Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company. There is one source I never liked and no early-stage VC should – investment bankers.

Early Stage 361

Early Stage Deal Flow Investment Bankers Technical Review 361

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2020

Good content offers the ability to generate leads, warm them, and transit them into the later stages of the sales journey. Good content can get your potential clients conversing either in the website comment section or on social media handles. Social Sharing – Sometimes, good content gets viral.

Affiliate 230

Affiliate Startup Later Stage Search 230

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Later stage companies have some additional concerns: What favorable impact could IP have for PR, marketing and investor relations purposes, or as an attraction to potential acquirors? Sales and marketing plans , lists of prospects, supplier and subcontractor relationships, pricing data, media buying plans and strategies, etc.

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company. I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging.

Deal Flow 347

Deal Flow Early Stage Investment Bankers Technical Review 347

Brandanew

AUGUST 4, 2015

It’s important to get some feedback on social media FAQs from marketing and branding experts, so that you invest wisely and do well! b) Branding experts will ensure that a re-branding at a later stage is avoided. Theme 2: Social Media Marketing Tips For Startups And you! c) Constant testing.

Social Media 100

Social Media Marketing Later Stage Media 100

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. 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.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. 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.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 28, 2019

Cat food grain-free,” “cat food senior cat formula,” and “cat food for kittens” are all more likely to result in a conversion because these consumers are at a later stage in their journey and have a better idea of what they want. Social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram). eCommerce sites like Amazon.

Audience 164

Audience Algorithm eCommerce Cofounder 164

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The rest of Asia is still developing with far more angel and early-stage investors than mid-to-later stage folks. Valuations are based more on typical later-stage type of metrics.

Asia 132

Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

Brandanew

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

If one had to determine the whole marketing funnel to generate any business, the steps would be as follows: Stage 1 Awareness – Making sure you’re only getting business in front of your niche of consumers that are likely to spend money with you at a later stage. The easiest way to do so is through social media.

Viral 100

Viral Social Media SEO Later Stage 100

YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2019

The most significant response you are likely to get is online; if your business has a large social media following, this is an excellent place to start promoting your vacancy. . Some recruitment consultants will take on this process for you if you plan to use them at the later stages of candidate selection.

Later Stage 113

Later Stage Social Media Search Small Business 113

Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 20, 2021

Get Social With It. Social media is not just a medium for entertainment now, but it has expanded and become one of the best platforms to connect with clients. Law firms that have accounts on various social media tend to get more clients and links with other professionals as compared to the ones who don’t have them.

Social Media 52

Social Media Later Stage Mobile Video 52

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

It’s equally easy to go online and incorporate your new entity, register some intellectual property and have some fun with social media for marketing and interacting with customers. Most new teams are geographically dispersed these days anyway, so paying rent for an office should be differed to later stages when revenue is plentiful.

Bootstrapping 120

Bootstrapping Hockey Stick Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 120

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing. Later stage investors are using private company marketplace services focused on more established companies, listed below under “Exit Investments”.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Austin Startup

JULY 29, 2018

It doesn’t make any sense to pitch a later stage, “growth” investor with your seed stage idea just like it doesn’t make much sense to pitch a new tech startup to an investor who only does oil & gas. Some like to be the first investor to commit and others prefer to be the last. but most of them think of themselves that way.

Angel Investor 59

Angel Investor Technical Review Los Angeles Seed Stage 59

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The balance of the connectors partners with Data Studio, allowing you to draw data from social media, search engines, CRMs , and other external, non-Google-related channels. You can link to multiple sources, either when you initially set up your dashboard or at a later stage.

Sales 137

Sales Metrics Customer Analytics 137

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. I first heard about the company from Dave McClure and have tracked it on the sidelines a bit since then. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. Obviously they see big things in Wildfire. 4mm in Series A.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2018

You can go with the base plan for starters and choose to upgrade in the later stages for additional features such as full API access and multiple monetization options. Built-in social media integrations with popular social networking platforms. Multiple monetization options. 2. Vidizmo.

Software 105

Software Bandwidth API Flash 105

The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

We’ve had a lot of success promoting job openings through newsletters to our user base as well as through our social media channels. These skills are hard to develop, many founders actually decide to hire a CEO at a later stage. I honestly had a very simple strategy, I hired Wunderlist users to build Wunderlist.

Management 120

Management Cofounder Startup Bootstrapping 120

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 20, 2019

Build Social Media Campaigns. Now that you have a presence across all relevant social platforms and have begun to boost posts and take a stab at paid advertising, now is the time to create broader campaigns. Hopefully, though, you aim to progress to the later stages. Build Social Media Campaigns.

