VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

What are the main channels for app marketing and distribution today? billion users for Facebook and Instagram app startups cannot afford NOT to be discovered on social media. Ads – targeted advertising is perhaps THE most reliable channel to market and distribute a consumer app.

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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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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference.

Startup 79

Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

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

View from Seed

MAY 27, 2015

Everyone likes to say that startups should do things that don’t scale. But we noticed that while the information in these podcasts is interesting, many are often far removed from the actual day-to-day challenges of very early stage founders that are just trying to go from nothing to something. Are we in a tech bubble?

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Non-Compete Early Stage Silicon Valley 120

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. For more on gathering data and using it to assess companies, see How to Assess Startups Using Machine Learning. 2) Market .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. Great stuff.

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Metrics Startup Retention Acquisition 225

Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. The old playbook six years ago was that the web distribution could be bought for a price with Google Adwords. is a progression in thinking.

Distribution 103

Distribution Widget Viral Social Media 103

Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. The old playbook six years ago was that the web distribution could be bought for a price with Google Adwords. is a progression in thinking.

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Distribution Widget Viral Social Media 100

Rob Go

JANUARY 12, 2015

As an early stage investor, should you pay up for team or traction? Prices in the startup world are relatively high. When you are thinking about joining an early stage company, how should you be evaluating the risk of the overall company? It’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently.

B2B 28

B2B Early Stage Distribution Software Review 28

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Not all startups need outside investment to grow. What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. Here’s the first 2½ years of a startup journey. The Startup Investment Landscape. Still, there are some benchmarks to keep in mind.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 431

View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2015

Prices in the startup world are relatively high. When you are thinking about joining an early stage company, how should you be evaluating the risk of the overall company? How should you be weighing the presence of a great founding team versus early signs of traction? It’s not totally intuitive.

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Seed Stage B2B Distribution Early Stage 120

The Next Web

AUGUST 21, 2013

Bubba is an early stage investor in consumer internet and mobile technology companies for @DFJvc. I’ll expand my perspective on each challenge below and then close with what I think is most important design decision a startup faces. This is a guest post by Bubba Murarka ( @BubbaM ) which originally appeared on his blog.

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Mobile Design Differentiation Startup 137

The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

He mentors young startups at Singapore Management University and True Incube Thailand , a 500 Startups Partner. Startups are a special breed of companies when it comes to marketing. Most startups however, don’t have the kind of money required to do that. So what do startups do? Then there are growth hacks.

Thailand 167

Thailand Social Network PPC Singapore 167

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Don’t startups exist for the same reason?

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Analytics spark more questions and discussion than almost any other aspect of the Lean Startup method. It provides a basic introduction to analytics as they apply to Lean Startup, including sections on what metrics to use and how to interpret them.

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Analytics Lean Widget Metrics 167

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

B y definition, early stage startups don’t have lots of money and resources. They hope to raise awareness through viral marketing and word of mouth, since participating in professional industry events can be a pretty expensive ordeal when you take into account hotels, flights, tickets, etc.

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Finder Startup Social Network Mobile 128

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

To give you a better idea of what entrepreneurs in this industry are thinking about during each phase of the startup process, I interviewed SaaS entrepreneurs from all over the world, including our own COO Noah Parsons. Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, popularized this strategy for web applications.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

The Next Web

OCTOBER 4, 2012

What’s it like to create a tech startup with only $7,000 in your pocket, knowing that it’s quite literally all you have left of your savings? Giant Media is a video platform that distributes long-form content for brands. Well this is what went through David Segura’s mind three years ago.

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Southern California Los Angeles Media Founder 138

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

Marcus: Hello and welcome to this episode of the Grow VC Everyone Funding Startups podcast. Shortly after that, I was approached by Sigma Partners to join the team and help them find other great startups. . How do you think you’ve been able to apply your own background from the startup space to working as a VC? .

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Technical Review Venture Capital San Francisco Boston 60

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Getting the first tracks of revenue is one of the toughest processes of building a startup. One of the most commons problems I see with startups that I’ve come across is the lack of a “growth team.”. Thanks to Intercom’s powerful tracking and automatic emails, we know when a startup founder finished and shared a deck.

Revenue 60

Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

If you're working on the Sticky Engine of Growth , you're focused on very different metrics from those that you care about in the Viral Engine of Growth. In the early days of a SaaS business, churn really doesn’t matter that much. Similarly, a two-sided marketplace cares about different things from a traditional e-commerce product.

Analytics 167

Analytics Lean Metrics Churn Rate 167

Rob Go

MARCH 2, 2017

This is similar to the idea that startups need to be 10X better than incumbents to get traction. The third thing we often talk about is “Distribution Advantage.” The idea here is that we tend to really like companies that have some built-in edge in distribution.

Portfolio 28

Portfolio Distribution Business Model Viral 28

Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

Everyone likes to say that startups should do things that don’t scale. But we noticed that while the information in these podcasts is interesting, many are often far removed from the actual day-to-day challenges of very early stage founders that are just trying to go from nothing to something. Are we in a tech bubble?

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Non-Compete Early Stage Silicon Valley 28

Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

Everyone likes to say that startups should do things that don’t scale. But we noticed that while the information in these podcasts is interesting, many are often far removed from the actual day-to-day challenges of very early stage founders that are just trying to go from nothing to something. Are we in a tech bubble?

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Non-Compete Early Stage Silicon Valley 28

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. In the industry they call this the “viral coefficient.”.

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