David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Then, pluck the low-hanging fruit: easy, low-cost, and highly scalable infrastructure. aggregates resources from all the VCs. Particularly when events are all virtual, this is an easy and low-cost way to build trusted relationships with the leaders in your space. AskAnything.VC I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! Production costs have fallen more than 90%. Distribution costs have, too.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

It’s a $1T+ global industry undergoing tectonic shifts. The beauty of the new landscape is that niches that were previously underserved can be targeted and aggregated effectively, and enthusiasm and notoriety of a brand can be built in a fraction of the time. Owning High Shares of Customer’s Wallet.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Certain experts have described the situation as a Keynesian supply shock, a negative event that triggers aggregate supply shortages with bigger impacts than the prior reduction in labor supply. This leads to unnecessary additional costs and losses. A lot of companies suffered supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2011

Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%. We all know the result of the over-funding of the asset class – poor returns in aggregate for the industry. The lower costs & lower barriers to entry support this.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Cutting costs , revisiting forecasts , and stabilizing your business. Driven by job cuts and budget reductions urging businesses to hire more freelancers , online freelancing platforms will enable companies to tap into expanded pools of global talent and hire qualified workers. The first stage in this crisis was survival.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 13, 2019

In an effort to support startups looking for capital and mentorship, The Startup Magazine is supporting American Electric Power in the launch of its IlluminationLAB global innovation program for technology entrepreneurs. The trio of opportunities, open to any global startup , are designed in partnership with investment firm L Marks.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. C ustomer Development – We have relationships with hundreds of large global corporations. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers.

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David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

Technology innovation, globalization of markets, and recent market volatility such as the 2008 market collapse are driving painful changes (for some) in the asset management industry. ETFs have become increasingly popular because of the lower cost, generally tax beneficial structure and a wide variety of products now available.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the past few years, a major challenge plaguing the manufacturing sector is the rising costs of raw materials. As global economies and supply chains suffer because of hostile international relations in the world, raw materials are seeing high prices. This is cost-effective as compared to traditional models of advertising any day.

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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.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Present a yummy spreadsheet that quantifies the cost of inaction , how much money you’ll lose by not delivering a 25% improvement every week. Below is a collection of nudges, curated from my global experiences, influenced by research and data I’ve access to. It will be heartbreaking, and now you are ready for progress!

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

With hundred of thousands of global practitioners, the supply of ideas and best practices is endless. It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. What’s more challenging is finding the right information that will influence positive change within your organization.

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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. On one hand, it’s never been easier to reach a global audience, but on the other, it’s extremely hard to cut through the noise. Gen Z and the 1% rule. Creators Platform Dependency. Take Twitch for example.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

That’s the kind of cost increase no sane business desires. They add a layer of innovation by aggregating small pieces of content, all of which have little value on their own, but extraordinary value in aggregate. In 2022, streamers spent a whopping $US26.5 billion on original content production, a 45 per cent increase on 2021.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 21, 2022

In its 2021 global consumer report , Snap predicted that 75% of the global population and nearly all smartphone users will be frequent users of AR. AR consumer adoption (Source: Snap global consumer report 2021 ). trillion times in aggregate ( source ). According to the latest survey by AR Insider, 30 percent of U.S.

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View from Seed

MARCH 5, 2019

So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider. Again as I highlighted above, in aggregate Lyft’s users aren’t taking dramatically more rides today then they were 3+ years ago. So what about those cohorts?

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Overall, I like this notion of social shipping, since as we become a more global world, and as e-commerce takes off in more geographies, this could be a service not only applicable to Costa Rica, but much more broadly in many nations. and each book costs $375 retail. Words To Live By. Well, she doesn't.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

So Westlaw created Peer Monitor, which aggregates anonymized data on firms’ financial and operational performance, collected from participating clients with their permission — and this turned into a lucrative new business. Westlaw, which provides legal research services for law firms, is another example.

