ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Entrepreneurs from Latin and Central America were given first priority to pitch their businesses at today's roundtable co-hosted by Innova Tiquicia and Startup Weekend Costa Rica. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Midwest. With that, let's look at the two entrepreneurs who pitched today from Costa Rica.

Costa Rica 114

Costa Rica America Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Maker announced it has raised $62 million this year, acquired an amazing off-YouTube distribution network and grown its business in monetary terms by almost 300% year-over-year off of an already large base. You need to think like a producer of any kind and think about distribution more broadly. ” YouTube takes 45%.

Networking 366

Networking Media Distribution Video 366

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography?

IPO 113

IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Even the most radical Bell Curve -style thinkers have to concede that even if there are differences between men and women in the distribution of these traits on average, these curve have substantial overlap, and there should still be a lot more of them represented in high-tech startups. So why is demographic diversity important?

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Sweden Continuous Deployment 167

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

We currently operate a large 17,000 square foot facility, 5 stores to sell products in, and a distribution business to sell the product to retailers. My co founder Jonathan Hill realised how important good food was due to his father passing away from eating poorly. We have worked with over 700 food companies.

Entrepreneur 147

Entrepreneur Technical Review South Korea United States 147

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. I’d expect a similar shift in venture over the next decade or two.”.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

PernixData introduces a software-defined “Flash Virtualization Platform” that aggregates and virtualizes flash storage distributed across servers into a scale-out data tier for enterprise data centers to provide low cost, deterministic high performance to any out-of-box application.

Software 104

Software Flash Architecture Aggregator 104

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The Co-Commerce Revolution – Well it isn’t really a revolution, more of a devolution. An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States. Of course, with Wisita, you must create the audience for your videos—there’s no inherent distribution network (unlike YouTube). DailyMotion reports 300 million active users; they watch more than 3.5 billion videos per month.

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2013

Tal Flanchraych , Marianne Bellotti and Jacek Grebski teamed up on the NY bus to create a unified API for the world’s open data, and publishing tools for companies who want to distribute their data. These three co-founders even headed out west when they scored an interview with Y-Combinator.

New York 72

New York API Silicon Valley Aggregator 72

VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2011

The fund is backed by David Moche, a Florida based real estate investor, and one of the co-founders of About.com. They plan to scale by using ecommerce aggregators as affiliates. The founders Ido Volff and Barak Abraham put an emphasis on gamification, rewarding activities in the system with virtual points for contribution.

Incubator 99

Incubator Startup Florida 99

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

He was president of the startup accelerator YCombinator from 2014-2019, and is currently the CEO of OpenAI, which he co-founded. All the other things that matter, aggregating talent, getting people to care, all of that stuff that's hard in a boom and easier now. Sam is one of the most prolific company builders in Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2013

Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! Two-time entrepreneur Jordan Eisenberg, founder of UrgentRX warns that, “Few things in a start up are more important than carefully managing cash. Because the platform lets curators distribute digests in their own names.

Curation 61

Curation Silicon Valley Startup Jordan 61

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

William Hsu is the co-founder and managing partner of MuckerLab. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory. Many investors love “disruptive” businesses. One such business model is the “online marketplace,” an entirely new business category not possible (at scale) before the Internet.

B2C 136

B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My founders and I started the company about three years ago. The way that I leverage that is when I’m faced with a decision before I go to make the decision and let’s say my executive team and I or my co-founder and I or just myself I get an idea and I think what if we were to do X, Y and Z. Bates: Fantastic.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Next up: Joe Andrieu CEO/Founder, SwitchBook Chair, Project VRM Standards Committee Key questions - Will it accomplish what you need? Now up: Craig Ogg Co-Founder Freshly Grated Software former VP of R&D, Stamps.com Have had to make choices about platforms many times. Will it survive as long as you need?

Internet 150

Internet EC2 Java API 150

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. This is great for something like a huge DHT or a distributed work queue. The actual directory itself is straightforward.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

“I have been very surprised at Austin’s strength in “IT consumerization&# – ideas that combine business software value with consumer internet distribution ideas,&# he said. Q: Your co-founders have been working on some technology in their spare time. We asked Mike Maples about his investments in Austin.

Curation 118

Curation Austin Cofounder Ruby 118

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Both are building on top of the existing credit card infrastructure because as Swipely Founder/CEO Angus Davis points out, millions of people are walking around with a mobile payment device in their pocket… it’s called a credit card. I’d be happy to co-author with you. FAQ A: What about Square? Any thoughts?

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. free, distributed source code control management system. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? Founder Equity Issues.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

Instead of distributing bulky customer satisfaction surveys, where even your managers don’t know what to do with the results, you have only one question, one metric to deal with. But that’s just aggregate information, not totally useful because it’s not your specific industry. Sujan Patel , Co-Creator of ContentMarketer.io

.Net 48

.Net Metrics Retention Aggregator 48

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

Another great example of linkable assets are pages that aggregate industry stats, like this one. This is probably something they care about, and it doesn’t take tons of time for you to deliver a set of good-looking images to support their social media distribution. Growth Design does an amazing job at this. Broken link building.

B2B 142

B2B Social Media Email Campaign 142

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. 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. What does that mean? The Twitter stream like most others is ephemeral.

Viral 307

Viral Las Vegas Tunisia Syndicate 307

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Judah Phillips, the co-founder and CTO of Vizadata and founder of SmartCurrent , explained: We already live in a world of “real-time” predictive analytics. Teams know how many tickets were distributed; however, they do not know in “real time” how many people are in the venue or stadium during the event.

Analytics 131

Analytics Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Campaign 131