Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

and concentrated on a single part of the supply chain – importing, distribution, wholesale, retail. Existing companies are starting to feel the pressures of new technologies and the massive wave of new entrants fueled by the explosion of investment from a recent form of financing – venture capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

My two most recent deals involve a distribution of labor or direct sales, and two of my upcoming deals are similarly structured. Being on the platform would be a huge boost to their net income. With some platforms, I can''t help but think that a heck of a lot of human effort was expended to net the platform not a lot of cash.

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Distribution Venture Capital .Net Sales 114

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. The risk-averse argument is that a strong network is a safety net. Networks are both safety nets and trampolines. I think a lot of entrepreneurs don’t fully understand how venture capital works.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. The risk-averse argument is that a strong network is a safety net. Networks are both safety nets and trampolines. I think a lot of entrepreneurs don’t fully understand how venture capital works.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital. Instead of measuring success in dollars of profit, …firms focus on measuring capital efficiency. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 23, 2011

The dramatic reduction in the cost of starting a technology business combined with readily available risk capital has created a near perfect market for anyone with an idea and some risk tolerance to become an entrepreneur. In most cases the outcomes of such experiments are determined with less than $1M in invested capital.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

I emphasize that the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. Distribute press releases on free sites like Free Press Release and PRLog.com. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2013

I probably get around a dozen e-mails a week asking me how to get into venture capital. On top of that, anytime I talk to anyone who wants to get involved in startups but isn''t sure what they want to do, inevitably, I hear, "And then I was thinking maybe I should look into venture capital, too.". Know thy self.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

ff Venture Capital is both an investor and also runs our back office on Addepar.). For family offices / high net worth investors: the fact that some funds succeed with high returns motivates those with gambler mentalities to chase hot managers or to think that they can use their luck / smarts / intelligence to find the best managers.

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Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Portfolio 114

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. One of the ones that really bothers me is how Venture Capitalists try and conflate what they do as being complicated.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2015

You incorporate expected company returns, mortality rates, and fee structures to try to predict how a venture capital fund works from a cash in, cash out, and NAV standpoint. And no, the numbers don't exactly add up--but they're more than close enough for venture capital. It's also not the "average fund".

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Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation IRR Valuation 60

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. . Fund/SPV management services specifically are provided by Assure Services and Proteus Capital. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Software By Rob

JUNE 25, 2013

Not Distribution. Alongside growth hacking there is another buzz phrase titled distribution hacking. Growth hackers generally tend to focus on product centric growth mechanisms, while distribution hackers focus on distributing a product using paid channels (i.e. Think Product. pay-per-click, retargeting, etc.).

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Venture Capital Bootstrapping Distribution Conversion Ratio 71

Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The decision to ramp up pre-approval production on multiple COVID-19 vaccines so they’d be ready to distribute if proven effective was a classic blitzscaling tactic. To achieve that goal, we must “reach net-zero emissions by 2050 — and get halfway there by 2030.” Then, there’s climate change.

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Technical Review Green Nigeria .Net 28

David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

I emphasize that the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. Distribute press releases on free sites like Free Press Release and PRLog.com. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly.

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PR Public Relations Startup Technical Review 60

BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

For the more advanced enterprises who have migrated to the cloud, this will be a year of net new technology and building applications. While developers can now spin up applications faster than ever before, one of the downsides is the complexity of managing these distributed applications and technologies.

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Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2014

When a fund has an exit, it can either distribute the money to its investors (the LPs) or it can “recycle it” and invest it in new and existing companies in the fund. At this point, it would have taken $6m of management fees (2% * 3 years) so it could recycle the $6m (hence, reinvesting it) while distributing $14m to the LPs.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The main drivers, from our viewpoint, are: Many tech entrepreneurs no longer view venture capital as an inevitability in their growth path, and have grown skeptical of the traditional “growth at all costs” mindset found in many startup circles; and An increasing number of VCs are growing comfortable with LLCs.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 9, 2011

Introduction This post originally appeared as part of the “ Ask the Attorney ” column I am writing for VentureBeat ; it is another installment of my ongoing series regarding venture capital term sheets. What Are the Key Issues for Founders? First, founders should push for a low multiple of the Original Purchase Price (e.g.,

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Term Sheet Conversion Rights Venture Capital Liquidation Preference 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

There are dozens of sources to help you construct your business model, and a good example is a recent book by venture capital investor Elizabeth Edwards, simply named “ Startup ,” which is really designed as a handbook for launching a company for less. Distribution. How do you distribute your product or service?

