Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

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.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

If you’ve been operating as a Corp, LLC, or Partnership, all business associates need to vote on closing the business. If you’ve been operating as an LLC, review the dissolution requirements in your state’s LLCA (Limited Liability Company Act). Again, no assets can be distributed until all debts have been settled.

LLC 68

LLC Technical Review Social Media Startup 68

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works. EB : Yeah.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half.

Later Stage 218

Later Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Limited Partner 218

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. Mobile is another very important distribution place for the internet and Meebo is on the iPhone, Android, and BB. After a month of launch Meebo was getting 50k logins a day. For Meebo 1.3%

Connecticut 286

Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

From a young age, I watched him start a company from scratch and build it to a NASDAQ company operating in many countries. I started my business consulting firm in 2005 when I decided to become a mom. Photo Credit: Graham Beck. My inspiration to be a business owner came from my father. Thanks to Graham Beck, DropDesk Coworking !

Fractional CTO 122

Fractional CTO Entrepreneur CTO Hire LLC 122

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. I look for firms in which some of the partners (my partner) have operational experience and know what it’s like to wake up every day and be an entrepreneur. Folksonomy.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 31, 2022

I just worked behind a computer and, and basically ran operations for an organization. They said that they've got, you know, a hundred employees and they're distributed now and this just, they do a podcast that is purely an internal vehicle communication vehicle. I wasn't an astronaut. I, I ran me the other day. None of it.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Hosting Networking Software Review 88

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

billion, and in 2005 it bought another generics competitor, Ivax, based in Miami, for about $7.4 Gordonsville, Virginia-based PBM manufactures and distributes over-the-counter store-brand infant formula and baby foods sold by retailers in the mass, club, grocery and drug channels in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China.

OTC 68

OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

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.

Cofounder 429

Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 429

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Other angel investors and smaller funds also copied this innovation, and many of these new Micro-VC fund managers (like me) came from operational backgrounds at companies like PayPal/eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, or Google, rather than finance backgrounds from investment banking or Wall Street. They are operators, through and through.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2012

In 2005 Barefoot Cellars was acquired by E&J Gallo Winery, which continues to proudly carry on the off-beat message of “the wine that didn’t take itself too seriously. Plus, multiple NPOs might operate under the umbrella of one worthy cause. An NPO can change its mission, while a cause will always remain the same.

Marketing 213

Marketing Distribution Partner Advertising 213

Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2019

From: Brett Hurt Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:52 AM To: All Bazaarvoice?—?Internal Email is superior for messages that need to be distributed to many people at the same time (like this one) and are better left archived (such as an important piece of industry news or research). Same point?—?but

Conversion 48

Conversion Email Cofounder Hosting 48

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

We also soon decided that we wanted to outsource as much of our operations to hosted services as we possibly could. Then we allocated the saved money into hiring the highest quality developers available — especially those who have experience working with a distributed team.

Startup 79

Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

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.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Los Angeles Oakland Asia 217

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Back then there were “email forwards.” Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?” He thinks the very nature of video is changing.

Media 210

Media Los Angeles Russia Viral 210

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

In 2005, he retired to focus on giving back, beginning by teaching technology entrepreneurship courses at Stanford, becoming a trustee at the University of Pennsylvania (which he attended undergrad), and funding cancer research with his wife. If you're the second person, you're an operator. That's not it at all. I'm an investor.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley Lean Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 159

Up and Running

JULY 29, 2014

The United Kingdom began using a similar structure in 2005, called a Community Interest Company. The L3C provides all the benefits of an LLC structure, including flexibility in ownership, management, decision making power, and profit distributions. In 2008 in the U.S., The L3C: Coming to a state near you?

Vermont 106

Vermont Limited Liability Company Rhode Island North Dakota 106

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

A few weeks ago, Coinbase , which facilitates buying, storing and purchasing cryptocurrency and also operates a cryptocurrency exchange, went public. Coinbase was founded in 2012 and operates a cryptocurrency exchange. Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography?

IPO 113

IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

billion (plus an earn out that could have totalled $4 billion but didn’t in the end) in 2005 before selling 65% of the company in 2009 for $1.9 Then David Lapter, the CFO & EVP Operations of KickAps in the same week did a Skype / Webcast presentation of his business to the SoCal Venture Alliance monthly meeting. billion).

Term Sheet 266

Term Sheet Europe Wiki Cloud 266

VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2011

Facebook will only allow Credits to be distributed through offers by approved providers once the July 1st deadline passes and all games to switch to Credits as their payment method. According to Israel Venture Capital (IVC), Ra’anana-based Advasense raised $31 million in 2005-07 from Giza Venture Capital , BlueRun Ventures.

United Kingdom 107

United Kingdom Venture Capital Taiwan 107

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The acquisition is a bitter-sweet end to the story of Veoh, which has raised $70 million since getting funded in 2005 from institutional investors (Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, Shelter Capital and Spark Capital among others) and big media companies such as ABC, CBS and Warner Brothers.

Bankruptcy 74

Bankruptcy Early Stage Merger Institutional Investors 74

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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.

Startup 108

Startup Software Review Hiring Detroit 108

Up and Running

MAY 25, 2016

Census Bureau data, of the nonprofits that started in 2005, only 43 percent of these firms still existed in 2010. In this article, I’m going to provide you with a list of strategies that will help you increase your nonprofit’s revenue so that you can not only stay in operation, but thrive! According to U.S. Hold benefit events.

Revenue 86

Revenue Oregon Campaign Social Media 86

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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. When a podcast goes lives, there’s this cool feeling of a mini-launch that results in a highly shareable piece of content.

Kansas City 58

Kansas City Kansas SEO Marketing 58

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2013

I’ve been publishing the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast since 2005. 2012 became the year that a number of very well-known content producers embraced the podcast format, producing and distributing audio content in a very big way. I’ve been publishing the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast since 2005. My personal listening list.

RSS 70

RSS Audio Social Media Syndicate 70

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. What's happened in the last decade, the cost of launching an Internet product - forget other technologies, we'll focus on Internet - has dropped from $5 million to $500,000 in 2005, to $50,000 today," he continues.

IPO 115

IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

Altgate

JANUARY 16, 2011

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Lorem Ipsum is Evil Operating System for the Classroom → The Real Reason Google May Fail Posted on January 16, 2011 by admin Recently I’ve been reading a lot of ink (er, liquid crystal?) Bookmark the permalink.

CPA 72

CPA Advertising Distribution Search 72

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

For most of its existence, PHP didnt have a standard package-distribution system or very good module support. But I think debates about which language, which operating system, even which editor (emacs, vim, Visual Studio) can go on forever. And this all came bundled up in another bad practice: a big monolithic interpreter.

PHP 166

PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco 166

Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

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.

Venture Capital 40

Venture Capital Valuation Los Angeles Chicago 40

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Saba currently works as the operations manager (Sumo) at AppSumo. Founders Paul Farnell, Matthew Brindley, and David Smalley started Litmus in 2005 with a used computer and $800 dollars. They came up with the company’s core vision: to help solve distribution for startups and eventually all digital goods. How’d they do it?

Bootstrapping 78

Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Salary 78

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? free, distributed source code control management system. In addition, TheFunded.com allows entrepreneurs to view and share term sheets, to assist one other finding good investor, and to discuss the many facets of operating a business. Seed Startups. Mercurial â??

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53