abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? This “gain” ($34B last year alone) is a result of a direct wealth-transfer to these individuals FROM the previous owners of the company — founders, executives, employees, and venture investors. Do you think those customers would find that interesting and compelling?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. Irma Olguin : My name is Irma Olguin, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. And in fact, my co-founder is one of those, right?

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Even for those who don’t care to dive into the numbers, it’s worth a quick glance because co-founder/CEO Andrew Mason wrote a letter which forms the preamble of the full document. How They Make Money: Groupon keeps a share of the coupon value (typically 40-50%) as its net revenue (1). in net revenue and passes $0.58

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. 2010 Net Income: $8 million. Founding Date: 2004. What They Do: Travel search engine.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 2, 2021

interpreting a “better human being” as one that does less harm to the environment, or as a goal, is a net benefit to the environment. However, in aggregate, the more automation we have introduced, the more jobs we have created?—?this In aggregate, automation and digital technologies can make us better humans. as an individual?—?is

Technology 62

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

There was no Brad Pitt, broken ribs or bars of soap but The Founder’s Fight Club was just as entertaining as the Hollywood film. Round 1: From a total pool of around twenty, two Founders square off against each other in a 30 second battle round. John Girard, Advisor, Founder, Mentor. Ding, Ding, Ding! Pitch-Off Details.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

I just saw a friend of mine who's a finance person temporarily pause his job and volunteer to be the CFO or investor, whatever investor relations person for a startup was trying to work on a cure so that the founders could have more time to do the science. Not a lot of founders I know right now are sleeping great through the night.

Silicon Valley 68

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often. 3) Raise capital.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

And while the value of testing may be apparent to those involved in it, individual test results do not aggregate into ROI calculations made in the C-Suite. It depends on your goals,” CXL Founder Peep Laja explained. Look-back windows and baselines for holdouts. What about the degree of site change? To measure the untrackable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. It's one of those things that founders can do sometimes where other employees are afraid to do it.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra is buying Wintegra for a net purchase price of $213 million and will pay up to an additional $60 million based on growth and performance milestones in 2011. Wintegra founders Kobi Ben-Zvi and Robert O’Dell will join PMC-Sierra. billion net profit. billion, of which $2.5 is acquiring iSkoot Technologies Inc.,

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Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

At a high level, user experience is the aggregate and subjective experience of using a product such as a website or app. Net Promoter Score (NPS). I like how CXL founder Peep Laja summed it up: Peep Laja. Does it feel seamless and fun? Does it work? It contains more than just good visual design or proper usability. It’s simple.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

If you’re thinking about building an online video network today you need to think about: Producing your own content (not just aggregating). Selling at smaller retailers will net you fewer customers and higher margins. If you think of yourself as a middleman I agree with you – this is a crappy business.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Watch this video with the site’s founder and CEO where he talks about how he launched everything solo and wound up with an entire company built around one idea.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage. [From Lean vs Fat Startups: The Disrupt Debate ]. The short answer is that both Horowitz and Wilson are right because the correct answer hinges on a key variable summed up as “it depends&#.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A smaller portion of the total capital in the VC ecosystem comes from high net worth individuals. I was at the same event and Semil’s thoughts on “A dollar travels far before it reaches a founder” were spot on, but I wanted to elaborate a little more. Insurance Companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. With staged releases, time provides a (somewhat illusory) safety net. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Read on to find out.

Continuous Deployment 151

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. We have already seen examples of founders and management obtaining liquidity in front of investors.

IPO 40

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 30, 2019

John Jantsch: Today’s episode is brought to you by Break Through The Noise , the new book by Tim Staples, Co-Founder and CEO of Shareability. John Jantsch: Okay, so on Google’s five point or five star scale, is there a perfect aggregate score that you should be aiming for? Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

It’s an interview with Brian, who’s the head of Robot Paper, founder of Robot Paper. Jonathan: Yeah, he’s actually the founder of Robot Paper, but that’s not his only job. Peter: The net result is they ended up self-publishing under this company called Robot Paper. The title is “ What Does It Take to Start a Comic Book Business?

