Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. Developing O&O (owned & operated) businesses (outside of YouTube).

Networking 366

Networking Media Distribution Video 366

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Tech Channels ▾ Cleantech ›. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

PernixData introduces a software-defined “Flash Virtualization Platform” that aggregates and virtualizes flash storage distributed across servers into a scale-out data tier for enterprise data centers to provide low cost, deterministic high performance to any out-of-box application.

Software 104

Software Flash Architecture Aggregator 104

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. My boss, Jen Grant , was an incredible manager, and Aaron Levie, the co-founder and CEO, was a fantastic partner on all things communications. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

IPO 90

IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 90

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? SALs are the goal for many enterprise marketing and sales groups, but knowing which channel brought them in is the key to really scaling your sales velocity.”

Conversion 48

Conversion Retention Acquisition Metrics 48

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. But instead of channeling all my energy towards building new features, I channel roughly 80% of it towards measuring and optimizing existing features. This case presents a further complication: desktop software.

Continuous Deployment 151

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki 151

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

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

She has a separate team, with its own culture and office, and a mandate straight from top management to innovate without regard to the company’s historic products, channels, or supply chain. She knows the internal politics are tricky, but she’s navigated them well. So far, so good. Take a look and let me know what you think.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). Test-marketing is now easier than ever before, thanks to leveraged distribution channels like AdWords and Facebook. There are too many products clamoring for attention.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Simply sign up using your Google account, create a channel , and upload your video files. Suggested videos encourage people to increase their watch time not just on your channel but on the platform as a whole. Here’s how Nextiny ’s channel appears on their website: Users can customize the look of a channel (e.g.

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Rashmi Sinha, co-founder and CEO of SlideShare , describes an early version of the analytics package that’s part of the Pro accounts the company announced today. Early this year, SlideShare launched custom channels. Eric] “The first user experience was actually terrible.&# What prompted the process change?

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment 167

Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Renske Lynde, Co-founder & Managing Director, Food System 6 Accelerator. Be sure you understand how to make every aspect of the business repeatable and scalable: aggregation, ingredient purchasing, production, fulfillment, customer experience and customer retention. You need science to back-up claims.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet Incubator Cofounder Salary 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We can remedy it by creating a special visa for startup founders. I think the benefits are a no-brainer. 2gov.org will take care of the rest.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Founder DC Washington 150

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. How to channel your efforts and energy and stay informed. ( But a lot of it is also just getting the data, aggregating it, being able to take action on it. Digital Response. She served as the U.S. Eric Ries : Yeah.

New Jersey 60

New Jersey Government CTO America 60

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2013

What used to come across as a blatant advertisement is not just an aggregation of user testimony, or photos, or a participatory experience. It’s time to make the valuable parts of this conversation visible across multiple channels to allow for further user interaction and amplification. Link to white paper – [link].

Media 61

Media Social Media Advertising Audience 61

viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

September 27, 2010 | View Comments This is the third part of a series on becoming your own technical co-founder. In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. I’m writing about how I became our technical co-founder. Advice: I wrote a gude to finding a technical co-founder.

Cofounder 41

Cofounder Hiring Ruby Founder 41

viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This is the third part of a series on becoming your own technical co-founder. In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. I’m writing about how I became our technical co-founder. Disclaimer: If you know a great technical co-founder that wants to work with you, join them.

Hiring 41

Hiring Cofounder API Aggregator 41

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. The most frequently used channel to research people is unsurprisingly Linkedin , followed by Twitter.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

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. A minimum viable product in this category must answer the question: does my media content or channel command the attention of a valuable audience? Founders struggle with this question.

Customer 156

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

VC Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2011

It hopes to be more than a user generated content site, by aggregating movies, games, recreational and educational activities from sources that were deemed safe for kids, operating on a Freemium model – offering free access to basic content and charging for premium media access. Continue reading →

Social Network 99

Social Network Networking Web Audio 99

Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Most small business and Startup founders are talking about customer engagement and social presence beyond the customary likes and one-post-a-month schedules. This helps significantly when you’re targeting your audience and evaluating the effectiveness of your LinkedIn channel as a whole. Martin Harrison , Co-founder, Copify.

Analytics 100

Analytics Social Media Marketing Media 100

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

William Hsu is the co-founder and managing partner of MuckerLab. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory. The objective is to have a seller treat the personalized store as his or her own online presence and actively market it in existing marketing channels (social media, business directories, TV etc.).

B2C 136

B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The Co-Commerce Revolution – Well it isn’t really a revolution, more of a devolution. The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

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

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2023

I think the challenge here could be that maybe the founder has beliefs and values that are not necessarily aligned with the rest of the members of a company. And so what was happening is just this creative aggregation of ability and, and enhancement just seemed to kind of have a, a universal appeal. How do you open those channels up?

Aggregator 74

Aggregator Cofounder Networking Audio 74

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Startup Culture Lessons From Mad Men - OnStartups , July 26, 2010 The following is a guest post by Brian Halligan who is my co-founder and CEO at HubSpot (which means he gets to do most of the really hard work). Consider the case of the last company I co-founded, SiteAdvisor. Here’s an example in a direct sales channel.

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

This “gain” ($34B last year alone) is a result of a direct wealth-transfer to these individuals FROM the previous owners of the company — founders, executives, employees, and venture investors. They return the favor by doing more banking business with said banks, and some of the windfall-money comes right back to the bank via other channels.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Judah Phillips, the co-founder and CTO of Vizadata and founder of SmartCurrent , explained: We already live in a world of “real-time” predictive analytics. which marketing campaigns, channels, touches, behaviors, and demographics are contributing to a business outcome, a form of “machine learning–based attribution.”.

Analytics 131

Analytics Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Campaign 131

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. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? Founder Equity Issues. Founders Workbench. aggregation. Co-founder.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53