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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. Kayak generates both distribution (i.e.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. A few years before all this scandalous VC behavior occurred, in 2005 Paul Graham ) started Y Combinator. They are operators, through and through. Ok, let’s dive in and discuss in more detail. Mega VC, Micro VC. and no, we didn’t.

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10 Reasons Podcast Guesting is the #1 Killer Content Marketing Tactic of All Time

Duct Tape Marketing

The nature of the way podcasts are produced and distributed (audio, web page and often video) makes them much more shareable than typical blog posts – resulting in more likes, shares, tweets, backlinks and traffic. Again, just the review equity from this alone make podcast guesting worth it. Free long-form blog posts. Oh yeah, Sales !

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My XOXO Talk

Bryce Dot VC

As a venture funded startup, you’re supposed to operate a certain way. Back in 2005 we started a venture firm called OATV, O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures, myself, my partner Tim O’Reilly, and my partner Mark Jacobson. In that case, if you want to pay yourself more than 150% of a market salary, we would consider that a distribution.

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How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event

Steve Blank

What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. 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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The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

www.paulgraham.com

It could mean an operating system, or aprogramming language, or a "framework" built on top of a programminglanguage. If VCs fund you, theyre not going to let you just put the moneyin the bank and keep operating as two guys living on ramen. Fortunately for PayPal they switched CEOs instead. Platform is a vague word.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. RockYou (US) was founded in Redwood City in November 2005 by Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen.