Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Greycroft is an early-stage VC. It means that the investors can focus on the issues that one faces at that particular stage. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Being an engineer, I built myself a kind of algorithm that helps determine an early-­stage startup’s sales channels, and that’s what I’m sharing with you today. This channel is also quite fast because it’s easy to test ­­ just make sure you have someone who has experience dealing with online advertising platforms.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

It bears repeating: an early-stage startup must focus on making one customer group excited by a mission-aligned product. There are two viable growth engines for tech companies: Viral, or “inherently viral” growth: Customers either intentionally or unintentionally recruit new customers by using your product.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Some marketing techniques that fall under digital marketing include: Search engine marketing (search engine optimization, and pay-per-click digital advertising). Viral marketing. The early stages of a business are critical and difficult. So, most early-stage companies are very cautious about their spending.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Advertise Advertise. simply arent crucial to success or failure, and for an early stage startup that means they were wastes of time — you could have done 10x more with that same amount of time and resources." — Jonathan Wegener , Founder, Timehop and ExitStrategy. Assuming Virality. "A Entertainment.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 7, 2014

The simplest and most important dashboard for early stage startups - crowdspring.co/1gMgfqV. 7 Things Marketers Can Learn From 2,616 Viral Headlines. Startup and Small Business Marketing 2014: Smart Web Design Best Practices and Tips - crowdspring.co/1dn9KvH. Don’t fear competition. Employee Retention - crowdspring.co/1f2fAz5.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2019

Planning is not just an early-stage activity, but must be an ongoing activity, based on current accurate information as well as educated guesses on future changes. Marketing and advertising are business realties. Marketing and advertising are business realties. Word-of-mouth and viral are not long-term solutions.

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Intellectual Property Leadership Viral Early Stage 231

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. You mention social / viral aspects at both Google Photos and United Online. and also to local advertisements.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Lessons from a top Angel Investor: Fabrice Grinda talks about his 100 early-stage investments – [link]. 7 Social Media Mistakes that Can Keep Your Content from Going Viral - [link]. Why Ad Holding Companies Should Act More Like VCs | Advertising Age - [link]. Advertising Age - [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

But with so many investors still licking their wounds from the dot-com bust, many focused on proven business models, such as advertising or e-commerce. We are the leader in the professional domain with viral growth. Here, we argue that we have a viral product that creates a network that possesses network effects.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

According to Statista, revenue generated from apps (paid downloads and in-app advertising) will reach $935 billion by 2023, and that doesn’t doesn’t include the many trillions of dollars transacted via apps in the last decade alone (think Amazon, Uber, games, etc). Almost overnight, a huge new industry was created around mobile.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. We were post product and had viral growth, albeit at very small scale and still had to evangelize the concept of a vital coefficient w/ most investors. And a third firm “pressure tested” (i.e.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

Signing an office lease might not seem like a board-level decision, but with early-stage startups, that lease might very well be a financial liability that significantly exceeds the company’s total cash in the bank. You should be doing television advertising.” Reid, the game is engagement and advertising.

Startup 36

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2017

Planning is not just an early-stage activity, but must be an ongoing activity, based on current accurate information as well as educated guesses on future changes. Marketing and advertising are business realties. Marketing and advertising are business realties. Word-of-mouth and viral are not long-term solutions.

Intellectual Property 160

Intellectual Property Leadership Viral Early Stage 160

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. Advertising. viral video. viral videos. This article is the first in a three-part series about naming your startup; on Thursday, we’ll discuss creating names, and on Friday, we’ll discuss testing names. Friendster.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

Planning is not just an early-stage activity, but must be an ongoing activity, based on current accurate information as well as educated guesses on future changes. Marketing and advertising are business realties. Marketing and advertising are business realties. Word-of-mouth and viral are not long-term solutions.

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Intellectual Property Founder Startup Leadership 265

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Mashable | The Social Media Guide Viral Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video About Mashable Company About Us Advertise Submit News Contact Us Announcements Resources Guidebooks Lists How To Trending Mashable Awards Subscriptions Partners W3 EDGE Rackspace Concentric Sky Dynect DNS Intridea Welcome to Mashable!

Programming 86

Programming Startup Technical Review Software Review 86

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Planning is not just an early-stage activity, but must be an ongoing activity, based on current accurate information as well as educated guesses on future changes. Marketing and advertising are business realties. Marketing and advertising are business realties. Word-of-mouth and viral are not long-term solutions.

Intellectual Property 276

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Leadership Viral 276

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In other words, angel investors and early stage venture capital (VC) firms will have different expectations than late stage VC firms. For example, angel funding is more prevalent in the United States than in Europe. Also make sure to research which type of investors fit your business. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

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France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business Model Affects Metrics and Exit Criteria Web-based Business Model Exit Criteria In a web-business model you’re looking for traffic, users, conversion, virality, etc – not revenue. This a hard concept and even harder to implement. Keep teaching!

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 224

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly In the industry they call this the “viral coefficient.”.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

With advertising revenue in a tailspin, it is more important than ever. I have a massive bias against the current click-bait, let’s go viral , “hot story of the moment” traffic. More here: Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value. It is not hard to pick New Subscriptions. There you are.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

Rely on cheaper forms of marketing : Blogging, email, viral tactics etc. You are getting your users to advertise your service for you to their friends. PayPal famously offered a $20 2-way reward in their early stages of growth. Most startups however, don’t have the kind of money required to do that. Why does it work?

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Thailand Social Network PPC Singapore 167

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

He says, “Spending a few thousand on a domain could make a big difference long term, and give you the credibility and advantage over the competition, especially in the very beginning and early stages of the business.”. has some great growth hacking strategies on their site; use these to give you that early boost.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. If the viral coefficient is 0.9,

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. Our firm invested at a very early stage in retail brands including CostCo, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Ulta, Starbucks and many more. I will describe this in a moment. They loved his vision, too.

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Term Sheet Mobile Cofounder Early Stage 303

mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. Advertising. viral video. Therefore, marketing and public relations are often tackled piecemeal by whomever has time. Friendster. Google Maps. Google Wave. Social Media. Social Networking. Web Design. blackberry.

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PR Startup Social Media Technical Review 103

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

If you're working on the Sticky Engine of Growth , you're focused on very different metrics from those that you care about in the Viral Engine of Growth. In the early days of a SaaS business, churn really doesn’t matter that much. Similarly, a two-sided marketplace cares about different things from a traditional e-commerce product.

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

However, for the past couple years, the metrics of “success” with early-stage digital media startups (especially consumer-facing ones) have clearly focused on distribution, as opposed to monetization. Now the new plan for distribution is facilitation through low-cost viral strategies via Facebook and other social media.

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Distribution Widget Viral Social Media 103

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

Then about a year and half ago, I moved on from oDesk, really just because it was becoming a later stage company and I personally prefer the earlier stage challenges. So I moved on to an online advertising company briefly and headed up marketing and product. I mean, that’s specifically the area that we focus on.

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

However, for the past couple years, the metrics of “success” with early-stage digital media startups (especially consumer-facing ones) have clearly focused on distribution, as opposed to monetization. Now the new plan for distribution is facilitation through low-cost viral strategies via Facebook and other social media.

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Distribution Widget Viral Social Media 100

The Next Web

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Additionally, their system will acutely target users based on their viewing behavior — you might say that it’s like Facebook advertising targeting, but with video. What that means is that companies who want to get their videos out there will work with Giant Media to seed their content across any of their numerous video publishers.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth.

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