Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. Entrepreneur Prerna Gupta believes that there’s a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing “Lean” principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. Adjudica.com sells its group-medical-cost monitoring tool as a Web-based service to large health plan operators. Two events this week in St. Louis show how vibrant the startup ecosystem has become there.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. Trend to watch : an equivalent to MCNs (Multi Channel Networks) on the early days of YouTube where creators band together to generate economies of scale (and share revenue). Gen Z and the 1% rule. Creators Platform Dependency.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? The only exceptions that come to mind are if the IP seems likely to provoke costly litigation, costs too much to develop, or taints the startup with some kind of ties to other ventures or people that give it a checkered past.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2013

HRS CEO Tobias Ragge was recently in Singapore for the official announcement, where he shared his plans to drive adoption of his company’s online hotel booking and travel management solutions, which allows users to make direct reservations free of charge, offering immediate confirmation and cost savings of up to 30% on hotel bookings.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent. But think of this.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

I recently had the privilege of assembling an all-star group of media executives in Beverly Hills to discuss the challenges they face in distributing, monetizing and delivering their video content. In aggregate, the various revenue streams would continue to support the creation and distribution of high production value content.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Using Monetate Real-time Marketer, companies are boosting sales while slashing costs and time-to-market. VP of Engineering, AppNexus - New York, NY "It's over a billion ad impressions a day, we got a full tank of venture capital, half a pack of cigarettes, the future of ad networks is dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The economics of online education are good, with the marginal cost of taking on additional students very low. Research suggests that distributed practice is, in fact, the best way to learn. Networking. Personal networks are a major source of employment and business opportunities. Motivation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

When you have limited distribution, the costs of distributing media are so prohibitive that only the largest of media producers (and distributors) are relevant. That couldn’t happen without the advent of lower cost production & distribution. Why is that? The book profiles markets like those for books.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

It’s the second largest search engine in the world, and content from their platform reaches more 18–49 year-olds than any broadcast or cable TV network. But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States. YouTube shines when it comes to brand awareness. views per person).

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The firm used to be called Fotouhi Alonso and were one of LA's top mid-sized agencies for 20 years, working with clients like Honda, Epson, the LA DWP, and the FX Network. We can extend our clients' reach tremendously, and for low cost, by using the internet and social media to distribute and link to the "assets" we create.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

His picture of all of the different elements you have to deal with infrastructure (network, storage, os, db, etc.), Of course, there are still caveats - can they pass data security audits, what is your downtime risk and cost of downtime, what's the risk of the platform vendor. application services (security, integration), etc.

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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. Brand names matter (as do eyeballs).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Heterogeneous architectures apply exciting advances in technologies such as GPUs (graphics cards originally invented for gaming and video), solid state memory, high network bandwidth and many other cloud components to break barriers and deliver meaningful progress. These are multi-Terabyte data loads, crunched by the Fortune 100.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Nor is the knowledge loss limited to technical knowledge: It is not simply losing someone’s knowledge if they retire or leave the organization, it is also losing their social network, if you will, in terms of who they seek out for answers to questions in their domain. Internal social networks. Those questions are a starting point.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. Do you know have they distribute their product? Do you know how they create demand?

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Listening platforms capture in near real time relevant discrete post level items in social networks, social media, and mixed media (e.g. These post level items are aggregated into a dashboard view and measurements of sentiment, trending, and relative status are calculated.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

” David makes a powerful assertion — allowing the patient to rise to the forefront and to be truly be seen as a customer — will lead to not only more satisfied patients, but patients with better medical results and much lower costs. Additionally, the large employer motivations are likely contributing to rising costs.

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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. These models allow scale to emerge at very low-cost. This is consistent with the CPC pricing we see on the Outbrain network. But their costs of content relative to traditional media are zero.

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Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2021

Companies like Amazon, which created a product distribution network capable of delivering almost any consumer item anywhere in the world in two days or less. In that scenario, a B2B firm would save on their own labor as well as on the cost of the collections process. Stabilize accounts receivable and invoicing.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. So from day one, my knowledge about how to do a startup was zero.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

At first glance, mobile payments seem like a no brainer… consumers [seemingly] want the convenience of paying with a phone rather than cash or credit card, merchants dislike the cost associated with accepting credit cards, and mobile ecosystem players (e.g. I’ve been an interested observer of electronic payments for 12+ years.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

There will also be a free networking reception at Campus on Monday, June 25th. Brandsforce is a plug & play social media marketing platform that generates conversations, engagements and measurable actions on social networks. UK Startups can receive an *almost free* ticket by registering on this page. Brandsforce - Company Website.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Then there have been entrepreneurs who sort of don't do anything in the realm of biotech but can somehow help with logistics or distribution or whatever that like, "I am going to ask my friends who do run biotech companies or hospitals or whatever, what they need me to do and then all of our plans are out the window. It's such a big problem.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

By way of crude example, if your building innovative trading software for Wall Street, be where you customers are and where you can best network. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. During this year they.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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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 plan to use the internet as my networking base, and friends as my streettalkers. The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2011

In a nutshell, the program provides startups with $20,000, office space, account and legal help as well as a small network of mentors, all of which are aimed to help the companies get to a proof of concept. The cost for the startups is 10% of their equity, which is taken by the fund GeekVentures I as payment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. This has two major drawbacks: the central directory can become a single point of failure, and there is a performance cost for having to consult the directory ever time you want to access data anywhere in the cluster.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Along with company presentations and ample networking opportunities, Dan Caruso, CEO of Zayo Group, will give this winter’s keynote address. zettasun manufactures efficient commercial rooftop solar panels using proprietary optical technology to dramatically reduce the cost of solar electricity to be at or below grid costs.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Along with company presentations and ample networking opportunities, Dan Caruso, CEO of Zayo Group, will give this winter’s keynote address. zettasun manufactures efficient commercial rooftop solar panels using proprietary optical technology to dramatically reduce the cost of solar electricity to be at or below grid costs.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Even in this obscure niche, their napkin-math suggested that improper moisture management cost companies $1 billion in repair and replacement costs each year. Localized, where the entire buying process happens within a small—sometimes offline—network. It created powerful network effects.

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