Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Take a look at the founding syndicates of each: Masstor Sytems (5/1979). Quantum Corporation (6/1980). What is striking about these syndicates is that nobody had any meaningful capital, which forced syndication and cooperation. Some were Silicon Valley early stage companies, such as Apple, Quantum, and Masstor Systems.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2024

You could choose our system to move from vendor to trusted advisor, attract only ideal clients, and confidently present your strategies to build monthly recurring revenue. But they don't want to change if they don't have to because it could end up affecting their advertising revenue. It's time to transform your approach. powered by

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

4:32] Is that was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated? [5:48] Is that, was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated. [2:54] What does the podcast media company look like today, and what was your idea for starting it? [4:32] Now there's Patreon.

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David Teten

JULY 23, 2019

See How VCs structure a syndicate and recruit coinvestors for more on this. Every one-paragraph summary of a company should ideally have: – Company name and website. – Ideally revenues and other financial metrics if we can include that. – Ideally revenues and other financial metrics if we can include that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category. million and is normally syndicated from one to three institutional seed investors or larger VC funds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

If you post on industry sites, or get syndicated to popular sites, your scores and visibility will go up even more. You may even find alternate revenue streams, including speaking engagements and consulting, to bridge the gap to product rollout. Each can be linked directly into your site domain name for maximum SEO impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Groups of angels may syndicate multiple individual amounts, but if your total request exceeds $1 million, you need to focus on the venture capital alternatives.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Objective Logistics is taking a pretty sexy approach to a less than sexy, yet massive problem… namely how do you optimize the scheduling of service industry workforces. Part lives in the cloud and part is embedded in point of sale (POS) software systems. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

It seamlessly creates a deal folder (company name) in our Google Drive, and notifies us that a new deal has entered the pipeline via Slack. We use the vendors of PE/VC investing data I list above to track the interests of potential private equity/VC coinvestors, and selectively introduce our companies as I build out a syndicate. .

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

You can see this in sites where the website’s navigation uses vague internal terms like “Back Office Services” or the names of your company’s various divisions. Try using an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) tool to stay in touch with important thought leaders speaking to your audience. Just ask Amazon.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). their brands are less developed, so most people would struggle to name a show. The show starts with the history of Podcasts and ends with where they may be headed.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

By helping people hone their superpowers, DGMs don’t simply add names to lists; they keep prospects moving towards the sale. Manage a marketing budget that will drive the most qualified leads through paid programs such as content syndication, pay-per-click, and events. Where does a demand generation manager fit into an organization?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

At NextView, we prefer to think in terms of a startup’s actual business progression rather than round names. Just yesterday, for instance, we saw a company raising a seed round that has no product and two founders … and we also saw a company raising a seed with hundreds of thousands of dollars of monthly revenue.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 8, 2014

We don’t invest in “syndicates A rounds” as our first point of entry into a company. 1/3 are post product but pre-revenue. 1/3 are post revenue (but very small scale). Syndicates: We have a bias to lead rounds. We also have a pretty broad range of syndicates that we are a part of.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 10, 2012

Your "bio box" includes your name and contact information (e.g., Also, many website owners and bloggers syndicate articles from EzineArticles; in doing so, they re-publish the article on their website but must keep the bio box and links to your website. Make sure to add a "bio box" at the end of your article. read more.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

It aims to fuel your sales pipeline , shorten the sales cycle, and generate revenue. In other words, it boosts revenue by delivering the right information to the right people at the right time so that they can make confident decisions. ROI on marketing-sourced revenue. Deciding between LBM and ABM. How content is presented.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). their brands are less developed, so most people would struggle to name a show. The show starts with the history of Podcasts and ends with where they may be headed.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2014

