The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

The name of the game now is quality content which keeps viewers watching past the golden 1-minute mark. Pinterest is going to be the website to watch, along with other image-based social networking, search and sales websites. While it’s still early-stage, I’m excited to continue following this space.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly We’re clearly in the early stages on Twitter monetization but let me offer some views on why we find Ad.ly People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks.

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Technical Review Advertising Early Stage Internet 286

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. Our name Reality2 stands for Reality2.0. Maybe ten years.

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Early Stage Southern California Los Angeles Marketing 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. Intellectual property is a large element of most early-stage company valuations, and this value determines what percent of the company an investor will expect to get for his money. Register some intellectual property.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Their name alone is enough to get meetings set up. Make sure these people understand the nature of early-stage angel investing. I think it stands for those people who have money but not the sophistication to understand the world of early-stage tech funding. Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh?

Silicon Valley 291

Silicon Valley Ireland Technical Review Valuation 291

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The name is a bit misleading - you don't actually have to be young, but your project does. Among other activities and programs, Silicon Sentier runs La Cantine , a coworking center, hip geek hangout and bustling hub for Paris tech events and activities: barcamps, workshops, competitions, launch parties, press conferences - you name it.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Visit online forums, social networks, and blogs and check customer star rating and comments. Step 2: Name your business. Once you have a business idea, you need to come up with a business name. Some successful companies have separate brand names from their corporate name (think 3M). Step 6: Form a team.

Software Review 45

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. Intellectual property is a large element of most early-stage company valuations, and this value determines what percent of the company an investor will expect to get for his money. Register some intellectual property.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2011

Benitez has been involved in social media since 2004, and interestingly enough has met the famous Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, who are most famous for alleging that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg stole their social networking idea from them.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

As an early stage investor in the world of gaming and metaverse technology at Remagine Ventures, I find these companies have the potential to set the agenda, become the potential platforms for developers building in this space and future acquirers/consolidators of startups building the next generation of the Internet.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. That’s why much early stage funding is “Friends and Family”; your friends and family naturally overrate you and/or can’t say no. Every day it gets a little better and our brand name gets a little more well known. Option Two: Post-Launch?—?Raise

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. are using AngelMob.co

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Prabhdeep Singh: Ask any entrepreneur about their most valuable resource when they’re making tough decisions, and you’ll hear the name of someone, not something. If you’re a late stage company trying to penetrate a new market (think Warby Parker trying to expand internationally), we have people who can help with that.

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New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 12, 2011

The Brutally Honest Guide to Naming Circles in Google Plus This content from: Duct Tape Marketing Users of Google+ are quickly coming to the conclusion that one of the game changing features offered up by this new social network is the following and sharing filter called Circles. That too will likely evolve.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

Back when Facebook was still just for schools, some schools already had their own social networks. Instead of trying to market directly to students at those schools (“but we already have a social network!”) Probably all over your site and blog you’ve got pages branded with your name and logo. The Cross Post.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2015

Early stage investing experience. Look for investors who have either been entrepreneurs themselves or have invested in early stage companies that have gone on to be successful. The size of their networks. No, not their social network, their investment network and their network of business contacts.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

It’s best to use different forms of social media such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to promote your startup. Choose a domain name and register it. As a blogger, you can tell a wide audience about the latest product updates outside the social network. Post attractive content daily to gain followers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve Hoffman (06:08): If you don't get the right people on board, you know, hire them really hard to succeed, marketing, getting your name out. That is the role of the CEO in an early stage company. You can also reach out to me on virtually any of the social networks, just search for Steve Hoffman or founder space.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Despite regularly being named the “Best City to Live” and attracting 150+ new residents every day, Austin’s tech community lags its coastal peers in both investment dollars and successful exits. While the networks worked to build platforms to connect the world, they missed how bad actors could exploit them. March 10, 2018 9:30AM?—?11:30AM

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

Consider how firms today confront Web 2.0 – the combination of blogs, wikis, and social networking technologies sprouting up. Of course, this draconian measure does not work; employees can blog under another name, or contribute to a wiki pseudonymously. Varieties of Social Networking: FaceBook, LinkedIn.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

On Facebook (and nearly all social networks that preceded it) the relationship was always reciprocal – if I accept your invitation to follow me then I have to follow you. I see many early-stage businesses pitching me today talking about solving this need. Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge.

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Silicon Valley Technology Los Angeles Southern California 290

Scalable Startup

APRIL 1, 2013

After a recent speech I gave for startups, I was interviewed by Jennifer DesRosiers (love that name!) about tech startups. Here are my answers… When did you first discover your love of technology? >> >> When I was a 11 my brother built a homemade crystal radio.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 24, 2011

Goldman Sachs recently sold shares in Facebook at a value of $50 billion , a price greater than that of Nike, Target, eBay, and General Motors, to name just a few. So we are left with that sinking feeling that this whole social networking advertising space may be just one giant bubble waiting to burst….

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Professor Scott Shane , one of the world’s foremost researchers on angel investing returns, makes the simple but crucial point that when it comes to making quality early-stage private company investments, technology is king, queen, court and everything in between. How important is it to have one’s investing focus be tech?

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. If you are a technology consultant and your name should be on this list, add a comment to this blog entry or contact me directly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While big ticket products might carry longer and more complex sales cycles, high-end buyers are just as lazy as the rest of us, so they use the same methods: Google, social media, and yes, their inboxes. Best practices: Include custom fields in your subject line (usually the company name suffices). The strategy in a nutshell.

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Software By Rob

JULY 31, 2012

After I finished my talk, someone in the audience asked a fantastic question, a concern they had which I think many aspiring startup founders have too: when being open and vocal about your idea in the early stages, isn’t there a danger someone will take the idea and run with it, and kill your startup in the process?

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Startup Social Network Cofounder Naming 78

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). The closing event was the filming of a live version of Jason Calacanis’ “This Week in Start-Ups” (appropriately named TWiST – episode is here ).

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. What We’re Doing: We’re currently setting the groundwork for an innovative educational web application that will eventually fuse with social networking. We are implementing the innovative web 2.0 Pingback: Quora. startupcto

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Great points, though your bio does read “Personal investor in early-stage technology companies, including … a handful of other startups that are still in stealth mode!” I’ve designed a pattern to extract a user’s preference from posts in my social networking site, then I shall share this to others.

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

To the SEC, it means that you are an accredited investor and To the man (or woman) on the street, a minimum qualification would seem to be an interest and ability to invest in early stage ventures. I think this sentiment has given angel groups a bad name. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1).

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Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor San Jose 28

Genuine VC

MARCH 3, 2008

Ben Kunz wrote an interesting article in this week’s BusinessWeek, but it wasn’t the controversial and inaptly-named title (“ Why Widgets Don’t Work ”) which caught my attention. He says “’do’ is where the web is headed in 2008,” citing social networks and other social services (e.g.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 3, 2008

Ben Kunz wrote an interesting article in this week’s BusinessWeek, but it wasn’t the controversial and inaptly-named title (“ Why Widgets Don’t Work ”) which caught my attention. He says “’do’ is where the web is headed in 2008,” citing social networks and other social services (e.g.

Web 100

Web Widget Philadelphia Social Network 100

Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Through a series of conversations, Jane and Dick have come up with the idea to develop a social network tailored to the medical community. However, there is a lot to be said for keeping things simple during the early stage of a startup. Oh, and you’ll notice that they don’t yet have a name for their company.

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Equity Finance Pre-Money Valuation Denver 137

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself.

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