Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. NOTE: In the video I talked about how VC’s and entrepreneurs decide the total number of shares at the first major funding round and why it’s often a high number.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

YouTube empowers its premium subscribers to experience YouTube Red or Premium, which allows users to play the audio of any YouTube video as background audio — much like a podcast. And, this issue which then leads us to the next point around captivity… 6/ Video Is Captive, Audio Often Isn’t. Remember Pandora?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Now with a new infusion of $8 million dollars of venture capital, SuperMac had been resurrected from the dead and was attempting to restart. They had an existing distribution channel and their dealers and customers thought they knew who the company was and what it stood for. The first step was to recruit a new management team.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A new flock of startups has launched to support content creators to craft (videos, art, newsletters, music, games, courses, etc), find an audience, generate income (subscriptions, tipping, ecommerce, NFTs, etc) and engage their communities. The creator economy market map, Singalfire. To understand the trends, follow the money.

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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. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

Venture capital and other forms of seed funding have been crucial for the development of the best online colleges. Many third-party educational organizations exist to maintain online schooling ventures, and these organizations typically receive most of their funding from venture capital firms. By Estelle Shumann*.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) And so it is with video. Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. PEVCTech.com , a community for investors and technologists responsible for investing in private companies, primarily at private equity and venture capital funds. not via a tool like Hootsuite), especially when posting native video.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

What distribution, are we using gems or are we a web? That if they can’t go get angel funding or venture capital funding, they can’t start a business. Do I need venture capital? The post Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO] appeared first on Bplans Blog. Are we high, low or medium?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Industries that we all grew up with, industries that enjoyed decades of market dominance – like newspapers, bookstores, video rentals, personal computers — are being swept away. As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. It’s true that it’s cheaper to start companies now and cheaper to get distribution. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

Startup hubs like Berlin, London, New York, Los Angeles, Bangalore, Hong Kong and Singapore offered access to venture capital and vibrant start ecosystems thus attracting the brightest founders. Participating in video calls from the comfort of their homes reduces stress and increases the chances of successful integration with the team.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If you have an hour to watch the TWiVC video of Seth I promise you won’t regret it. So some show notes if you’re a bit busy to watch the video. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. For Meebo 1.3%

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

If you enjoy this blog I think you’ll enjoy watching the first 14 minutes of this video (just click on the image of me below). Can you please expand on your post about distributed teams? It was a verbal discussion on my post on distributed teams. - If you watch the video I go into greater detail. Great exit. -

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Users can now easily create: AI generated text (blog posts, ads, emails) AI generated code AI generated music Text to image Text to video Text to audio/ speech Text to 3D model Text to movement. Take a look at this video I created in 2 minutes; Synthetic video created from text (Source: HourOne ). AI hype cycle.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Want Venture Capital Funding?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Consider what followed since November: New foundational models, more efficient ways of training models etc An explosion of open source models, the rise of HuggingFace Breakthrough research across voice, video, text, multi modality, etc Billions of dollars invested in thousands of startups at the application layer of generative AI.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types « “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch Closure » 21 Responses Tweets that mention Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development « Steve Blank -- Topsy.com , on November 16, 2009 at 7:20 am Said: [.]

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2011

The issue was that for the last two weeks in August, there were no VCs around to pitch, no distribution partners to meet with for biz dev deals, and seemingly no one else around actually working for me, the non-technical co-founder to push ahead toward milestones. Record some video. Second, there was way too much to do.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

Here is a quick video: It all started with this tweet by Jeff Richards of GGV Capital ( @jrichlive ) on Twitter: Caption this: pic.twitter.com/EoOHzVKhYh — Jeff Richards (@jrichlive) February 7, 2020. In CS147 one of the video we showed to the class was the Sun Starfire concept video that was produced in 1994.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

How do we process and file all the information we consume from blog posts, podcasts, videos, articles, social media, etc? 3) without venture capital, depending on bank loans to grow a business that didn’t turn a profit was nearly impossible. We live in incredible times. ? Worth a read. ?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

A finalist in Entertainment and Content , which will pitch at 3:30 pm Sunday, March 10, Fantag makes applications and embeddable technology that lets everyone access video moments that matter to them. We have worked with them to integrate our video highlight technology directly into TeamSnap Live! What is your competitive advantage?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Here is the video link or click on the image above. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. What’s your point of view on next generation video entertainment? (34:30

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

To see the video of This Week in VC click on this link. What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures).

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. Of course, Arizona Bay is a consulting company, not a venture capital firm, and doing the work of both simultaneously can be time consuming. Were not a venture capital firm.". Why customers watch videos.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2014

According to the National Venture Capital Association , the amount of money that VC’s invested rose 8% to nearly $30 billion in 2013. Just get it done” is fine when entrepreneurs are starting out, but not when the work is distributed to a bigger team. Investors keep pouring money into startups and early stage companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

We are still in the early days of video monetization, and one of the great gaps in the landscape has just been closed by a new startup, LittleCast , that I co-founded with Amra Tareen and Stephen Ackroyd. The discovery problem that plagues most video content on the Web. LittleCast lets any videographer sell video on social networks.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2014

With partially and fully distributed teams on the rise—but few established standards for running them well—we see an opportunity to bring people together for a rich exchange. Although Yahoo famously recalled its remote workers last year, there’s no question that the workplace trend is toward more distributed teams. Office Optional.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To no surprise digital video and audio are winners. The large investment flows into entertainment fuel advanced in technology to produce, to distribute and monetise content that educates us, relax us, entertains us, and so on. Social usage is almost entirely spent on mobile. . What, then, is the entertainment industry, exactly?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

If you want to watch just parts of the video we went exactly in this order so you can more easily orient yourself to what you want to hear. Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures, Revolution LLC (Steve Case). Make sure you understand the limitations, which we discussed in depth in the video. Some summary notes are below.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

The video of the interview will be available this week and I will talk more about it then because the interview covered so many great topics. And there was a great discussion about generational change at Venture Capital firms handled so well by Benchmark & Sequoia and how Fred is thinking about it. Worst system.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

San Antonio has Geekdom with USAA and Port San Antonio with the Air Force Cyber Command; Houston has The Ion with Rice University, Microsoft and NASA and The Cannon distributed across the city; Dallas has Pegasus Park with UT Southwestern and Lyda Hill Philanthropies; and Austin has Capital Factory with the Army Futures Command.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) Because it isn’t until after first customer ship that a startup discovers that their initial hypotheses were simply wrong (i.e. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. You would end up with dramatically more rides – and that is exactly what is happening. New Use Cases. Use in less urban areas.

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