Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. We weren’t in enough cities to do national advertising campaigns yet we weren’t centralized enough to benefit off of our central marketing traction.

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allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

Fenwick VC Survey: Q2 Funding Valuations Shoot the Moon. According to Fenwick & West’s latest Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey , fundings in the second quarter of this year showed the highest valuation increases in more than five years. Internet/digital media and software was the biggest beneficiary of the rise.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 18, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Think it is somekind of advertising, but then again it soundt really good. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). software. (10).

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

On the strength of that ad, Go Daddy had its biggest sales day ever. Why Innovators Love Constraints | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Valuations in the Series A and Series B Market are Booming – [link]. Avoiding Undue Diligence: My Strange Approach To Angel Investing – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

Don’t Use Social to Generate Sales; Make Selling Social | Advertising Age – [link]. Don’t Use Social to Generate Sales; Make Selling Social | Advertising Age – [link]. 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2013 | MIT Technology Review – [link]. .” – [link]. ” – [link].

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. Code Hosting and Version Control. code spaces (svn). WorkingPoint.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Angel rounds also tend to close quicker.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

A very handy guide to mobile advertising – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. An interesting drill-down into Apple’s valuation – [link]. Pinterest Rivals Twitter in Referral Traffic – [link]. Understanding J.C.

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Software By Rob

JULY 1, 2010

Repeatable In a traditional business a repeatable product/service is something that does not require a high level of expertise and customization every time you make a sale. The sales process might be customized, but the product or service should be as cookie-cutter as you can make it. at 12:52 pm [.]

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us!

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

No wonder the platform is rumored to be raising a round at a $150 million valuation or more. Hyperlinks and images must be manually coded using html mark-up. HTC One Review. with a $3 sale. The site is also a data goldmine. next story » Dropcam Updates iOS Apps With Location Based Control And Time Scheduling.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. Advertising. Business Software. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). Monday, February 04, 2008.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

According to VCs, there’s been a 65% decrease in up-rounds (where a company gets a bigger valuation) in the last six months and more than 60% of those polled expect a longer wait for an exit. And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. Lastly, seed-stage entrepreneurs who have pushed for the maximum valuation possible haven’t done themselves any favors. Meanwhile, their seed investors aren’t particularly incentivized to get them a Series A that crams the previous valuation down.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

About the Author Ruben Gamez is the founder of Bidsketch , web based proposal software for designers. When he’s not developing software, he’s furiously working towards becoming a better Micropreneur. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Sure language has iterated, been redefined, shortened, coded… but the conversations are real and the more meaning and ideas are being exchanged. Does the store have an emotional footprint or large ‘sale’ signs? Social media will create a virtual advertising stock market of the future. The art of conversation is not being lost….

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

of businesses are actively seeking & collecting customer reviews on an ongoing basis. Consider the amount of money spent on Super Bowl advertisements. Does this type of advertisement really pay off? …it seems that a higher ROI may lean in the favor of word-of-mouth advertising. image source. image source.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Application developers once considered their products as licensed in what would closely be allied to a single sale. Content providers found the same thing when many found that they could charge a subscription fee instead of relying just upon advertising. Call it the Netflix effect. Paying for content. An investor’s early question.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Later on, we’ll dive into research that shows how this type of imagery can increase your sales. Clutter and disorganized content suggest a lack of attention to detail, or an inability to distill information into a meaningful summary that, due to the halo effect, people assume reflects the overall character of the business.”.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The traditional marketing/sales funnel (soon to be replaced by Hubspot’s Flywheel Model ) is a fantastic framework to put things into perspective. After she gets a series of lead nurturing emails and sales/marketing communications, she signs up for a demo and converts into a paying customer. The non-linear user journey.

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