Marketing 65

Marketing Social Media Campaign Analytics 65

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Who is following you on social media? Behavioral: Dig into your analytics to find who’s engaging with your website and social media accounts. What are they saying in the media or at conferences? Finally, look at how accounts showing intent engage with your business: Who is visiting your website? Gates and weights.

Customer 98

Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns. As you can see in this Cambridge Associates data, early-stage investing beat later stage investing in returns in 70% of the past 30 years. I use social media.

LP 374

LP Later Stage IRR Term Sheet 374

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Later stage investors would also be lying if they don't reach out to see what's up and why a company might be featured. Follow all of these folks on social media. For one, journalists often use existing lists as the basis for other lists. So how do you get on one of these lists? 3) Interact over time.

Cofounder 62

Cofounder Later Stage Reputation Social Media 62

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Look out for various online forums and social media platforms. And lastly summarise all the above points for easy referencing at later stages. Then you figure out an optimized social media strategy to help to strengthen your online follower base. First monitor your competitor’s social media handles.

Mobile 113

Mobile Developer Social Media Later Stage 113

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Layoffs are unfortunately likely to continue as funding for later stage companies continues to contract. .” Milton Berle At the moment of publication of this post, over 95,508 tech employees from 308 companies were laid off since the beginning of 2023 according to Layoffs.fyi. And it’s only February.

Technical Review 160

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Search 160

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. It literally drove FOMO. The second “exit”?—?Adly?—?innovated

Venture Capital 363

Venture Capital LP Valuation Later Stage 363

Austin Startup

JANUARY 24, 2018

Some founders argue that Austin lacks seed capital, most participants agree that there is a lack of later stage capital. They show up at happy hours, they show up at demo days, they connect on social media and over coffee. Capital is not the missing piece of the puzzle in Austin. They play beer pong for prizes.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Austin Sweden Germany 48

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

And in later stage rounds an explosion of corporate VCs and hedge funds now want in to the next unicorns. Visionary CEOs have always been the face of their company, but today with social media, it happens faster with a much larger audience; boards now must consider what would happen to the valuation of the company without the founder.

Founder 245

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Summit Partners and TA Associates have leveraged their origination programs to move into later stage buyouts. MCM Capital ( case study ) is a rare example of a lower middle-market private equity fund with a proactive social media strategy. Take advantage of social media and emerging platforms such as AngelList.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

John Jantsch (10:49): Now let's hear from a sponsor, you know, today everybody's online, but are they finding your website, grab the online spotlight and your customer's attention with Semrush from content and SEO to ads and social media. From Content and SEO to ads and social media, Semrush is your one-stop-shop for online marketing.

SEO 84

SEO Channel Campaign Audience 84

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I’m an early-stage investor. I normally look to invest my first money below a $20 million valuation and when deals get to lofty prices I normally bow out to later-stage investors who have deeper pockets. Social Media Tech Market Analysis' And from an investment perspective I remain incredibly long DataSift.

Iran 358

Iran API San Francisco Nigeria 358

Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2017

Usually, people who take this strategy are extremely social, go to tons of events, consume and retain information they read on social media, techcrunch, Medium, etc. They are the people that everyone seems to know and have an unusual amount of knowledge about a large number of startups.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Due Diligence Deal Flow Early Stage 28

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

This is thanks to my participation in social media. You should be active fund investors as well as angels--building up relationships with venture capitalists to both source deals, find co-investors, and pave the way for later stage investments. It means having a diverse set of business relationships. 5) Be fun!

Angel Groups 124

Angel Groups Angel Investor Aggregator New York 124

View from Seed

MARCH 10, 2015

What about the sports media landscape overall? Whereas ESPN only promotes ESPN content in their app and other channels, we could include the big, national outlets plus local coverage, social media discussion, and more. NVV: Let’s begin at the beginning: Why did Bleacher Report even want to launch this app?

Mobile 120

Mobile San Francisco Curation Seed Stage 120

David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

You may think, “But I don’t use social media, and neither do my (conservative, old-school) potential investors!” The reality: you and your target investors are in the social media matrix whether you like it or not. For early-stage founders, I suggest AngelList and Crunchbase.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Advisory Board Greece Cofounder 60

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. would love your thoughts on our startup (well its well started) imorial.com [link] Be a social media star: a menu board of 5 competences « flowing motion [.]

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84