David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

In addition, 83% of companies had a racial composition that was entirely Caucasian, while only 12% of founders were Asian and less than 1% of founders were African-American. Conventional Founder Background. Quadrant I : Most VC-backed companies, e.g., Mark Zuckerberg, Founder/CEO, Facebook. Non-Majority Markets.

Venture Capital 114

Venture Capital Los Angeles Cofounder Technical Review 114

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

David Teten

APRIL 18, 2014

We continue to think keeping our doors open to non-traditional founders is a highly advantageous investment origination strategy for our members. For that reason, on May 5 in New York, HBSAANY is going to co-host our first-ever pitch night with the Harvard Business School African-American Alumni Association. Details here.

Los Angeles 114

Los Angeles New York Miami Early Stage 114

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

hitchens - theyre not open to the public as far as I know, but if you have an affiliation with Stanford engineering, undergrad, or GSB, its possible you could come audit. Labels: events , lean startup 5comments: Hitchens said. When will you be speaking? Can I go to one of them? September 28, 2008 6:13 PM Eric said.

Lean 68

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup 68

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

Silicon Valley 313

Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2011

Certification Courses: If you want to jumpstart your education (and this is in addition to the above, not a replacement) consider taking a course with Market Motive (Disclosure: I'm the co-founder), University of British Columbia or the University of California at Irvine or Universite Laval. Washington Post Jobs in DC (11 jobs).

Analytics 125

Analytics Web Salary Non-Compete 125