Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion. 11.2mm in Series A, rumored pre-money of $35mm; $1.6mm angel raised in Jan 2010. Read more: TechCrunch. Enter ShoeDazzle.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, April 7, 2010 Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem) Lean startups don’t optimize. At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. Or should you focus on user engagement or virality?

San Francisco 154

San Francisco Lean Metrics Design 154

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

When it comes to the most famous company that got away, Groupon — which was offered and turned down $6 billion in 2010, and recently fell below that market cap — Lawee refuses to speculate about whether it would have fared better inside the Googleplex.). company Slide.com in August 2010 for $182 million.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104