Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

For example, if there were no S&P 500 ETFs or index mutual funds an investor could easily buy a “synthetic” equivalent by buying shares of all the S&P 500 stocks in proportion to each company’s weighting in the index. Startup outcomes are a power law distribution rather than a standard distribution.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 18, 2015

They have everything: money, brand, momentum, existing customers, press, product teams, distribution channels, expertise, market insight, analysts, sales offices, product features, and, by definition, a working business model. Watch how fast your stock plummets when Wall Street thinks your future earnings are in jeopardy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. Execution and Organization of Core Businesses.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. Execution and Organization of Core Businesses.

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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

Chegg, which lost over 40% of its stock value after the CEO remarked that the company’s tutoring product is being challenged by ChatGPT, has been working hard to incorporate generative AI features into their own product with GPT-4 in the form of CheggMate , but so far with little results.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

He says that one is too lonely, two is good and three is a great number if they can combine their skills to cover design, development and distribution. These people are like shopkeepers trying to stock their shelves with goods they can sell to other people. They want to stock their shelves and they have nothing.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2021

This distributes risk and benefits from both trends and buying habits. Shopify compiles its lists and trending products from searches, customer data, and actionable insights that are reliable. If they are unhappy with a purchase, they provide clues about what items to stock, and retailers can offer an improved version.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. So how does a company act like a startup in search of new business models while still continuing to successfully execute?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

Thanks to Abdul Saboor, The Stock Dork ! #4- Many of our clients have expressed an interest in using video as part of their online marketing efforts, and we have seen firsthand the impact of videos on search engine results. Thanks to Maria Harutyunyan, Loopex Digital !

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2021

Naturally, it also needs to be PCI (Payment Card Identity) compliant, and if your B2B offers several SKUs (stock keeping units), your platform needs a well-designed search feature so that your customers can find what they need faster. Real-time integration with ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It also allows team members to search through conversations by keyword or topic. Docker is an open platform designed to let developers and sysadmins build, ship and run distributed apps from anywhere. Best of all, the Web and mobile app significantly cuts down on unnecessary email, transforming the way teams communicate. Kimono Labs.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Begin by taking stock of yourself and your situation: Why do you want to start a business? Distribution of competitors: Are there many competitors close to you? Rather than stock everything of a similar price range from one or two catalogs, consider only choosing those items that will create the feel you want to become known for.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Once you have collected the appropriate data, build a profile that includes a stock image as well as a name. This means distributing leaflets, posting flyers in store windows, and embarking on a direct mail campaign. Turn to Pay-Per-Click Advertising to Rank in the Search Engines. You need to know your customers’: Age.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 27, 2021

There is a huge increase in the number of retailers that are relying now on advanced analytics to determine the right items that should be stocked in their stores. As the COVID vaccine becomes widely distributed and regulations begin to lift, companies will likely want to move back to in-office activities, but when is the right time?

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

Once the product or service has withstood this period of stress testing, your business can put more resources into making it work and distributing it to the broader market. . You can search for co-founders who will contribute with capital, or skills, and share profits and equity with them.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2010

The customary vesting model has founders vest their stock over 4-years , and when the founding CEO gets in over their head the VC’s bring in professional management. The fallacy is believing that a founders value is evenly distributed over four years. It’s time to rethink how we vest stock for founding CEOs. The New Deal.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. I advise my clients that you offer stock only after youve searched your heart and soul and cant come up with a way to pay with anything else," says Thomas H.

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Steve Blank

MAY 20, 2020

Delivery/Distribution Channel innovation. With the stock in our studios I took photos of what could be a potential ‘create-at-home kit.’”. We’re going to be holding a series of 5-day Hacking for the Recovery classes for businesses searching for the new normal at Stanford this summer. Resource pivots. Opportunity to buy/acquire.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

So, if I were going to invent something, I’d probably start by creating an affordable jeweler’s workbench, not least because I’d be able to test it, and because I already know all the distribution channels I’d need to hit in order to sell it. Drop into a store that you think would be a great candidate for stocking your product in the future.

