For 2012, there are some trends that you need to be aware of. Others 2012 digital marketing e-commerce marketing mobile marketing Online marketing online trends social networksThe frustrating part for online marketers when it comes to that space is that things change all the time. MORE
2012 KPCB Internet Trends Year-End Update from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Mary published this presentation this past week. I love these "state of the internet" presentations Mary does. There is so much useful information and insights in them. MORE
The results of the 2012 survey are shown in the table below, with groups listed by median overall pre-revenue, pre-money valuation from the lowest to the highest. 2012 Valuation Survey. Here are comparisons with earlier surveys and with current data collected elsewhere : The pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies in the 2012 survey (median = 2.75, average = 2.96) increased significantly over the data from the survey in 2011 (average = $2.1 MORE
Obligatory chart: signups over time (July of 2012 incomplete, could only fetch accounts created before July 18th for some reason). That’s the current average, even though for most months of 2012 new accounts had an average of 11. MORE
He’s got a great post up titled Startup Iceland 2012 – Done! Amy and I just spent an incredible week in Reykjavik, Iceland. This was our first time here and everything was awesome – the people, the food, the weather, the hotels, the weather, the people, the food, the people, the weather – you get the idea. Bala Kamallakharan was our host and the founder of Startup Iceland. MORE
The articles below were the top 10 for 2012. Startup Blog has been on line for about 2 years now. Changes you may have noticed are inclusions of photos (I shot most of them) and more real-life experience stories. MORE
With something north of 10,000 Twitter related tools, services, and apps, it’s very easy to become overwhelmed and undermotivated looking for tools to help your startup. Here’s 5 new Twitter tools I’d recommend, and why. Buffer. What: Repeat your tweets so more people see them. MORE
As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. MORE
International visitors at the HTIA 2012 conference got much more than what they came for. It wasn’t just your typical roundtable sessions and panel discussions – it was a showcase of some of the. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]. Israel HTIA shimon peres MORE
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UX Study The State Of E-Commerce Checkout Design 2012. September 4th, 2012. September 4th, 2012 7:05 am. September 4th, 2012 7:21 am. September 4th, 2012 7:33 am. September 4th, 2012 11:46 pm. September 4th, 2012 8:47 am. September 4th, 2012 8:58 am. MORE
Jeff Bezos on Charlie Rose, November 16, 2012. Over the past several years, I have become a huge fan of Mark Armstrong’s web service, Longreads. MORE
Last week, the second annual FinTech program, FinTech 2012, was announced. Like last year, the secret sauce of this program is the leadership of the CIOs and CTOs of the largest banks and financial services companies: The chief technology officers and senior technology executives from 12 financial services firms will pick up to six entrepreneurial companies to participate in the Lab, which begins in May 2012. MORE
More than 80% of executives now believe their brands can get more sales and bigger market share by using social media, according to a 2012 Economist report. In 2012, businesses still learning how to use Twitter produced a bumper crop of embarrassing, insensitive, and incriminating tweets. MORE
We’ll teach over 175 NSF Innovation Corps teams in the Lean LaunchPad course in 2012. The 2012 Stanford Lean LaunchPad Presentations. Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. Here are the first five. MORE
Stanford e245 2012 class photo. Today, the second half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. Here are the final four (the first five are here.). Team ParkPoint Capital. This team spoke face-to-face with 326 customers. MORE
Required viewing. Tell me this doesn’t make you want to buy a ticket to somewhere, anywhere right away… Travel MORE
These brilliantly inspiring workplaces have sprawling rooftop gardens, bright atriums, and lots and lots of exposed brick. Tour this year's crop of outstanding offices. These 20 offices are some of the world's best-designed and most awe-inspiring. MORE
I’m pleased to announce that I am once again hosting a Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco this fall. The eagle-eyed among you will note that for the past two years, the conference has been called SLLCONF, after Startup Lessons Learned. I think it's time to rename it since that's the phrase people actually use.) Although we’ve changed the name, the format will be the same as the past two years. We'll continue our rule of “by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs.” MORE
