Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

A better approach is to first understand who these people are, why and how they invest, and then focus on the ones who are the best match for your particular startup stage, location and industry. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches. If you do all these things right by displaying other people’s ads on your website or blog, you will make money from advertising – like Google and Facebook, who offer services for free, and still make millions in revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

After a few blogs about your concept, the comments better match your passion, or it’s time to rethink your idea. If you post on industry sites, or get syndicated to popular sites, your scores and visibility will go up even more. Blogging will improve your site search engine ranking.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 13, 2012

According to the just-released Halo Report from the Angel Capital Association and the Angel Resource Institute ( ARI ), founded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation , "The median size of angel & angel group syndicate rounds was $700,000" last year, up from $500,000 in 2010. Will you be generating enough revenues to keep growing? •

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Golazo is a slang word in Spanish used to describe truly special goals scored in a soccer match. A company that in time can generate $100M+ in revenue and have an enterprise value measured in the hundreds of millions or more (what some VCs refer to as a “venture scale” outcome). Filed under Uncategorized.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

Despite having over 500k downloads and making $450k in revenue over the last 21 months, he had only $185k left in the bank, which meant that he would be out of business in 90 days if he didn’t raise more money. But eventually two syndicates emerged. Brooks has previously raised $1.6M What is important is prior execution.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

AngelList is an online community that matches startups with investors to streamline the fundraising process. Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Global Syndication Partners. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer. What is your viral coefficient?

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Mobile commerce revenues may still pale in comparison to their ecommerce brothers, but we’re already seeing signs of mobile commerce’s potential. It has to continue to evolve to match against the native apps. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates. But the webapps will prevail in the end. My 2 cents.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 12, 2012

When a startup doesn’t match the stage where a particular investor focuses, founders may get a response along the lines of “This is interesting to us, but come back once you get from X phase to Y phase” That could be from seed stage to a larger Series A financing need, or to progress from pre-product to post-revenue.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 13, 2012

When we first syndicated the seed round with other investors, some people didn't get it. I owe it in large part to finding great people whose skills were uniquely matched to the entrepreneurial challenge they were taking on. Not everyone was enthusiastic about this company, though. Their success became almost routine.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2014

This would make room for a meaningful number of other investors in the syndicate but also the concentration we needed. This resulted in an original model where we assumed owning 10% of a company post-seed investment. No more, no less. So we decided to keep a high bar here, but enter with conviction where there was opportunity.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

While it doesn’t publish prices publicly, an interview with the Demandbase CEO in 2017 claimed that the average revenue per customer per month was $20,000. It’s not just a giant CRM that matches customers with a subset of relevant accounts. As one user notes : “Matching the content with CRM tools takes time. Image source ).

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

So, lots of content combined with an engaged audience (contributing and participating in consumption), driving great branding and real world revenue. Have the colors and branding match your corporate identity. When I have a choice, I now buy Prudential. Because of YouTube. Not even close. The YouTube problem: What is YouTube?

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 15, 2010

So you set out to do this as a hobby, but you know you are right, and while you don't want to spend looking at every twitter visit, you want to be alerted when twitter revenue shoots up! In this case High Twitter Revenue (since you are already adding campaign tracking parameters ) to your tweet urls. Give your alert a name.

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