Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Choose one.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Valuation is an important aspect of VC deal terms, and a major determinant of your ultimate outcome. I unexpectedly found that it was more helpful to think about the company valuation as an output variable in the fund-raising equation. The net effect was more money raised, higher valuation and the same percentage of equity sold.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Forget everything you learned about software channels. The internet is your new channel and Technology Enabled Service providers are among the few partners that actually care if you succeed (more.) 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

For these companies, the next round might not be at the valuation they wanted, but it’s still going to be there—because despite what you hear about pullbacks, there is still far more money chasing far rarer good ideas. So, yeah, that’s going to come down—especially because they likely got over their skis on valuation.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2011

Founded in 2008 by Oren Netzer (CEO) and Alex Liverant (CTO), DoubleVerify has 160 employees in their two offices in Tel Aviv (R&D) and New York (Sales) and it plans to add another 50 by the end of the year. It has the potential to expand into all aspects of media measurement, accountability and compliance across the globe.”.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Monday, February 04, 2008. A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). Channels are very hard for SaaS companies to build, so don’t base your plan on SI’s and traditional ISV’s. Stay local.

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Transformify

JULY 25, 2016

. “It is too early to say what the ultimate outcome of the referendum result will be, but even prior to this we were concerned about a weakening UK economy combined with high valuations of domestic cyclicals,” said Nick Purves of RWC Partners. I remain confident the portfolio will deliver the returns we have targeted.”

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2008. (11). The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. Happy New Year 2008! Started on Jan. Public SaaS 13 Multiples.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

He duly took it and vowed to start a company when his finished his third and final placement with RIM in December 2008. Livingston and his team spent a few months “begging” RIM to open its popular messaging service to other channels, but the company had no interest. Kik Music: iTunes for your BlackBerry.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

How do we get it out to market, and we read a book, and I remember it was called, it was about traction channels, and there was like 18 different traction channels. In 2008, and 2009, we were really starting to grow. We do a lot of soul searching around how do we built this product, when nobody knows it exist. Matt Watson: Yeah.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million).

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. I think you'll see a lot of focus on companies like Tumblr, Twitter, Foursquare and Pinterest--services that haven't really established a business model yet to justify their sky high valuations.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The company had just 1,00,000 registered users in 2008, which climbed to a staggering 4M registered users within a mere 15 month period, thanks to its straightforward referral program. It’s the age of social media, so if you want to really want to make your in-app referrals a grand success, leverage different social media channels.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

If that’s the case, it’s essential that that founder and the CEO have a very tight relationship and coordinate closely to avoid allowing members of the organization to use that alternate channel to the board to get around the CEO’s decisions. Based on David’s advice, we raised our Series D in September of 2008.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. But she needs to drop her tendency to "expand." Now is not the time to expand. Now is the time for laser sharp focus.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. But she needs to drop her tendency to "expand." Now is not the time to expand. Now is the time for laser sharp focus.

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