Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

It also puts another chink in the armor of the meme that monster internet companies can only be built in Silicon Valley (LivingSocial, Kayak, Gilt Groupe, CSN Stores, et al doing damage here too). If Groupon’s growth rate drops by 80% they’ll still be nearly tripling top line sales in 2012. Author howerl.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Austin-based author, tech investor and Managing Director of Techstars Austin Amos Schwartzfarb reveals details for the launch event for his new book “Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Start-Ups,” published by Wiley. Early stage sales and product-market fit are topics that I love talking about,” said Schwartzfarb.

Austin 48

Austin Management Los Angeles New York City 48

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent. Best is if you have a combination of ad revenue, sponsorships and some forms of non ad revenue (subscriptions, merch, music sales, etc.). Notably I said: You have to have owned & operated websites (O&O) to drive traffic to.

SEM 150

SEM Los Angeles Silicon Valley Acquisition 150

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Rule 1: In an existing market Customer Development means not only understanding potential customers, but your competitors in detail – their product features, their sales channels, their demand creation strategy, their business model, etc. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Me – “So what’s the problem?”

Silicon Valley 189

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 189

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley. Is that a lot? Is that good? link] August 24, 2009 2:50 PM Quentin said.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

Investment banks of varying size and prestige might say slightly different things, but typically it means over $50M in trailing sales and a run rate near or above $100M. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Would be issuers may have to be patient, but hopefully only for months and not years.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 5, 2014

What will put the brakes on the hype cycle is simply that customers don’t know what to do with all the data that can be aggregated and analyzed by these technology tools. 3) Big data takes a breather. The challenge isn’t the technology itself, which is pretty amazing in scope and impact over the long run.

Silicon Valley 62

Silicon Valley Cloud B2C Mobile 62

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

The reason is that most people equate MCN with “YouTube aggregators” meaning people who sign up video creators, roll them up into a single content management system and then collect advertising revenue from YouTube. YouTube aggregation isn’t a business. You create and aggregate videos. We did a hell of a lot.

Aggregator 150

Aggregator Silicon Valley Distribution Video 150

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

Do you know of any similar studies showing correlation between sales success and founder success? The three dropouts above were each, in their own way, some pretty slick sales guys. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. So “good students aren’t good at all things.&# Order Here. Now In Print!

Silicon Valley 331

Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development 331

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. Ironically, Carreyou is not a Silicon Valley-focused reporter, and the success of the piece served as a wake-up call for other journalists who may have been struck by Unicorn fever.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley. This is the blog post I needed to read. link] Chiwuzie Sunday Great Article!,

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Sure, I wrote about startups all the time, but my work experience with a classic Silicon Valley-styled startup was non-existent. In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Right now, the only company who’s really innovating is Dwolla, which is starting from the payment layer by aggregating funding sources and will eventually try to position itself as a platform (starting by offering real time cash transfers for free to banks). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

A bit like Silicon Valley. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Maybe it is the soft crackle of an LP record that has enabled vinyl LP sales to increase year on year for the past 19.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

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% Read more on TechCrunch [.]

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Scott Edward Walker

MARCH 1, 2012

” ); Disclosure and state law compliance requirements if the investors are not “accredited investors” — which usually makes the offering of securities too costly and onerous for a startup (see “ Ask the Attorney – Securities Laws ”); A requirement that any intermediaries (including websites) must be registered with the SEC and applicable state (..)

SEC 65

SEC Security Accredited Investor Social Network 65

Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2018

One study ( 1) published in 2010 aggregated research on the business growth of 11,046 companies and found that planning improved business performance. They create budgets, set sales goals, and document their marketing and sales strategies. Silicon Valley businesses like to call the act of changing strategic direction “pivoting.”

Business Plan 263

Business Plan Oregon Lean Elevator Pitch 263

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

According to an interview with Elon Musk, this campaign cost Paypal about $60 million , which most Silicon Valley historians would consider money well spent. Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. This data set looks at 8,610 IPOS over 39 years from 1980-2019.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We’re building a True SaaS company in Boise, Idaho, not in Silicon Valley or not in New York. One of the things that we’ve done fundamentally I think it creates this difference is that we focus on sales. Crosstalk 00:51:17] put your efforts into actually making sales. I can hire a development team.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2015

One study 1 , published in 2010, aggregated research on the business growth of 11,046 companies and found that planning improved business performance. They create budgets, set sales goals, and document their marketing and sales strategies. Silicon Valley businesses like to call this “pivoting.”

Business Plan 60

Business Plan Oregon Lean Elevator Pitch 60

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

turn customer feedback into sales and relationships. SaaS Sales Team Compensation â?? aggregation. Silicon Roundabout. silicon valley. Silicon Valley Bank. Silicon Wadi. Startups For Sale. SnapEngage â?? live chat integrates with your apps. Zendesk â?? web help software.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. “There are so many companies in Silicon Valley that have raised $30 million and done absolutely nothing with it.” Source: AllThingsD ]. -

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93