Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ► 2008. (11). The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. In the Fall of 2008, the credit crisis wiped out mergers and acquisitions as a path to liquidity as M&A collapsed with the rest of the market. So what’s left?

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Pascal's View

DECEMBER 17, 2012

My concern, based on my direct experience negotiating half a dozen acquisitions sine 2008 (three in 2012), both inside and outside of technology, is that the negotiating environment for such ‘ acquisition-ready ’ companies is fraught with challenge from the seller’s perspective. I agree with Dennis.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 14, 2014

Back in 2008, investor Peter Thiel posited that a low CEO salary was the best predictor of startup success: “The lower the CEO salary, the more likely it is to succeed. Few startups are transparent when it comes to salaries, so it’s interesting to see at least some aggregate data about the salary landscape as a whole.

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Transformify

AUGUST 2, 2017

HR Bartender: Started: 2008. TalentHQ: Started: 2008. HR Ringleader: Started: 2008. Blog Aggregators. If you are struggling to generate traffic to your blog, submit it to blog aggregators. Author: Sharlyn Lauby. Posts 3-4x a week. Author: Jason Buss. Posts ~1x a month. HRZone: Started: 2000. Author: Jamie Lawrence.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

While the specific tactics you take for each of these will be certainly different depending on the tools you choose to use, I think everyone needs to take steps around the following four strategies: Refine your personal elevator pitch Monitor what's being said about you online Proactively do content marketing Aggregate and curate to reinforce.

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David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

Danae Ringelmann, Slava Rubin and Eric Schell co-founded Indiegogo in 2008 to enable anybody with a great idea to make that idea happen. For background, Indiegogo is an online platform for anybody to raise money for his or her campaign, whether it be an author’s novel, an entrepreneur’s invention, or a filmmaker’s documentary.

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Genuine VC

JULY 22, 2012

This conclusion seems counter-intuitive given the anecdotal stories about the challenges that many venture capital firms have experienced in fundraising since the 2008 collapse as the industry has contracted into two distinct winning strategies of either a macrobrew or microbrew 1.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

a company that aggregates data on treatment outcomes for hospital patients. — Peter says they launched Prezi in the middle of the 2008 crash, with the audacious goal of taking on Apple, Microsoft and Google. In Sweden, he founded omvard.se Given all that I’ve seen in my career I don’t sweat the small stuff.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Kevin Rose at TechCrunch , April 20, 2009: Digg founder Kevin Rose almost sold his wildly popular aggregator to Google in 2008, and subsequently turned his resources toward creating a much stronger independent business instead. Chuck Feeney at RTE Radio 1 , Jan. Blake Mycoskie at TreeHugger , Sept.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

Or as he put it in a letter to shareholders in 2008, ‘Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.’ In the letter, Buffett advised, “Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio’s market value.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 12, 2017

aged 12+ had hearing loss in both ears, based on standard hearing examinations, from 2001 to 2008. Aggregate and report the findings, and calculate overall scores. Department of Health and Human Services , 15% of adults aged 18+ had some hearing trouble without a hearing aid. Another research study estimated that 12.7% User Testing.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

They measure average responsiveness and compute an aggregate statistic called Apdex which can be a good indicator of site health (at minimum, any significant changes to Apdex should be investigated, and they will email you alerts about such changes). released RailsConf 2008 Recap ► May (9) See you at Railsconf 2008 random_data v1.3.0

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. Because you have multiple forces at work.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. After beginning their fund-raising efforts in 2007, the firm was ready to close in the fall of 2008—when the financial crisis hit Wall Street.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

Thursday, January 17, 2008. The theme of the event was angel investment trends for 2008. While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. ▼ 2008. (14). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Touched by an Angel. return on investment after 3.5

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

A check-in aggregation platform. ► 2008. (14). VoiceBase - Transcription and search of voice communications (presentations, conference calls, etc.) TuneUp - iTunes plug-in that cleans up your music library. FootFeed - The only Day 1 company on my list. Im anti check-in and have been a conscienious objector in the whole category.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Almost 20% of young women now aspire to run their own business today as entrepreneurs (15% in 2008), according to a recent poll by The Telegraph. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2013

Back in 2008 I wrote a series of blog posts extolling the emerging virtues of RSS technology. A growing number of people have also turned to RSS aggregator tools like Flipboard and Pulse that can spoon feed more visually appealing content based on chosen topics. Heck, Google even has one of these called Google Currents.

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

← Viridus Launches Green Business News Aggregator Sell Snowblowers in the Winter, Not Lawn Mowers → Comments are closed. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Current Affairs and tagged business , government , greed , wall street. Bookmark the permalink.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Application level diagnostics Despite the best testing, defects still happen.

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

The first is that the ThomsonOne database shows capital weighted average returns consistently beating simple average returns for vintage years 1980-2008, implying that larger funds do better than smaller funds. Firstly, “fund size” can be misleading as some firms prefer to raise a large aggregate amount split between several concurrent funds.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. Youre highlighting one of the challenges that I think this kind of initiative faces, which is that there are probably only a few kids at any given school who this program can reach. Expo (and a call for he.

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Venture Chronicles

JULY 11, 2010

“The financial work force in New York has shrunk by more than 28,000 since its peak in January 2008″ So what exactly would suggest to the author that economic recovery is causing the hiring, even if the numbers are conservative we are talking about less than 10% of the jobs that were lost? . billion in 2009, the most ever.&#.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 16, 2013

At the time, I was thinking generally about the concept of aggregating demand for products and local services, and just hearing the word “Groupon” piqued my interest. I went to Groupon to find the daily deal site has just launched a couple weeks prior in Boston, after running a few deals in CHicago in late 2008.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received. ▼ 2008. (11).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Sellers can lower transaction fees by aggregating purchases into fewer transactions, while also providing buyers with an attractive alternative payment method. Klarna is apparently the first European board for legendary Sequoia partner, Michael Moritz. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. (Steve calls this just Customer Validation , but I like to emphasize the learning aspect, so I accept a far more awkward phrase.) This unit of progress is remarkable in several ways.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 11, 2010

On October 9th, 2008 - the last time the Dow was at 11,000 - the aggregate market capitalization of these seven companies was 770 billion. At the closing bell on April 9th, 2009 - with the Dow back to 11,000 - the aggregate market capitalization of these seven companies was 1,238 billion. Want proof?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Wistia has been around since 2008. Brightcove analytics aggregated data effectively across those platforms. Alternatively, there’s a six-month Developers Plan , whereby you get access to all features except live streaming. The plan targets data scientists and video engineers. The learning curve for its interface can be steep.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!): … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I believe in the new world you describe, but I think you forget the role that the distributors play in aggregating content for a self-selecting consumer "type" The easiest place to see this in newspapers, where consumers normally buy a newspaper that shares their political viewpoint. [link] August 24, 2009 2:50 PM Quentin said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. 2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting. The idea seemed to SlideShare to be a natural direction.

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 26, 2009

In fact, in each of the four years betwen 2005-2008, an eerily precise 25% of deals were closed in Q3 (25.0%, 24.6%, 25.1% Looking at the follow-on investments and new deals in aggregate (nearly 120 transactions), our data shows that December was the most active month and August second. and 25.0%, respectively)!

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