Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

It’s been over 10 years since Napster came on the scene to disrupt traditional music business models, sparking a wave of debate on the right mix of “free” vs “paid” content going forward with digital that has yet to be fully settled. In the shift to digital music, several models emerged, with the jury still out on the clear winner.

Business Model 153

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 153

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? Nearly every point above is subjective, varies from company to company, and at its core is more of a business judgment than a pure legal question. To what extent might proprietary IP rights be undermined by antitrust laws ?

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The emergence of mobile platforms has broadened the array of internet-enabled businesses somewhat, and overall it obviously marks a massive shift in computing platforms. But at its base level, ubiquitous computing or “mobile” hasn’t actually changed that much from the desktop web when it comes to fundamental business models.

IPO 194

IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Wikipedia.com defines a “startup company (startup or startup) is an entrepreneurial venture which is typically a newly emerged, fast-growing business that aims to meet a marketplace need by developing a viable business model around an innovative product, service, process, or a platform.”.

Bootstrapping 85

Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2013

eBay aggregated buyers and sellers of stuff, mostly stuff in the attic and garage, and took a fee on the sale. Today sellers can find viable marketplace distribution in places like Amazon, Buy.com, Newegg, Ariba as well as eBay. eBay was one of the first to crack the marketplace code online. Advantages of digital marketplaces.

Channel 60

Channel Small Business Distribution B2C 60

Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 20, 2014

Okay, that much is probably obvious but if we peel back the covers we could probably identify some interesting intersection points between the two retail models, starting with the distribution capability. I wouldn’t suggest you build your business model around that. a youtube video that takes off?

Jordan 50

Jordan SEM Distribution Aggregator 50

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

For much of the past five years academics, journalists, bloggers, and assorted mass-media-tag-alongs have been heralding the “ death of newspapers ,” the downfall of the publishing industry and the collapse of information distribution as we know it.

Small Business 88

Small Business Public Relations Social Media New York 88

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

If your business model (i.e., “how If you are raising money to start or grow your business, you need to include the details of what you need in the executive summary. Distribution. For product companies, a distribution plan is an important part of the complete business plan. Retail Distribution.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) In fact, I don’t think revenue is in and of itself a goal for startups, and neither is profit.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

This recommendation also valuable for companies that have very unique business models, or face other unusual circumstances (geographic, size, amount of innovation, and many others). … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. See Page 269. :).

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Do you know have they distribute their product? Rule 1: In an existing market Customer Development means not only understanding potential customers, but your competitors in detail – their product features, their sales channels, their demand creation strategy, their business model, etc. Do you know how they create demand?

Silicon Valley 181

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 181

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I had just enough data to optimize the main funnel, found a bunch of wins, then hit a hard wall and needed to rebuild the entire distribution strategy from scratch to keep growing. Otherwise, consider using those marketing dollars to scale up your core distribution channel first. Use your funnel as a guide for a healthy business.

Conversion 133

Conversion Technical Review Channel Engineer 133

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and countless others employ this model. These models allow scale to emerge at very low-cost. But that’s because they choose that model.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. We are a better humanity thanks to the work of journalists, I hope the industry finds a sustainable business model. Continuing the obsession with deeper relationships… TBT is a newspaper that’s updated 80k times a day, how does the Recency distribution look like?

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We are taking a mathematical (weighted coefficients estimation, probabilistic modelling, etc), human-system hybrid approach to early stage investing through this tool. We believe this way we can extrapolate insights for our particular business model (portfolio operator VC fund) previously missed out.”.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Technographics vendors such as Builtwith , Datanyze , HG Data , Stackshare, and Stacklist help CEOs identify the right tech platform on which to build their business; they’re also helpful for investors to due diligence a company’s tech stack choices. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Marc Hedlund of Wesabe talked about this in his post-mortem stating: Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Now I just need a business model. 5 – Ran out of cash.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

The Amazon AWS-led revolution of startup innovation has led to a massive increase in the aggregate number of startups. In addition it is much easier to get distribution than it was in the pre Facebook, pre iPhone world.

Venture Capital 296

Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

As a VC who has built a fund focused on distributed connectivity and data analytics as a thesis, I am realistic about the current status of investment opportunities in the sector. Some of the smartest fledgling teams have been acquired by Google, Apple, Uber and Facebook over the past few years.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 84

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

From live & on demand video with endless interactive overlays, through 2nd screen, synchronized & social experiences, to brilliant mobile apps that may function in all connectivity environments and support every possible business model. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

This is in part because these businesses are unencumbered by legacy constraints that had previously been hardwired into the companies and industries these startups are trying to disrupt. One such business model is the “online marketplace,” an entirely new business category not possible (at scale) before the Internet.

B2C 136

B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

As a VC who has built a fund focused on distributed connectivity and data analytics as a thesis, I am realistic about the current status of investment opportunities in the sector. Some of the smartest fledgling teams have been acquired by Google, Apple, Uber and Facebook over the past few years.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 40

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

It’s conceptually no different from the early days of Western Union’s original payments business when people “wired” money to one another at each end of a physical distribution network. But again the store of value in prepaid minutes was the key. FAQ A: What about Square?

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. This is the blog post I needed to read.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. Or the ability of the Center for Disease Control to be able to track pandemic distribution of viruses. I think that today’s journalists want a simple story: “Twitter hasn’t yet proved its business model” but I think that misrepresents the long-term value.

Viral 307

Viral Las Vegas Tunisia Syndicate 307

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

mobile telephone operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and media agents. Unlike traditional FLASH we can put 4 bits of information in a single cell, and we produce memory product in sizes optimized for content distribution, creating the LOWERS cost content mobile Content distribution medium available today.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Aggregated, that’s a lot of money. There is an opportunity in ‘related services’ Distribution is a real problem for newly launched sites. By latching on to traffic hubs like Facebook, Apple, Google and Twitter and so on, it is possible for a new site to reduce the distribution risk.

Russia 68

Russia Hosting Differentiation Social Network 68

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. Mce Systems. MailVision.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Every website in the world has a unique business strategy. Is Getty really competing with these sites, given its business model? Or is this a gap in their business approach they should fix in some other way? In this case, a simple distribution of overall search traffic and the amount that is coming via paid search.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

You have to focus on for the nuts and bolts, what is the business model, how are we going to make money. Get as many leads as possible, bring in more money, prove that you’ve got a good model and then you can go out and raise money or get a loan and more easily actually get that money. Bates: Fantastic.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

free, distributed source code control management system. aggregation. broken vc model. Business Culture. Business Model Canvas. Business plan. business symbiosis. Github -Â Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs. Mercurial â??

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53