Agile VC
APRIL 17, 2011
In 2010 I deconstructed the filings for GameFly and Quinstreet. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million.
crowdSPRING Blog
DECEMBER 22, 2010
Ten small business tax planning tips for 2010! An entrepreneur tells us how he screwed up his Google acquisition – [link]. More Than 700 Billion YouTube Videos Were Viewed in 2010 [STATS] – [link]. Good analysis by @jowyang about Dachis Group acquisition of Powered – [link]. – [link].
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Software By Rob
MAY 3, 2010
A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup&# → Catch Me at the 2010 Business of Software Conference in Boston Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. I will be speaking at the 2010 Business of Software Conference in Boston this October. Look forward to seeing you there.
venturedig.com
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
The two major forms of this are CPC (cost per click) and CPA (cost per action or acquisition). The advertiser (IQ Quiz), will pay the Facebook developer (you) each time a user fills out their email address or phone number. How You Should Implement These Models Going into 2010: Display Ads. And they will.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
Dave McClure’s AARRR metrics and Andrew Chen ‘s specifics on freemium models, viral marketing, user acquisition and engagement both offer examples of exit criteria for Customer Discovery and Validation for startups on the web. Eric and I will be working on others. Keep teaching! Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.
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