Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2017

While there’s a certain cachet that comes with being able to say you raised a round of funding for your startup, realize that it’s a lot of hard work to actually secure venture capital (VC) funding , and there are reasons you might not want to. If you’re looking to bring on a partner and money, venture capital might be the right fit.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 23, 2021

I remember an early Airbnb board meeting where one of the other board members said, “It’s critical that we need to measure and track our operating margins.” Yet for a different company, like a hardware business, understanding operating margins might be essential. If you don’t have a sizable market, you won’t achieve a venture return.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business Model Affects Metrics and Exit Criteria Web-based Business Model Exit Criteria In a web-business model you’re looking for traffic, users, conversion, virality, etc – not revenue. I don’t think you need operational experience to be a good VC but Mark Suster’s great new post illustrates the difference. [.]

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

New Capital Earmarked for Global High-Growth Investments LARCHMONT, N.Y., 26 Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the oldest venture capital practice in the United States, today announced the closing of a $350 million supplement to its current fund family, BVP VII, which closed in June 2007. 2009 Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. Word-of-mouth and viral marketing are popular terms these days, but are rarely adequate to initiate a new business. Sales/Marketing. Production.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. Katrina has also proven herself in the recruiting field, having recruited Eric Colson from Netflix to run analytics and algorithms, Mike Smith from WalMart.com to run operations, and Jeff Barrett from Opower to build engineering. https://stitchfix.com/gifts.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Sales (and/or customer acquisition in a multi-sided market) becomes achievable by a sales force (or network effect or virality) without heroic efforts from the founders. Operating execs hired by investors used the tools they learned in business school or larger corporations. Family/Career/Culture Lean LaunchPad Venture Capital'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. Word-of-mouth and viral marketing are popular terms these days, but are rarely adequate to initiate a new business. Sales/Marketing. Production.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Smart enterprises are analyzing all of this data to make better decisions, increase revenue, and improve operating performance. In industry terms, this means we looks for companies that have a high viral coefficient. are leveraging network effects, viral marketing, and growth hacking to ramp up their user base in the enterprise side.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. Most importantly, the phrase “ bootstrapping a startup ” translates into “growing your business with little or no venture capital or outside investment. It means relying on your own savings and revenue to operate and expand.”.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

Our current focus is on creating sticky, super viral applications that help users get more out of Facebook and other social media. In addition to operating its own applications, Buddy Media helps large media companies and marketers develop, build, manage, and promote social media applications.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. Startups that win in the bubble will be those that get wide adoption (using freemium, viral growth, low costs, etc) and massive distribution (i.e. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). Action : If you’re building a web site: Small portion of your site should be operational on the web. General Marketing, Sales Funnel, etc.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

It is time to fix your key SaaS metrics: P&L: MRR = MRE: you control your destiny when your monthly revenue equals your monthly expenses Sales & Marketing: Your cost of capital doubled, so if a CAC ratio > 0.5 Venture Capital. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Explore Venture Capital.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

TOP or Total Operational Performance, is a cost cutting approach, where your objective is to cut 40% of all the "not-strictly-necessary costs" by doing things differently. Venture Capital. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Explore Venture Capital. I was super excited! Favorite Podcasts. (1).

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

He also had backing from well-known venture capital investors like Union Square Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google Ventures, and even Richard Branson. The second is a lack of operational scalability. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

Venture Capital. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Explore Venture Capital. .) – The rules of engagement for technical resources (solution or product specialists) are not clear. Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6). McKinsey highlights. (1). Online Gaming. (1). Portfolio. (3). software. (10).

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

It would be nice if You wanna give us some advises on the recruiting process in Venture Capital Industry. Venture Capital. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Explore Venture Capital. on a scale of 1-4). Interesting to see VCs looking at this issue. How does one contact you Phillippe?

