Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

The closing panel on Day 1 felt like the start of a witty punchline, “A startup founder, a government official, and a venture capitalist walk into a room…”?—?what Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. The issues primarily addressed AI automated systems, data aggregation, communication and streamlining pilot training.

SBIR 48

SBIR Government Venture Capital Startup 48

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. Effectively, we are a market maker between our portfolio companies and the late-stage VCs and large enterprises which are our co-investors. For example, consider public relations.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Even for those who don’t care to dive into the numbers, it’s worth a quick glance because co-founder/CEO Andrew Mason wrote a letter which forms the preamble of the full document. So Groupon obviously filed their S-1 the other day to formally being the IPO process.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

Obvious caveats to my POV here, most specifically: exposure is limited to largely the US/SiliconValley ecosystem, driven by our own portfolio, my friends and co-investors, the funds I’m a LP in, and our institutional LP relationships. Soft Acquisition Market. Valuations. And that’s what’s happening here.

Portfolio 97

Portfolio Cap Table LP Valuation 97

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

If you’re thinking about building an online video network today you need to think about: Producing your own content (not just aggregating). It is the world’s best customer acquisition for video consumers to get them to come to your O&O where you can make your $25 CPMs. But the best MCNs are so much more.

Networking 366

Networking Media Distribution Video 366

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

So by segmenting your data, you can learn things you couldn’t from the aggregate data. How does retention differ among different acquisition channels? Acquisition Efficiency. Most of the revenue, of course, occurred during week 0 (acquisition), but there is also a decent amount in weeks 1 and 2.

Conversion 48

Conversion Retention Acquisition Metrics 48

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. Sean Fanning developed Napster, one of the first aggregated and user-friendly peer-to-peer music file sharing platforms, when he was just a freshman at Boston’s Northeastern University. Insomnia Cookies.

Intellectual Property 127

Intellectual Property New York City Pennsylvania Cofounder 127

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Hippoland

MARCH 14, 2013

A couple days prior… My co-founder Jennifer and I were ecstatic when we received this email: . We had submitted our idea: “ ShinyOrb : Kayak for Weddings” I’d envisioned a one-stop site that aggregated bridesmaid dresses, wedding gowns, shoes, jewelry, invitations… . We had a lot to think about.

Product 81

Product Aggregator Metrics Cofounder 81

Hippoland

MARCH 14, 2013

A couple days prior… My co-founder Jennifer and I were ecstatic when we received this email: . We had submitted our idea: “ ShinyOrb : Kayak for Weddings” I’d envisioned a one-stop site that aggregated bridesmaid dresses, wedding gowns, shoes, jewelry, invitations… . We had a lot to think about.

Product 48

Product Aggregator Metrics Cofounder 48

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. If you haven’t figured out the ecosystem, growth is useless – whether it is a acquisition-only viral loop, like Tagged, or an advertising blitz like countless dot-bombs.

Customer 156

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, we pivoted towards building a business around the unique tastemaker talents of one of our founders, Bradford Shellhammer. Have amazing co-founders who are better at what they do than you could ever be. Founders need to personally own something big themselves. It’s that important.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The IPO market remained closed to IT startups, but there were big acquisitions like Google buying YouTube for $1.65B (Fall 2006) and late stage financing rounds for companies like Facebook (Microsoft round at $15B valuation in Fall 2007). A16Z today or Founders Fund or General Catalyst a few years ago). So at a fund level (e.g.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

But while it was a little less understood outside the payments world, their acquisition of TxVia theoretically gives them some of the plumbing they’d need to create a store of value or couple a Google mobile payments product to existing financial accounts. I’d be happy to co-author with you. Any thoughts? link] leehower.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2019

You might assume that most people would link directly to the original research, but this shows that, for the purpose of earning links, aggregating research from multiple sources may be just as effective as doing your own. Some events that earned links were intentional—acquisitions and funding announcements, for example. Example 1. “

Marketing 125

Marketing Acquisition Software Review Aggregator 125

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

Damn, I’ll admit—I even have a tradition of treating myself with a beautiful new pair after a successful business trip or client acquisition. Another great example of linkable assets are pages that aggregate industry stats, like this one. Owning a new pair of high-end shoes has to be one of those. Broken link building.

B2B 142

B2B Social Media Email Campaign 142

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. Or as founder Joe Fernandez recently told me, “we’re building the ‘PageRank’ for people.” They have focused much of their initial work on Twitter data.

Viral 307

Viral Las Vegas Tunisia Syndicate 307

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

The 23rd started with a quick overview of the achievement of our Software and SaaS portfolio in 2007 presented by Byron Deeter, the co-head of our West Coast SaaS practice. This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My founders and I started the company about three years ago. The way that I leverage that is when I’m faced with a decision before I go to make the decision and let’s say my executive team and I or my co-founder and I or just myself I get an idea and I think what if we were to do X, Y and Z.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Could we offer a “dial” to issuers and let them (and perhaps their ad agencies) decide? * * For GS.com , EXCLUSIVE access to GS hot deal might be a critical competitive tool to keep customer acquisition costs low and encourage larger clients to more to our site from a competitor’s. I don’t think so. Party B: The investment banks.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. great web customer acquisition tutorials. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? Founder Equity Issues. Founders Workbench.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93