ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Through them, entrepreneurs can hook up with R&D resources in universities and companies, and get access to a robust support network that provides opportunities for visibility, growth and financing. so it shouldn't be long till they hop across the Channel. The Funding. To qualify, your project has to have an R&D element.

France 163

France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance. We collect the complete narrative of what they discovered talking to customers as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses and mentor and instructor engagements. —-.

Incubator 316

Incubator Intellectual Property Startup Lean 316

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. By aggregating user-generated speed and location data, Blink will provide instantaneously generated traffic-enabled maps, optimal routing, estimated time-to-arrival and predictive itinerary services to personal and corporate users.

Lean 304

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 304

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2017

Pursuing new sales channels while maintaining your current brand can help diversify your products and attract more customers to your business. According to a recent survey by UPS , the adoption of online shopping is accelerating. If your small business doesn’t already sell online, 2017 is a great time to get started.

Small Business 100

Small Business Small Business Administration Social Media Aggregator 100

VC Adventure

APRIL 30, 2020

I wrote recently about the The Finance Assistance Network (FAN) , that I helped set up (along with Lew Visscher and Phil Votteiro) three weeks ago to offer pro bono financial advice to small businesses affected by COVID-19. The webinar is free and you can register here. I though it was worth sharing here as well.

Small Business 79

Small Business SBA Colorado Finance 79

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. Understanding your competition is critical to success.

Small Business 110

Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Tech Channels ▾ Cleantech ›. Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S. FDA Clears New Genentech Breast Cancer Drug, in Combo With Herceptin. View More in Seattle ›.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

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.

United States 28

United States Silicon Valley Artificial Inteligence San Francisco 28

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

Getting access to these insights allows teams to channel more resources ahead of time to reduce the risk and impact of a missed deadline. Teams can find out whether or not a deadline is likely to be missed by looking at KPIs that use past data to estimate end dates of the activities, tasks, and projects. Will we stay within budget?

Artificial Inteligence 168

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Management Software Developers 168

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

The first was in July of 2014, when we made the unusual move of raising and announcing another round of private financing while on file to go public. Years later, I wrote about several of my hard-won lessons from Box’s IPO process. Two additional moments stand out to me. Fortunately, I don’t think the path forward is to “stay very boring.”

IPO 90

IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 90

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2013

Count stuff – This is what most would call finance, but to me it also includes measuring and analyzing all manner of data, both tangible and intangible. Products and services can be packaged and distributed through a multitude of channels and delivered in physical form, digital form and as one time purchases or ongoing subscriptions.

Business Model 77

Business Model Aggregator eCommerce Distribution 77

Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2010

Today the company announces a $2M Series B financing, with return investors Silverton Partners, FLOODGATE (the new name for Mike Maples firm), and Capital Factory returning as investors. SpareFoot will use the proceeds to grow its team and expand into new marketing channels with the goal of driving even more tenants to its clients.

Los Angeles 72

Los Angeles Aggregator Early Stage Partner 72

Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 30, 2020

Boosting the World of Finance. The finance industry is spearheading the AI revolution. AI-powered tools can gauge the effectiveness of employee collaboration by monitoring workplace social channels and social enterprise tools. From banking to marketing, artificial intelligence is impacting industries all across the board.

Artificial Inteligence 59

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Retention Aggregator 59

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

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

Do you really understand how to market your opportunity and speak to an audience via the necessary channels? They may know what making a donation or buying a product on Kickstarter is but they don’t understand crowdfunding as we in the industry view it, which is financing a startup or a company and actually owning a piece of it.

Accredited Investor 48

Accredited Investor Non-Compete Vertical Acquisition 48

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr. … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. The above graph shows you the dangers of setting targets on aggregated benchmarking analysis. Clicking on Channels shows you the first report.

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

In fact, I encouraged my favorite IM aggregator client, Digsby , to go the opposite direction and become a Twitter client also. Actually, the latter could be a reasonable strategy for super technical entrepreneurs who can sustain themselves without big financing needs (see: Atebits, owner of Tweetie).

Acquisition 287

Acquisition Developer Management Advertising 287

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 4, 2022

Additionally, by aggregating products/services into lumpy groups, it can give a misleading sense of success. You can do this using an aggregate % number that you can lop off for CoGS. You can work with your Finance team to get FLCo. You can do it in aggregate. Media Costs). You times that by 100, and you get a ROAS %.