It's called the Shopify 2012 Build-A-Business Competition and it launches today. I recently teamed up with Tim Ferriss, Daymond John, and Tina Roth Eisenberg to help you launch a business from scratch. Now is the time to take that idea you've been mulling over and put it in motion. MORE
The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. So in 2012 you’ll see me a lot more often at the Launchpad LA offices. Happy 2012 to all of you. Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. MORE
But it comes across as a whiny complaint about the shitty year that 2012 was. But the reason I couldn't publish that post is it didn't capture the greater picture that 2012 represents for me. And I feel that 2012 is the next demarcation year for me but this time I have to do it in an existing firm with an existing portfolio. It was reported a few weeks ago that I had not made a single new investment in 2012. MORE
So, how should you go about raising money in 2012? Every year for the past decade I have heard the same thing, regardless of whether the economy is doing well or poorly. And what I hear is entrepreneurs saying that it's so hard to raise money. MORE
If you are a developer, I encourage you to carve out an hour and watch TechStars CEO David Cohen’s presentation at RailsConf 2012 (30 minute presentation and outstanding 30 minutes of Q&A). MORE
Apple Appstore Appsfire Levi Shapiro 2012 ad networks advertising Android Angry Birds API App Store apple category developers Discovery Draw Something entertainment Games Google handset IP iPhone Lifestyle maps marketing mobile music Navigation rovio sdk social networks statistics UI What's AppNearly 100,000 new developers created applications this year for the App Store, which rakes in 4x more revenue than Google Play. MORE
Early in 2012, when the conference dates were announced, I jumped at the opportunity and registered right away, even before the speakers had been announced. With what I had seen over the past two years, I had full confidence that the 2012 lineup would be top notch. MORE
And so rather than sweeping the shame and failures from 2012 under the rug, with the hope that they will magically evaporate in 2013, let’s bring them out in the light and examine them with a gentle eye. What has this year been like for you? MORE
Any one of a multitude of events in 2012 (Hurricane Sandy, The London Olympics, Benghazi and its fallout) would provide a case study in how to lead--and sometimes, sadly, how not to. Here are my personal top five leadership lessons from 2012: 1. The #1 leadership lesson of 2012? MORE
On this last day of 2012, as we prepare for a rocking 2013, I am tremendously proud to celebrate and share the people I have been lucky enough to work with this year. Brenda Horton launched her goal planning software productivity tool, Actionplanr in 4th quarter of 2012! MORE
Kickstarter published a retrospective on 2012. It's worth browsing. Here's the lead in. Venture Capital and Technology MORE
Details: The Lean Startup: The Science of Entrepreneurship Friday, March 9, 2012 5:00pm - 6:00pm Austin Convention Center Ballroom D Then, on Saturday, March 10, The Lean Startup return for a second year with an official track at SXSW Interactive at the Hilton Austin Downtown. MORE
These five short videos will remind you what's important in life and work. This has been a difficult few days for everybody, especially for those of us who have children in primary school. I had already selected the following five clips as the most inspirational and motivational videos of the year. MORE
These young women behind companies including Spanx and Polyvore made it big in 2012. Kathryn Minshew of The Muse In 2012, I have been so impressed with fellow YEC member Kathryn Minshew. Context was chosen as one of the most impactful companies by the White House in 2012. MORE
Industries such as residential construction, mobile games, and big data will provide the best business opportunities in 2012. in February 2012 over a year ago. Starting a business is always risky, especially if your business is trying to swim against the larger economic tides. MORE
As entrepreneurs, you always need to be on the lookout for ways to expand your current business, and always on the lookout for your next big thing. MORE
Interesting panel moderated by Sudhir, Discusses 2011 and the emergence of ecommerce, other investment themes in tech enabled businesses, exit expectations and where we are headed. Ecosystem MORE
Worst: Windows 8 In the autumn of 2012, Microsoft launched a complicated operating system product strategy that attempted to maintain both backward compatibility to previous products (Window 8 and a new future in a new product category (Windows RT). MORE
