abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Entrepreneurs accurately recognize that the connective tissue of the Internet provides an opportunity to link the players in a particular market, reducing friction in both the buying and selling experience. Aggregating suppliers is a necessary, but insufficient step on its own. You must also organically aggregate demand.

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Aggregator Marketing Software Review North America 101

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. A nalysis – One of the luxuries of being a VC is that we have a larger data set than most entrepreneurs of performance. This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Their value proposition had now changed from a wind turbine supplier to homes, to a distributed power supplier to cities and utilities. Yet like passionate entrepreneurs, the team ignored our advice and pressed on. (To

Channel 215

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VC Adventure

MAY 10, 2020

After its enactment but before it was implemented, there were questions about the SBA’s “affiliation rules” which can disqualify companies if the aggregated number of employees at affiliate companies is greater than 500. The program sparked confusion from the start.

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SBA Affiliate Los Angeles Cap Table 79

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) wherein all network participants can have separate copies of the entire record of transactions on the network. Transaction Processing.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Entrepreneur Ryan Hoover transformed an email list experiment into a venture-funded startup community with tens of thousands of active members. It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

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. Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion How-To''s' Online stores can serve more customers globally with lower costs, less effort, and fewer employees 24/7.

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Affiliate Revenue Internet Marketing 134

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. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. Founding Date: 2004. Expedia accounted for 24.5%

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Many thanks to David Rose , Ilana Grossman , Justin Stanwix , and the whole Gust team for making the Gust Blog such a valuable platform and resource for entrepreneurs and angel investors. How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? To what extent might proprietary IP rights be undermined by antitrust laws ?

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. There’s lots of lore, emotion, and misconceptions of what VC’s do or don’t do for entrepreneurs. What this meant for entrepreneurs and VC’s was simple– the gold rush to liquidity was on. What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

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.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

I’m rarely surprised when a young entrepreneur or small business owner hasn’t fully identified how their new business will make money. But I’m always surprised when that entrepreneur or small business owner has a tough time describing the potential customers for their new business’s products and services.

Small Business 110

Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Venture is a field with a power-law distribution of outcomes. Building a venture capital firm isn’t about continuing to scale talent aggregation over time like most businesses, rather it’s about having a consistent right amount of talent and scaling AUM over time. What does this mean for entrepreneurs?

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Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. Startup after Iron Planet?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Replicate what I was doing for others. We saw that many food entrepreneurs had these same problems. We currently operate a large 17,000 square foot facility, 5 stores to sell products in, and a distribution business to sell the product to retailers.

Entrepreneur 147

Entrepreneur Technical Review South Korea United States 147

Austin Startup

JUNE 24, 2018

Token Creation & Distribution If you have an idea for a company that can benefit from an ICO, CoinLaunch should be your next stop. News Aggregation CryptoYum is unique in that the news and media sources are entirely community-curated. CoinLaunch ?—?Token a necessity ! CryptoYum ?—?News

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Aggregator Distribution Community Curation 80

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Below, 16 entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) share the one PR strategy they think all startups and small businesses should stop using, and why. Traditional distribution services no longer work. Entrepreneurs need to view PR as part of a holistic strategy and leverage it past the initial story.

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PR Small Business SEO Warrant 145

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

They had a lock on “distribution&# and were named AOL, Yahoo!, The idea was that websites (think news, blogs) could push out a regular “feed&# in an open, XML format that could be read by an RSS Reader otherwise known as a feed aggregator. Twitter has become application distribution. Excite, Netscape & MSN.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 7, 2014

In simple terms, startups in which the information is distributed across the network of users, rather than stored in the companies server farms. That method being, centralised data aggregation and distribution. The shift to distributed data. I’m talking about brands like Google and Facebook. It is growing rapidly.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 13, 2018

A few years later, “Hard Things” still holds up and I still think this is a must read for any business software entrepreneur. That post sparked hundreds of reactions, and I ended up speaking with more than 30 entrepreneurs in total, with more than 2/3 female and underrepresented backgrounds.

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Austin Aggregator Portfolio Distribution 48

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. The distribution of returns from the different U.S. When you aggregate all of the data, these angel investors (across the U.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2013

Evernote makes a great software product and distributes it through a free to upgrade approach. Products and services can be packaged and distributed through a multitude of channels and delivered in physical form, digital form and as one time purchases or ongoing subscriptions. This is probably the most common approach. Clarity.fm

Business Model 77

Business Model Aggregator eCommerce Distribution 77

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Our publisher distribution network reaches in the tens of millions of unique users and is comprised of “head end&# stars as well as many “mid tier&# and “long tail&# publishers. For starters – the team is exactly what I look for when I’m looking to fund entrepreneurs.

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Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2013

Guest author Gary Whitehill is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Startup Weekend. Struggling entrepreneurs around the world are in deep envy of Nick D’Aloisio’s business acumen. Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! Non-Monetary Incentives.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Consequently, you’ve decided to utilize this passion and expertise to collect and aggregate social media data from some of the popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, CrunchBase, and LinkedIn. A solopreneur is essentially an entrepreneur who does not hire any staff. Draw up a budget.

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Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. The distribution of returns from the different U.S. When you aggregate all of the data, these angel investors (across the U.S.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

I have counseled innumerable entrepreneurs to change their focus to revenue, and many companies who refuse this advice get themselves into trouble by running out of iterations. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

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.

Small Business 88

Small Business Public Relations Social Media New York 88

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

The vast majority of business owners and entrepreneurs aren’t business experts. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make in their business plans is stating that they don’t have any competition. Distribution. For product companies, a distribution plan is an important part of the complete business plan.

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Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 23, 2014

If you’re an entrepreneur, coach, consultant, professional service provider or salesperson, your perceived authority is what allows you to up your game significantly. You must up the value of your content by finding ways to amplify its distribution, motivate others to share it and use it as a tool to create opportunities and connection.

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Sales Cycle Social Network Aggregator Campaign 73

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Do you know have they distribute their product? Entrepreneur – “We tell potential customers about all our features.”

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Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 181

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

A group of seasoned Austin technology entrepreneurs and executives are announcing the formation of their new company, Mass Relevance , to help consumer brand use real-time social content to drive engagement on television, the web, and in the mobile world. We asked Mike Maples about his investments in Austin. Mass Relevance is this company.&#.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 8, 2019

But it’s not just that the Foundation has been effective at aggregating and analyzing the “whos,” “whats,” “wheres,” “whens,” and “hows” of huge global challenges like childhood mortality. “Thanks to cell phones, satellites, and cheap sensors,” he wrote, “we can gather and organize data with increasing speed and accuracy. Sound familiar?

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Senegal Malawi Silicon Valley Global 28

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

As entrepreneurs, more than any other industry, we’re in the meritocracy business. If women face structural barriers to becoming entrepreneurs, then those few who are able to overcome those barriers are probably exceptional to begin with. Or, maybe it is true that women make better entrepreneurs than men.

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View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

Editor’s note: The NextView team periodically holds internal “shootarounds,” where we discuss a startup topic or trend and try to make sense of it for everyone involved: entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers. They may already exist, too, but just need to figure out a way to make their prices come down or get the right distribution.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Startup Software Review B2B 159

Rob Go

MARCH 16, 2014

I’ve been thinking a lot about the outcome distributions in different circumstances. Whats the probability that the aggregate outcome of various attempts is successful overall? I find that most people are not tuned to this sort of outcome distribution. The dimensions that I think about are: 1.

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Distribution Venture Capital Deal Flow Aggregator 66

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. ” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.) entrepreneurs. 26 September 2012.

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