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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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Agile VC

MARCH 5, 2019

So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider. Again as I highlighted above, in aggregate Lyft’s users aren’t taking dramatically more rides today then they were 3+ years ago. So what about those cohorts?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Sources like Crunchbase , Angel List , and Seed Invest even give this data away for free or very low cost. Most of our companies will need to raise further rounds.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Haystack

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

On the other end , Xiaomi’s Mi Band sold for a fraction of the cost, putting pricing pressure on Fitbit’s potential user base. For Fitbit to even maintain that percentage in the face of the Apple freight train is remarkable. This is especially true given how far behind AndroidWear or whatever it is called is relative to the competition.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 31, 2017

As with Analytics, additional modules for Target such as personalisation and recommendations come at a cost.”. They offer a level of functionality that is globally on par with them for testing, but at a lower price level once you go above the free level offered by Optimizely. Pricing for Adobe Target is available on request.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Thus, let’s start this discussion by defining the global crisis caused by the new coronavirus, COVID-19 , so that we can look forward to finding the opportunity in the crisis. What this means is that the global economy has been paused while we wait for the virus to burn itself out. .” – Albert Einstein.

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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. The company needs a serious technologist that can modernize their global fashion supply chain so it can empower a new generation of professional independent designers and artisans, and help the most talented individuals rise to the top.

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Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Maternova is an online marketplace for low-cost but vital obstetric tools; you might think of it as something like Amazon for childbirth-related medical supplies. As can be imagined, tackling a global, public health problem through social enterprise is not just a worthy goal, but a lofty one. See Also What Is a Social Enterprise?

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ConversionXL

MAY 13, 2020

After a few hours playing around with SQL , I was already able to deliver insights I never could have with aggregated Google Analytics reports. What’s the difference between raw and aggregated data in Google Analytics? Google Analytics, in the free version, provides only aggregated data. Because of calculation costs.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

2) Groupon’s Far More International Than Most Realize : Most casual observers know that Groupon’s been buying similar daily deal businesses in other global regions (starting in May 2010), and doing some organic expansion internationally too. In Q1 2011 Groupon was acquiring new subscribers for $5.53

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And I think that we need to start thinking much more about these seemingly unlikely events and how they'll change our companies, because it turns out that well, any one of these might be unlikely and aggregate. You know, the cost of labor, but also consumption. There are no contracts and no additional costs. Get $150.00

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Technical Review Networking United States Artificial Inteligence 61

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

The SaaS growth recovery does not seem to take a "V" shape 2) Sales productivity is ramping up: bottom was hit in the first half of 2009 However, the sales and productivity of the group, measured by the median "Customer Acquisition Cost ratio" or "CAC ratio", seems to be recovering more steeply. Global warming: a plague for humanity?

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Airbnb’s availability as a marketplace and its aggregation of substantial consumer demand has actually meant certain forms of lodging have been newly built or converted into rooms for the primary purpose of listing on Airbnb. Additionally Airbnb charges both sides of the booking (guest & host) a separate service fee.

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North America IPO Prospectus Europe 401

Start Up Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

Same-day global release: Content and movie producers can and should have same-day global releases. People know the costs of content distribution are minuscule compared to the pre-digital era. Don’t judge my purchase based on device. The internet does not and has never cared about oceans. Delays to access encourage piracy.

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Distribution Channel Aggregator Internet 48

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2020

What about, you wonder, the bigger changes people chatter about, like the death of commuting to work, the end of globalization, the collapse of professional sports, and the like? These trends will simply speed up. Not so much. There is also, however, the real potential for multiple massive drug failures setting the industry back decades.

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Artificial Inteligence Aggregator New York Technology 149

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. This was how companies who produced media became big before the Internet.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Recommendations can be powered by aggregate data, which determines the relevance of a certain item in relation to a given context, or user specific data, that fuels personalized recommendations. Here, an item can mean a piece of content, a product, or even a person (in the case of dating sites, for instance).

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Conversion Product Technical Review Widget 48

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As entrepreneurs with a passion for helping others, they’ve built a company that is vastly accelerating the ability to deliver healthcare to the most needy global communities. Her work has been commended in leading industry publications and gives her unique strategic insights into the global healthcare ecosystem.

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