We’re only a few months into 2012, but several technology innovations are starting to show promise. These trends could make for huge opportunities--or huge disruptions to your business. Either way, they are ones to watch. MORE
Another year, another guide. Summer is always the time when large numbers of new participants in the tech ecosystem arrive and start to get their bearings. This is why this guide exists, and why I try to refresh it every year with the most interesting meetups, companies, and folks to follow online. MORE
I returned from ten days of skiing with my family last night. I'm on mountain time and plan to stay there until the new year. Staying up late and sleeping late seems to be a good way to bring in the New Year. But even so, my version of sleeping late is getting up at 8am. My family's version of sleeping late is getting up at noon. That leaves a fair bit of time to read and think. And so that's what I did this morning. MORE
Need a little boost to get the year off to a strong start? Watch these short clips & you'll feel like taking on the world. In my role as the "mouthpiece" of the sales profession, I end up talking with a lot of successful salespeople. MORE
Operate under the hypothesis that 2013 will be harder for startups than 2012. tl;dr: F**k, I don’t know. I’m not in the prediction business. But plan for it. And behave accordingly. A lot of people have been talking about how 2013 will be harder for startups and fast growing companies. MORE
September’s Startup Map showcases the latest trends in startup profiles created on Gust between September 1 st and September 30 th. Some of the entrepreneurs chose to keep their startup profiles private and therefore are labeled as unpublished in this month’s map, and were not included in the trends analysis. In September the US has once again shown the highest concentration of startups, even though there was a decline when compared to the month of August. MORE
Post loosely based on our experience years ago when TechCrunch covered Yipit’s launch. If you’re a first-time reader, you can get future posts by subscribing via email or following me on Twitter. MORE
2012 Related Topics A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
DECEMBER 8, 2012
2012 KPCB Internet Trends Year-End Update from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Mary published this presentation this past week. I love these "state of the internet" presentations Mary does. There is so much useful information and insights in them.
A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
DECEMBER 31, 2012
But it comes across as a whiny complaint about the shitty year that 2012 was. But the reason I couldn't publish that post is it didn't capture the greater picture that 2012 represents for me. And I feel that 2012 is the next demarcation year for me but this time I have to do it in an existing firm with an existing portfolio. It was reported a few weeks ago that I had not made a single new investment in 2012.
Gust
OCTOBER 16, 2012
The results of the 2012 survey are shown in the table below, with groups listed by median overall pre-revenue, pre-money valuation from the lowest to the highest. 2012 Valuation Survey. Here are comparisons with earlier surveys and with current data collected elsewhere : The pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies in the 2012 survey (median = 2.75, average = 2.96) increased significantly over the data from the survey in 2011 (average = $2.1
47 Hats
JANUARY 11, 2012
With something north of 10,000 Twitter related tools, services, and apps, it’s very easy to become overwhelmed and undermotivated looking for tools to help your startup. Here’s 5 new Twitter tools I’d recommend, and why. Buffer. What: Repeat your tweets so more people see them.
A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
JANUARY 9, 2013
Kickstarter published a retrospective on 2012. It's worth browsing. Here's the lead in. Venture Capital and Technology
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 1, 2012
The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. So in 2012 you’ll see me a lot more often at the Launchpad LA offices. Happy 2012 to all of you. Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly.
abovethecrowd.com
DECEMBER 26, 2012
Jeff Bezos on Charlie Rose, November 16, 2012. Over the past several years, I have become a huge fan of Mark Armstrong’s web service, Longreads.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 5, 2012
Details: The Lean Startup: The Science of Entrepreneurship Friday, March 9, 2012 5:00pm - 6:00pm Austin Convention Center Ballroom D Then, on Saturday, March 10, The Lean Startup return for a second year with an official track at SXSW Interactive at the Hilton Austin Downtown.
