Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Now consider a traditional media business.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

One of his secret: "Incentivize your marketing team on sales not leads" Jeff Jordan, CEO of OpenTable speaking about his IPO process: " Build relationships with key public investors 2-3 years before going public (Morgan Stanley, Fidelity and T. ipo process. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Post a Comment.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

While poised with a limited number of transactions this year, the world of public Cloud Computing and SaaS companies has been marked by two events in the past few months: the acquisition of Omniture by Adobe and the high profile IPO of LogMeIn, a leading provider of PC remote access and support with a very interesting freemium model.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Who should you partner with? If I didn't move, I wouldn't have had the same opportunities, wouldn't have been able to join companies like just eat and do the I P O and look the IPO o you know, how many companies IPO O far and for few between it once again. We're all, all, all over social media. Should you raise funding?

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

When I freed up time, I asked the partners if I could start attending the trading classes even though I hadn’t been hired into that role, and that’s how I became a trader. This was before the Facebook IPO. I was really interested in Second Market and idea of a market to trade pre-IPO shares.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook. Makes money by partnering with brands and marketers to publish location-triggered content. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. Total Raised: $21.4mm.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Establish credibility with potential partners. You need to combine your product with others, and this requires partners like OEMs or system integrators. A marketing launch can help you get in the door with those partners, if youre having trouble getting their attention. If the viral coefficient is 0.9, before you launch.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

2007 was a turning point for the SaaS industry with the successful IPOs of NetSuite, SuccessFactors, DemandTec, Salary.com, Aprimo and Constant Contact. How can I best partner with the large public saas vendors? or What do I need to do to get ready for an IPO. Save Asia for post-IPO. Do I need a second data center?

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Cracking the Code

JULY 6, 2007

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. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. Friday, July 06, 2007.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 10, 2008

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 Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 14, 2010

The best articulation of it comes from Basil Peters, a serial technology entrepreneur, co-Founder of Nexus Engineering, former Canada Entrepreneur of the Year, and Managing Partner at 3 venture capital funds – Fundamental Technologies I and II and the BC Advantage Funds. His blog is one of the best resources on technology investing out there.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Deutsche Bank report has a very interesting chart on the topic presenting the Free Cash Flow margins vs. the revenue growth four years post IPO for select software leaders: As you can see, with 20% Free Cash Flow margin and a 50% growth rate, Salesforce is well positioned in the pack! Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. SaaS products don’t pull through large stacks of hardware boxes and software licenses so they’re not very attractive to traditional independent software vendor (ISV) partners either.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Attendees included Blue Nile , Postini , LinkedIn , Lifelock , Wize , Sparter , Zopa , Revver , Wikia , Flock , Vimo , Delivery Agent , Gerson Lehrman Group , Pure Networks , Zensys , Summit , T3Ci , Endeca and Nominum - a wide spectrum of companies, both in terms of stage (very early to pre-IPO) and sectors (consumer internet, software, chipsets.).

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I started my career in enterprise software in the 1980s and after some years working in other areas (outsourcing and online media) I am back in the enterprise software game. The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO).

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

It exists to serve the needs of customers, and it does this by offering its capabilities to other functions in the company, and partnering with them. Our online media company is small, we have 6 employees, great proven leaders, great talent, great cashflow. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2014

There are too many people giving advice who have been through one or two startups, none of which grew into a huge company, got to profitability, or an IPO. For example, as an investor, I''ve never invested in a company that has gotten to an IPO or a billion dollar exit. How''s anyone supposed to figure out who to actually learn from?

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