Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Founder’s perspective. You’ll get empathy. Experience. Relationships.

Technical Review 325

Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

He looked at his resume, and asked just one question: “ What’s your edge? ” My friend got the job because his answer was differentiated, credible, and backed up by a history of investing success. Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. – Execution.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

He looked at his resume, and asked just one question: “ What’s your edge? ” My friend got the job because his answer was differentiated, credible, and backed up by a history of investing success. Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. – Execution.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

There is a myth among first time tech founders that product is everything. Here are five financial concepts that every startup founder should know to build an everlasting company. The basic lesson that founders can learn about asset valuation is that Accounting is past and Finance is future. Asset valuation. venkatarag.

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Founder Valuation Dividend Startup 148

The Equity Kicker

MAY 11, 2016

Andy Dunn, the founder of Bonobos and one of the most thoughtful writers I know on ecommerce, penned a good piece yesterday entitled Digitally Native Vertical Brands. It’s a brand, and that brand is vertical. Andy says we are “in the first decade of a multi-century trend” towards vertically integrated ecommerce.

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Vertical eCommerce Differentiation Distribution 60

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Even when founders don’t get the desired response, they still appreciate our quick turnaround and even forward along referrals. In fact, a recommendation from a founder we passed on is one of our best performing portfolio companies! We all know it’s important to differentiate ourselves individually and not just as a fund.

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Cofounder Portfolio Capital Gains Vertical 180

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Route One: High LTV per user The exact definition of a “high” user LTV depends on the specific vertical, so it’s typically better to analyze the ratio between Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) and the Life Time Value of the customer. As a VC, the biggest challenge in evaluating LTV models is that metrics can dramatically change at scale.

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Churn Rate Viral Acquisition Cofounder 168

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Having recently addressed founders in my chapter “Be Coachable,” allow me please in this essay to address this matter to you providers of help. As you probably know, I prefer advising founders in long, immersive engagements. If you want to share your wisdom to founders, you have many avenues that do not require prior Freudian training.

Incubator 48

Incubator Vertical Deal Flow Technical Review 48

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Effective Ways To Differentiate And Scale Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Debbie is the co-founder and CEO of Senior Living SMART, a full-service marketing agency focused exclusively on the senior housing and care industry. Marketing Podcast with Debbie Howard.

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Differentiation Sales Cycle Audio Networking 71

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. Since my co-founders and I haven't agreed on the company name yet, we decided to post in one of the Business Naming Facebook groups that we joined. 9- A merger of two companies.

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Naming Entrepreneur Jordan Merger 153

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

André Vieira , founder of Looptimize, finds CRO extremely useful for ideation: André Vieira: You can look at many elements on competitors’ pages, such as copy, number and placement of images, page structure, page length, the next step in the funnel, amount of calls to action, types of calls to action, etc., What is it on your website?

SEO 126

SEO Conversion Analytics Design 126

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

He is heading straight into an intensely competitive market without adequate differentiation or competitive positioning. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. Anupam has serious segmentation issues.

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Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2023

ChatGPT's data is two years old and when actual tech humans can't really differentiate easily between pre-seed and seed, who's a lead and who isn't, and whether or not someone is a real fund or just a broker, I wouldn't expect a bot to. There are three main sources: 1) Other founders who raised *recently * in related areas.

ChatGPT 78

ChatGPT Database Salary Naming 78

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Moreover, since the first CEO was likely to have been one of the founders, the trauma of CEO removal begins. Reply Nivi , on September 11, 2009 at 11:17 pm Said: One of the subtle lessons here for founder CEOs: you light a fuse on your own job as soon as you hire the first VP of Sales. innovation.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 231

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Well, did you know Threadless was started with only $1,000 of the founders personal money & Rand was in severe debt when they started Moz? Do you think they even notice when you leave? There’s no way around it, it still sucks[.]

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Well, did you know Threadless was started with only $1,000 of the founders personal money & Rand was in severe debt when they started Moz? Do you think they even notice when you leave? There’s no way around it, it still sucks[.]

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Well, did you know Threadless was started with only $1,000 of the founders personal money & Rand was in severe debt when they started Moz? Do you think they even notice when you leave? There’s no way around it, it still sucks[.]

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. Organic search is a highly competitive domain for many SaaS verticals (email marketing, for example). Take Ross Simmonds , Founder and CEO of Foundation Marketing. Differentiate free and gated content.

Lead Generation 107

Lead Generation Demand Audience eCommerce 107

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Well, did you know Threadless was started with only $1,000 of the founders personal money & Rand was in severe debt when they started Moz? Do you think they even notice when you leave? There’s no way around it, it still sucks[.]

