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. The companies were all part of Capital Innovators, an accelerator venture fund that has been operating since last fall. Louis show how vibrant the startup ecosystem has become there. I have a platform to sell you.

St. Louis 127

St. Louis Kansas City Technical Review Kansas 127

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Online stores can serve more customers globally with lower costs, less effort, and fewer employees 24/7. By opening fewer stores you decrease costs in renting real estate, distributing products to your stores, and hiring employees for every location in every area you’re operating in.

Affiliate 134

Affiliate Revenue Internet Marketing 134

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.

Lean 60

Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Deciding on your price can feel more like an art than a science, but there are some basic rules that you should follow: Your pricing should cover your costs. There are certainly exceptions to this, but for the most part you should be charging your customers more than it costs you to deliver your product or service. Distribution.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Kayak generates both distribution (i.e.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

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.

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

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. But for the average business that doesn’t operate on the scale of those industry titans, opportunities to increase efficiency aren’t always obvious.

B2B 102

B2B Campaign Analytics Operations 102

YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2013

Although the HRS office in Singapore has been operating for the past year, its designation as regional headquarters signals its recognition of the region as a high-growth market, especially with Singapore as a key MICE (meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions) destination. In the News Hotel Reservation Service HRS Singapore'

Singapore 171

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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.

Customer 59

Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Applicaster helps content owners, broadcasters, cable companies and mobile operators of all sizes deliver innovative and profitable mobile broadcast experiences. Our mission is to help content owners, broadcasters, cable companies and mobile operators of all sizes deliver innovative and profitable mobile experiences.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

But, in 2018, incremental gains no longer cost $1 million either: You have more data; Storage is cheap; and. Teams know how many tickets were distributed; however, they do not know in “real time” how many people are in the venue or stadium during the event. Full warehouses cost money; empty shelves cost money.

Analytics 131

Analytics Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Campaign 131

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video). Notably I said: You have to have owned & operated websites (O&O) to drive traffic to.

SEM 150

SEM Los Angeles Silicon Valley Acquisition 150

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. Capital has built a free online tool for founders to calculate their cost of capital.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

The most poignant realisation of this for me has been the general awareness that few of them pay their fair share of taxes in localised operations. Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

The most poignant realisation of this for me has been the general awareness that few of them pay their fair share of taxes in localised operations. Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy. The top down era of one size fits all. And now it is over. This might just change.

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Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. This led to an explosion in startups.

Venture Capital 296

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

It means relying on your own savings and revenue to operate and expand.”. It is also important to realize that, statistically speaking, most startups become operational without any venture capital or external funding sources. The good news is that, in the digital world, brand development does not have to cost an insane amount of money.

Bootstrapping 85

Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

i-nigma was successfully deployed by hundreds of enterprises, among them operators, advertisers, integrators and solution providers. Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Aerotel Medical Systems. Allot Communications. BoomeRing Communication.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

Celeno is a leading vendor of standard-based WiFi silicon solutions capable of distributing up to 4 HD video streams, with full home coverage (over 500 sqm) and carrier grade robustness. ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals.

Media 145

Media Social Network Flash 145

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

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. Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation. This information is normally maintained by your operations team.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. Cash distributions are what matter at the end of the day, bug big paper gains still make for good fundraising pitches. If you over-fund the industry, aggregate returns fall.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

2:17) Some of the teams and projects Sam has been impressed with and how inspired he's been by the way the biotech industry has pulled together and operated with newfound speed. (6:56) The things that I always say you need for a startup to be successful are a fast cycle time and low costs. I don't think people go back from that.

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. Or the ability of the Center for Disease Control to be able to track pandemic distribution of viruses. What does that mean?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Compared to the million-dollar startup, they are operating at micro-scale. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. They know how much it costs to bring in a customer and they know how much money they can expect to make on each one. How does that stack up?

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

For instance, my post on Moz about the economics of link building, which included our link-building rates to help readers compare costs, brought me a number of inquiries. Another great example of linkable assets are pages that aggregate industry stats, like this one. There’s also a chance for referral traffic and leads.

B2B 142

B2B Social Media Email Campaign 142

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155? My distribution above is a good starting point. Multi-channel attribution across digital channels. All three challenges are important.

Channel 161

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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?

Silicon Valley 181

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 181

Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 6, 2010

These post level items are aggregated into a dashboard view and measurements of sentiment, trending, and relative status are calculated. Brands of all sizes across every industry operate in a media environment best described as Paid, Earned, and Owned. branded media mentions).

Social Media 60

Social Media Media Viral Channel 60

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The very best analysts are comfortable operating with ambiguity and incompleteness, while all others chase perfection in implementation / processing / reports. Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. The very best analysts focus, when most will tend to gather. We have to really get good at this.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

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.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Tactile CRM – A cost-effective CRM that tracks sales, deals, emails and customer contacts. Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents. Oprius – A contact management software designed for independent sales people.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

tells you how much adwords cost. free, distributed source code control management system. hire low-cost international engineering talent. In addition, TheFunded.com allows entrepreneurs to view and share term sheets, to assist one other finding good investor, and to discuss the many facets of operating a business.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

It shows the normal distribution of XS, S, L etc, but it also shows, how cool is this, the Model's size (S in this case), her height, bust, waist and hip size! What is the cost of, and options for, an ADT security system? But there is no indication as to what the monthly cost will be, and there is no online quote option.

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Web Design Marketing Security 164