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
International visitors at the HTIA 2012 conference got much more than what they came for. It wasn’t just your typical roundtable sessions and panel discussions – it was a showcase of some of the. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]. Israel HTIA shimon peres
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 28, 2012
Operate under the hypothesis that 2013 will be harder for startups than 2012. tl;dr: F**k, I don’t know. I’m not in the prediction business. But plan for it. And behave accordingly. A lot of people have been talking about how 2013 will be harder for startups and fast growing companies.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 15, 2012
For 2012, there are some trends that you need to be aware of. Others 2012 digital marketing e-commerce marketing mobile marketing Online marketing online trends social networksThe frustrating part for online marketers when it comes to that space is that things change all the time.
Diego Basch
JULY 30, 2012
Obligatory chart: signups over time (July of 2012 incomplete, could only fetch accounts created before July 18th for some reason). That’s the current average, even though for most months of 2012 new accounts had an average of 11.
Ben Casnocha: The Blog
JUNE 21, 2012
Required viewing. Tell me this doesn’t make you want to buy a ticket to somewhere, anywhere right away… Travel
Inc Startups
OCTOBER 1, 2012
These brilliantly inspiring workplaces have sprawling rooftop gardens, bright atriums, and lots and lots of exposed brick. Tour this year's crop of outstanding offices. These 20 offices are some of the world's best-designed and most awe-inspiring.
A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
DECEMBER 15, 2011
Last week, the second annual FinTech program, FinTech 2012, was announced. Like last year, the secret sauce of this program is the leadership of the CIOs and CTOs of the largest banks and financial services companies: The chief technology officers and senior technology executives from 12 financial services firms will pick up to six entrepreneurial companies to participate in the Lab, which begins in May 2012.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 2, 2012
As entrepreneurs, you always need to be on the lookout for ways to expand your current business, and always on the lookout for your next big thing.
Gust
OCTOBER 16, 2012
September’s Startup Map showcases the latest trends in startup profiles created on Gust between September 1 st and September 30 th. Some of the entrepreneurs chose to keep their startup profiles private and therefore are labeled as unpublished in this month’s map, and were not included in the trends analysis. In September the US has once again shown the highest concentration of startups, even though there was a decline when compared to the month of August.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 3, 2012
He’s got a great post up titled Startup Iceland 2012 – Done! Amy and I just spent an incredible week in Reykjavik, Iceland. This was our first time here and everything was awesome – the people, the food, the weather, the hotels, the weather, the people, the food, the people, the weather – you get the idea. Bala Kamallakharan was our host and the founder of Startup Iceland.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 20, 2012
If you are a developer, I encourage you to carve out an hour and watch TechStars CEO David Cohen’s presentation at RailsConf 2012 (30 minute presentation and outstanding 30 minutes of Q&A).
A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
DECEMBER 29, 2011
I returned from ten days of skiing with my family last night. I'm on mountain time and plan to stay there until the new year. Staying up late and sleeping late seems to be a good way to bring in the New Year. But even so, my version of sleeping late is getting up at 8am. My family's version of sleeping late is getting up at noon. That leaves a fair bit of time to read and think. And so that's what I did this morning.
Inc Startups
DECEMBER 10, 2012
Any one of a multitude of events in 2012 (Hurricane Sandy, The London Olympics, Benghazi and its fallout) would provide a case study in how to lead--and sometimes, sadly, how not to. Here are my personal top five leadership lessons from 2012: 1. The #1 leadership lesson of 2012?
Rob Go
SEPTEMBER 3, 2012
Another year, another guide. Summer is always the time when large numbers of new participants in the tech ecosystem arrive and start to get their bearings. This is why this guide exists, and why I try to refresh it every year with the most interesting meetups, companies, and folks to follow online.
VC Cafe
DECEMBER 20, 2012
Apple Appstore Appsfire Levi Shapiro 2012 ad networks advertising Android Angry Birds API App Store apple category developers Discovery Draw Something entertainment Games Google handset IP iPhone Lifestyle maps marketing mobile music Navigation rovio sdk social networks statistics UI What's AppNearly 100,000 new developers created applications this year for the App Store, which rakes in 4x more revenue than Google Play.
