YoungUpstarts

MAY 25, 2020

GovSpend is offering a free Vendor Registry that allows companies with products or services specifically needed to address the COVID-19 crisis to partner directly with the agencies that need them. One of the most useful sets of data is the government purchase order data aggregated in an online database by GovSpend. .

Revenue 153

Revenue Government Aggregator Database 153

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Maker announced it has raised $62 million this year, acquired an amazing off-YouTube distribution network and grown its business in monetary terms by almost 300% year-over-year off of an already large base. You need to think like a producer of any kind and think about distribution more broadly. ” YouTube takes 45%.

Networking 366

Networking Media Distribution Video 366

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

“I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining [New Firm] as a Partner where I will continue to invest in great Founders across the industries I care about.”. “I In any professional service industry, there is natural shuffling in the junior roles, as the race up the pyramid towards a Partner title is like musical chairs.

Venture Capital 204

Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. Copyright, or the lack thereof – it’s hard for creators to prevent illegal distribution of their IP. ” Eric Feng. Gen Z and the 1% rule. Creators Platform Dependency. Monthly payouts on Patreon.

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Aggregator Vertical Audience Seed Stage 207

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.

Generative AI 78

Generative AI ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 78

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications. In this role you’ll need to provide mentorship and technical guidance to individual team members as well as get hands-on in helping to maintain and improve on our products.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

Start Up Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

. – – – Distribution is everything: It’s more important than the product. There is nothing more common than market-leading businesses who don’t have the best product, yet are still more widely distributed. I’d much rather invest in an average product with incredible distribution.

Distribution 48

Distribution Channel Aggregator Global 48

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

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.

Software 104

Software Flash Architecture Aggregator 104

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) These types seem dangerous, yet are often the ones needed on board to get the fund to invest in the first place, seeing that the younger partners naturally have less pull during the Monday round-ups. I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&#

Silicon Valley 223

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 223

The Equity Kicker

JUNE 6, 2016

When I look in my traffic sources now it’s all Twitter, Facebook, Google and aggregators like Mattermark, channels where posting daily makes much less of a difference. In summary, posting frequency no longer effects distribution. So I’ve posted pretty much every working day for nearly ten years now.

Equity 60

Equity Aggregator Valuation Distribution 60

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

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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Management Customer Software Review Technical Review 116

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

In 2010, the company became a preferred content aggregator for the Apple iBookstore and is one of the largest providers of book content to Apple. “This investment will enable us to go to market faster and bring new technology offerings to our customers across all three media types.”.

Aggregator 54

Aggregator New York Distribution Security 54

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). 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.

Advertising 284

Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2013

Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! Because the platform lets curators distribute digests in their own names. When an employee or partner wants to spend his or her time performing tasks you need done, the need for monetary compensation can drop out of the equation.

Curation 61

Curation Silicon Valley Startup Jordan 61

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Salesforce, Ning - get platform + API leverage - must go down a particular path Marc Canter CEO, Broadband Mechanics - makers of People Aggregator VERY colorful speaker. Mark Suster Partner GRP Partners He's an ex-Salesforce.com employee. Salesforce is good for distribution - can access their user base.

Internet 150

Internet EC2 Java API 150

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. Partner with a professional business services company. Attract customers through content marketing.

Bootstrapping 85

Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

He is on the board of the Angel Resource Institute, and is a partner with Montlake Capital (a late stage growth capital fund) and with Revenue Capital Management (a royalty based lender). as well as a more detailed description of the distribution of outcomes: Kauffman Foundation Angel Returns Study and NESTA Angel Investing Study.

Angel Investor 103

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

For about the past year my partners have been pushing me to write up some thoughts on AdTech investing. We’re particularly sensitive to customer concentration issues related to margin – aggregating demand from a small number of sources, for example, which may lead to significant margin pressure. And for a while that worked pretty well.

Disintermediation 82

Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 82

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Does each business partner own an equal portion of the business? Distribution. For product companies, a distribution plan is an important part of the complete business plan. Distribution is how you will get your product into the hands of your customers. Retail Distribution. Are you an LLC ? An S-corp ?

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Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 1) Manage the firm

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

“I have been very surprised at Austin’s strength in “IT consumerization&# – ideas that combine business software value with consumer internet distribution ideas,&# he said. We asked Mike Maples about his investments in Austin. Of course there is, you’re just not getting at it.

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Curation Austin Cofounder Ruby 118

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Same partner all along: Jorge Alonso, Creative Director. 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. We downsized from 35 people in 2001 and are now a size that allows us to work directly with clients. Absolutely.

Early Stage 150

Early Stage Southern California Los Angeles Marketing 150

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

For about the past year my partners have been pushing me to write up some thoughts on AdTech investing. We’re particularly sensitive to customer concentration issues related to margin – aggregating demand from a small number of sources, for example, which may lead to significant margin pressure. Performance.

Disintermediation 48

Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 48

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

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. My partners and I founded Reel Paper with the goal of adding the positive experience of social responsibility to the simple e-comm purchase of a household staple: toilet paper.

Entrepreneur 147

Entrepreneur Technical Review South Korea United States 147

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.

Distribution 66

Distribution Venture Capital Deal Flow Aggregator 66

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Let me tell you a story,” began Jim Palmer, a partner with e-learning developers LeanForward. The aggregate KA score would be computed as E × LE. Choose how to store and distribute knowledge. What are the consequences of losing that knowledge? What actions can be taken to retain that knowledge? This post helps you answer each.

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Retention Technical Review Social Network Wiki 128

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

You have to build a large online tech company that distributes video.” And it’s not about aggregating traffic better. Online technology company that distributes video. They will partner with every producer of online video software. Most will fail. I repeat the same mantra to every one I see. I hate weightism.

Video 150

Video Curation Distribution Silicon Valley 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I know that I have not yet earned these kudos based on investment returns (although my partners have. GRP Partners last fund is the single best performing VC fund in the US (prequin data) for its vintage year). I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar. accessibility. authenticity.

Startup 373

Startup eCommerce Audience Community 373

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

I would put my firm, GRP Partners in with the group working with teams in different ways. Maybe Micro VCs will get larger and emulate a multiple-partner strategy like True Ventures or First Round Capital. The Amazon AWS-led revolution of startup innovation has led to a massive increase in the aggregate number of startups.

Venture Capital 296

Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

He is a venture partner at True Ventures. 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. Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. We were obviously wrong about Untitled Partners’ ability to grow through the subsequent downturn. #19

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Craze Digital is one of the world’s biggest Digital Entertainment indie companies, managing a host of online & mobile channels for high-demand Music & Video content, with a strong focus on innovative approach to monetization and distribution. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution. Screenz - Company Website.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

As a VC who has built a fund focused on distributed connectivity and data analytics as a thesis, I am realistic about the current status of investment opportunities in the sector. Bradford Cross, a partner at Data Collective, just published a great blog post on this, along with other machine learning predictions for 2017.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 84

Hunter Walker

JUNE 23, 2013

Under Matt, Toni and Raanan’s leadership they’ve been consistent and committed to their values – open source, distributed workforce. Tumblr – Obviously great mobile product, simple toolset and upside of re-distribution ease via dashboard. And Business Insider “aggregates” me every once in a while.

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Term Sheet Distribution Aggregator Software 85