David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Teten question: What will the impact be of deal aggregating websites (Axialmarket, MergerID, PE-Nexus, PEGBASE, CapitalSphere, DealMarket, BizBuySell,) on the investment banking industry? More likely you hit their preferred channel.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

And ChubbyBrain released the demographics from early enrollees in the program, revealing some interesting statistics about who is seeking startup funding. ReadWriteWeb readers also trended younger than ChubbyBrain's aggregate data. Early Stage Startups. So how do ReadWriteWeb entrepreneurs stack up? Data is Beautiful.

Silicon Valley 115

Silicon Valley Aggregator Early Stage New York 115

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering.

Oakland 327

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 327

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Maybe this is my inherent bias as a comms pro, but in aggregate , I believe the uncaptured upside when women founders stay under the radar is far more detrimental than the risks that come with visibility. For some early stage startups, investing in comms won’t meaningfully move the needle; for others, it can be transformative.

IPO 91

IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 91

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

But ultimately great people drive the ideas and Highland Capital is proactive in reaching out to entrepreneurs even at early stages. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. 51:30 – 1:02:40).

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. But all things are never equal.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 4, 2020

I first met Joe when he was working as a General Partner for Entrepreneur First , a Greylock -backed early stage tech fund which has gone on to raise and run $200 million in capital for start-ups, creating a global portfolio with an aggregate value of more than $2 billion. Increasing cooperation and collaboration between U.S.

United States 28

United States Silicon Valley Artificial Inteligence San Francisco 28

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.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2010

The company was accepted into Capital Factory, an early stage technology accelerator, where the team was given some funding, free services, and some mentorship to help them get to the next level. In less than one year, SpareFoot has aggregated the largest real time inventory of self storage units on the web.

Los Angeles 72

Los Angeles Aggregator Early Stage Partner 72

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

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. That’s why early stage companies aren’t run by accountants with spreadsheets.

Silicon Valley 188

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 188

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

However, I can share the key startup marketing learnings from founding a marketing agency that serves early stage San Francisco startups. The most important customer acquisition channel for a new business is referrals. Define The Offering. Seven of the first eight customers of my marketing agency have been from referrals.

Customer 28

Customer San Francisco Early Stage Aggregator 28

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. Since email is so important as an acquisition channel (and since likely nothing else works for them), I choose one of my three favorite email marketing metrics , CTDR. There is only one channel where our ability to discern intent is the super-strong. I love governments!

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

This is a little harder to do for channel sales, but still extremely valuable. Like you I believe, that businesses who deliver information rich (highly configurable OR customizable) products & services via online channels REQUIRE the understanding of their KEY LEVERs if they are going to be successful.

Metrics 55

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

While the CAC ratio helps SaaS businesses at scale to manage their Sales and Marketing spend, the SLC is a helpful framework for early stage businesses before you have meaningful data. Ramping up too quickly will burn precious cash reserve and could sink the business. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #5.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. NESTA : They invest in early-stage companies, inform and shape policy, and deliver practical programs that inspire others to solve the big challenges of the future. aggregation. Roku Channel Store. VC & Startup Resources. Alon Bloch.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

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. 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 $$.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 10, 2011

Everyone wants the perfect tool that bounces rates in real time while computing multi-channel attributable impact of an email sent to grandma via Facebook based on competitive intelligence gleaned from TV watching behavior of customers with lifetime value greater than $358 and FICO scores of 700 or higher. [I Aggregation of marginal gains!

Analytics 120

Analytics Web Agile Campaign 120

ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

“Umbrella terms” are when you aggregate multiple features and benefits under one vague term, like “powerful” or “easy-to-use.” 3 Growth hacks for early stage startups: Find your scaling lever (HouseTrip, Facebook). All PPC channels will work for you if you stop using brute force.

PPC 48

PPC Analytics Video Non-Compete 48

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

- A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , July 25, 2010 AVC regular Charlie Crystle asked me this question yesterday in the comments : Fred, it might be helpful to some of your readers to explain when a startup should seek angel vs seed/early stage VC. Each of those domains would get one point in the aggregated list.

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217