Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As an early-stage VC I love this phase. While early-stage companies have all of their engineers working on product innovation, companies that want to scale realize that you also have to build systems to help with organizational scaling.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2016

A large part of social media success comes down to having a pulse on the constantly changing world of digital, from algorithm and platform changes to shifts in trends and best practices. With a DIY approach, you might set a goal of 10 new sales per month and accomplish 15 sales in one month. Agencies excel in this arena.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2023

His newest book, I s the Algorithm Plotting Against Us?: Key Takeaway: While significant progress has been made in AI, we are still at the early stages of it’s development. Questions I ask Kenneth Wenger: [02:32] The title of your book is the algorithm plotting against this is a bit of a provocative question.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Were seeing 3D printing start to take off, and were in the very early stages of this revolution. Technology will enable companies to provide a concierge-style service that will use underlying personalization algorithms to allow a real person to make recommendations to you. Algorithmic Recommendations. Eric Koester , DCI.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 20, 2022

Within advertising the use cases and mediums are varied: Text – companies like Copy.ai , Anyword , Copysmith , Assembly or Jasper , NLP and generative text algorithms are used to create ads or social copy. Voice – synthetic voice algorithms are already powering audio ads on podcasts, using text-to-voice. Virtual goods.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Maybe its because Im 66", but I think most clothes shopping really stinks and when was the last time that a sales person was actually helpful. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Clothes are very personal and its really a pain to find stuff thats going to look good on you.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Books that Shape Common Early Stage (Startup) Culture – crowdspring.co/1fLefAN. Four Keys to Sales Success | Inc by Howard Tullman – crowdspring.co/1fkx7V6. SEO Penalty and Algorithm Recovery Timelines | ISOOSI Blog – crowdspring.co/1fxnCmW. On the Matter of Why Bitcoin Matters – crowdspring.co/1e393YD.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Sales are the bloodstream for most businesses, and tech startups are no exception. This post is about choosing the right sales strategy and channels for your startup from the start. This mix is not a good start when it comes to sales and marketing. Step 2: Choose your sales channels. Direct sales: Selling one-to-one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage? The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Assign real value to intellectual property.

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Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2021

million in funding Houston’s GroupRaise is a marketplace that helps groups of 20–200 people make reservations at restaurants willing to donate a percentage of the sales back to a charitable cause. According to Pitchbook, Capital Factory has been the most active, early-stage investor in Texas since 2010. million in funding.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

We have developed a proprietary machine learning algorithm that assesses the risk and return profile of the business and determines whether to invest in the business. The mode purpose for funding is (in order of frequency) Sales, Marketing, Market Expansion, Product Development, and Hiring Employees. Investment amount “is what it is”.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Early stage idea validation can be accomplished without building an application. Although Recycler Spotter was perceived as a great model for increasing awareness and sales, most partners decided to wait for the product launch. Recycler Spotter’s perceived value to partners wasn’t significant enough to justify early commitment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage? The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Assign real value to intellectual property.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2017

FYI – this is tuned towards an individual who is still in the relatively early stages of their career. This may be somewhat different for later stage investing, but at the early stage, most VC’s like to do a lot of their work themselves to really internalize the feedback. So, here it is.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage? The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Assign real value to intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage? The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Assign real value to intellectual property.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 16, 2021

ShearShare: The #1 Salon and Barbershop Booth Rental App Houston’s GroupRaise is a marketplace that helps groups of 20–200 people make reservations at restaurants willing to donate a percentage of the sales back to a charitable cause. According to Pitchbook, Capital Factory has been the most active, early-stage investor in Texas since 2010.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2011

Indeed, this early stage startup has a lot going on. What differentiates ignitAd’s ad optimization solution from others in the online advertising market is its Bid Optimization Management technology, which is based on a proprietary predictive analysis and advanced bidding algorithms.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2011

Indeed, this early stage startup has a lot going on. What differentiates ignitAd’s ad optimization solution from others in the online advertising market is its Bid Optimization Management technology, which is based on a proprietary predictive analysis and advanced bidding algorithms.

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

Limit the regret of showing the least performing variation to 50% of your visitors by using bandit algorithms. 3 Growth hacks for early stage startups: Find your scaling lever (HouseTrip, Facebook). The aim nowadays should be to create great content that directly converts into sales. Personalized sales message.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

If “Smucker’s” can be slapped on food and annually generate billions of sales, chances are that your company name, no matter how mediocre, will not preclude you from achieving significant success. However, if this is true, “Aardvark” would have been a more clever choice and equally as relevant to online book sales. Meredith Publishing.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Every week, we bring in business experts to discuss the latest trends in marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. If you’re a CEO, you’re one of the only people who can get out there at a strategic level and really form some of those key relationships especially at an early stage. Now, that’s key. Noah: Yeah.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

For early stage companies, it’s important to show that you’re on path, that you have prospects, and that you can get to your vision. In our third example, we contrasted Altavista and its search algorithm versus Google and its search algorithm PageRank. But even at this stage, lead with your overall investment thesis.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 4, 2017

Could you manually create travel policies before coding up an algorithm (that’s what yours truly is doing) to do it automatically? Could you manually respond to text queries while building your NLP chat bot to see which queries surface most frequently? Could you deliver the order yourself before hiring drivers?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Don’t waste precious time explaining the codebase or algorithms that you’ve used: a judge will ask about this if it’s important to your idea during the Q&A or after the pitching session. We saw a few quite recently where founders had given up 70 percent of equity to a really early stage seed investor,” Campbell said.

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

There was no other part of the planet where anything close in innovation, design manufacturing, equipment, marketing and sale of semiconductors has emanated from. Most SV projects die, most SV companies die, but if you build the algorithm to plan for this you’ll put more possible winners in play.

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ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2016

But, as companies are the first to admit, they’re still in the early stages of figuring out how to do personalization right (despite the fact that the concept has been around for years)… Image Source. Most visited type of sale. increase in clicks to sale from the listing page. For example, all inclusive.

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