Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

Apple and Facebook are both platforms , in the sense that their software and user networks are utilized by countless software developers to build their own businesses. Facebook’s direct platform revenue accounted for about 15% of the company’s overall sales whereas Apple’s was less than 1%. June 5, 2012.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

He is a podcast advertising specialist, and he founded the Tech Podcast Network in 2004. 4:32] Is that was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated? [5:48] He's a podcast advertising specialist and also founded the tech podcast network way back in the dinosaur days of podcasting 2004.

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Audio SMS Technical Review Advertising 62

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Create a franchise and license access to it , e.g., the Draper Venture Network. Coinvestors need to figure out ways to prioritize themselves in a VC’s preference stack for syndicating opportunities. – Syndicate Special Purpose Vehicles (“SPVs”) for specific opportunities.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Of the Inc.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. Total Raised: $17.7mm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

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. Warm introductions from common friends are even better, so networking with potential peers and future investors is highly recommended well before it’s time to ask for money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2020

Typically, individual investments will be less than $100K, but a group of angels may syndicate multiples. Since they know that most startups fail, their target return is ten times investment, so be prepared to talk cost vs revenue and product life. Angels spread their risk by making multiple smaller investments.

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

They function very similar to an Ad Network but with the main purpose of helping publishers and content owners get their posts in front of audiences on well-known websites. The platform’s claim is that their publishers make the highest RPMs (Revenue-per-Thousand-Impressions) through their platforms, as compared to competitors.

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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.

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SEO Search Generative AI Engineer 68

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage. When we started the firm, we were also more narrowly focused geographically due to our smaller team and network. This is not what Nextview is about.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

More connections means more business, more investors, more revenue, and more growth. Google for Entrepreneurs has established the Google Tech Hub Network of startup hubs and Google Campuses in major cities all over the world. We truly are an accelerator of the Austin startup ecosystem. Successful startups aren’t based in just one city.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

They’ve grown from nothing to >$2B in revenue in 30 months time, making the company among the fastest growing businesses in the histroy of the world. How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

Once objectives are identified and prioritized, your podcasting plan should outline strategies and tactics, which include format, frequency, duration, host/s, point of view, guests, research, syndication, and marketing. podcast directories) pick up and syndicate your podcasts for free via RSS feeds. Take some time to comparison shop.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

It was all great fun and I hope it was helpful—and I couldn’t have done it without all the other investors and founders who answered my e-mails roping them into showing up to various office hours events, panels, and other networking events.

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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. Social Network Lists.

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San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. Some funds are using intermediaries to help them sell to retail LPs ( Artivest , iCapital Network ). Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 2) Raise capital.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. With the help social networking tools it has became much easier for start ups to venture in the competitive market.

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France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

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. Your reach with a blog is much broader than traditional business networking channels and industry conferences. Develop an efficient and effective writing style. Demonstrate thought leadership to potential employees.

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Startup Social Media Syndicate Syndication 120

Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

To provide some reference points, I surveyed thirteen angels groups in North American to determine their recent experience in negotiating the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies. See the 2010 data reported here: Current Pre-money Valuations of Pre-revenue Companies. Pre-money Valuation of Pre-revenue Companies.

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Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation St. Louis 125

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

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. Warm introductions from common friends are even better, so networking with potential peers and future investors is highly recommended well before it’s time to ask for money.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Also, most leads will have their own network of co-investors with whom they can share the deal, but make sure to ask that they share on AngelList too. Social Network Lists. Social Networking. Photo Lists.

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Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

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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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 ). The James Altucher Show by Stansberry Radio Network on Apple Podcasts. The show starts with the history of Podcasts and ends with where they may be headed. itunes.apple.com.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Costolo clearly wants to position Twitter as a complementary part of the media ecosystem (which it is by and large) rather than a competitor, and there remains a chance that Twitter will have other forms of revenue besides ads. Here’s why: Virtually all of Twitter’s revenue comes from advertising.

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Media Advertising Silicon Valley Revenue 113

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

Try using an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) tool to stay in touch with important thought leaders speaking to your audience. According to studies by content distribution network provider Akamai , a two-second delay in webpage loading time increases “bounce rate” (the number of people who immediately leave a site) by a whopping 103%.

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Mobile Design Technical Review RSS 48

Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

Revenue ramp of Groupon and Zynga –> Kleiner famously said Zynga was the fastest growing company they’d ever invested in , no mean feat for the original backers of Google, Amazon, Netscape, etc, and Groupon might be the fastest ever startup to reach $1B in revenue. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Hockey Stick Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 113

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. Financial Snapshot : 2011 Revenue: $3.71 2011 YoY Revenue Growth: 88%. 2011 Gross Profit Margin: 77%.

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IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Rob Go

JANUARY 9, 2012

Typically, we meet companies through our network of entrepreneurs and co-investors. Post product Pre Revenue: 5. Post Revenue: 4. We invested at that stage, and less than a year later, the company is doing >$100K in monthly recurring revenue. . Syndicate Composition: Angels: 5. Introduced by co-investor: 3.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

For SaaS or other recurring revenue businesses these figures might be on a bookings basis rather than GAAP revenue, but conceptually they’re similar. Bill Gurley’s post last year does a great job analyzing why some businesses are valued at 10x+ revenue and most aren’t. Zynga – 8x+ trailing revenue.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Some can supply more when syndicating with other such groups. The European Business Angel Network (EBAN), and similar organizations in other countries including Canada, all have web sites with directories of angel groups that are local to you. Angel groups invest from $250,000 to $1,000,000 or more in qualified investments.

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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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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 ). The James Altucher Show by Stansberry Radio Network on Apple Podcasts. The show starts with the history of Podcasts and ends with where they may be headed. itunes.apple.com.

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Audio Curation Silicon Valley Media 60

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 27, 2010

With the company likely to smash its revenue goals for the year , reaching $2 billion, this means that it averages $4 of revenue per user – for the year! Facebook, for example, has cleverly used its mobile app in hitting the 500 million user milestone overall. Which leads to the third mobile megatrend…. The apps are the economy.

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Mobile Syndicate Syndication Austin 74

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 29, 2010

I’m sure at some point, the best of these deals will be syndicated to Homerun , Groupon, Buywithme, etc., Chase should be a reseller of Homerun, Foursquare, Square, and all of the different ways that retailers can innovate, save money or grow revenues. Community is one solution I had in mind.

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Syndicate Syndication Venture Capital Flash 105

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I describe this in part as the “Social Network” effect… not just the movie itself but the example of Mark Zuckerberg and many other high profile young founders as role models ( who can forget this image? ) for college students and recent grads to work in startups. [link]. link] leehower. link] Matthew Tagg.

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