Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Then my time working on AdSense and YouTube for nearly a decade gave me other vantage points from which to see where eyeballs and dollars traveled in media. The “absolutely yes” category was dominated by creators who had branched beyond their initial piece of content and created some persistent space for the community to aggregate.

North Carolina 112

North Carolina Community Media Video 112

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

A number of factors are combining that enable faster product iteration in hardware. 3D printing is reducing the cost of prototyping. Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms are radically improving capital efficiency because customers are now paying for product months in advance and because first demand validation is now virtually free.

Open Source 102

Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

Mucker Lab

JULY 21, 2016

Editor’s Note: This guest post is the first of an ongoing series offering up an insider-point of view from a portfolio company. Everipedia is more than just a crowdsourced encyclopedia – it is an information aggregator that provides deep insight into a vast array of fields. Guest post by Dave Liebowitz.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Massachusetts Dallas Aggregator 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The goal is to intelligently structure the information collected and combine it with additional information scraped from the web and social media. We believe this way we can extrapolate insights for our particular business model (portfolio operator VC fund) previously missed out.”.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2022

And to your question specifically, once you start to say, okay, well, where am I in my role on the S curve overall, everything that's required of me, but it very much is a portfolio of curves that you are going to have a number of different curves that you're on within your work. So you're putting together that portfolio. No problem!

Leadership 76

Leadership Utah Portfolio Technical Review 76

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

And to your question specifically, once you start to say, okay, well, where am I in my, I roll on the S curve overall, everything that's required of me, but it very much is a portfolio of curves that you are going to have a number of different curves that you're on within your work. So you're putting together that portfolio.

Leadership 80

Leadership Technical Review Fractional CTO Utah 80

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Social media. Question: Thoughts on how to use social media to generate deal flow? Otherwise, private owners tend to have unrealistic expectations or an arbitrary sale price expectation. Intermediaries. CareerAmp Branch Out.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? Sales and marketing plans , lists of prospects, supplier and subcontractor relationships, pricing data, media buying plans and strategies, etc. Barriers to entry ? trade secret).

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

These are literal quotes from social media and email announcements over the past six months from VC Partners moving on to other competitive firms, and, well, just moving on. “I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining [New Firm] as a Partner where I will continue to invest in great Founders across the industries I care about.”. “I

Venture Capital 204

Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Potential partnerships with media and telecom giants make it attractive enough though, and hopefully there will be cross polination between the Israeli startups and the great tech cluster in London. Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. How do we do this?

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Led by an accomplished management team from Yahoo/Right Media and Google/DoubleClick, AppNexus ( www.appnexus.com ) is the most advanced platform for buying display ads in real time.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 7, 2014

Jim Barksdale, founder of Netscape famously said that “there are only two ways to make money in business: bundling and unbundling” We’ve seen this a lot in media – iTunes unbundled the album into singles and now Spotify have bundled singles up into an all you can eat subscription.

Aggregator 92

Aggregator Portfolio Channel Restful 92

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m an Ashley Mayer superfan so beyond the affinity, have been fortunate enough to also bring her into Homebrew as an advisor to our portfolio companies, and invest in Coalition , a venture firm she founded along with three other amazing female operators. Of course, media scrutiny doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

IPO 91

IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 91

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

There has been a lot of conversation recently on the future of the media industry, specifically drawing comparisons between TV and film and the shrinking music industry. In aggregate, the various revenue streams would continue to support the creation and distribution of high production value content. Advertising supported. Live events.

Business Model 153

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 153

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Aggregated search engine level analysis. This is a simple custom report I use to look at the aggregated view: As the report above demonstrates, you can still report on your other metrics, like Unique Visitors, Bounce Rates, Per Visit Value and many others, at an aggregated level. Here's an example. But, it is is something.

Search 154

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Brand advertising starts to move online, boosting premium display, video and social media. Many brand advertisers are spending their experimental budgets widely in social media as they attempt to figure out how to promote themselves through Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and other platforms.

Internet 108

Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 108

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 6:00 – 7:30). How did you get into VC?

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Version One Ventures

MARCH 29, 2017

It’s worth noting that SaaS companies could probably do something interesting with all their data in aggregate. Some VCs have data and engineering teams manually wrangle non-standard financial statements and KPIs from their portfolio and pitches and create an internal repository for their own use. 2: Privately held operational.

