The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Pinterest is going to be the website to watch, along with other image-based social networking, search and sales websites. The next phase of the web will be about personalization. While it’s still early-stage, I’m excited to continue following this space. Niche-Based Social Networks.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. Startups are all about just going out there and doing it.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

How To Think About The Future. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). Facebook doesn’t exist, even as a walled-garden college social network (Mark Zuckerberg was part way through his freshman year at Harvard). May 26, 2011.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Is there an early mover advantage for being early on a technology trend? think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But beyond that, not much. Cobalt helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

Understanding how to harness social media and being up to speed with the newest trending platforms allows us to be everywhere. There’s a big difference between not knowing intense coding and not knowing anything at all about the space. When I started my social network, I didn’t have any tech skills.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. Luckily Harold Jarche pointed us to other discussion on open source models. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

It's now been about three years since I joined the fray as an entrepreneur and tech blogger. While foreign entrepreneurs wait for the Startup Visa to become a reality so they can go launch their startups in the US, France has quietly had a similar program in place for some time. billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. Steve Jobs Speaks Candidly About the.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. Steve Jobs Speaks Candidly About the.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Because it can be hard to define or agree company objectives at an early stage I believe most people avoid them. And if you’re not meeting as a team to discuss these metrics and have a regular debate about how you’re doing and what needs to change then I can assure you that you’ll never reach your destination. In 6 months?

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Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. A few we thought were non-starters were sold by teams passionate enough to convince us to let them go forward with their ideas. MammOptics is developing an instrument that can be used for noninvasive breast cancer screening.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. How do you use LinkedIn? How do you use Discussion Groups? . * I definitely check people out using LinkedIn. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch.

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Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

In the episode, I talk with CEO of Founders Space, Steve Hoffman about the tumultuous journey of launching a startup and revealing what it takes to make it. 20:21] Where can people find out more about your programs and your book? More About Steve Hoffman: FounderSpace.com. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2012

Building a good reputation is one of the most fundamental components to a successful start-up and is particularly invaluable in the early stages. These achievements have given us an outstanding push in terms of furthering our reputation, motivation, morale and business results. Photo credit: Images_of_Money, Flickr.

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Elevator Pitch Startup Europe Reputation 109

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

Understanding how to harness social media and being up to speed with the newest trending platforms allows us to be everywhere. You Need Basics, Hire For The Rest There’s a big difference between not knowing intense coding and not knowing anything at all about the space. Jerry Piscitelli , Portopong LLC 4.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve also presented at a range of industry conferences on how institutional investors can use professional networks for research , origination , market research , and value creation. We want to work with the best startups in the world, so we are pretty particular about who we work with. David Teten: How do startups sign up?

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New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston. Indigo Room Featured Speaker: Whitney Wolfe Herd As Founder and CEO of Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd helms one of the fastest-growing social networks in the world. 4:30PM Hilton?—?Salon

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

How would Billy Beane have done as an early stage investor? However, I have seen some blog posts posing the question about whether the same principles of valuing baseball players could be applied to entrepreneurs. Labels: due diligence , early stage investing , moneyball , valuation. Monday, September 26, 2011.

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Technical Review Early Stage San Jose Angel Investor 38

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

First, let us start with a definition of a tech bubble. 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. No one doubts that social networks and web and mobile applications are reinventing commerce.

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Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

In the run-up to the conference, we caught up with Gomes to find out about what it’s like to do business in Brazil, how foreign companies should approach the market, and what we can expect from his talk. What characterizes the Brazilian online advertising market compared to other markets such as the US? What works best there?

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Brazil Artificial Inteligence America Argentina 132

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

Clichés abound about, “You know what would be cool? …” I’ll write soon on my views of why I believe Instagram took off as a social network and what I think comes next. Instagram happens to be one of the few social networks I regularly use along with Twitter. Think about it.

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Valuation Balance Sheet Dilution Term Sheet 316

BeyondVC

APRIL 11, 2007

As a VC that invests in early stage companies, part of my job is to discover new opportunities and business models. It started about 6 months ago, when my son came home from school talking about a build-your-own penguin site. He also said that we had to sign up and pay to become a member and kept asking me to visit.

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Software Review Technical Review Social Network Vesting 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

In the very early days, the trick is to find anyone at all who can understand you when you are talking about your product. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace. This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. Want to learn more about me?

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San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2012

The idea of being your own boss is appealing to most of us. One of the unfortunate truths about many new start-ups is that owners often attempt to start their new business with too little capital on hand to see the business through the first year (preferably two years) of their business, when creating a customer base is essential.

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Early Stage Social Network Advertising Finance 162

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

I think we all know by now that a conversation is happening on Twitter and that this extends to talking about brands. In an earlier post I spoke about the asymmetric nature of Twitter vs. Facebook. Monitor the conversation – The first thing that businesses need to know is what is even being said about them.

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Conversion Management Social Network Philadelphia 235

Eric Friedman

MAY 9, 2019

In any early stage environment there are typically limited development cycles, budgets, and overall resources to get things done. This was warranted because the network was growing, consumers were happy, and this is “what social networks did” so I was the very vocal minority. Great prospects right?

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Revenue Warrant Early Stage Cofounder 60

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

If you’re building a startup, you’re likely to be in one of these two situations: Launching and selling a new product that nobody’s ever heard about, and probably don’t even know they need, or… Improving an existing product or service, which means that you’re going head on against someone with more traction, people, and money than you.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

And, your idea is 50th social networking site of the week. Especially at the early stages. Note: by differentiation, I’m not talking about product or feature differentiation but outcome differentiation. Think about it – if you’re using MailChimp and make let’s say $100 in sales for every send.

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Sales Cycle Differentiation Early Stage Bootstrapping 54

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 14, 2015

It’s US focused, starting when the venture industry started in the 1970s and analysing all the up and down cycles of investment and returns since then. You may now be thinking that venture should be about taking technology risk, but when you look at history that’s not been the case. Venture Capital'

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Venture Capital Marketing Early Stage Social Network 60

cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

A frequent question entrepreneurs have when they are just starting their company is: how secretive should I be about my idea? My answer: you should talk about it to almost anyone who will listen. You’ll learn a lot more about the sector/industry. cdixon.org - chris dixons blog. Follow @cdixon. cdixon.org contents.

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Stealth Startup NDA Cofounder 68

Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

And, your idea is 50th social networking site of the week. Especially at the early stages. Note: by differentiation, I’m not talking about product or feature differentiation but outcome differentiation. Think about it – if you’re using MailChimp and make let’s say $100 in sales for every send.

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Sales Cycle Differentiation Early Stage Bootstrapping 48

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

So was I offended or upset that nobody wanted to join us? Two weeks ago, before I was about to head out the door for some Wednesday night drinking, I slapped a job posting up on CraigsList and hoped for the best. Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer.

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Sweat Equity Equity Hiring Technical Review 40

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Bump.com is a social network based on license plate numbers as the identifier. They also gave an entertaining pitch, with biz dev guy Kemp Mullaney playing the role of a harried guy about to enter the 12-step Check-In program before discovering FootFeed. Glad you had a chance to see us at DEMO. 1 comment: Terry.

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Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 38

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). Ian is so knowledgeable about the evolution of the digital music business and speaks with a Howard Roark like truth about where it needs to go.

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Silicon Valley Cofounder Hawaii Semantic 228

The Next Web

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Anthony Del Monte is the CEO and founder of Squeaky Wheel Media , a Web design and development agency based in NYC, as well as the co-founder of IHadCancer.com , one of the first social-networking sites for cancer survivors, fighters and supporters. Culture isn’t something that I’m willing to compromise…ever.

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