Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. With a portfolio of at least 20 investments, or you are at risk of the adverse selection problem.) The inevitable failures then damaged returns.

Early Stage 286

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 27, 2014

Now it looks like mobile is eating the web. For example, as of January 2013 Facebook has more mobile users than web users – as more and more people are checking their Facebook updates on their mobile device and skipping the desktop version entirely. Many still think that mobile is simply an extension of the Web.

Mobile 161

Mobile Web SEO Distribution 161

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Ask Sony about Samsung, ask any retailer about Amazon, any car company about Tesla, and any newspaper company about the web. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

They are tasked with “getting deals done&# so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc. You have a marketing department with three people. I love that saying.

Development Team Review 323

Development Team Review SEM Channel Social Media 323

Genuine VC

JUNE 18, 2013

For us at NextView Ventures , we see this transitioning happening first-hand in our portfolio. However, the consistent challenge which we’re observing in the mobile ecosystem is acquiring customer distribution. Both Wayne and Micah know a thing or two about mobile distribution, to say the least… they’re masters at it.

Mobile 131

Mobile Web Boston Distribution 131

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Dan Rowinski – Boston based writer for Read Write Web.

Boston 71

Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Years later Clavier's name now comes up all the time when one of his portfolio companies finds success; his exits include Mint, Tapulous, and UserPlane, other investments include Mashery (a ReadWriteWeb sponsor), Rapleaf, Fitbit, bitly, GroupOn, Twitter and many more. How to Hack the Investment World. You can also follow Kedrosky on Twitter.

Investment Bankers 153

Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This is as much of a game-changer (due to a new distribution model based on the social graph) as going from offline to the Internet was in the 90s. In the traditional marketing parlance, Google directed web traffic represents bottom-of-the-funnel users who are ready to take an action now. A Lightspeed Portfolio company.

Internet 108

Internet Media Social Media Advertising 108

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Distribution. Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies. was starting. Human Computer Interaction. Protocol Digital Life.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2019

portfolio diversity. Or you can visit their website online and follow their step-by-step process on the web. But if the option exists on the web, just follow the on-screen instructions to begin. They will send the distribution check directly to you. safe haven from inflation. US dollar protection. complete control.

Portfolio 113

Portfolio Distribution Reputation Web 113

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

But it turns out Google Analytics, just like SiteCatalyst, WebTrends, and other web analytics tools, already has plenty of pretty valuable deeply insightful stuff in it. But in case you want to win big rather than just win, I encourage to read the six tips outlined in this post: The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Make… And How To Avoid It!

Analytics 159

Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 159

Pascal's View

MARCH 12, 2010

Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: Please differentiate between the governance of a VC fund versus the governance of companies in a VC fund’s portfolio? Is one more important than the other?

Government 28

Government Portfolio Technical Review Due Diligence 28

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Because people live, shop, and buy in real time, Monetate products enable e-commerce web sites to market in real time. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. He was a lead for distributed teams in India, Europe and the U.S., He was a lead for distributed teams in India, Europe and the U.S.,

Europe 139

Europe India Hiring Engineer 139

YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2011

A pro subscription version allows fashion professionals to control their own profiles and create a dynamic online professional portfolio, as well as connect with other industry professionals – The Wall Street Journal even called the site “a fashion industry LinkedIn”. Who says technology isn’t fashionable?

Database 157

Database Distribution .Net Analytics 157

Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Probably too many to count; beverage giant Coca Cola has a portfolio of more than 3,500 beverages: diet, regular, sparkling, still, fruit juice, fruit drinks, waters, sports and energy drinks, soy-based beverages, etc. Review their web site, social media presence and, of course do a Google search. And that’s one company!

Offshore 89

Offshore Social Media B2C United States 89

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

In addition, we were lucky enough to finally find reliable partners, thus adding a few more services to our portfolio – like Locksmith and Childcare. We’re very new to the industry, and while we’re passionate about the product, there have been obstacles every step of the way – production, shipping, distribution, etc.

Las Vegas 84

Las Vegas Entrepreneur Software Review Community 84

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JUNE 11, 2012

Web Design. Sketching A New Mobile Web. The mobile Web has gotten a bum rap. Progressive enhancement, mobile-first and responsive design can help lead us towards a more unified, future-friendly Web. If our clients are to embrace the potential of the mobile Web, then we need to get them thinking beyond desktops and apps.