Small Business 60

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A smaller portion of the total capital in the VC ecosystem comes from high net worth individuals. I was at the same event and Semil’s thoughts on “A dollar travels far before it reaches a founder” were spot on, but I wanted to elaborate a little more. Insurance Companies.

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ithacaVC

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The MCOP can serve a critical role as founders and other management team members are diluted down by rounds of financing or if their equity is not in the money. As the investors’ aggregate liquidation preference (ALP) increases typically the need for a MCOP also increases. A few key points to consider: 1.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

A persona is an aggregate of all the traits that your customers have, so that it becomes your most common customer. We have planning tutorials done by our founder and business plan expert, Tim Berry, where you can actually have him go in and he will do a video on how to do your sales forecast. A persona is not a real person.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

He is the founder of the Value Builder System , a company that helps business owners improve the value of their company, and he’s also the author of the bestselling book, Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is John Warrillow.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Sir Martin Sorrel , the founder of WPP (the worlds largest media organization), recently said he went to Tech Punta in Montevideo instead of the CES in Las Vegas. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Examples of Surrealism rising are many and varied.

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Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Interesting term used in a ZD Net article - Platform as a Service (PaaS) Unfortunately, Peter sells the promise and ignores the reality. Next up: Joe Andrieu CEO/Founder, SwitchBook Chair, Project VRM Standards Committee Key questions - Will it accomplish what you need? Will it survive as long as you need? Server and client in Java.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

the Sequoia’s and Greylock’s of the world) or sometimes its based on the entrepreneurial successes of the founders of new firms (e.g. A16Z today or Founders Fund or General Catalyst a few years ago). For some firms that promise seems very sound based on funds well before the most recent one (e.g. So at a fund level (e.g.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% next to nothing, charge?

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

In a post on the statistics behind A/B Testing , Conductrics founder Matt Gershoff wrote that it’s important to understand “how the milk is made.” In order to discover those changes at the aggregate level we need to have a sample size that is representative of our visitor population. Is it feasible? Is it wanted? Not really right?

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Hippoland

JANUARY 4, 2017

Later, if you sell the whole company to Google at say $5 per share, I will earn $500k for a net gain of $400k. Lawyers can charge as much as $10k-$30k (in the US) to draft and execute the legal docs for an equity round, and traditionally, founders are responsible for paying for this as well as investors’ legal costs!

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Convertible Security Equity Security Silicon Valley 48

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. But a lot of it is also just getting the data, aggregating it, being able to take action on it. I don't unfortunately, feel like I can say that it will net out as a good thing because of so much devastation that seems to be inevitable. She served as the U.S.

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Up and Running

JULY 7, 2020

Although experts estimate that these costs will comprise upwards of 15-20% of your total net sales, the only way to know how much your business truly needs to budget is to calculate these numbers for yourself. A small enough startup may be able to rely on just the founder to perform these tasks, thereby saving money. Customer service.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My founders and I started the company about three years ago. The way that I leverage that is when I’m faced with a decision before I go to make the decision and let’s say my executive team and I or my co-founder and I or just myself I get an idea and I think what if we were to do X, Y and Z.

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Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

They are generally high net worth (accredited) individuals who have done well in their career, either as entrepreneurs or as executives and early employees at some of the companies that have done well (in the Valley that usually means Paypal, Google, Facebook etc). <$50K in aggregate. However, there is a difference. Lots, 20-100.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Logia offers Mobile Operators a range of solution for their Apps Stores starting from Content Aggregation, Billing aggregation to full white labeled Apps Store. Logia has the unique combination of being both a content aggregator and a billing aggregator. Mce Systems. MailVision.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

Another great example of linkable assets are pages that aggregate industry stats, like this one. As Sujan Patel, co-founder of Right Inbox notes, making any interaction mutually beneficial increases success rates.). Remember, only a subset of the potential links will pan out, so a broken page with 100 links may net only 5 for you.

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