reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again. We are the leader in the professional domain with viral growth. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company. Reid Hoffman.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. On the IPO front, LogMeIn made the news, being one of the few tech IPO on the NASDAAQ in 2009. Congrats to Jim Kelliher, CFO and Michael Simon, CEO, for a successful IPO! internet. (6). anecdotes. (13).

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

Our current focus is on creating sticky, super viral applications that help users get more out of Facebook and other social media. The company reaches more than 8 million internet users each month through some of the top applications on Facebook and other social networks. Seemed like a good time to be in the software business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

I I of course, it's so cliche now, but you know, I like to tell even 30 year olds, you know, about uh, dial up, um, internet and, uh, Yeah. It's really popular on Good Reads, it's on YouTube, it a lot viral videos on YouTube's took, summarizing it. So it's understanding what constraint is and how to manage that, I suppose.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

This is a common problem that results from viral-loop optimization. By copying the exact same registration flow as every other successful viral app, many viral apps completely lose their positioning. Heres why I dont think engagement loops are that helpful: unlike viral loops, its not bad if its not self-sustaining.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. Those companies who have learned to build apps that optimize the viral loop dominate in every category where they compete. So far, I dont see any apps that have much in the way of viral distribution. We're leading the charge in enabling viral distribution for iPhone apps.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. internet. (6). How the use of internet is transform. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Cracking The Code. Friday, February 27, 2009. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. anecdotes. (13).

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

They raised around $350 million to try and sell cars direct over the Internet. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook. And it carries no inventory. Total Raised: $21.4mm. See: TechCrunch. Kontagent. -A

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

I too would be concerned about false negatives, but perhaps this strategy could be integrated into a broader market research strategy that included user engagement, viral marketing, etc which would all be quantifiable under the Google analytics. A very interesting strategy. Im defiantly going to give it a shot on my next project!

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Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

Something has clearly changed within the last 5-6 years in terms of the speed with which monster startups are created in the software and internet space. What if the new paradigm is simply that software and internet startups accelerate much faster than before, but terminal velocity so to speak remains the same? January 27, 2012.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. 2007 was a turning point for the SaaS industry with the successful IPOs of NetSuite, SuccessFactors, DemandTec, Salary.com, Aprimo and Constant Contact. or What do I need to do to get ready for an IPO. internet. (6).

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. From our private investor experience, a breakeven in 1-2 year seems reasonable and if we look at Salesforce.com CAC ratio since its IPO, it is indeed within this 0.5-1 internet. (6). Cracking The Code. anecdotes. (13).

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Cracking the Code

JULY 6, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. I was surprised today when I went through the NetSuite IPO filling (S1) to see that it looked very much like any Enterprise software document - not a single mention of churn or % of recurring revenues. internet. (6).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

If its part of a viral loop, its probably trying to get them to invite more friends (on average). ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 14, 2010

Main Street Investor, are NOT getting a piece of the next big IPO: The 2 best known venture capital funds –Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins - because of their reputations and massive bankrolls – will continue to get the lion’s share of the deals with rockstar IPO potential. Here's why: You, Mr. or Ms.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 billion, with 275 million in North America alone (source: Internet World Stats) and an astounding global penetration of 33% of the world’s population.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

This is similar to the problem that viral loop companies have with the engagement loop : by making it too easy to join, they actually give away the positioning that allows for longer-term engagement.) They discovered, as is true of many freemium and lazy registration systems, that easy is not always optimal.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. internet. (6). How the use of internet is transform. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Cracking The Code. Tuesday, September 02, 2008. Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson? CornerstoneOnDemand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Revenue is always my preferred measure, but you can use anything that is important to your business: retention, activation, viral invites, or even customer satisfaction in the form of something like net promoter score. If an optimization has an effect at the micro level that doesnt translate into the macro level - who cares?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

The second time around however, I went around the internet and read blogs such as yours to see how I can save myself from all the chaos because I knew that at some point I will break and just leave for another company only to find that I will probably have to go through the same thing again! Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Save Asia for post-IPO. Cracking The Code. Friday, October 10, 2008. Philippe Botteri.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

If the viral coefficient is 0.9, Here was our experience at IMVU, which I have seen replicated at many other consumer internet startups. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Some products have relatively obvious monetization mechanisms, and the real risks are in customer adoption. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Labels: internet , Portfolio. internet. (6). How the use of internet is transform. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Cracking The Code. Monday, February 12, 2007. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

We would have gladly followed Jamie (and Josh Roth, the CTO who is phenomenal and we’ve also known for a decade) right through an IPO if we could have. Viral Adoption / Group Use Cases Jamie didn’t want to stop at a single household. We funded the seed round, the A round, the B round, C round, D round and E round. so he went on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Or should you focus on user engagement or virality? Or should you focus on user engagement or virality? ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). He started in online publishing before the Internet (with Prestel in 1980!). On the other hand, the failure rate of VC funded enterprise software ventures is high.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

At a high level, anything that drives virality should be free. To take your specific example about virality - why do we want to have more users sign up? January 28, 2009 1:54 AM startupcfo said. Thanks for adding to the discussion on freemium these days. As mentioned segmentation is key to figuring out the free/ paid mix.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

If you ask an expert in Facebook apps to come help build yours, youll usually hear the same advice: build your app for virality. Thats sensible advice; most people who have made a business on Facebook rely on the viral driver of growth. If you have a virally-growing app, you dont need the extra installs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Is the company growing because of an amazing viral loop paired with a strong engagement loop? Is the company growing because of an amazing viral loop paired with a strong engagement loop? But notice what’s not listed: messages sent per person, churn rates of active users, or activation rate of new user.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Acqusition competition is how new apps get new customers.

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