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

But here’s the thing – if you have a differentiated skill, marketplaces will actually substantially increase your effective hourly wage. UpCounsel’s founder/CEO is a former attorney with the bold vision that the largest law firm of the future will be a virtual one.

Utah 92

Utah Demand Vertical Differentiation 92

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

The SaaS infrastructure will become increasingly more driven by APIs: developers will use more API driven services like Algolia or Segment to reduce time to market and focus their dev resources on the part of their product which differentiate them. Mobile will drive new use cases.

API 48

API Silicon Valley Europe Differentiation 48

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Slopestyle runs are judged on the difficulty of the tricks being executed, the vertical height achieved, and the overall execution of the run. The athletes performing in this event have to differentiate themselves from the competition and this is done by creating original tricks and moves that no one else can imitate or execute as skillfully.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur Vertical Small Business Differentiation 91

ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

I suggested LinkedIn, oDesk, and eLance with the caveat that the field is extremely competitive and crowded and differentiation would be tough to achieve. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. Happy Grasshopper.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India 125

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

and e-commerce businesses, so I would love to work with Kelly to help her figure out the various nuances of building a successful e-commerce business, especially one that differentiates on personalization. However, I'd like to see a more focused, vertical specific go-to-market strategy in Udemy.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical Massachusetts 114

Hippoland

JULY 24, 2016

This is really key to understand, because so many founders wonder, “Why was that company over there who has 0 revenue able to raise their round at a $10m cap convertible note? It will be REALLY important for you to put a LOT of work into your differentiation story. Some verticals will be difficult to get revenue traction in.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Valuation Vertical Demand 48

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2022

Brent is the founder and CEO of uGurus, a business training, and education company dedicated to this mission. He's the founder and CEO of you gurus a business training and education company in the digital agency space. It doesn't have to just be a vertical. Hello and welcome to another episode of the duct tape marketing podcast.

Marketing 81

Marketing Framework Vertical SEO 81

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

7:30] Would you say self-publishing is seen as a differentiator for businesses? [11:42] We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. People wanna get on the speaking circuits for whatever, you know, industry or vertical they're in.

Audience 86

Audience Revenue Distribution Differentiation 86

cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Quite early on, you will be able to differentiate yourself – and having competitors help you grow the market can actually be a good thing. But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. Dividing equity between founders » Home. I agree completely. link] Dejan Strbac. link] Nivi.

Stealth 68

Stealth Startup NDA Cofounder 68

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Brent is the founder and CEO of uGurus, a business training, and education company dedicated to this mission. He's the founder and CEO of uGurus a business training and education company in digital agency space. It doesn't have to just be a vertical. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Brent Weaver.

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Framework Vertical Hosting Networking 77

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Though Dollar Shave Club’s organic strategy appears to be growing their following, there is an opportunity to improve by differentiating content across social channels. One of Qless’s core verticals is the retail industry. Image source. Currently, Dollar Shave Club cross-posts the same content on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

ConversionXL

JUNE 3, 2019

As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals such an offer might require a significant lift in sales to break even. Do you think they even notice when you leave?

Retention 82

Retention Developer Customer Programming 82

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

For MST Solutions, Bogdanovich has focused on executing well on one vertical per quarter, then expanding to other verticals. Each quarter is an opportunity to test and refine campaign tactics for other verticals. “I We’re promoting people internally as thought leaders in that vertical, all the way down through content.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2018

Founder of thebrandingjournal.com, Marion, pointed out “Tropicana, while trying to modernize the brand, didn’t respect one of the most important branding rules any company should consider: the product identification and recognition by the consumer.”. On the other hand, keep an eye out for what competitors are doing.

Las Vegas 68

Las Vegas Design Green Nevada 68

pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Co-founder and CEO Jason Goldberg said this was the first of several companies he’s started that was so intensely personal, he couldn’t imagine ever doing anything else. Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily. anyone of any age can be an entrepreneur youngster founders may have one advantage -- time.

Entrepreneur 45

Entrepreneur San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 45

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2014

Herb Kelleher, founder and former chairman of Southwest Airlines, is a great example of how great leaders develop influence. Innovation is a function of sticking with and executing on ideas— whether new or old — that don’t conform to the status quo, which results in turning an idea into something tangible, useful, and differentiated.

Leadership 169

Leadership Employee Community Non-Compete 169

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. Often, investors miss out on vertically focused companies like RigUp as they find themselves overly anxious about TAM (total available market). based teachers.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88