ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. OSEO validation in turn makes early-stage startups eligible for a variety of support services and funding options. But these barriers are showing some wear and tear.

France 163

France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

We were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach engineering students a completely new approach to start companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. The slides below and the syllabus " target="_blank">here describe the details of the class.).

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Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 303

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Sellers can lower transaction fees by aggregating purchases into fewer transactions, while also providing buyers with an attractive alternative payment method.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. Fincura specializes in serving lenders.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#. Each of those domains would get one point in the aggregated list. These are the top linked domains from Facebook pages.

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Last week, we looked at some of the statistics gleaned from ChubbyBrain 's new Funding Recommendation Engine. To recap, the recommendation engine helps entrepreneurs find the rest investor match, based on the latter's previous patterns. ReadWriteWeb readers also trended younger than ChubbyBrain's aggregate data.

Silicon Valley 115

Silicon Valley Aggregator Early Stage New York 115

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The good news is that if you can master them at this early stage, you will have a significant competitive advantage. Unfortunately, conversion improvements typically are the aggregate gain of 100 tiny improvements, not one silver bullet. The bad news is that the tools for doing mobile conversion measurement are immature at best.

Metrics 93

Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice. So VCs spent a couple of years experimenting with earlier-stage investing, which is OK. The Explosion in Early-Stage Innovation. There are also others.

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Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But Chicago-based startup MentorMob ( www.mentormob.com ) wants to change that – the free, community-based collaborative service aims to aggregate and organize the best online educational content on any topic, so it’s easier to find. With MentorMob , you spend more time learning and less time searching.”. Learning From Others.

Illinois 165

Illinois Aggregator Chicago Widget 165

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

One would think that designing a medical device would be a simple engineering problem, and startups would be emerging right and left. Early stage Venture Capital for medical device startups has dried up. The truth is that today it’s tough to get a medical device startup funded. Life Sciences II – Medical Devices.

Startup 299

Startup Venture Capital Lean IPO 299

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners.

Oakland 329

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 329

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? This is an incredible skill, one that most engineers overlook. But all things are never equal. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Paul Graham and the folks over at YCombinator have done much to reenergize early-stage entrepreneurship and encourage the creation of many new and innovative startups including DropBox, Posterous, Loopt, Justin.TV, Scribd and many others. HN and Techmeme are the main two tech aggregators that I frequently skim.

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Aggregator Naming Early Stage Email 258

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. 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.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

A good example is the young firm Fifty Years , an entrepreneur-run early stage venture capital company based in San Francisco, which backs startups that aim to be both massively profitable and make a serious dent in achieving one of the SDGs. Cecile Blilious and Leehe Skuler. GITA identifies four points of activities: 1.

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Global South Africa 174

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013).

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

“Umbrella terms” are when you aggregate multiple features and benefits under one vague term, like “powerful” or “easy-to-use.” 3 Growth hacks for early stage startups: Find your scaling lever (HouseTrip, Facebook). Pillars : Content/SEO, Paid, Growth engineering, Referrals.

PPC 48

PPC Analytics Video Non-Compete 48

VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2011

We wrote about the VentureGeeks incubator on VC Cafe a few months ago, and its plans to set up a $2 million early stage fund making pre-seed investments. The engine can also correct the problem as it is detected using a SaaS platform. They plan to scale by using ecommerce aggregators as affiliates.

Incubator 99

Incubator Startup Florida 99

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% Facebook is another example.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

There’s no need to over-engineer it: Groove started sending out a simple email that asks users to reply with why they cancelled. This approach works well in the early stages of your SaaS company. Servicebot also offers a no-code customer portal along with several other notable features that make it easy to go from 0 to 1.

Retention 83

Retention Email Customer Aggregator 83

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. The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

If one looks at the total pool of college vs non-college people, and what each group’s career trajectories look like in the aggregate, I think Google’s position is more justifiable. Reply Harvey , on April 11, 2009 at 7:05 pm Said: Some of the best engineers I hired out of school were not 3.5+ You just get successful.

Silicon Valley 332

Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development 332

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The conference will also feature a Technology Showcase, an inaugural demonstration of five very early stage technology companies that is designed to feature the next generation of innovation from the region and further VCIR’s legacy of entrepreneurial mentorship.

Venture Capital 52

Venture Capital Colorado Mezzanine Wyoming 52

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The conference will also feature a Technology Showcase, an inaugural demonstration of five very early stage technology companies that is designed to feature the next generation of innovation from the region and further VCIR’s legacy of entrepreneurial mentorship. VCIR Launches 20 Promising Companies/Page 2.

Venture Capital 52

Venture Capital Colorado Mezzanine Wyoming 52

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. Twitter = amazing business & marketing engine for companies. Real time + location + Klout + interpreting my demographic data could = goldmine.

Viral 307

Viral Las Vegas Tunisia Syndicate 307

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

We practice it religiously in the engineering team at HubSpot and the insights are always there, highly valuable. aggregate pipeline created in a given week) could be altered reflexively by their measurement -- a sort of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for high-velocity sales.

Metrics 55

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

While the CAC ratio helps SaaS businesses at scale to manage their Sales and Marketing spend, the SLC is a helpful framework for early stage businesses before you have meaningful data. 3) Analyze the aggregated data to determine best practices and benchmarks across your customers. Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48