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Mucker Lab

JANUARY 1, 2014

VC’s start investing in technology-enabled “offline” businesses (distribution, services etc) – most of whom would never have gotten venture money 3 years ago. Yahoo stock drops back to where it was BM (before Marissa) because no matter how much prettier and usable the site is, still no one clicks on banner ads.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Like many small companies with limited marketing budgets, we are forced to work with the resources at hand, so creativity, partnering approaches, social media, and viral efforts tend to be our stock in trade. Or right here on the good ol’ Internets?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

My bet is that they fold A9 (their search tool) into AWS and offer search-as-a-service, too. The larger ones also do more to hold CEO summits, create recruiting databases, set up email distribution lists, create pools of stock options that can be shared across companies, etc. At least in the consumer & business web.

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Mucker Lab

JANUARY 1, 2014

VC’s accelerate investments in “internet of things” except sometime in Q4, wake up and realize it’s no different than “consumer electronics” – and that we still need to innovate around the manufacturing infrastructure, distribution economics, and consumer liability of the consumer goods business to really make this a venture fundable category.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

A quick search query will illustrate that that looks something like this…. Impressions can be used in real-time for decision-making by your display, video and search platforms (e.g., Is the distribution optimal? The frameworks above cover just one dimension of the assessment (!). via automation). What do you see?

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

and search for its availability as a corporate name, domain name and trademark (all separate inquiries). Make escrow arrangements for restricted stock (i.e., Consummate the stock issuances, make any necessary securities filings and issue the corresponding stock certificates. Pick a name for the new legal entity (e.g.,

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ConversionXL

MARCH 11, 2020

83% of people discover new products or services on the platform, and 79% search for more information after seeing a post on Instagram. One of the simplest ways is to repurpose stock photos from sites like Depositphotos and others. Will Instagram soon be a primary channel for most B2B companies? micro-influencers).

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B2B Marketing Social Media Pakistan 113

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

One of our first customers was a stock trading company in NY that wanted to host live stock chats. Google’s first business model was to sell/license search to the major portals (Yahoo! Today, we call that an “Embed-Code”. In fact, that wasn’t Google’s idea at all. being the dominant one at the time).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The goal was to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share – because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. SecondMarket , SharesPost , etc.). Tools in the New Bubble.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Here is a telling statement from an analyst on Apple’s most recent quarter: Apple’s stock price to earnings ratio has dropped to 16.72. Music distribution—the largest music distributor in the world is a technology company, Apple; its largest potential threat, Spotify, is a software company. Ex-cash it’s 13.5.

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Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 76

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned. A liquidation preference means that the investors receive their investment back (plus dividends) prior to a distribution of the proceeds to stockholders.   Why is this fair?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It is built upon the basic idea of outsourcing all storage and distribution operations to another company that specializes in the task. If many of your offered products are out-of-stock half the time, the customers would instead switch to another seller who can fulfill their requirements, as and when needed. Maintain inventory.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The board has determined that it’s a good time to distribute corporate dividends. The board needs to set new policies for stock options. When someone requests a board resolution, the board secretary can pull it up to print or share using a simple online search.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Shutterstock is using Dall-e 2 and Getty partnered with Bria to help users generate stock photography from text prompts. Will creation replace search? Then came the directories and as the number of websites started growing exponentially, it gave a rise to search engines. What does it mean for search?

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

A $125 million grant made in 2011 to K12 , a company developing educational software for online schooling and testing, led that week to the company’s highest stock price in an entire year. When those services and products are being distributed for free, it makes paying the bills even harder.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Let’s say you’re a distributed startup team frustrated with your web meeting software. Focus them on the product categories they were searching in previously. Low in stock alerts. Search results. What products or services should be prioritized given the visitor data and the search query? Understand.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 20, 2019

This is where you can add other forms of content, like a podcast, to increase your authority and ranking within search results. Continue to dive deeper into your Google Search Console data. Grow Your Paid Search Approach. The next step with paid search is to build an even more robust approach to your Google Ads.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 8, 2017

Use Images but Avoid Stock Photos. You’d be surprised but most users are able to recognize a generic stock photo in a website that they’ve seen before. Using stock photography can decrease trust and also stand out as generic and non-unique, attributes that carry over to your business as well. Use Inlinks. Site and Page Speed.

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