David Teten

JULY 12, 2012

I particularly urge you to review SpeakerNetNews ; it contains a tremendous amount of curated wisdom from professional speakers: how to be a more powerful speaker, deal with distracting audiences, etc. E.g., See ffVC’s blog post about the JOBS act, which discusses portfolio company Indiegogo. Photo credit: Zitona.

Venture Capital 122

Venture Capital PR Technical Review Startup 122

David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. Collectively this allows me to generate enough awareness to keep myself top of mind for my target audience. Distributing content. Tech stack. Today, I do this manually.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The market for our product was global, and we had unique advantages in terms of our product and how we distributed it to customers. If the companies in their portfolio don’t have much in common with yours, it’s usually better to look elsewhere. Draw upon connections to help get an audience.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Due Diligence Early Stage Differentiation 140

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Yesterday, I wrote about my failure to attract an audience at my last startup Parrotview. Building an audience is hard and is a full-time job. Once your product is ready to go, having a relevant audience to soft-launch to and test with makes your life a lot easier and reduces your chances of failure. Blog at least once per week.

Audience 81

Audience Entrepreneur Distribution Widget 81

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This is as much of a game-changer (due to a new distribution model based on the social graph) as going from offline to the Internet was in the 90s. Innovations in media transaction platforms along with a better understanding of target audience have brought an amazing level of scale and efficiency in display advertising market.

Internet 111

Internet Media Social Media Advertising 111

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

Los Angeles 244

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Mobile Video 244

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Yesterday, I wrote about my failure to attract an audience at my last startup Parrotview. Building an audience is hard and is a full-time job. Once your product is ready to go, having a relevant audience to soft-launch to and test with makes your life a lot easier and reduces your chances of failure. Blog at least once per week.

Audience 48

Audience Entrepreneur Distribution Widget 48

VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

They already distribute over $100M a month amongst their 200,000+ creators. Most creators build their audiences on Platforms etc. The platform provides the tools and in most cases the audience, but that of course, comes at a cost. A16Z, did a great job summarising how companies (vs. Platform take rates = tax.

Audio 168

Audio Valuation Stealth B2C 168

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A new flock of startups has launched to support content creators to craft (videos, art, newsletters, music, games, courses, etc), find an audience, generate income (subscriptions, tipping, ecommerce, NFTs, etc) and engage their communities. The creator economy market map, Singalfire. To understand the trends, follow the money.

Startup 207

Startup Social Media Venture Capital Audio 207

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2021

The falling economic costs of production and distribution have been replaced by a new set of taxes — physical, emotional, psychological — as your community expects new content, accessibility to their heroes and open book authenticity. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs. Creator Wellness Will Be A Key Goal of New Products.

Viral 147

Viral Algorithm Community Social Media 147

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. Jocz , you may need to change how you segment your audience: Marketers typically segment according to demographics (“over 40,” say, or “new parent” or “middle income”) or lifestyle (“traditionalist” or “going green”). How you execute campaigns may change, too.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

I think it’s important in this era of building audiences and living in public to acknowledge that no one actually needs to explain the reasons why they’re making career moves or leaving a company. You can stop making new investments, but it will take years to actually work through your active portfolio companies.

Later Stage 218

Later Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Limited Partner 218

K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 22, 2021

.” My thesis here is that there is a transition happening in media, where more and more media and corporate communications are going to be direct from the company to its audience rather than being intermediated by the traditional press and media sources. Theo Miller , the founder of Hit Start Media was an early Carta employee.

Media 62

Media Audience Distribution Product Development 62

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Like everything in life, you want a balanced portfolio (left). You'll find the report in Audience > Mobile > Devices. What you now see is the distribution of which link is making you how much money. Illuminate yourself by going to Audience > Demographics > Location. A very bad thing. I hear you.

Analytics 159

Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 159

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. " For major buyers of display advertising, real-time access to the largest audiences on the internet holds the promise of vastly improved targeting and performance. " "Hit it."

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2023

It also allows entrepreneurs to create awareness around their product or service and provides an opportunity to engage a larger audience of potential customers. Nonetheless, a successful crowdfunding campaign might act as a portfolio to show to potential investors. On the other hand, crowdfunding can also be risky for startups.

Startup 141

Startup Campaign Cofounder Venture Capital 141

VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I’m extremely excited about the portfolio of companies my partners and I have put together at Foundry Group which includes some great ad tech companies which you list above. Rather, I’d say that the one truly common trait across our portfolio of companies is the obsession these businesses have with their product.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Due Diligence Venture Capital IPO 60

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Stick to providing relevant, timely and interesting information that will be useful to your audience. – David Ehrenberg , Early Growth Financial Services. Traditional distribution services no longer work. They’re not bringing useful information to a new audience. Limited, Egotistical Content. One Big Launch.

