Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Most of our early-stage startup clients fit this description. Today, it can sign one deal with a cloud service provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) to replace all of the above. Copyright is the right to control reproduction and distribution of original works of authorship fixed in tangible forms of expression.

Intellectual Property 149

Intellectual Property Technical Review Software Review IP 149

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 9, 2020

Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. What part does distributed work play in creating startup communities? Zephyr is a modern, cloud-based CMS that’s licensed only to agencies. Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. What makes a startup community?

Community 87

Community Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 87

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. The biggest change in the software industry beyond open-source was “open cloud.&#. Platform cloud players like Salesforce.com provide compute resources so that third parties can build applications that integrate with its core product. These are very different.

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Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

13) Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome) (0). Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Software Cloud Engineer III. Software Cloud Project Manager. You got Your Year on Twitter in my Vizify. (0) And 7 reasons that’s awesome. (13)

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Portland Oregon Technical Cofounder Startup 46

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. But all things are never equal.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

But while Amazon blew away existing physical distribution channels to deliver products to you, we are blowing away existing physical infrastructure to help you store the things you want to keep – just not at your home. We pride ourselves on being early-stage (thus the name, Upfront) but in this case it’s as early as it gets.

Technical Review 380

Technical Review Software Review Cofounder CTO Hire 380

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC’s (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner). Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider. DST invested $180mm last fall. 406 Ventures.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. They just dont need another authority figure in their life. Dont confuse passion with volume.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

We spoke with the head of innovation at one Fortune 500 company who told us his only metric for early-stage innovation is “how many assumptions have you tested this week?” That''s why the most critical attribute of early-stage product development is the ability to learn quickly. It''s that the business model is complex.

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Analytics Lean Widget Metrics 167

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. The evolution of cloud computing has enabled public and private enterprises to track, analyze and adjust processes faster than ever before.

Artificial Inteligence 141

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Global Technology 141

nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

These three roles are critical in an early-stage company, so if a non-technical co-founder can bring two of them to a startup while also being able to bridge the communications to technical people, you will be in a much better position. If in doubt, pass on the opportunity and move on to find somebody else.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Web Founder South Korea 40

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

How do you deal with a severely uneven distribution of investment success between individuals or groups of partners? Here’s a slightly perverse scenario… Acme Ventures starts out as an early-stage VC investing in US-based IT companies. they generate $400M in proceeds from that $100M).

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

VC Cafe

JUNE 10, 2022

Until now, early stage startups were relatively unaffected. You can read more about it in their 2022 State of the Cloud report. The first version of its smart glasses (code name Orion) will be distributed to Developers (according to TheVerge ). The market correction has come for series A and seed startups.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The difference between “remote” and “distributed” is that in a remote team, there is a company office(s) where some team members are based full-time. A distributed team has no location base – everyone is in a different place. But distributiveness solves a lot of problems, including that of being remote. My kind of office view….

Management 152

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. Today, he sees the opportunity to do a cloud capacity planning company. Then Raymond McGlamery pitched the O-Port , a guitar and drum accessory company based in Houston, Texas.

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Bootstrapping Marketing Angel Investor Silicon Valley 114

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

We’ve always invested across different stages - in fact, one of our very first investments as a firm in 2009 was in the Skype spin-out from eBay - but until very recently, we’ve always done so out of a single fund structure and with the same teams that are focused on our early-stage investment activities. No need to name names.

Lean 108

Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Version One Ventures

MARCH 15, 2016

It also means that we should already be in the early stages of that next big era. For example, there are sensors in your phone and smartwatch; sensors on industrial equipment in a manufacturing plant, on a warehouse shelf in a distribution center or your refrigerator at home. The question is: what is it?

Artificial Inteligence 60

Artificial Inteligence Azure API Technical Review 60

Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

I was asked recently how NextView evaluates such early stage companies for investment. We tend to favor companies that have a “distribution advantage”. So what are some examples of distribution advantages? Legacy Distribution Power : Quite a few successful companies got a nice head start because of legacy traffic.