Inc Startups
DECEMBER 17, 2012
These five short videos will remind you what's important in life and work. This has been a difficult few days for everybody, especially for those of us who have children in primary school. I had already selected the following five clips as the most inspirational and motivational videos of the year.
OnStartups
OCTOBER 8, 2012
Early in 2012, when the conference dates were announced, I jumped at the opportunity and registered right away, even before the speakers had been announced. With what I had seen over the past two years, I had full confidence that the 2012 lineup would be top notch.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 27, 2012
I’m pleased to announce that I am once again hosting a Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco this fall. The eagle-eyed among you will note that for the past two years, the conference has been called SLLCONF, after Startup Lessons Learned. I think it's time to rename it since that's the phrase people actually use.) Although we’ve changed the name, the format will be the same as the past two years. We'll continue our rule of “by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs.”
Inc Startups
MAY 16, 2012
Industries such as residential construction, mobile games, and big data will provide the best business opportunities in 2012. in February 2012 over a year ago. Starting a business is always risky, especially if your business is trying to swim against the larger economic tides.
Inc Startups
NOVEMBER 11, 2012
More than 80% of executives now believe their brands can get more sales and bigger market share by using social media, according to a 2012 Economist report. In 2012, businesses still learning how to use Twitter produced a bumper crop of embarrassing, insensitive, and incriminating tweets.
Growthink Blog
JANUARY 3, 2012
So, how should you go about raising money in 2012? Every year for the past decade I have heard the same thing, regardless of whether the economy is doing well or poorly. And what I hear is entrepreneurs saying that it's so hard to raise money.
VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 8, 2012
As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here.
Inc Startups
MARCH 29, 2012
We’re only a few months into 2012, but several technology innovations are starting to show promise. These trends could make for huge opportunities--or huge disruptions to your business. Either way, they are ones to watch.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 10, 2012
It's called the Shopify 2012 Build-A-Business Competition and it launches today. I recently teamed up with Tim Ferriss, Daymond John, and Tina Roth Eisenberg to help you launch a business from scratch. Now is the time to take that idea you've been mulling over and put it in motion.
VentureWoods
JANUARY 16, 2012
Interesting panel moderated by Sudhir, Discusses 2011 and the emergence of ecommerce, other investment themes in tech enabled businesses, exit expectations and where we are headed. Ecosystem
Taffy Williams
DECEMBER 30, 2012
The articles below were the top 10 for 2012. Startup Blog has been on line for about 2 years now. Changes you may have noticed are inclusions of photos (I shot most of them) and more real-life experience stories.
Inc Startups
DECEMBER 19, 2012
Worst: Windows 8 In the autumn of 2012, Microsoft launched a complicated operating system product strategy that attempted to maintain both backward compatibility to previous products (Window 8 and a new future in a new product category (Windows RT).
Escape From Cubicle Nation
DECEMBER 27, 2012
And so rather than sweeping the shame and failures from 2012 under the rug, with the hope that they will magically evaporate in 2013, let’s bring them out in the light and examine them with a gentle eye. What has this year been like for you?
Escape From Cubicle Nation
DECEMBER 31, 2012
On this last day of 2012, as we prepare for a rocking 2013, I am tremendously proud to celebrate and share the people I have been lucky enough to work with this year. Brenda Horton launched her goal planning software productivity tool, Actionplanr in 4th quarter of 2012!
Inc Startups
JANUARY 5, 2012
Need a little boost to get the year off to a strong start? Watch these short clips & you'll feel like taking on the world. In my role as the "mouthpiece" of the sales profession, I end up talking with a lot of successful salespeople.
Vinicius Vacanti
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
Post loosely based on our experience years ago when TechCrunch covered Yipit’s launch. If you’re a first-time reader, you can get future posts by subscribing via email or following me on Twitter.
Inc Startups
DECEMBER 25, 2012
These young women behind companies including Spanx and Polyvore made it big in 2012. Kathryn Minshew of The Muse In 2012, I have been so impressed with fellow YEC member Kathryn Minshew. Context was chosen as one of the most impactful companies by the White House in 2012.
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