The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

From breakthrough online products to new features from established platforms, today’s startups should be jumping on the most promising of tomorrow’s trendy technology. Pinterest is going to be the website to watch, along with other image-based social networking, search and sales websites. Personalization Technology.

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API Social Media Mobile Valuation 157

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

90 Things I’ve Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies. Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. Build all of your own technology. Be technical and understand how technology is built. Fab.com Fab Feed Bradfords Blog. Less is more.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When a top 10 company by valuation like Facebook, changes its name and focus to the MetaVerse – it is going to generate a lot of attention. Since its launch in 2004, Facebook was the clear winner of social networking with 3.6 Facebook / Meta wants to own what it thinks will be the future of social interaction.

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Social Network Government Valuation Advertising 48

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Get introduced via one of the social networks, or a professional organization, before you approach a VC with a business proposal. To make this work, you will need an initial valuation of at least $5M. Make a personal connection, directly or indirectly.

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Venture Capital IPO Elevator Pitch Initial Public Offering 252

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. The best thing to get is a “right sized&# valuation. A: It’s not best.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Valuation Stock Options 282

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Tesla is not.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I know you could argue that YouTube was much broader but it was really popularized in the social networks. billion valuation. Rumored: Digital Sky Technologies. But I made it for a reason. uh, hello!

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Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This has a tangible impact on the valuation of start-ups and the pace of investment. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. It is also a result of pent-up demand. In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary.

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Technical Review Stock Hawaii Early Stage 269

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2020

Some people blame it on Justin Timberlake (playing Sean Parker) in the movie The Social Network, who famously said that one million wasn’t cool, one billion was. To do that you have to show how your market is big enough (a multi-billion dollar market) to support that kind of valuation. We’ve heard it all before. I was wrong.

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Finance Silicon Valley Valuation Startup 205

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. It should answer every question an investor or associate might ask, including current valuation, funding needed, and exit strategy. A good start is taking an active role in relevant technology groups, trade associations, university activities, and local business groups.

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Intellectual Property Angel Investor Technical Review Elevator Pitch 249

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As a testament to the growing power of “the creator economy,” visual content creation app development startup Lightricks has secured an impressive $130 million investment round, at a valuation of $1.8 The creator economy has changed the way we, as a society, experience social networks.

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Private Equity Developer Venture Capital Merger 167

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. It should answer every question an investor or associate might ask, including current valuation, funding needed, and exit strategy. A good start is taking an active role in relevant technology groups, trade associations, university activities, and local business groups.

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Technical Review Elevator Pitch 224

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. The Power of the Individual: This was the year that the individual, amplified by technology platforms, became empowered to rise against oppressions both large and small.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin. Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation.

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Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 330

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Photo by nazreth. Discuss.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? It was from the Wall Street Journal--a publication I count on for emphasizing quality journalism over empty linkbaity headlines above hollow stories.

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Venture Capital Marketing Term Sheet Software Review 130

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

I was an early user of Quora and like all new technologies they take a bit of playing with them for a while, discussing them with others and reflecting on them to let them sink in. Obviously it is build on a social network “follow people&# model that is asymmetric like Twitter. really understand it. No, really.

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Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Software Review 301

The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

A new kind of company, built to leverage new technologies, new media channels, new working practices and new consumer markets, Crowdify is agile, adaptive, responsive and forward thinking — but also grounded and focused on product and brand strategy and return on marketing investment.

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Marketing Agile Social Network Valuation 94

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others. Prices for both private and public tech valuations exceed any rational valuation to their current worth. A few will be worth much, much more. Here are two views how.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2021

Users are flocking to multiplayer 3D universes such as Fortnite and Roblox that allow people to interact with 3D content and use it to represent their identity – these are the new 3D social networks. From avatar technology, to game engines. RecRoom, another VR social app, raised $100M back in March at a $1.25

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Cofounder Mobile Revenue Cloud 184

Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

My esteemed colleague Ben Horowitz essentially makes four arguments : 1) look at how relatively cheap Apple, Google and Amazon stock is compared to their growth; 2) Major technology cycles tend to be around 25 years long with the bulk of the purchases occurring in the last five-to-ten years. The Shills are the middlemen in a bubble.

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Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 315

mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Why HTML5 Given the hype and buzz surrounding HTML5 , it would be easy to believe that it is a technology that will do your laundry, mow the lawn and make you dinner. In fact, as the technology evolves, we wouldn’t be surprised to see more HTML5 elements popping up in native desktop applications as well. Let us know.

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Developer HTML API Ruby 93

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 4, 2009

They’ll say “@msuster provides great insight into VC valuation discussions – see [link] &#. Tags: Social Media social networking technology Twitter. When does this come into play? Sometimes I’ll see people who want to make people aware of a blog posting. They might have 2,000 followers.

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Social Network Social Media Valuation Naming 291

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Underwriters realized that as long as the public was happy snapping up shares, they could make huge profits from the inflated valuations. Carpe Diem.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 10, 2011

With the movie, The Social Network, Man of the Year Status, and now a $50 billion valuation, Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg are heading into rare air among campus launched ventures (Google, Yahoo!, First, let’s compare Facebook’s valuation to the market capitalization of other Internet companies — Yahoo, EBay, Amazon and Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Use it when your new technology gives you a tremendous cost improvement. This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs and medical devices that solve critical health problems. Price based on average value to customer.

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Revenue Affiliate Advertising Retention 166

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2016

This now-famous line from “ The Social Network ” perfectly sums up the startup atmosphere. The current technology revolution has created a mystical land of insane valuations, young billionaires, and elusive “unicorns.” by Omar Soliman, co-founder and CEO of College Hunks Hauling Junk and Trash Butler. A billion dollars!”.

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Balance Sheet Cofounder Valuation Social Network 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. Players such as Foursquare , Tapulous and Bump Technologies are attracting huge investor attention not to mention the huge hype around augmented reality applications such as Layar.

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IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. It should answer every question an investor or associate might ask, including current valuation, funding needed, and exit strategy. A good start is taking an active role in relevant technology groups, trade associations, university activities, and local business groups.

Angel Investor 260

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Angel Groups 260

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

startups with billion-dollar valuations) in recent years. If LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and entrepreneur Chris Yeh’s new book, Blitzscaling, is to be believed, the Uber-style race to the top (or the bottom, depending on your point of view) is the secret to success of today’s technology businesses. But is it correct?

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Technical Review Venture Capital San Francisco 48

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Include a current valuation estimate.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

This has flipped with the rise of social facilitation. BRIC nations especially are innovating and creating new technology platforms, while the west holds onto fossil fuel era. Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. Generation D don’t ‘network’.

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Moldova Internet Australia Libya 91

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Include a current valuation estimate.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Ad Serving Technology. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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