VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

While some VCs that I met seemed to be rightfully bullish about everything that had to do with eCommerce, some seemed to be missing the point. To put it bluntly, on more than one occasion I encountered a VC saying that the eCommerce model doesn’t have a “VC feel” to it. The ripples of eCommerce are tangible. Here’s why ….

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. With more startups, angels still limit their focus to about one out of 40 requests. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

These are investment vehicles in which central and local government agencies make investments that are combined with private venture capital and State-Owned Enterprises in areas of strategic importance. social media, ecommerce, gaming) instead of in hardware, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, transportation infrastructure, etc.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Learn how to raise capital from angel investors and venture capitalists (and how to decide who you should target). Social media marketing for startups : How to use social to launch, position your messaging and get distribution. Startup Hiring : How to attract, hire and retain the best people. Khan Academy.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

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Startup Social Media Venture Capital Audio 207

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

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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! The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said. In the middle of that was a gaping hole.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

It is still unclear how much capital these businesses will require or what the exit market will be like. Venture Capital' Writing and reading back this list it strikes me that whilst it is too early to know how big this wave will be there is more than enough going on to want to start making some investments.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Free FoundersCard membership, 24/7 online support through forums, discounts on products and services, offline events, the assistance of an editorial team to aid in the creation and dissemination of content for the purposes of brand building and media opportunities, and more. Thanks to Pete Chatfield, Household Money Saving !

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

Certainly if you look at eCommerce & social media – women are the ones using these products. Make sure they’re on your board, your board of advisors, whatever. Make sure 50% of the people you hire are women. The women are out there.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Programs/applications can be games, social media, office applications, missile guidance systems, bitcoin mining, or even operating systems e.g. Linux, Windows, IOS. The opportunity is so large that there are hundreds of AI accelerator startups designing their own chips, funded by 10’s of billions of venture capital and private equity.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 419

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Most people have heard of Foursquare for local nightlife and Airbnb for rooms, but other nationally recognized sources for local services are still hard to find, including social media, local news, advertising, and event calendars. You need local partners and relationships for credibility.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The first category includes companies that have a dominant position in their national market and are often internet or ecommerce companies. I would categorize these champions in two camps: the “Local Champions” and the “Global Champions”. mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs. in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

But focus to date has been on the low-hanging fruit such as social or ecommerce data, so there’s still opportunity where data is harder to acquire and/or to label. Machine learning in cyber security has already attracted a substantial amount of venture capital (e.g. Is anyone doing this? Cyber Security.

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Software Review Startup 60

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Media Temple. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â??

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). Hamet is a 3x entrepreneur and also former EIR with True Ventures. Give direct feedback to entrepreneurs on their businesses or if we’re not investing why it’s not a fit for us.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Ryan Chan, founder at UpKeep said, “We created an LLC at first, but after realizing that we wanted to take on venture capital, we decided to move to a Delaware C corp.”. venture capital. Seek out venture capital funding. 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading. or even be a U.S.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

  I have a few hundred feeds that I follow in Google Reader and the way that I find new ones is a random process of discovery so Larry's post was great in that he not only provided a rank-ordered list but also a convenient way to mass subscribe. Bookmark the permalink.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. Use social media to be sure people are aware of it.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

This, by the way, isn’t very different from how the term social commerce became muddled after Bazaarvoice first started promoting it in 2006 to describe what we do?—?unfortunately, unfortunately, social commerce morphed to mean solutions like Facebook eCommerce stores offered by numerous small vendors who are now mostly no longer in business.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

The ability of social media to help you get escape velocity is great, but it cuts both ways. It is easier to start something now than ever before. A strong value proposition carried at the speed of Twitter and Facebook to the right audience could crush your company just as fast as it grew if you can’t scale.

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Dilution Equity Hiring Partner 104

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 29, 2011

I'm quite possibly the least fashionable person in the entire venture capital industry. Yet, I wondered whether or not she had accidently met with the wrong VC. She saw the sneakers, right? I think I might have been wearing my Android robot walking the dog t-shirt. Lucky for me, she didn't seem fazed, and we hit it off.

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New York City Portfolio Venture Capital Green 117

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Mr. Fralic earned his BS in Finance from Villanova University and his MBA from St.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Find the Connectors , the Angels , the Venture Capitalists , the Founders , the Professors , the Hackers , and the Legends you need to meet and get some hints about the best ways to meet them. I’d start by trying to follow them on social media to get to know them a bit, and then reach out with a relevant intro request through LinkedIn.

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Austin Texas Cofounder Los Angeles 110

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

What is interesting about this deal is that LivingSocial took in $14 million in VC just 6 weeks after they announced a $25 million round and the money came from Jeremy Liew, who is a well respected venture capitalist who just completed a similar type investment in ShoeDazzle. eCommerce is hot again! the funding and market coverage.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Nextiva , GoToMeeting and Grasshopper for telecommunications and web conferencing Interspire , Simplycast , HootSuite and SnapEngage for e-mail, chat, and social media marketing. GoDaddy and RackSpace for web hosting and ecommerce. The best email marketing and social media minds. The best research minds.

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Software Social Media Database eCommerce 48

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 28, 2012

The first major acquisition of a social business was Salesforce’s acquisition of Radian6 for $326m nearly 18 months ago. Software to help enterprises leverage social media was the investment theme that underpinned our investment in Conversocial last year and we have been looking for more companies that leverage the same trends.

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Vertical Acquisition eCommerce Flash 94

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 26, 2017

times the size of the global venture capital industry today. With so many businesses seeking to capitalize on the crowdfunding trend, there’s more competition than ever. Updates should also be shared by email and social media. But, Kickstarter and Indiegogo aren’t the “Field of Dreams.” Signature colors.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

For example, today, designing a smartphone App that alerts you when you have lost your car keys isn’t a viable standalone company; today, a service-based local software solution to manage ecommerce for brick and mortar companies, even if it is profitable, is not an interesting technology investment.

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Austria Global Silicon Valley Advisory Board 28

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back layers of the old world in which media was too scripted. I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies.

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Startup eCommerce Audience Community 373

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

When the Mets got to the World Series, they release a kettle corn flavored ice cream with blue and orange M&Ms and a contest on social media around naming the ice cream. I was working for the GM pension fund, an institutional LP, as an analyst, doing a research project on consumer private equity and venture capital investing.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Syndicate Syndication 60

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?

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