marketing Campaign Intellectual Property 106

Up and Running

MAY 14, 2018

SaaS startups are often hesitant about charging customers. Narrow down your customer acquisition efforts. To identify your target market: Ask yourself questions about your typical user’s gender, age, geographic location, business nature, pain points, interests, budget, and so on. Start charging early. Research your competitors.

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Startup Software Review Widget Audience 107

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In this Techcrunch article written by Aaron Levie of Box, he refers to it as the rise of enterprise ‘to ys’, citing the acquisition of Yammer by Microsoft for $1.3 If you think about it, the consumerisation of enterprise tech is now the standard. The consumerisation of enterprise was a big investment trend in 2011-2012.

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B2B Sales Cycle Software Mobile 167

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 15, 2012

My goal is to get them excited about creating an amazing digital acquisition strategy that delivers noteworthy experiences through their owned digital platforms, and which ultimately delivers bigger profits (usually offline, but online as well). Prove it that my customers use the web. How do consumers access the Internet? #2.

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