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. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). What’s Next in 2012….

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Our mobile app buzzed in your pocket when friends were near and ushered in a new wave of “ Ambient Social Networking ” companies. This point generalises to distribution deals for just about any startup. Forward Startup general interest Venture Capital' First the background: For those unfamiliar, Sonar Media Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

But before you jump on the bandwagon, you should consider the advice I saw recently from the maven of venture capital, William H. You need to work through a team of underwriters, who administer the public issuance and distribution of securities from a corporation. Draper III, in his new book titled “ The Startup Game.”

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Or massively distributed data persistence systems and algorithms. facepalm Spammed within an hour >> 2012/02/28 RT @mikeloukides : best customer may not be the 1 who buys the most, but who has the most influence on social networking. Social Networking (22). social networking. Education (6).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Join others who code to change the world for the better and explore distributed computing, examine the confluence between businesses and technology, and debate the power of technology on urban development. Hopefully we will see you there! FutureStack. Approach the future from different angles at the FutureStack Conference. InfusionCon.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2011

Soluto won Techcrunch Disrupt last year, and has raised approximately $7 million to date from Proxima Ventures ($1.6 million in seed, 2008) and Bessemer Venture Partners, Giza Venture Capital and Proxima Ventures ($6.2 million in Series A Nov 2009).

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Open Source Venture Capital Software Social Network 87

Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

LittleCast lets any videographer sell video on social networks. The videographer sets the price and LittleCast does the rest: the solution publishes the video, of any length up to 3 hours, in standard definition or high definition, to social networks, iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Try it, you’ll like it!

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ). Think of individuals like McClure, Paul Graham and George Zachary as market analysts. startupcto

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Think about your own behavior: if you are like me, you hate having to deal with sales people, and greatly prefer to do your own research starting with search engines, and leveraging free trials, on-line videos, blogs, reviews, and your social network. So far we have been very effective using blogs, social networks, etc.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 29, 2010

What if you weren’t just a platform for distribution of deals, but a kind of local virtual chamber of commerce or small business organization—with some social networking features so that retailers could get together to share best practices, work with each other, cross-sell, etc. Community is one solution I had in mind.

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Syndicate Syndication Venture Capital Flash 105

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

We were quite enamored with their marketplace for skilled global talent, and were amazed at how the tools in their online workplace allowed customers to hire, manage, and pay for work from distributed teams. The distribution power of their pervasive platform proved a remarkable vehicle for many companies; particularly games companies.

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Europe Social Network Technical Review IPO 101

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Stanford List of Venture Capital and Private Equity Sources.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

The distribution techniques are completely new. But the combination of lock-in and a lack of a truly liquid new distribution hooks will favor the “new incumbent” mobile leaders. A few weeks back, Nextdoor* – the leading social network for your neighborhood – launched their much-anticipated mobile application for iOS.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. Once you raise venture capital, you are forced on a path to spend ahead of the business and seek the highest growth business model options. Venture News.

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San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. It is, Rumelt explains, the management of Walmart stores as a network. The company limits costs through a management and distribution structure that serves multiple stores in a geographic area. Image source ).

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Ironsource – Software Discovery, Distribution and Delivery Platform (Raised $123M). Taboola and Outbrain – Content distribution, discovery and recommendations (Raised approx. Plarium – Multi player games for social networks (Raised Unknown). 150M each).

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Software Review Analytics eCommerce 60

Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

I just knew that subscription-based dial-up services like CompuServe and America Online, and the one I’d been working on at Apple, eWorld , could potentially distribute information in far more powerful ways than what you could do with books, TV, and other traditional forms of media. The news media described it as a second gold rush.

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Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Social network app developer and ad network. Total raised: $56.3mm.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Denver, CO, February 23, 2010 – The Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association today unveiled its final lineup of growth companies at the 27 th annual Venture Capital in the Rockies (VCIR) 2010 Winter conference. Related posts: Venture Capital in the Rockies. About VCIR. More information can be found at.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The Venture Capital in the Rockies 2010 Winter conference is a premier event for both promising companies and attendees,” said Seth Levine, chairman of VCIR and a managing partner at the Foundry Group, a Boulder, CO-based venture capital firm.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Then from a bottoms-up standpoint what you said is exactly right, I think, which is that the new generation of employees grew up on smartphones and tablets and touch and everything, social networking and Twitter and everything else. Alexia Tsotsis: Is the solution “keep calm and carry on,” or what is the solution to this?

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

They then, in turn, brought that software into their small businesses, their sub-groups within companies, and provided the kindling of distribution within work-related networks. It exploits social networks and reputations at work for using the most cutting-edge tools. Superhuman embodies this trend. It can save time.

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Cap Table Finance Database Software 113

VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2011

Facebook will only allow Credits to be distributed through offers by approved providers once the July 1st deadline passes and all games to switch to Credits as their payment method. According to Israel Venture Capital (IVC), Ra’anana-based Advasense raised $31 million in 2005-07 from Giza Venture Capital , BlueRun Ventures.

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United Kingdom Venture Capital Taiwan 107

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video.

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Peru Technical Review North America 96

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Infiltrate the social networks (Facebook and Twitter) and then try to connect face-to-face. Practice your business development skills; you’ll have to be the socially skilled person because many technologists are shy and introverted. Post flyers around the CS labs. Go off-campus to other universities. 10-15/hour.

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Technical Review Fractional CTO Partner CTO Hire 40

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Write your press release, distribute them via email, and create an easy-to-update press room for your company. Gust is great for startups that are looking for angel investment and potentially a venture capital investment. Pablo : If you need an easy way to create images for social media, check out Pablo. Outsourcing work.

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Curation Finder Startup Social Media 60

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 24, 2011

Distributing this content is a lot easier when all of your employees are connected extensively across all social networks--Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn. In other words, provide content that is commentworthy and tailored to a specific audience that you're trying to hire--without necessarily being solely focused on the hire.

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Startup Ruby PR Sales Cycle 116

VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2011

According to the founders, Eyal Yair and Ron Hartman, the main benefit of the system is the ability for artists to distribute their music and charge for downloads, across social networks, but especially on Facebook. Sleeve - a cross platform application that turns tablets and PCs into sophisticated social learning devices. .

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

This has particularly hurt the print media businesses that can no longer charge enough to pay for editorial, printing & distribution. LinkedIn – Lots of people talk about LinkedIn as a social network. Many episodes are garnering 8-12 million views while its network competitor (and equally brilliant show) Tosh.O

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Non-Compete Startup Internet Cost 386

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2013

The actual supply of Bitcoin is somewhat capped, but that may mean that you''d rather be a currency investor than a service business around Bitcoin--because access is going to be open, distributed, and trend towards as free as possible. It''s an open, distributed architecture that anyone can jump onto.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Social networking. Social/Sharing. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. free, distributed source code control management system. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. About VC Cafe.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Developers dont usually think much about how element should sit on a screen together, so you see a lot of items crammed together or unevenly distributed. Developers dont usually think much about how element should sit on a screen together, so you see a lot of items crammed together or unevenly distributed. Its very disheartening.

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Web Design Startup Flash 42

David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Normally everyone has seen “The Social Network”. His description of the films “The Social Network” (as a modern image) and “Ghostbusters” (as an “old school” image) illustrated entrepreneurs building from the ground up. In the real world, the montage is where ff Venture Capital and our founders live.

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