Web 89

Web Mobile Software Review Design 89

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Over the past month, I have spent time with some of our portfolio companies talking about how to leverage the power of their data. Plot a histogram to visualize the distribution. You can learn a lot from the shape of the distribution via skewness (a measure of symmetry, Figure 1) and kurtosis (a measure of “peakedness”, Figure 2).

Clickthrough 165

Clickthrough New York City Distribution Analytics 165

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Developing Web content (both the design and underlying code) (copyright, trademark). The questions that arise most with respect to any category of IP at the earliest stages include: How will this affect our chances of getting funded on favorable terms ?

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We will consider several options for hire developers for the new project and the nuances of each: recruitment services, freelancers, eFreelance Development Team, outsourcing through a web company. Outsourcing (web companies). You can also find the startup team at the web company.

Hiring 189

Hiring Developer Software Review Development Team Review 189

Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. is a conversational Marketing Service that drives quality web traffic to your blog/web content by engaging with relevant people when they have relevant Tweet conversation.

Semantic 48

Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

David Teten

AUGUST 18, 2017

To the extent possible, we try to use our social media presence to point back to our website, our Partners, and/or our portfolio companies’ websites. Fundamentally, we control our web presence. These often link to specific pages on our website. Social media presence. Presentation materials.

Due Diligence 60

Due Diligence Marketing Reputation Social Media 60

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

To name a few: Digital Marketing & Measurement Model | Analytics Ecosystem | Web Analytics 2.0. Analyzing these metrics not only fundamentally changes marketing strategy (think tens of millions of dollars for large companies); their insights can change your company’s product portfolio, your customer engagement strategies and much more.

Analytics 93

Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. Perhaps in direct proportion to the number of “freemium” and “eyeballs” web deals funded.) What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Hell, there are still plenty of VCs who don’t even have a blog or use twitter, and many more who have no idea on how to use data services to analyze and collect metrics on their own portfolio. And of course then there is our own fund, 500 Startups. Why should VCs be any different?

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

BeyondVC

APRIL 11, 2007

The alarm bells are ringing in the web world (see the Techmeme discussion) – one of the gorillas in the space is flexing its muscle and protecting its turf as MySpace is preventing Photobucket photos and videos from appearing on its site. Forget about Web 2.0, The post From Web 2.0 this is Business 2.0 (ok,

Web 60

Web Video Widget Distribution 60

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

The Equity Kicker

JULY 20, 2015

The primary function of retail used to be access/distribution. One of the big promises of the web is that brands/manufacturers will form direct relationships with consumers. They can build their own showrooms and take orders direct over the web capturing the retail margin for themselves.

Artificial Inteligence 60

Artificial Inteligence Stock Portfolio Distribution 60

YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2013

Our cloud portfolio does more than just solve the challenges customers face today – it sets them up for what is coming next. Trends like big data, bring your own device, next-generation file services, secure clouds, distributed IT, and metadata-driven automation, management and analytics are quickly becoming pervasive.”

Cloud 140

Cloud Intellectual Property Metadata Architecture 140

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Klout measures influence on topics across the social web to find the people the world listens to; assigns a Klout score to Twitter members. Segment Two: “Deal of the Week”.

IPO 236

IPO .Net Venture Capital Strategic Investors 236

BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users. There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space.

Search 60

Search RSS Technical Review Portfolio 60

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Building a great product. We want to talk to you! Back to Top).

Operations 176

Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

billion mobile phones worldwide; within five years almost all of them will be more fully featured “smart&# phones offering better access to the web. Music distribution—the largest music distributor in the world is a technology company, Apple; its largest potential threat, Spotify, is a software company. There are currently 4.5

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 76

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? I normally ask people to look at the Path Length report in the Multi-Channel Funnels standard report in Google Analytics (or equivalent tool if you are using SiteCatalyst or WebTrends or other web analytics tools). All three challenges are important.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Now that everyone knows the stakes of a Facebook-like outcome, there’s more money looking to fund and fuel web-scale network-effect businesses. The larger web-scale companies often no longer view startups as a threat — they themselves can absorb large trends and put teams on copying and integrating features.

IPO 76

IPO Private Equity Valuation Acquisition 76