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Distribution Vertical Viral B2B 66

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. Today, he sees the opportunity to do a cloud capacity planning company. O-Port Then Raymond McGlamery pitched the O-Port , a guitar and drum accessory company based in Houston, Texas.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. Today, he sees the opportunity to do a cloud capacity planning company. O-Port Then Raymond McGlamery pitched the O-Port , a guitar and drum accessory company based in Houston, Texas.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

San Antonio has Geekdom with USAA and Port San Antonio with the Air Force Cyber Command; Houston has The Ion with Rice University, Microsoft and NASA and The Cannon distributed across the city; Dallas has Pegasus Park with UT Southwestern and Lyda Hill Philanthropies; and Austin has Capital Factory with the Army Futures Command.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 13, 2016

We are now in the early stages of another major technological development called the blockchain. The “blockchain” is a distributed consensus system that allows transactions, or other data, to be securely stored and verified without any centralized authority.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence United States Global Technical Review 40

thebarefootvc

APRIL 13, 2016

We are now in the early stages of another major technological development called the blockchain. The “blockchain” is a distributed consensus system that allows transactions, or other data, to be securely stored and verified without any centralized authority.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence United States Technical Review Global 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. Amazon in turn led to the formation of an earlier stage of venture capital now led by what I call “micro VCs&# who typically invest $250-500k in companies rather than the $5-7 million that VCs used to invest. There are also others.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 20, 2017

80s: Desktop era 90s: WWW era 00s: Cloud / mobile era 10s: Decentralization era Going from the 90s to the 00s was about using cloud platforms. You’ll see more of your information distributed across multiple sources. For more of my ramblings on early stage company formation, subscribe to my newsletter.

Business Model 48

Business Model Software Silicon Valley Mobile 48

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep. The Definitive Guide to Building a Brand.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 21, 2022

It is still in the early stages of development, but with the addition of AI, things in the banking business may get easier, as they can quickly mine data for anomalies and outliers. ESB aids in task distribution among connected components and serves as a middleware between an application-based suite and a framework. Marketing

Architecture 52

Architecture Cloud Early Stage Finance 52

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Teams were savvy enough to know that fully formed, completed descriptions of users are an impossibility at the early stages of design. How are they organized and distributed? Traditional personas began to look too finished, too final. Instead, they wanted conversation starters. Explain at high level and day to day.

Software Review 115

Software Review Design Agile Analytics 115

ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

Teams were savvy enough to know that fully formed, completed descriptions of users are an impossibility at the early stages of design. How are they organized and distributed? Traditional personas began to look too finished, too final. Instead, they wanted conversation starters. Explain at high level and day to day.

Software Review 102

Software Review Design Agile Analytics 102

Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Early stage investing always comes down to two things: people and market. This data-centric world encompasses social, mobile, and cloud environments and an increasing number of real-time applications that generate unprecedented levels of business insights. Datos IO has both in good measure. People build products.

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Database Marketing Distribution Early Stage 60

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

This was actually a great piece of advice, because ideas change and evolve in the early stages of the startup, it’s about the other person not the idea as much. Pitch 2009 is a unique startup competition open to early-stage ventures globally. I received an invitation to attend the event. Quotable Quotes.

Cofounder 47

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. Then we allocated the saved money into hiring the highest quality developers available — especially those who have experience working with a distributed team.

Startup 79

Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Nothing is going to stop cloud.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2011

Facebook will only allow Credits to be distributed through offers by approved providers once the July 1st deadline passes and all games to switch to Credits as their payment method. Zerto brings disaster recovery to the cloud – Ziv Kedem, Zerto’s CEO: “[disaster recovery] is something you only want when you really need it.

United Kingdom 107

United Kingdom Venture Capital Taiwan 107

infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

At the time of its launch, the name “cisco” was also confusingly similar to SYSCO, the $20B food distribution company. John Greathouse is a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses. Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems. |. 2 Comments.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

The term “early-stage” covers a lot of territory in venture investing, from incubating a brand-new idea, to investing in a Series A. They’ve been thinking about this problem, of how to give security teams visibility into cloud apps, for years and years, and knew how to deploy [Series A level capital].

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Seed Stage Software Review Early Stage 69

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

As a developer, I feel that design/creative is undervalued in the early stages of product development. Notwithstanding examples like Plentyofish, people respond to well designed, well branded products, and that can be important in getting traction early on. Ryan Hornbeck , Computer and Cloud Systems Integrator.

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