View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. So, what does the future hold?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. So, what does the future hold?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Before their launch in 2018, Woodhead faced a challenge. While those acquisition efforts worked well, not all do. Cheap acquisition is (too) cheap.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

An eMarketer study estimated that, in 2018, 25% of U.S. In March 2018 , LinkedIn video ads became available to all companies. The B2B video examples below were distributed on LinkedIn or other social channels, as well as YouTube. The same video content likely works well in other channels. The growth of B2B video marketing.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

If you add together Apple, Alphabet, eBay, Facebook*, Lyft, Palo Alto Networks*, PayPal, Salesforce, ServiceNow*, Twitter, Uber, and Workday*, these twelve companies alone have a market capitalization of $3 Trillion, a little bit more than the annual GDP of the United Kingdom in 2018. Distribution. Distribution.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

In fact, according to a 2018 study by TSYS, approximately 54 percent of Americans prefer to use debit cards, while only 26 percent prefer credit cards. According to a Fed payments study, debit card transactions were almost double that of credit cards in 2018: 87 billion debit card payments, versus 45 billion credit card payments.

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View from Seed

MAY 28, 2020

Advances in technology and changing consumer preferences have long been transforming the way food is created, distributed, and consumed. The food supply chain has been rattled with distribution shifting from restaurants to grocery and with food production bottlenecks resulting from fewer employees at work. Dairy Alternatives.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. So, what does the future hold?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

A Nielsen survey from 2018 shows that U.S The large investment flows into entertainment fuel advanced in technology to produce, to distribute and monetise content that educates us, relax us, entertains us, and so on. In 2018, CVC investments surged dramatically, surpassing traditional VC investment in the US ( see VC Cafe post ).

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

If you are looking past or through Covid — and why not, all of Wall Street is — the topic du jour in Silicon Valley is Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs. It has to do with the trends in how much effort the investment banks put into marketing and distribution, versus how much effort they put in historically.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 18, 2018

As technology takes on a bigger role in businesses of all types, tech acquisitions become both short- and long-term investments. That means the next year or two will likely bring some blockbuster mergers and acquisitions as companies determine how they can mesh their services and products with others’.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 16, 2017

billion acquisition of this most iconic of Austin brands (whose flagship store sits just across 5th Street from the main offices of SXSW) has the potential to re-energize this chain as the epicenter for retail’s future. Perhaps we will even see a more robust approach to book and magazine distribution within the Whole Foods umbrella.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. POTENTIAL ACQUISITION TARGETS. Walmart’s $3.3B

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

SXSW Panel: Digital Meets Physical: Getting Started With ARKit SXSW 2018 Schedule April Downing CFO WPEngine April Downing is the CFO of WP Engine and a force of nature?—?but He started his first company at 18, where he grew the business and successfully lead it through an acquisition just two years later.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

It’s meant to support and grow a business until an “exit” in the form of an IPO, a merger or acquisition, or in less than ideal scenarios, a company shutdown. We followed that closely and ultimately made the decision in early 2018 that there was enough of a market opportunity there to raise a dedicated fund to this effort.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

2018 saw the rise of diversity and inclusion awareness. According to our recent research , 48 percent of talent acquisition leaders are feeling pressure to increase racial diversity within their organizations, while an additional 42 percent feel pressure to increase gender diversity. Fewer Diversity Recruiters. Focus on Wellbeing.

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Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We had a busy 2018, including closing several significant M&A transactions and financings. An acquihire is essentially the acquisition of a startup for its talent/team (rather than for its products or services). Accordingly, the deal may be a mere fiction designed to get funds into the startup to be distributed to its investors.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

If you want to increase your customer base in 2018 and beyond, read the following informative tips on how to acquire new customers. This means distributing leaflets, posting flyers in store windows, and embarking on a direct mail campaign. Understand Your Target Customer.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

At the top-right, you’ll discover my obsession with Profit and Incrementality, which form the basis of competitive advantage in 2018 (and beyond). Campaigns can be optimized based on real-time impressions, clicks, visits, page views, cost per acquisition etc. Is the distribution optimal? What do you see?

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Up and Running

JULY 22, 2019

For instance, the 2019 TSX Venture 50 companies—which are all growth-stage companies accessing investors on TSX Venture Exchange—reported increasing their employee count by roughly 2,200 people in 2018, representing an average hiring growth of 307 percent. This would not have been possible without the support of their investors.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The introductory stage is rarely profitable : profits are negative or low because of the low sales and high distribution and promotion expenses [.] Customer acquisition costs can be high, and growth may require large sales teams. By 2018, WhatsApp had 1.5 What marketing needs to accomplish during the Introduction. Conclusion.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

TechCrunch’s Kate Clark has done a round-up of the largest “private VC” rounds of 2018, and there’s a whole other list for just $100M+ financings led by Softbank’s Vision Fund. Speaking of acquisitions — many leaders of larger VC funds have privately given up on the incumbents buying their companies.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? by the end of 2018. Large tech companies like Google, Amazon, Apple recognize that the multi- trillion dollar health care market is ripe for disruption and have poured billions of dollars into the space.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

Lastly, M&A is also still big here – the tech companies who are doing big acquisitions are in the Bay Area (though this is changing too). At this point in time in 2018, I think what makes the most sense is for a startup to start where he/she wants to be. Many startups these days are using a distributed model successfully.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

Lastly, M&A is also still big here – the tech companies who are doing big acquisitions are in the Bay Area (though this is changing too). At this point in time in 2018, I think what makes the most sense is for a startup to start where he/she wants to be. Many startups these days are using a distributed model successfully.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 11, 2020

That potential continues to attract more B2B marketers, with 66% active on Instagram in 2019, up from 57% in 2018. SEMrush has also quoted and tagged other well-known marketers in their Instagram feed to inspire followers get some distribution support: ( Image source ). Will Instagram soon be a primary channel for most B2B companies?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Influencer collaborations: Clients will contract an influencer to leverage their social expertise in creating a piece of content but will also have them distribute it to their organic following. To start, our team is made up of media and technology experts who have sold companies or been a part of acquisitions/IPOs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 12, 2017

Native advertising is predicted to be a $21 billion industry by 2018, making it too big to ignore. The web offers a number of solutions that help you control the means of creating content, from inception to distribution. Native ads work best when: They tell your brand’s story. They deliver content the user can relate to.

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