Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I asked what the audience most needed to hear. This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. And post IPO deals, although these tend to correct more quickly. It’s what I love about entrepreneurship and about venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

The minute your company reaches its peak acceleration in terms of growth is when all of the sleeping giants wake up to compete with you and will spend massive amounts of money to keep you from capturing a growth market and other talented entrepreneurs will raise large amounts of venture capital as people start to see value in the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Juno IPO’d while Joel was there, and it was the first “broken&# IPO of the dot-com era. Start blogging to your customers and your intended audience. How do you keep an audience as a blogger and on the network of StackExchange? Joel had an audience of Joel on Software, and they iterated slowly over time.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Funny story, after Bill presented at TED (back when Amazon was still a small company) Jeff Bezos was in the audience. In 1995 Netscape IPO’d and browsers started to become more prevalent. IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Why get into the venture capital side of the business? I first got into venture capital about 10 years ago and I love my job. Unlike many venture capital firms that invest in certain geographic regions or specific technologies and sectors, Foundry Group’s investing activity is largely driven by a thematic approach.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. The second moment was the IPO itself.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

Fitness/life guru Tim Ferriss just posted my guest article on ff Venture Capital ‘s approach to building a fitness office. UPDATE: ff Venture Capital was recently profiled in The Roger, an online magazine that profiles creative workspaces. Thanks Tim!) They enhance performance and greatly reduce injuries.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

The retailers were to provide the audience?—?and But now that the SaaS as a superior-business model as compared to enterprise software secret is out of the bag (Workday had a monster IPO and Salesforce.com is the most valuable SaaS business in the world), these replacement SaaS startup opportunities are few and far between.

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

After Facebooks IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth. A string quartet played a medley of pop radio hits as several hundreds startup founders, Goldman Sachs bankers, and venture capital investors, chatted over drinks inside a gleaming neon temple of Angel Orensanz in lower Manhattan. By Ben Popper 06.19.2012.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 22, 2011

Yet, I found myself muttering "amen" to myself a few times as I read this morning's editorial on "Whatever Happened to IPOs?". I used to hear from investment bankers that a company north of $100 million in revenue and consistently profitable can find a welcome public audience. Let's use that as a model for the IPO market.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 31, 2011

As evidenced by the recent $8 billion IPO of LinkedIN and the recent talk of a Facebook IPO being valued at greater than $100 billion, social networking is clearly one of the great communications revolutions in history. That change is called crowdfunding. right now: 87 percent, or $144 billion, of it!”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2010

It’s a shame since it’s such a golden opportunity for you to build awareness with your audience for who you are and what you do. Educate – Your primary role on stage is to educate the audience. It’s your job to know thy audience. Tip : Get the audience to respect you for your content contributions.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

We help brands to engage their audiences by extending their advertising campaigns into the social world. ” Note that this changed happened the day after social enterprise software company Jive Software filed it’s S-1 to go IPO. 4/19/2009 – Still an agency. Seemed like a good time to be in the software business.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Traditional media companies who have benefitted from predictable audience behavior began scrambling — putting company resources “all-in” on streaming, trying to emulate what the most interesting company in the mix is doing.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

It drives up valuations, creates interest in the category among other investors, and in a new space a well funded competitor is usually out there educating audiences about the very problem the startup solves. In young categories, a smart founder recognizes that investment in a competitor is usually a good thing for them. That’s awesome.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

The audience was awesome as well bringing together many rock stars of the past with those of the future. Dave Tisch and team simply did a fantastic job guiding the startups, recruiting the mentors, and organizing the event. I was quite honored to have been a mentor and to have had a chance to interact with so many high quality teams.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

The audience was awesome as well bringing together many rock stars of the past with those of the future. Dave Tisch and team simply did a fantastic job guiding the startups, recruiting the mentors, and organizing the event. I was quite honored to have been a mentor and to have had a chance to interact with so many high quality teams.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. There is no reason why all written content that is produced today for those purposes couldn’t be split-tested – at least to a segment of its audience. What is the right revenue model?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

M&A, IPO? Reply David Locke , on June 20, 2009 at 1:47 pm Said: As for marketing being different in different verticals, the audience is different from one vertical to another, so content would be different, as well as communications channels. Product Development – How do you engineer it? Waterfall, Agile, Lean?

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In a single year, the classic general partner in a venture firm is exposed to around 5,000 pitches; decides to look more closely at 600 to 800 of them; and ends up doing between 0 and 2 deals. First, understand your audience. The usual tempo for raising money from venture capital is at a minimum of a year between financings.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 17, 2021

There were conferences and meetups—and some big venture capital dollars followed into platform companies. Six Apart, the makers of Typepad and Vox (a different Vox), which were meant for indie and small bloggers, raised $12mm from August Capital in 2006. Staying engaged with your audience is hard. So is driving traffic.

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