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? Here's my conversation with Brian Armstrong.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. 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. In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

And here some of the other social and tech changes I found myself thinking about over the holiday period: Anonymous Web – It seems that more than ever the internet replicates life, because it is part of where we live. Both 3D printers and Internet of Things infrastructure are cheap. Bring it on. Amazon becoming a movie studio.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

And here some of the other social and tech changes I found myself thinking about over the holiday period: Anonymous Web – It seems that more than ever the internet replicates life, because it is part of where we live. Both 3D printers and Internet of Things infrastructure are cheap. Bring it on. Amazon becoming a movie studio.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. At GigaOm, we are story tellers. I knew I had to leave Business 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Our publisher distribution network reaches in the tens of millions of unique users and is comprised of “head end&# stars as well as many “mid tier&# and “long tail&# publishers. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The 72 Israeli companies participating in the 2010 Mobile World Congress: Aerotel Medical Systems – a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. A turnkey solution based on a fully telco-grade platform.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. ” In off the record conversations, many angels have expressed the urgency of self-discipline. November 29, 2012.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

Celeno is a leading vendor of standard-based WiFi silicon solutions capable of distributing up to 4 HD video streams, with full home coverage (over 500 sqm) and carrier grade robustness. ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Security Choice: The Power of Conversion Through Transparency. The price is easy to see, colors easy to find and change, micro conversions cleverly tucked under the Add To Cart button. Micro-conversions FTW! Security Choice: The Power of Conversion Through Transparency. Shopbop: (Luxury) Ecommerce and Branding Done Right!

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page; Point Nine Capital uses Recruitee for the same purpose. 11) Exit . .

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr. Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. Even if they give you conversion rate benchmarks. Clean measures of conversion rates require a clean and standard implementation of the ecommerce tags.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

We can extend our clients' reach tremendously, and for low cost, by using the internet and social media to distribute and link to the "assets" we create. The analogy of a lively dinner conversation to describe Visible Networking is perfect. Like your idea of the 30-minute phone conversation too. Absolutely.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

However, given the overwhelming number of conversations coming in from all directions all at once, it’s often impossible to focus a lens on the ones that are most relevant for a given time, place, audience and outcome. Or going to an event like SXSW and accessing relevant conversations about any panel going on through your smartphone.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

So extract the # of conversions, import into Excel, add a column for Cost, do the math, sing or weep (based on what the data says!:)). As a small business I recommend… Macro Conversion Rate. Obsess about conversion rates, and everything connected to improving them. Macro Conversion Rate. You are a small business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. Or the ability of the Center for Disease Control to be able to track pandemic distribution of viruses. But one of the other major factors in Twitter is the fact that it is also “social” in that people have conversations with their peers and friends.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Aerotel Medical Systems is a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. Flash Networks’ Harmony Content Control enables safer, more productive mobile use of the open Internet for consumer or business use.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Whats the right set of materials, conversations, etc. First of all, they are not selling their product by hand.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Podcast consumers also reported spending more time on the Internet than non-consumers, to the tune of over 60% longer every single day. In 2013 Mazda started installing Stitcher – the second most popular podcast aggregator – in the actual dashboards of their cars. Extra Lucrative Conversion Advice Blog'

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

As an active member of the telecommunications and Internet community, Caruso will address the attendees about the virtues of starting a company in the Rocky Mountains. Along with company presentations and ample networking opportunities, Dan Caruso, CEO of Zayo Group, will give this winter’s keynote address.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

As an active member of the telecommunications and Internet community, Caruso will address the attendees about the virtues of starting a company in the Rocky Mountains. Along with company presentations and ample networking opportunities, Dan Caruso, CEO of Zayo Group, will give this winter’s keynote address.

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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. Also, start the conversation on LinkedIn, then switch to email.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. free, distributed source code control management system. Likelihood of Confusion -trademark, copyright and Internet Law. aggregation. Internet trends. Internet TV. State of the Internet. online subscription management. FeeFighters â??

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

That’s why,” or “Wow my conversion rate is not what I thought it would be by now. I better work on that conversion rate,” but if you actually take that time then you get more information to make decisions about your business. It encompasses conversions, and it encompasses growth and where we’re headed.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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