Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Make Money: Majority of Kayak’s revenue actually comes from advertising on their site (55%), not lead generation or referral fees to travel suppliers as you might think (more on this below). lead gen) and advertising revenue from both of these companies. AdSense and other Google advertising accounted for 7.7%

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common. Read More ».

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 29, 2013

6 Emerging Trends In Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship | Forbes – [link]. Can crowdfunding fill stock market’s ‘black hole’ for startups and small businesses? | Facebook’s share of digital advertising growing fast, thanks to mobile | GigaOM – [link]. Fracking Your Customer Base – [link]. Spam is a virus.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank. And he said ok got it.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. They have become a juggernaut in online advertising, pictures, video and online games.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

This is where FAST enters the picture, which Founder Institute has developed in conjunction with the Orrick Law Firm and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, to standardize the process and remove the hassle, cost, and delay to the formation of these relationships. Are There Too Many Stock Exchanges? Apps And Gadgets Every Boomer Needs.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area. 4) Respect for BUSINESS – Sales, Marketing, Advertising, Strategy were all practically invented in NYC. (5) tomnora.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2012

Stock options, if you get them, won’t help you pay the mortgage for a least a couple of years, and the value then is totally unpredictable. So here’s a strategy I recommend (definitely the most common strategy in Silicon Valley). Don’t even think about health and dental benefits for your spouse and kids.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2011

Stock options, if you get them, won’t help you pay the mortgage for a least a couple of years, and the value then is totally unpredictable. So here’s a strategy I recommend (definitely the most common strategy in Silicon Valley). Don’t even think about health and dental benefits for your spouse and kids.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Stock Quotes. Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. But Andreessens approach is also exposing a rift in Silicon Valley, where a group of young and relatively untested entrepreneurs have maintained control over their rapidly growing companies. MarketWatch. SmartMoney.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. The Pebble Smartwatch itself comes stock with a fairly standard feature set – email, clock, heart rate monitor etc. So What is Customer Development?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram offer paid advertising services. But you should also be using eBay, Etsy, and Amazon to move stock, too. Maybe your first-year income simply won’t stretch to website hosting or diversifying your stock. Having adequate capital for growth is a foundational principle of startups in Silicon Valley.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. The Advertising business is growing slower (69% YoY in 2011) than the whole company and if you dive in to the quarterly growth rates, you can see that it’s fairly lumpy.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 14, 2011

Paul Palmieri, Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising service Millennial Media just gave a really valuable talk at the International Startup Festival in Montreal titled "Investing in Your Influencers." Prior to founding Millennial, Palmieri was a mobile advertising and data executive at Verizon and Advertising.com.

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Venture Chronicles

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

2) Zuckerberg, like Larry Ellison and Bill Gates most notably, retained tremendous control of their respective companies through outsized stock ownership and voting structures that assured them total control of their destiny. 4) Raise boatloads of money when it is available to you, and do it on your own terms.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. He writes “Half of all venture funds outperform the stock market which is the benchmark most institutions measure VC funds against.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from Angel Groups in the Valley. The panel was a typical Silicon Valley shmoozefest hosted at a law firm with about 75+ attendees. ProfessorVC. Thursday, January 17, 2008. Touched by an Angel. Help, please.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

advertising. The goal is to better understand precisely how they look for jobs, so that you can engineer your approach to advertising opportunities to make your jobs visible to them. He is a frequent speaker and advisor to Fortune 500 and Silicon Valley firms. Not logged in. [ log in or register ]. Recruiting Community.™

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Within a year WAP became the laughing stock of the mobile industry. They were frustrated that despite having the (monopoly) infrastructure that brought you the Internet, the majority of innovation and profits went to Silicon Valley startups. With 5 years’ of British sarcasm under my belt I said, “WAP is CRAP.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, and Berlin’s hip coffee shops to East London’s Silicon Roundabout , the world is well versed in the global innovation boom towns. This post originally appeared on the TransferWise blog. But have you heard of what’s going on in Cyprus, Sweden or North Carolina? Pune, India?.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2012

‘The Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over, and We’re Dancing on its Grave’ – [link]. Good article about Facebook’s dual stock class structure & investors – [link]. GM Bows Out of Super Bowl Advertising – [link]. Why I Lost My Faith In Facebook Advertising – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

Don’t Use Social to Generate Sales; Make Selling Social | Advertising Age – [link]. Don’t Use Social to Generate Sales; Make Selling Social | Advertising Age – [link]. Don’t let Silicon Valley fool you—millenials are the least entrepreneurial generation | Quartz – [link].

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Billed as "Silicon Valley meets Madison Avenue", today's AlwaysOn conference in NYC was somewhat reassuring. Mobile Advertising : panelists laid out the case for why the iPhone was transformational for mobile advertising and that early trials suggest mobile advertising actually works.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, popularized this strategy for web applications. Delaware law gives preferred stock investors of a corporation certain voting rights and control over the corporation. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. But there’s something else that I think I learned, and that was that a lot of focus on Silicon Valley is about growth.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. The Pebble Smartwatch itself comes stock with a fairly standard feature set – email, clock, heart rate monitor etc. So What is Customer Development?

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. But there’s something else that I think I learned, and that was that a lot of focus on Silicon Valley is about growth.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Update: Part 2: Finding Your Co-Founders CrunchBase Information Seth Sternberg meebo Information provided by CrunchBase Tweet Next Post Previous Post Advertisement Now Commented Facebook Goodbye, MacBook Pro. Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley. The New MacBook Air Is That Good.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Create a strong brand, solid social community, sell advertising. I have 2 options: set up a new startup or share my idea with google (or maybe another big silicon valley’s company). I think advertising and intent have to be aligned. You don’t need to move to Silicon Valley. What/How should I do?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. So when the market started showing good signs (iPhone, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, stock market growth) it was happy days again. Risks of these two factors to the stock market. Stock market declines would bring back dog days of VC. Eventually you have to invest.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Sure, I wrote about startups all the time, but my work experience with a classic Silicon Valley-styled startup was non-existent. I remember sitting down in the balcony of my apartment and looking into the night, taking stock of my life so far. I found it hard to deal with advertising related stuff. I wanted to write.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. We are already invested in these companies; we can’t sell our stock. We don’t have to sell our stock. ALEXIA TSOTSIS.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

ClickFacts itself is now based in San Francisco, and continues to work hard to help advertisers and ad-networks manage their risk and security, exactly as it set out to do seven years ago. Twitter Rolls Out Clickable Stock Symbols, Or Cashtags. Zyngas Stock Spikes Following ChefVille Announcement. The Next Web. TNW Conference.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 12, 2015

How To Meet Ladies: Decoding “Silicon Valley” Player Erlich Bachman’s Zen-Bro Look crowdspring.co/1F6QN9Z. ZoommyApp: find free stock photos crowdspring.co/1Fqw3KD. How Nostalgia Fuels Creativity crowdspring.co/1JnWCpJ. What is it Like to Negotiate a VC Round? | by @msuster – buff.ly/1GzcRBs. 1Jo0g2G.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

In January 2006, Google acquired advertising company dMarc Broadcasting for $102 million. After negotiations between the two companies, Google acquired video compression company On2 in February 2010 for $133 million in Google stock. The company helped Google improve its mobile advertising solutions. dMarc Broadcasting.

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