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Business Model Distribution Viral Green 242

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

If you deliver exactly the same results at the same net cost to the customer via a SaaS product, you may get a tech multiple 10X higher. Heck, there was no venture capital in Dixie in that era. Compared to today’s complexities, pricing was pretty simple at that time, but it still required some muscle to get it done.

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Technical Review Software Review Nevada Silicon Valley 48

Software By Rob

JUNE 20, 2013

Not Distribution. Alongside growth hacking there is another buzz phrase titled distribution hacking. Growth hackers generally tend to focus on product centric growth mechanisms, while distribution hackers focus on distributing a product using paid channels (i.e. Think Product. pay-per-click, retargeting, etc.).

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Venture Capital Bootstrapping Distribution Conversion Ratio 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Venture capital isn’t right for many business but if you do want to raise from a VC at some point you need to understand that often investors care more about growth than profits. Is the revenue dependent on a concentrated set of distribution partners or platforms that put future revenue at risk? Not necessarily.

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Stock Options Startup Dilution Venture Capital 227

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

There are dozens of sources to help you construct your business model, and a good example is a recent book by venture capital investor Elizabeth Edwards, simply named “ Startup ,” which is really designed as a handbook for launching a company for less. Distribution. How do you distribute your product or service?

Business Model 246

Business Model Distribution Viral Green 246

Software By Rob

JUNE 25, 2013

Not Distribution. Alongside growth hacking there is another buzz phrase titled distribution hacking. Growth hackers generally tend to focus on product centric growth mechanisms, while distribution hackers focus on distributing a product using paid channels (i.e. Think Product. pay-per-click, retargeting, etc.).

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Venture Capital Bootstrapping Distribution Conversion Ratio 27

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Venture capital. More frequently, startups choose to work with venture capitalists (VCs), who invest in companies in exchange for a share of ownership (and typically, some degree of control). The future of startup funding is going to rely on a number of new technologies and new modes of collecting and distributing funds.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. I have to say that it has netted far more than I would have thought. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Series B is about proving your net revenue model (can you be profitable?). These elements of the business model– revenue (pricing, pricing strategy), distribution channel, How to Get/Keep/Grow customers, Key Activities, Resources and Costs – are other, critical parts your start up needs to understand and have in place.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 429

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

If this figure is accurate – it’s certainly a very large business even when you look at net revenues. Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (Jeremy Liew)(lead), with existing investors: U.S. Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures, Revolution LLC (Steve Case). Its net income for the 2009 period is $11.66

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Wow” moments lead to word-of-mouth viral growth and high net promoter scores. The supplier not only looks to you as a provider of revenue, but they receive that revenue “net of the fee.” In this latter case the marketplace appears as an expense, and it’s easier for the supplier to view it is a “tax” versus a distribution relationship.

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Aggregator Marketing Software Review North America 101

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 12, 2012

Now that distribution is as easy as uploading a file to the internet middlemen simply don’t add enough value any more. Jim Gaffman’s new comedy special is available to download for $5 and he says going direct will net him more cash and gives him more creative freedom. Fans also like the idea that all their money is going to the artist.

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Venture Capital .Net Distribution Matching 94

VC Adventure

APRIL 16, 2020

This is a positive step, and more like it, which will allow broader distribution of funds available, need to be taken. During the Great Recession of 2008 and shortly thereafter, the net number of new firms created in the United States was negative: More companies closed than were being started. Nearly a month into the crisis, the U.S.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video.

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Peru Technical Review North America 96

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

Thus, the earnings of a C corporation are generally taxed twice: once at the corporate level on the corporation’s taxable income and a second time at the stockholder level on dividends or distributions. If a C corp generates net operating losses rather than net income, these are carried forward to offset future corporate taxable income.

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LLC Stock Options Preferred Stock Stock 61

Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It. He calls this “the secret of the market.”. Do you know a specific market’s secret?

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Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Non-Compete Naming 60

Growthink Blog

JANUARY 7, 2015

is poised to be a net oil exporter. In addition to the massive flows of capital and wealth created and distributed by the top tech. Business Planning Entrepreneurship Financing Investing Jay Turo Management Venture Capital' Low Interest Rates. companies continue to lead the way.

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Balance Sheet Private Equity Venture Capital .Net 48