These shows have turned the owners and employees of obscure small businesses into international celebrities, and generated tens of thousands of dollars of revenue for the businesses (if not more). What’s a Podcast? You see, a podcast is basically a means of distributing content to an audience.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Research from Optimove shows that young, fast companies derive 30% of revenues from existing customers. As those companies become more established, that increases to around 90% of revenues. Ensure every recommended product helps the customer solve a problem or drive more revenue. Focus on value. So, what does this tell us?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 5, 2011

My name is Ken Sundheim. I am a 29 year old business owner of an executive search firm by the name of KAS Placement based out of New York City at Herald Square. My writing has been syndicated in WSJ.com , NYTimes.com , Forbes.com , USAToday.com , About.com , HuffPo , AOL.com , Yahoo! Buzz and Yahoo!

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We believe instead of setting up your marketing organization for interruption, like it’s basically been set up for the last 50 years, what if we set it up around groups of audiences that we get really close to, we build loyal and trusted relationships with, and we don’t just create one revenue stream. We create four, five.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In 2011, the valuation of pre-revenue, start-up companies is typically in the range of $1.5–$2.5 Such comparisons can only be made for companies at the same stage of development, in this case, for pre-revenue startup ventures. As can be seen the average (mean) pre-money valuation for recent pre-revenue deals is $2.1

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. Because she understood the potential for IP-based syndicated content technology, Alex started searching for new and useful ways to put this technology to use. I’m sure all of you have heard of Google’s AdWords.

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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. While it offers content syndication, reviewers noted that where that content ends up is not fully disclosed. G2 Crowd confirms that it’s a high-cost option.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Pro Publica has a Nonprofit Explorer database searchable by principal name on all nonprofit filings, so you can see a person’s nonprofit activities. . Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. See their blog post on multiples.).

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

More connections means more business, more investors, more revenue, and more growth. Edwards, Texas A&M, Texas State, Texas Tech, and Trinity to name a few. We truly are an accelerator of the Austin startup ecosystem. Now we are ready to do for all of Texas what we have done for Austin for the past 5 years.

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Genuine VC

JULY 1, 2014

Within a matter of months, a retention marketing service, namely mobile retargeting, was launched. It’s easy to say that you’ll prioritize strategic revenue, but it’s much much tougher to do in practice, especially at a startup. Prioritize the right customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Basically started as somebody of how do we take photos of cars and the pricing and descriptions of the cars, and put it all in one place, but then syndicate it. In 2011, before we sold the business, we had a business that was making $30 million a year in revenue, but we’ve never raised any capital. Fast forward a couple years.

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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. Put the company name on the stadium? When I have a choice, I now buy Prudential. Because of YouTube. Surely every brand in the world is totally killing it on YouTube? Not even close.

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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! Give your alert a name. In this case High Twitter Revenue (since you are already adding campaign tracking parameters ) to your tweet urls.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. A big-name VC firm will not screwyou too outrageously, because other founders would avoid them ifword got out. Thats where the name"incubator" comes from. Startups valuations aresupposed to rise over time.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

If you can name drop big customers, do that too — you want your profile to look impressive. Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Global Syndication Partners. Don’t just fill out a few sentences; take a few hours and really polish it up.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Make room for a new revenue channel. David Finkel: I started working with some of the VPs and executive VPS and division leaders for various large name brand companies. I can’t mention names because part of that was signing nondisclosures on that, but it was really interesting to me to watch. Take Intercom customer Unity.

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

As a Content Marketer, your content piece can be syndicated across all these top publisher sites, for a very nominal Cost-per-Click thereby increasing the reach of your post. It has signed some big names like Forbes, Newsweek, and Heavy.com onto its roster of publisher partners where content can be recommended.

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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. While commercial software houses have the luxury of targeting a specific platform for a revenue-generating commercial app, business developers have to satisfy business requirements.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Setting a value is always difficult especially when you come across so many companies that are pre-revenue and sometimes pre-monetization strategy. A year or so ago the news was that Google and or YouTube was going to help small partners/studios with funding that would be recovered by ADD revenue. Global Syndication Partners.

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