Aggregator 60

Aggregator Startup Vertical SEC 60

David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

As an alternative, entrepreneurs have been using crowdfunding sites like Indiegogo , one of our portfolio companies, to raise money for their companies through online donations. For small businesses, registering a company is timely and costly in management fees, accounting fees, and legal fees.

Securities and Exchange Commission 148

Securities and Exchange Commission IRR Entrepreneur Angel Investor 148

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

A marketing/PR agency may have a flashy portfolio that impresses you with their big name clients, but for a startup or small business, paying thousands each month to such an agency isn’t going to be good bang for your (limited) buck. Expensive Agencies. Press Release Wires. Traditional distribution services no longer work.

PR 145

PR Small Business SEO Warrant 145

Genuine VC

JULY 22, 2012

Given the size and scale of the macrobrews of the VC business, it’s increasingly the largest venture capital firms driving all of the fundraising figures quoted in the media. But again, the aggregate numbers are being driven by just a few of the largest macrobrew firms.

Venture Capital 164

Venture Capital Aggregator Portfolio Search 164

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. This is one book-end of the cycle.

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Recommendations can be powered by aggregate data, which determines the relevance of a certain item in relation to a given context, or user specific data, that fuels personalized recommendations. While in the media, the words recommendations and personalization are pretty much used interchangeably, they’re not at all the same thing.

Conversion 48

Conversion Product Technical Review Widget 48

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! Portfolio. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1). internet. (6).

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

Hunter Walker

JULY 7, 2017

Casey was kind enough to join me for Five Questions where he said not to “pull any punches… ” Hunter Walk: The way media companies make money (or measure success) can sometimes be inconsistent with what I think leads to good reporting. Are your competitors aggregating your work? Are they crediting you for your scoop?

San Francisco 51

San Francisco Aggregator Audience PR 51

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The service is a proven revenue generator for Media Companies (TV, newspapers, Radio stations), VAS providers and carriers. mobile telephone operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and media agents. idomoo turns automatically any pieces of existing content/media (photos, text, videos, etc.,)

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

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). This invite-only event for our portfolio companies and close friends of the firm was designed to be fairly intimate and interactive. Labels: Portfolio , SaaS , software.

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

“This investment will enable us to go to market faster and bring new technology offerings to our customers across all three media types.”. In 2010, the company became a preferred content aggregator for the Apple iBookstore and is one of the largest providers of book content to Apple.

Aggregator 54

Aggregator New York Distribution Security 54

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2014

Today the term “social selling” is all the rage, but simply bolting on more tools or looking at social media as some new extension or tactic is as misguided in sales as it was several years ago in marketing. (I The Greatest Opportunity In Social Media Marketing Today In my forthcoming book Duct Tape Selling (Portfolio May 15th).

Social Media 64

Social Media Aggregator Sales Portfolio 64

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Media Temple. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. aggregation. Email Integration. Domains.Co. Text Editor. Macromates. Sublime Text. Name.com *. Bluehost *. StartLogic *. Windows Azure. Amazon Web Services. Online education and skill learning.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

As part of the Techstars library, “Sell More Faster” contains aggregated knowledge from Techstars leaders, instilling lessons learned from the accelerator’s experience with years of work with startups. we could bring all of these lessons learned by the startups we invest in to a wider audience,” said Schwartzfarb.

Austin 48

Austin Management Los Angeles New York City 48

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

CellGuide’s GPSense firmware runs on a variety of commonly available application and multi-media processors which in combination with ACLYS radically reduces the size of dedicated GPS silicon and the power required to operate at 1 Hz tracking. Logia has the unique combination of being both a content aggregator and a billing aggregator.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

The outcome in either scenario is a restructuring of the organization that is exquisitely geared towards taking advantage of portfolio optimization. You can even get great first-step guidance about how to rebalance your portfolio from that last column. Related implications of what you want to do in-house vs. out source to an Agency.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. Portfolio. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. We decided to fund Wize.com to answer this question.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Community was about things we didn’t have as much familiarity with, i.e., social media, game mechanics, community building, etc.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

The next wave of internet will come from companies aggregating these various data sets and leveraging them to provide more value to the user. Portfolio. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. but we have reached the inflection point when these silos will get connected. anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1). internet. (6).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review San Jose Venture Capital 48