mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Were seeing 3D printing start to take off, and were in the very early stages of this revolution. Amazons product suggestions are great because they have so much aggregate data. If they did, I could get an amazing aggregate view of whats relevant to me based on a more complete profile. 3D Printing for Clothing.

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Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

Ask the Users Startup Accelerators: Bundled and Unbundled Over the past several years, accelerators have emerged as a powerful filtering and signaling mechanism in early-stage startup ecosystems, allowing high-potential young startups to connect with investors, advisors, and other strategic partners far faster and more efficiently than before.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

OSEO validation in turn makes early-stage startups eligible for a variety of support services and funding options. OSEO can be involved during very early stage activities, such as business plan creation and feasibility studies. A rite of passage for many is to go through OSEO , which will analyze and validate a project.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. However, 87% of our respondents don’t actively participate in any such community.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

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. BlinkTraffic will empower mobile users in developing markets (Jakarta, Sao Paolo, Delhi, etc.)

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But Chicago-based startup MentorMob ( www.mentormob.com ) wants to change that – the free, community-based collaborative service aims to aggregate and organize the best online educational content on any topic, so it’s easier to find. With MentorMob , you spend more time learning and less time searching.”.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. I joined Glossier because of all the things I hoped I would learn: about consumer businesses, the beauty industry, brand and community building, and beyond. Enter Box. They gave me a shot. Working at Box was a revelation.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

This is the “tastes great, less filling&# debate that recurs on a regular basis in the venture capital and entrepreneur communities. I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage. If you raise $10m for a company that is valued at $3.5m

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Version One Ventures

MAY 27, 2015

It’s an easy way to get inventory in the early stage, but it’s not scalable as it gets expensive to both buy and manage inventory yourself. Aggregate readily accessible inventory. A last strategy is to aggregate inventory that’s already listed out there, for example through affiliate programs.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

When you first start a company, the corporate brand hasn't yet developed a reputation or any customer momentum, so most early-stage companies leverage the brands of the individuals involved for credibility. Aggregate and curate to reinforce. Refine your personal elevator pitch.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. Crowdfunding communities are no different. Before launching your campaign, build your community reputation. The problem? This strategy is my favorite.

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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.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Early stage sales and product-market fit are topics that I love talking about,” said Schwartzfarb. I’ve spent my entire career helping to build early stage companies and I feel very fortunate to share my experience with founders everywhere.” Investors connect with Techstars to gain access to quality deal flow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

And if we want them to understand what life outside the classroom in an early stage venture will look like, then they need to experience chaos, conflicting data, uncertainty and good-enough decision-making for 10 confusing weeks. Life will be like that – in a startup, you’d either be talking about shutting down or pivoting like mad.”.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

And if we want them to understand what life outside the classroom in an early stage venture will look like, then they need to experience chaos, conflicting data, uncertainty and good-enough decision-making for 10 confusing weeks. Life will be like that – in a startup, you’d either be talking about shutting down or pivoting like mad.”.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Modern digital curators for early-stage entrepreneurs are the expert bloggers who put “content into context.” Mark is a serial entrepreneur who is now active in the venture capital community for early-stage startups. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.” Both Sides of the Table , by Mark Suster.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. Thursday, January 17, 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. This is unintentional and inevitable.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

Despite the buzz among entrepreneur communities, various restrictions may make crowdfunding impractical for companies raising money and the intermediaries that facilitate the process. .” Title III enables “crowdfunding,” or the ability to sell securities in small amounts to a large number of investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice. So VCs spent a couple of years experimenting with earlier-stage investing, which is OK. The LP Community Hasn’t Yet Caught Up. There are also others.

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

Mahatma Gandhi I hesitate to use a quote from one of the greatest people ever to grace planet earth, and certainly the question of how to structure early stage investment is a laughable cause as compared to the rights that Ghandi (also a lawyer) fought to advance.  I’ve attached version 2.0 Second, they are simple.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Riverside defines proprietary as any sale less than ~3 buyers involved Kinderhook looks for the “broken” auctions that didn’t get the right attention of the PE community. Intermediaries. Join the right clubs.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. There are lots of micro-outcomes, in this case given most Pharma companies are still in the early stages of savvy, I choose something close to making money, Doctor Lookups. Behavior: Page Views per Visit | Visits to Resolution Acquisition: Visits | Search Click-Share.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

For a long time, they were basically the only game in town for seed and early stage funding in NYC. Not only has the NYC ecosystem changed, but the whole ecosystem around early and seed investing has innovated. This week, I spoke to one of the longest running and most active angel groups in the country, the New York Angels.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. Never in the history of venture capital have early stage startups had access to so much capital.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This may make sense from the individual perspective of a given VC, but collectively it ensures that early-stage companies are overvalued. In aggregate, angels are significant investors. However, I’ve seen many VCs who value companies as an option: the company has a 1% chance of being worth $1b, therefore it’s worth $10m.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. All the peripheral services are profitable, but there was no place that aggregated everything under one roof. we today aggregate 30,000 conferences on the site. Hanover city in Germany for example, lives solely on conferences!

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

As an active member of the telecommunications and Internet community, Caruso will address the attendees about the virtues of starting a company in the Rocky Mountains. Along with company presentations and ample networking opportunities, Dan Caruso, CEO of Zayo Group, will give this winter’s keynote address.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

As an active member of the telecommunications and Internet community, Caruso will address the attendees about the virtues of starting a company in the Rocky Mountains. Along with company presentations and ample networking opportunities, Dan Caruso, CEO of Zayo Group, will give this winter’s keynote address. More information can be found at.

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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. A good mentor is someone who has been part of the startup community themselves – someone who has a realistic understanding of some of the basic dos and don’ts of starting up.

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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. 3) Analyze the aggregated data to determine best practices and benchmarks across your customers. Anonymous said. Hi I read this post two times.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. So it fostered a community of “try anything you want” developers and many people did just that.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. We’ve been using MongoDB as the backing store for Treasury , and over the course of two and a half months , we’ve had over 50,000 excellent Treasuries created by the Etsy community, all stored and served in MongoDB.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The most obvious place that businesses and or accountants turn to for their small business clients is generally banks, big banks, community banks, you name it. When you go into a community bank on average fifty percent of applicants are declined. They are a part of your community. My name is John Bates.

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