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

We are the leader in the professional domain with viral growth. What I knew that many didn’t was that a combination of curiosity and a viral game mechanic would slowly get to a million people, at which point the network becomes valuable. Here, we argue that we have a viral product that creates a network that possesses network effects.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The best board books I've seen track nearly 20-30 key metrics (some financial, some operating) from meeting to meeting and those metrics are usually covered in the first 20-30 minutes of the meeting, setting the stage for more strategic discussion. just.a.guy David -- this is a great article. All rights reserved.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Ryan Chan, founder at UpKeep said, “We created an LLC at first, but after realizing that we wanted to take on venture capital, we decided to move to a Delaware C corp.”. venture capital. You get to call all the shots, including how you want to operate the business and who you want to be involved. or even be a U.S.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

From there, it further shifted to operating its own refrigerated warehouse and fleet of delivery vans to deliver organic foods directly from farmers and specialty suppliers. This pivot fundamentally changes your required organizational competencies, from Sales and Marketing to Engineering, Operations, and Support.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2020

The employer can rely on the contractor to complete operational tasks that are still critical to the company’s survival, but do so without the hassle, chains and liability of a full-time W2 staff. It also de-risked their operational expenses by moving employers to contractors , making the relationship much more flexible.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

One common mistake is for entrepreneurs to simply select whichever venture capital firm is offering the highest valuation. His performance as a board member is the reason I chose to join Greylock when I transitioned from entrepreneur to venture capitalist. All of us have to take the time to ask, “How can we operate better?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re a startup entrepreneur, you risk facing a competitive disadvantage if you wait too long to expand your operations. Managing employees and tasks remotely can be a recipe for disaster when you’re building a nascent operation. On the other hand, it’s important to consider the realities of today’s business environment.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

I’m your host, Marcus, and today we’re talking to Josh Breinlinger, who currently works as a senior associate at Sigma Partners, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park. I think on the plus side, really the biggest surprise is how much you learn in venture capital. Josh: Thanks for having me. Marcus: Okay.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

I (and many others) have spent our fair share of time criticizing venture capitalists. And there are many, many legitimate criticisms that you could accurately level against more than half of venture capitalists. But venture capital is the only profession whose members get lots of repeat practice being board members.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

You’ve built detailed analytics tracking into your product and you should be seeing organic and viral growth; and can provide Daily/Weekly/Monthly Active Users, 30d/90d/120d retention. This means you have evidence that you’ve found product/market fit and have fanatic customers who are reference accounts. 2M in 18 months.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 10, 2007

The multi-touch screen enables the user to perform several operations at the same time and everything is very intuitive. Venture Capital. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Explore Venture Capital. Aside from the sleek design, the iPhone has an amazing user interface. Favorite Podcasts. (1).

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Salesforce.com just has average to below-average profitability" Everyone would agree that the value of an operating asset is defined by the sum of its discounted future cash flows. Venture Capital. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Explore Venture Capital. Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6).

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

As a private company, you have a VERY high cost of capital (well above 10%), whether you raise venture capital, angel money, friends and family investments, bank financing, or all of the above. Venture Capital. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Explore Venture Capital. internet.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Gordon is also operating director of Zynga and director at Amazon, both sFund partners. Bryce Roberts: Bryce Roberts is co-founder of O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), a firm that invests seed-stage funds in startups with big, first-time ideas and technologies that have the potential to change the world.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

Hunter Walk : You went from Wall St Trader to VC at OATV to operating side now at Haven , a logistics startup. So I switched careers into venture capital because I wanted to learn the ways of valuing private companies. And I love being on the operating side. Click on that bio link in the previous line. Look for yourself.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

billion crypto fund, went particularly viral as Marc struggled to articulate the use case for Web3. A persistent, infinitely-scaling virtual space with its own economy and identity system. Jonathan Lai, General Partner, A16Z Gaming fund. Let’s define the building blocks of the Metaverse.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). Hiring manager: If one has a lot of experience with large building cranes and operations, the hiring manager rules them out. It’s an *freaking open source*.net net implementation. Checkout [link].net

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

I'm a biologist and a member of the infectious disease division here at UC San Diego and have been involved in viral research, particularly RNA viruses, since HIV came along in the 80s. At the time, virology was not thought to be very interesting because we didn't have good ways to diagnose specific viral infections except antibody responses.

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