Conversion 127

Conversion Analytics .Net Metrics 127

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Email remains an immensely credible and profitable channel, with an immense reach to boot. Your company cross-channel outcomes data. Multi-channel customer purchase behavior, customer lifetime value. The difficulty in getting the numbers (bug Finance!) Your website data. You know, Analysis Ninja territory!

Metrics 137

Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 137

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

No doubt you’re thinking about myriad administrative and organizational needs relating to accounting and finance, staffing, your product and service roadmap for the year and more. Since you have access to intelligent information, the question becomes — how will you aggregate and leverage all this data?

Artificial Inteligence 127

Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle Colorado Retention 127

viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

It’s your ability to create great content, build a great sales team or execute on marketing channels. But, since Yipit, an aggregator of all these services, involves more user interface / user experience challenges, it made more sense for us to teach ourselves so that we could iterate on the concept till we got it right.

Cofounder 41

Cofounder Hiring Ruby Founder 41

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The Israeli Cabinet approved Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz’s proposal to continue with the biennial state budget model in 2011-2012. The British mobile payments and messaging aggregator will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket US mobile transactions hub. ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES 2-YEAR MODEL FOR BUDGET 2011-2012.

OTC 68

OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

And if you can pass that barrier (with, say, dimension widening using universal analytics), it is very hard to find this data inside the company (Finance department?), at a level of aggregation or granularity you need, and send it into your digital analytics tools. By channel] Conversions - Assisted Conversions.

Metrics 159

Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 159

Occam's Razor

APRIL 19, 2010

They are the reason we call the web the most accountable channel on the planet. I'll consult with my finance team. Now when I do analysis of my performance (not just in aggregated but segmented by geo and campaign and source and…) I'll know if our results are good or bad or ugly. But not normal metrics.

Analytics 138

Analytics Metrics Web Framework 138

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You, like us, probably measure change in Unaided Awareness, Consideration, Intent across individual digital channels. One of my solutions is to send an email out to Finance, Logistics, Customer Support, a wide diversity of employees. Because: All data in aggregate is crap. Invite them for an extended (free) lunch.

Analytics 101

Analytics Programming Global Campaign 101

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Together, CMRR, Cashflow, Churn, CAC, and CLTV make up the “5 C’s of SaaS Finance. As a private company, you have a VERY high cost of capital (well above 10%), whether you raise venture capital, angel money, friends and family investments, bank financing, or all of the above. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #3.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Up and Running

MAY 21, 2014

You know, service, education, your follow-up – even finance? I mean, there are a lot of, you know, businesses that provide an incredible experience always up to the point where that person from finance, says, “Okay, now it’s time to pay up.” You know, how does marketing impact? How does sales?

Marketing 72

Marketing Social Media Sales Media 72

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. While non bank business financing is currently miniscule by comparison, the numbers from kickstarter.com tell us something is brewing. The final question is what happens to our data when we die?

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

In addition to the FTTH market, PMC-Sierra also provides semiconductor solutions for Enterprise and Channel Storage, Wide Area Network Infrastructure, and Laser Printer/Enterprise market segments. FRENCH GIANT ESSILOR BUYS HALF OF ISRAELS SHAMIR OPTICAL. Wireless communications chip developer Qualcomm Inc.

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

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 Channels are very hard for SaaS companies to build, so don’t base your plan on SI’s and traditional ISV’s. Yahoo Finance. Stay local.

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

In other words, the future of financing is continuous funding, not discrete. Each of those domains would get one point in the aggregated list. Here’s an example in a direct sales channel. This post explains how to raise a single round with no lead, no fixed amount, and a fluid closing date.

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Finding money online (principally online lending) has not seen the same level of explosive growth in the US, although in Europe and India there has been real growth in microlending (including “pay day loans”) from companies ranging from Wonga to SKS Finance. Real time web usage outpaces business models.

Internet 114

Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 114

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

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. Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. Everyone in the industry knows IPO allocations are “hot” and “very limited.”

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Y Combinator : They provide a series of AA equity financing documents that are written with simpler words so start-up companies will have an easier starting point. Startup Threads. Videos/presentations. SlideShare. Haiku Deck. GoAnimate *.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53