Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

According to the Economist , video game internet traffic, including mobile games, has increased 75% in the U.S. billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 The State of Mobile 2021 report by App Annie goes in-depth into the consumer trends in mobile. credit App Annie.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Empower Your Small Business: content marketing, pricing dilemmas, conference call services – crowdspring.co/18PL3mb. Demystifying 409A Valuations - crowdspring.co/18IYhky.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2015

Privacy issues that come to light in the course of the due diligence process for an acquisition can also threaten their valuation. The Federal Trade Commission offers 12 tips for mobile app security and a general guide for all businesses. Avoid serious problems down the road by following a few basic steps now: 1.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Even by July 2014, Facebook’s core application had effectively saturated the US market, with more than 80% of US adults on Facebook. In summary: Snap’s current business doesn’t justify a $20B valuation. And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

3- Social media Photo Credit: Tom Miller In my professional view, social media will continue to play a crucial role in the digital marketing strategies of successful businesses. 6- Datafication Photo Credit: Edward Mellett Datafication, in my perspective, is the transformation of everything in our lives into data-powered devices or software.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

The residential real estate market is ripe for disruption because as millennials enter the home buying market (now they are 30% of all homebuyers in America) they are looking for online tools and apps that will empower them with information and tools to help them manage this extremely stressful, overwhelming, and expensive process.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. To dig deeper, let’s first review the influence of technology on the core components. However each component will change dramatically. Compliance.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 Content Marketing Tips You Can Employ Now | Social Media Examiner - [link]. When You Should (and Shouldn’t) Outsource Your Marketing | Hubspot Blog - [link].

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. The IPO market, she is a fickle mistress. In the first half of 2011, the IPO markets were looking strong for VC-backed companies. In the software an internet space a number of companies obviously had strong public offerings (LinkedIn, Yandex, Pandora, RenRen, et al). Author howerl.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2013

has gone offshore primarily due to the toughened regulatory environment. While the time, expense and difficulty to exit has soared in Life Sciences, all three critical factors have been cut by orders of magnitude in other investment sectors such as internet or social-local-mobile. Pharma companies are staggering under the costs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Is Small Business Marketing On Facebook A Complete Failure? 7 Ways to Make Your Business Card Your Best Marketing Tool – entm.ag/12oQZzW. But a nearly $4 billion valuation?

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Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

A realignment of valuations by late stage investors? Potential for instant global distribution (mobile app stores, Facebook, etc). A pure software company might have 80-90%+ gross profit margins, but a commerce company might at best be 30-50% and service marketplaces might be far lower when measured on a gross revenue / GMV basis.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

To learn more, VC Cafe interviewed Brian Rosenzweig, one of the managing partners in the new fund and the former marketing director at 21Ventures. investors the opportunity to participate in the Israeli high-tech market. VC Cafe: What is the premise of Janvest and how large is the fund? Our aim is to connect U.S.-based

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Do Investors Invest in Ideas, People or Markets? (by 35+ Free Mobile & Web Application Development Icon Sets – [link]. by @byosko ) – [link]. – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

million which closed the first week of March 2000 – a week before the market crashed. We hired a head of technology, a head of customer service, a head of marketing, a head of strategy (which no startup should ever hire) a CFO and, ugh, 33 developers. We built 4 products simultaneously with no market feedback.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

Startups focus on speed since they are burning cash every day as they search for product/market fit. But over time code/hardware written/built to validate hypotheses and find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling. Organizational debt was coming due. Refactoring” organizational debt.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. 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). It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M link] leehower.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! When has a consumer startup hit product/market fit? Why Necessity Will Soon Make Facebook The World’s Largest Mobile Ad Network – [link]. Got Early Startup Competition?

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The top 10 trends this year were around the emergence of mobile platforms (thanks Apple for the iPhone!), Thursday, May 15, 2008. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Kayak Software Corporation. Post-money valuation probably no higher than $12M (2).

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

As we do so, keep in mind that the relevant bubble statistic is not valuation. High valuations are fine if the underlying value is there. Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. Public market comparables. The total Consumer Internet market was 55 million people.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! More social awareness print ads in the Social Media & Marketing section below. How To Attract Customers And Not Waste Your Marketing Budget – [link].

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Email marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. When the market run started in March people were relieved that “the world wasn’t ending” so they started spending again. Unemployment coupled with a stock market drop will stop this spending cold IMHO.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

Don: Team, idea, market. Rick – I first see if I like the team, how are they going to start targeting the market they think they can address. A lot is happening because we have deployment platforms, code platforms, and now we have capital platforms like angellist. A lot of VCs are playing the seed market now.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. The Past (1985-2002).

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

If they have, then we should be able to see some evidence that the dominant public technology companies are moving towards bubble valuations. Apple’s valuation is now a case for business historians to discuss because I don’t think there are modern precedents. Thirdly, the market is far bigger. There are currently 4.5

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A fortnight ago, Boris interviewed Reed Hastings on his business lessons and experience, but now I’m shaking it up with a look at a 26-year-old founder who is disrupting the mobile and social networking spaces: Kik CEO and founder Ted Livingston. An all-round mobile education. Kik Interactive, Inc (@Kik) September 16, 2013.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. This is particularly true for mobile devices.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 25, 2013

Bitcoin is uniquely suited for applications where capital mobility is critical. Land has even appreciated, largely due to population increase. While Bitcoin is exceedingly poor store of value, it may be, for the right market participant, a good medium for speculation. Other applications are largely spurious. Store of value.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

Last week, 400+ data-driven marketers from 20+ countries around the world met up in the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas for CXL Live 2017. Analytic: A measure software can track. You can personalize just by understanding the markets. Inject code to create popup offers. Insert line of code. E.g. location, loyalty.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 10, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Apparently not if you trust the stock market. blackberry, goodlink or exchange) and neither RIM, nor Microsoft nor Motorola has any interest in pushing the Apple mobile platform.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

A huge untapped market opportunity.?. 1 year later we sat down and had an honest conversation with ourselves and realized that our One Thing, the thing we were most passionate about, that we could realistically be the best in the world at, and that was a huge untapped market opportunity was: Design. Even executives need reviews.

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