SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. I was in charge of all product management and marketing for the first year-and-a-half, that was a great learning experience with a very talented team of folks.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

The decision will affect and shape your brand, your marketing, and your business. Your product improves with time, your business team grows, and so your pricing can’t stay outdated. Different sources define freemium as a business model or a pricing strategy. It’s mostly popular with B2C markets.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Benchmarks are typically specific to stage/business model/geo. In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech. 500 Startups created a helpful primer on key B2C metrics. Consumer apps and services.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

When developing a business model, every software and app start-up eventually faces the same core question: Should we focus on monetizing customers or driving usage? As Fred Wilson put it : “When scale matters, when network effects matter, when your users are creating the content and the value, free is the business model of choice.”.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2020

Our revenue was consistently correlated to marketing spend, which to us indicated that it was unsustainable and there was low product/market fit, and we knew that lack of fit was the most commonly cited reason for why startups failed. When we tested our now current business model, the results were shocking.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

The challenge is that my time and money budget for “influencing”–content creation and marketing– is minimal. Also, since I’m not trying to be a full-time marketer, I can’t use some of the standard celebrity techniques. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Tech stack.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

Transcript of Creating a Winning SEO Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: Hey, this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by rev.com. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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Up and Running

MARCH 20, 2017

Worthwhile expense #1: Market research. When writing a business plan, most new entrepreneurs are hesitant to invest in thorough market research, mostly for financial reasons. However, without market research, you are operating in the dark when it comes to your product and your customers. Market Research Resources.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? So if you are building a product that has a lot of incumbents that are very established, thinking about PLG may be one of the ways to disrupt that market. Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

Not only can it enhance the user’s experience on your site – no need to fill out a registration form or remember yet more passwords – it also allows marketers to gather more accurate data, including verified email addresses, age, gender, relationship status and interests. On the other hand, Easytobook , a B2C company, had 1.5

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Not only can it enhance the user’s experience on your site—no need to fill out a registration form or remember yet more password—it also allows marketers to gather more accurate data, including verified email addresses, age, gender, relationship status, and interests. On the other hand, Easytobook , a B2C company, had 1.5

Social Network 73

Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 73

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . But in business, you want a lot of partners. In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. 2) Market .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2013

Around the time people started trading inside and outside of their village two models developed. You either took your stuff on the road and sold it door to door or you showed up somewhere near the center of town and rented a stall in the market or bazaar. photo credit: Bert Kaufmann via photopin cc. Advantages of digital marketplaces.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Personally, I think it’s a lazy question, but I think the founders would appreciate hearing your thoughts about what it takes for a founder or a founding team to say, “I’m going to go after a large, dominant business.”. Is it market understanding, is it experience, is it a particular set of personality traits?

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Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Personally, I think it’s a lazy question, but I think the founders would appreciate hearing your thoughts about what it takes for a founder or a founding team to say, “I’m going to go after a large, dominant business.”. Is it market understanding, is it experience, is it a particular set of personality traits?

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Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Magical, really.

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Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

eld of marketing and sales for Ciba- Geigy Pharmaceuticals before co-founding Noven Pharmaceuticals in 1986. Her responsibilities included: strategic counseling, business modeling and deal negotiation for the various for medical startups in the portfolio and is a limited partner at NGT3 Medical Accelerator in Israel.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

This is in part because these businesses are unencumbered by legacy constraints that had previously been hardwired into the companies and industries these startups are trying to disrupt. One such business model is the “online marketplace,” an entirely new business category not possible (at scale) before the Internet.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

When 37signals talked about giving something away for free as a marketing strategy , it made a lot of sense to me: “For us, Writeboard and Ta-da list are completely free apps that we use to get people on the path to using our other products. Taking advantage of word-of-mouth marketing requires more users than most of us will attain.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. after WWII, were all a direct result of the mass market adoption of the automobile many decades earlier. It’s a question every VC asks themselves and the entrepreneurs they invest in.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

Turns out, for whatever reason – cultural, business model, leadership, even bad luck – many incumbents have yet to figure out what to do with software, always on connectivity, and technology. 20 years since Mosaic , if they haven’t figured it out – they probably will never figure it out. E-commerce is the canary in the coal mine.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. For example, you can provide a solution to automate marketing, but if the customer doesnt know some key best practices for how to effectively market online, then its unlikely that theyll get a lot of value out of a marketing automation solution. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2020

The result is that capital tends to flow towards founders with established VC relationships and away from folks who may be equally talented but are several steps removed from investor networks. market who could benefit from capital and engaged hands-on mentorship from the NextView partnership & extended advisor network.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I set out to address the environmental hazard of single use plastic bags and all the waste they were (and still are) by introducing a better solution, ECOBAGS®, to the market; a reusable bag made both ethically and sustainably. It was becoming a business model destined to fail. 8-Provide high-quality personalized marketing.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

The modal VC thesis is: “We invest in great teams addressing large markets with disruptive solutions” Who invests in lousy teams addressing tiny markets with outdated solutions? USV invests in companies that increase “ access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols ”.

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

Yesterday I was having a discussion with one of our executives on the strength of network effects inherent in the data.world business model. This led to a far ranging strategic discussion that got us both really excited about the huge potential of our business. But most of the time it is just that?—?hope,

Networking 48

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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