PR 145

PR Small Business SEO Warrant 145

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

For example, a company that does lead generation marketing could add local SEO, content creation and distribution, social media account management services to their portfolio while still accommodating their targeted audience. Improve Support and Guidance. People like to be informed and supported every step of the way.

Lead Generation 81

Lead Generation Social Media Curation Sales 81

Start Up Blog

AUGUST 15, 2019

In an attention economy it is a compelling offer for a website to offer access to an audience of 2.4 Just this week Australian TV news channels joined up with the Facebook platform to get their news to a wider audience. Distribution is more powerful than content – always has been, always will be. I own and control it.

Channel 48

Channel Portfolio Metrics Search 48

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 2) Market . If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

When you introduce a new product, service, or design, the best way to wow your audience is to show rather than tell. always keep your portfolio accessible. But you might come across questions and requests on the pitching day that might make you wish you had displayed more of your portfolio. have a visual mockup.

Portfolio 40

Portfolio Cloud Audience Email 40

Brandanew

JULY 9, 2015

The easiest way to understand whether or not you have found the right experts is to check their portfolio of work. They may also engage with large PR houses to get the distribution going. And then share this with your audience. Your intent needs to be understanding your own consumers, and seeing how your solutions help them.

Marketing 100

Marketing SEO Metrics Agile 100

Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. Marketing basics are needed as well so you can research our target audience and understand them to deliver content that drives email signups and crowdfunding backers.

Semantic 48

Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

generates the demand) for the target audience. It meets them by expanding the ad audience, making landing page copy more inclusive, and gating as much content as possible. Often, by the time you start a demand generation campaign, your audience has changed. Second, “lead” generation. Strategies are based on bad data.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

aweissman.com

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

We look at the geographical distribution of our investments. To forget about portfolio diversity (or even returns), or the ups and downs they go through, and remind myself of what it is they do at a discrete level, and why they use the Internet to do that. So after our weekly meeting on Monday I poked around the USV portfolio a bit.

Seattle 38

Seattle Portfolio Distribution Internet 38

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs. The market is crowded, but Stathis has a critical mass of traffic and transactions, as well as a large portfolio of car rental companies providing data to make the service viable. Today's discussion was about how to generate additional distribution and acquire traffic.

Greece 116

Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

If the tools continue to display data, it will be increasingly distorted because it will reflect only traffic from the small audience of visitors who are not yet using secure search or are using other non-secure search engines. For example, for L'Oreal: Search data is also disappearing from these tools. Here's an example.

Search 154

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

We tend to favor companies that have a “distribution advantage”. This isn’t true for every single one of our portfolio companies, but in at least half, we had a thesis about why this company had some sort of unfair advantage or head-start when it comes to getting their product out into the market. Also hit-or miss.

Distribution 66

Distribution Vertical Viral B2B 66

Rob Go

JANUARY 21, 2016

These are companies that offer consumers a product or service (or both) that they are paid for (as opposed to consumer audience businesses that are monetized through advertising). Convenience tends to be an area where incumbents struggle, especially when convenience is tied to new forms of distribution. Why Convenience is Better.

Disintermediation 28

Disintermediation Distribution Demand Flash 28

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I don’t worry about my anti-portfolio. Just to talk a bit more about this,, I was talking with a VC that you know well about my portfolio company, Chipper Cash. Relatedly, I look at companies like Deciens’ portfolio company, Treasury Prime , or some of its peers and I wonder. That’s the only thing I worry about.

Silicon Valley 88

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. Distribute press releases on free sites like Free Press Release and PRLog.com. If you’re not familiar with the industry, check out this Beginner’s Guide To PR .

PR 114

PR Public Relations Startup Technical Review 114

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 10, 2010

Since some of my portfolio companies (@ crowdflower , @ twilio , @ dnanexus , @ highlightcam , and most recently @ cardmunch ) have been using Twitter more, I’ve been thinking about how startups should use their Twitter accounts. Twitter has become part of almost every startups marketing and engagement strategy. It’s become a channel.

Startup 93

Startup Channel Audience Search 93

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Companies are aggregating global audiences and selling direct making new product categories viable which wouldn’t have worked when national distribution limited customers to single countries – companies which build communities around their interest area are particularly powerful in this regard – e.g.

Open Source 102

Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

BeyondVC

JANUARY 29, 2007

I went out to dinner a couple weeks ago with a few key executives at a portfolio company and as we started talking about future product direction, it seemed that we all had different ideas of where the company should go. Seeing some confusion I tried to get us focused back on the basics when I asked the team what our vision was.

Differentiation 60

Differentiation Video Viral Algorithm 60

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Boosting your brand reputation and awareness is the preferred marketing strategy to raise your impact on your target audience. Indeed, it would be foolish to use the same media to share technical information and to build an emotional connection to your audience. However, it’s faulty reasoning. Informative and practical: The brochure.

Audience 113

Audience Video Portfolio Distribution 113