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. This is where new startups can help. A look at Creator Economy Startup Landscapes.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Others believe in the start small, grow strong approach: build a small version of the app, test user demand, and then take it from there. In both scenarios, it seems that startup venture initiation and idea validation are strictly dependent on the app. The success of a startup is based on the value it provides to its stakeholders.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In places where international diplomacy had failed, citizens around the world found their individual and collective voices to topple dictatorships and demand better lives for themselves and future generations. eCommerce/Social Commerce: New models continue to evolve as ecommerce rebounded this past year.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

During a presentation at Startup School at Stanford University earlier today, the prolific investor discussed the state of startup funding with a packed auditorium of students and entrepreneurs. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2021

I believe we’re now at the tipping point for 3D content adoption and why it represents a huge opportunity for startups. The July 2021 Mobile gaming report by Israeli gaming startup CrazyLabs, shows that 3D games consist of 90.8% billion valuation. 4) Augmented Reality in eCommerce/ Social. Image source: Twitter.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

There’s been a lot of talk recently about what will happen to startup financing in 2016, including here on this blog. A lot of them are focused on Series A investing and favour the ecommerce and marketplace sectors that Forward Partners focuses on.

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest column by Sangeet Paul Choudary, who analyzes business models for internet startups at his blog Platform Thinking. 2010-2011 was a period of rampant funding and hazy valuation calculation for Indian e-commerce. Cash on delivery has proven to be a dud, the ecommerce model itself is broken in many places.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

So here’s a five-day playbook to help CEOs of cash-flow negative startups, or ones about to go negative, assess the new normal and respond with speed and urgency. For companies burning cash, such as startups, how much cash do you have? For startups: source of VC money? Others are cutting their valuations.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 8, 2017

Until now we have focused on marketplaces and next generation ecommerce. That meant lots of consumer and small business focused marketplaces and next generation ecommerce companies. To do that they must pass valuation milestones. Is at the right point in the Hype Cycle and plays to our strengths in evaluating demand.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

They are demanding more and more transparency and are products that are sustainably and ethically sourced. Another pointer is to how much the industry is ready for disruption is the trend of recent HR and Recruitment startups such as Zenefits which reached up to a valuation of a billion dollars after a few years. 23- eCommerce.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

That, plus I love the space of high-customer-service, focused eCommerce for moms worried about what their kids eat & wear.&#. At first I was cynical about his ability to have 500 startups (or some fraction of that which is still larger than any VC has). I know this guy is a money maker. I just had to line up behind him.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Because so many of us (myself included) love out technology providers, few have begun to fully grasp how much centralized control Amazon has over cloud-based storage and processing and it’s even more dominant in eCommerce and physical, last-mile distribution. This sounds to me like fraud, pure and simple.

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