The Startup Magazine

MARCH 13, 2019

EFFICIENCY, OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE – Digitizing operational activities is an opportunity to aggregate more accurate data (from customers, infrastructures and facilities) which can then be used to improve efficiency. You must be at least 18 years old to enter AEP IlluminationLAB. What is the process for applying? Click Apply Now !

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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. We think coaching is a key lever for doing this, with our own team or through outside partners. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

Since sales are intimate with costs and expenses, the forecast helps you budget and manage. Partner up with someone who does. And if your accounting doesn’t give you information you can summarize and aggregate into meaningful categories, then maybe it’s time to review your chart of accounts. Step 3: Educated guesses.

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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. How do I get into contact with potential affiliates?

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

As a result, businesses can ship climate positive products, whether at an additional opt-in cost to the customer or built-in to their pricing strategy. We also believe that defensibility comes with the aggregation and “digitization” of quality supply. You can read more about Patch here. Why are we excited about Patch? .

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Veritas , the team building a low cost residential wind turbine. In talking to customers, the team found that cities are actively trying to reduce street lighting costs (retrofitting with LEDs, turning off lights, and charging streetlight fees.)

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc. Agora’s selling points are its ability to reduce users’ IT infrastructure cost and enhance revenue for service providers. Veritas is making a low cost, residential wind turbine.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

The same metaphor is true for modern, “legacy” businesses — most businesses that exist today have co-evolved against one another in a careful dance of suppliers, distributors, competitors, and partners. Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce? Enter the Kudzu.

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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. To get $1 in the bank, creators have to generate $2 (taking into account platform costs, creation costs, promotion, taxes, etc). ” Eric Feng. Gen Z and the 1% rule. Creators Platform Dependency. Source: Graphtreon.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

The company aggregates a tremendous amount of medical news and research and personalizes it into a user friendly experience. Remedy Systems ( www.remedysystems.com ) designs and builds practical mobile product platforms that lower the costs and improve the quality of healthcare. Docphin ( [link] ) is the Bloomberg for doctors.

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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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David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

The most pervasive has been the expansion of passively managed portfolios, such as index funds and ETFs, which allow both retail and institutional investors access to a broad spectrum of investment opportunities at a much lower cost. What drove the expansion of the ETF market and who are the players that are taking advantage of it?

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

Working directly with a manufacturer or wholesaler means that you’re hiring a business partner to develop your store’s product portfolio. To make things easier for you, we’ll focus on the two best ways to source your products for the needs of your retail store. Work Directly With A Manufacturer Or Wholesaler .

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

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. We track each team’s progress as they test their business model hypotheses. You can see the entire presentation here.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As David Sacks from All in put it: On aggregate, a lot of funding was also deployed to startups in the application layer – investing in founders leveraging generative AI to either solve narrow tasks, or bring automation to tasks to reduce costs, increase accuracy, speed etc.

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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. Led by Oak Investment Partners with participation by General Catalyst, Sequoia, & Accel and others. Founding Date: 2004.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Jonathan is a speaker and advisor managing director of Resilient Growth Partners and a board member at Frost & Sullivan. He's a speaker and advisor managing director of resilient growth partners and a board at frost and Sullivan. You know, the cost of labor, but also consumption. Marketing Podcast with Jonathan Brill.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost. As evidence that it does work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator graduates at $14.4

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Cover Upfront Costs. The proposed equity crowdfunding rules allow your business to fundraise up to $1 million per 12 month period in its aggregate equity crowdfunding campaigns. A successful campaign collects enough proceeds both to justify your business costs and satisfy your key business needs. Hire Attorneys and Accountants.

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Equity SEC Technical Review Security 125

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. That means marketers can change and test anything, anywhere on their sites, for any segment of shoppers, instantly, without I.T.

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View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2019

The company launched in 2011 and then was acquired by PetSmart for over $3 billion in 2017 (PetSmart itself owned by PE firm BC Partners), but Chewy is now preparing for life as a standalone public company. Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

The latter typically excludes taxes and non-cash expenses like taxes, depreciation, stock option compensation, etc… Groupon’s Adjusted CSOI is exactly the same but also excludes customer acquisition costs (though these are reported elsewhere). My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Previous Entries.

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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. 90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator. Make smart agreements with strategic partners. We can do better.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 30, 2020

We will continue to aggregate learnings as we expand the network and try to use them to both influence policy as well as to accelerate and expand our ability to help businesses that continue to struggle through the Covid-19 induced economic crisis. Seth Levine is a partner at the Foundry Group. Please join us by registering at [link].

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2019

As a two-sided marketplace, Migo also helps partners and cities better understand multi-modal transit usage and demand patterns by delivering aggregate data down to a neighborhood level. We knew when we started Migo that there would be an explosion of ride partners and that’s proving true. Can you explain how the app works?

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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. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund.

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Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

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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ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2018

It aggregates listings in over 200 countries from the likes of Expedia, Booking.com, and Airbnb, along with other alternative types of accommodation, into an embeddable widget. Stay22 has found entry to the music festival sphere by partnering with Evenko and Pearl Jam. For organizers, it often means the room block model.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2020

One of the best was from Paul Kedrosky and Eric Norlin of SK Ventures (one of our Partner Fund investments ). Since mid-March, I have received endless letters from companies and funds I’m an investor in with their thoughts on the Covid crisis. Paul and Eric have given me permission to repost it here. . First published May 15, 2020.).

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

Holding back distribution of content in certain markets to keep channel partners happy is a losing strategy. Technology doesn’t care who your trade partners are. People know the costs of content distribution are minuscule compared to the pre-digital era. This is the power of getting things out there. Nature does it too.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. Provide employees with the information and processes necessary to know their customers, understand their needs, and effectively build relationships between the company, its customer base, and distribution partners.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

The consequences of being late or making critical mistakes tally up into the millions, yet McKinsey estimates that 90% of projects suffer cost overruns – and two thirds are at least 40% late. Our customer engagement has been solid, as has our engagement with partners. But we’re learning to adapt!

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Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

The company launched in 2011 and then was acquired by PetSmart for over $3 billion in 2017 (PetSmart itself owned by PE firm BC Partners), but Chewy is now preparing for life as a standalone public company. Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In conversation with a16z managing partner Jeff Jordan (and former CEO of OpenTable and former GM of eBay among other things) — so, from all sides of investing, operating, life — Annie shares tips for decision makers of all kinds making decisions under uncertainty… really, all of us. Jeff: Yeah. That resonates a lot.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

In the letter, Buffett advised, “Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio’s market value.” If you cut 1 percent in cost or time, that’s not much. In fact, Buffett has said his favorite holding period for stocks of outstanding companies is “forever.”

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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. They are detail oriented, cost focused, quality obsessed and chasing a big market opportunity.

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