VC Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Every industry that requires humans to create original work—from social media to gaming, advertising to architecture, coding to graphic design, product design to law, marketing to sales—is up for reinvention. Creative AI or Creative automation is increasing at a rapid pace. But they are about to get very empowered.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, A similar, open-source, highly visual tool focused on VC is Venture Dealr. Early liquidity. Equity VC is a “get rich slow” business. Typical business model.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Aidan: This may be because of the intangible quality of apps and software: when something isn’t physically manufactured and distributed, it can be difficult to see why it should cost money. We should be able to trust it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. The net result was powerful: within six months of starting the company, we were able to get a basic version of our product into open beta. Leveraged distribution channels.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2010

A business model diagram also shows how the product gets distributed to your customers and how money flows back into your company. What’s the distribution channel. A Lean Startup is Eric Ries’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2020

One thing I really love about Camus is that it’s built on open source standards. Although a few full-service distributed energy installation companies have enjoyed success (e.g. Novel ways to create network effects for owners of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs).

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

To compute the cost to acquire a customer, CAC, you would take your entire cost of sales and marketing over a given period, including salaries and other headcount related expenses, and divide it by the number of customers that you acquired in that period. (In This number is heavily dependant on the productivity of your sales teams.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

You now run Pilosa, what you describe as “an open source, distributed index designed to help analyze huge datasets at UI latency.” Because of significant performance benefits , we are initially supporting Oracle’s Cloud OCI, launching Molecula on March 26 at Oracle’s Open World Singapore. How will it work with Molecula?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

As for Magento, the price will strongly depend on whether you will need a free open-source version or go for a more equipped iteration that you can have for an additional price. This little theme is awesome for multivendor marketplaces should you specialize in distributing downloadable products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

In an enterprise sales context, this is called a "repeatable and scalable sales process" - once you know how to do this, your company can graduate from early adopters and make an attempt at the mainstream. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2016

We are thrilled to welcome Ajay Sudan , who brings with him 15 years of operating experience including six years at Palantir where he was responsible for launching several new businesses, including their healthcare business, which he grew to $100M+ in sales. Prior to that, he worked at Microsoft in product management and marketing.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

We no longer have to fish for our wallets, swipe your smartphone at the point of sale and it’s done. Affirm is quick and easy credit at point of sale, and some say that it promotes impulsive spending, but its popularity is soaring. It is estimated that $12 billion was distributed through loans by marketplace lenders in the US.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

It’s taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and probably another hundred universities and colleges because I open-sourced the class and trained educators on how to teach it. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. After eight years the class is still taught to students working on their own problems.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Co-sale rights. Changes in preferred and merger/sale of assets only.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

what distribution channel? Dollar size of deals is sufficient to be profitable with direct sales strategy. Abhishek Bhattacharyya ( MSEE, Jun 2011) creator of WT-Ecommerce, an open source engine, Ex-NEC engineer. what’s the product? Come up with ways to test each of the 9 business model canvas hypotheses.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Today I took a sales team from a portfolio company to meet with a couple of senior IT executives at a major retail company. Phase 3 - Googlization of IT - have as much of your infrastructure as you can run like Google's - distributed, commodity-based, and in the cloud on a private basis.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Drupal supports various modules and distributions which fasten the process of editing, thus saving both your time and money. . Also, use of native language gives a personal touch to the product which might give a boost to your sales too. Open Enterprise – For website with important tools and functionality.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

If you are trying to find a product that sells, than each test would require a different product to be created (or at least a different sales page).in This adds to the complexity of decision making since you dont know its the ad, sales page, product, keywords and so on. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment 166

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. These are great, but they are not repeatable by a sales organization.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y. A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y. 38 Free Open Source CSS Dropdown Navigation Menus | SpyreStudios - crowdspring.co/RHLTj6.

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www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

This plug-in reduces development time to integrate the AppUp SDKs and buildsthe MSI needed to submit your application for distribution and sales via the Intel® AppUpSM Center. The IDE Plug-insupports both the C/C++ and.NET SDK for Microsoft Windows when using Visual Studio 2008. startupcto

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. Sales reps are also likely to be familiar with Salesforce because it’s the most widely used CRM, reducing onboarding costs for companies that use it. Pick a random job description for a sales position. Dig a deep moat.

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ConversionXL

MAY 13, 2020

For a larger analysis, you can aggregate data any way you decide: average, median, percentile distribution, or some advanced statistical model. If you sell globally, wouldn’t you want to know which countries’ sales are most impacted by bank holidays? Don’t you think you should communicate differently with these two groups of visitors?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Many VC funds rely on general-purpose CRM and sales funnel solutions like Copper , Pipedrive, Salesforce , Streak , and ZenDesk. We can use technology to make sales far more efficient. . She is a model for us all! 11) Exit .

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Facts don’t change minds – true for both sales and customers. In an A/A test the distribution of p-values is random. Offline sale – typically. Long sales cycle – 18 months or more. How to do shorten a long sales process? Knowledge Repo – open sourced. Quality of leads.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

” As international sales for global eCommerce is projected to reach $1.5 If you’re using a popular open source engine known as SOLR, this page on spatial search should hopefully help get you started. and a study by Reevoo shows an 18% average increase in sales.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. Whether or not the new distribution models ultimately took off, its a good bet that the world would be a little less red today. Nobody ever stole our ideas.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. NetBooks – Marketing, sales, inventory and financial control in one place. Free CRM – This is a Web-based customer relationship management software that allows for sales force automation.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

Image source ). While scroll maps work for any length of page, they’re especially pertinent when designing long-form sales pages or longer landing pages. User viewing time was distributed as follows: Above the fold: 80.3% They can show you where users tend to drop off. People do scroll, but their attention span is short.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2016

By Josh Hatfield, Senior Manager, Digital & Cloud Sales at Hostway Services, Inc. Load Distribution. Joshua Hatfield, Hostway’s Senior Manager, Digital & Cloud Sales, is a 17-year IT industry veteran. An e-commerce website earns or loses business in part based on how quickly it responds.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

One of those ventures was the creation, establishment, growth and sale of an e-commerce business. Manufacturers typically deal with distributors, who distribute their products to jobbers and wholesalers, who in turn resell the products to the end seller (i.e. Why the $75 markup on one small bottle of perfume?

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. So from day one, my knowledge about how to do a startup was zero.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. It’s the same process as sales and dating, and I know how to do both, well, at least sales… So, how hard can this be? However, I needed to actually build it!

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution. FanGager - Company Website. Kaltura - Company Website.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

By generating a steady revenue from consulting projects and sales, the founders were able to spend time growing their business slowly. Source code hosting for companies and open-source projects, Github is used by nearly a million people to store over two million code repositories. Startup #4: Github. How’d they do it?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

Because if you can do a lot of tests in the lab but you can't actually distribute it, there's not much point. DCVC has practically been working as a sales team in terms of working with local governments and states to help them bring online drive-through testing and get our testing out there using their network.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

Amazon carried out their own research in this area and discovered that, for every 100ms of page load time, there was a 1% decrease in sales. If your site receives high volumes of traffic that are globally distributed, third-party solutions can be a tremendous help. Oracle Makes More Moves to Kill Open Source MySQL” (TechCrunch).

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