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. . See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Tribe Capital has developed A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit. . 2) Market .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The Small Business Tips Series is supported by Bantam Live , a web-based collaboration workspace with “Social CRM&# for small business teams. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. and Path Intelligence.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. We then spoke about startups. Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. Startups shouldn’t be like this. Not a chance.

Connecticut 286

Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Media Relations 101 for Your Startup – [link]. Startup Tip: Marketing One-To-One – [link]. The Five Whys for Startups – [link]. Thinking About Doing – [link].

Social Media 88

Social Media Small Business Design Media 88

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 13, 2011

Being in venture capital gives you the benefit of having seen a lot of patterns of success and failure—and unfortunately, there are some basic ones that new founders seem to miss. That’s totally fine and to be expected. Sometimes, technology changes and old ideas that were before their time can be successful.

Viral 110

Viral Social Network Startup Early Stage 110

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It has many stylistic errors — and a few substantive ones, too — that I would now change having learned more, but I realized that it still provides useful insights for entrepreneurs and startup participants outside of the Greylock network, particularly across three areas of interest: how entrepreneurs should approach the pitch process.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

What are they, how do they differ and what can startup do to take advantage of them? Paths to Liquidity: a quick history of the four waves of startup investing. Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

VC Cafe

JULY 24, 2017

The early days of Venture Capital Cafe. I remember feeling like a mini diplomat when I saw readers from the middle east coming to VC Cafe to read about Israeli startups. Virality was getting featured on Digg and bookmarking was Del.icio.us. Social networks offer unprecedented reach. Stats were addictive.

Social Bookmarking 75

Social Bookmarking Social Network RSS Viral 75

www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Heres what they had to say about developers doing double duty as designers, trends theyd like to see disappear, and how aesthetics can help a startup sink or swim. The landing page for Bonds viral, social game, Spymaster. Is a web apps look and feel critical to its overall success or failure? "As See Also Elegant.ly

Web 42

Web Design Startup Flash 42

Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

We are still in the early days of video monetization, and one of the great gaps in the landscape has just been closed by a new startup, LittleCast , that I co-founded with Amra Tareen and Stephen Ackroyd. LittleCast lets any videographer sell video on social networks. What is the gap that LittleCast now fills?

Video 35

Video Social Media Media Social Network 35

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The myth about pivots is that they are an exception: something undesirable that happens because a startup went seriously awry, and which you should strive to avoid. Actually, startups, like all businesses, work because of a cycle of invention and reinvention. Startups need coherence; all the elements need to fit together.

Startup 36

Startup Silicon Valley Business Model Mobile 36

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. Then read the below. Seriously badass. Enjoy Five Questions with Renee. . This was before the Facebook IPO.

Social Media 82

Social Media Campaign Media Marketing 82

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. I learned that he was originally with William Morris as a junior talent rep but wanted to be more in the business of helping digital startups. Pose is no different. And they still do.

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Term Sheet Mobile Cofounder Early Stage 303