Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak Software Corporation. 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.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

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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. In just one example, Zumasys, Inc.,

SBA 79

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Aggregating suppliers is a necessary, but insufficient step on its own. You must also organically aggregate demand. Great marketplaces do not simply aggregate a market; they enhance it. But in the early stages, this friction slows your roll-out and increases the costs associated with supplier aggregation.

Aggregator 101

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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. Each presenter had small demo booths where investors could ask questions about the venture and see the software in operation. Two events this week in St.

St. Louis 127

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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.

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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

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 22, 2022

Especially when you’re dealing with distributed teams, you need to rely on software solutions, and in this sense, vcita can make a big difference. You can have an open conversation with people in the same vicinity so people can raise any objections.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

We tried to get started in VC Cafe’s Startup Resources page, sites like SourceForge and the Open Source Software Directory do a good job listing many of them, but this curated list from JISC is definitely a good addition. 3D modelling software. collaborative software. RSS aggregator. video distribution platform.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

We tried to get started in VC Cafe’s Startup Resources page, sites like SourceForge and the Open Source Software Directory do a good job listing many of them, but this curated list from JISC is definitely a good addition. 3D modelling software. collaborative software. RSS aggregator. video distribution platform.

Open Source 104

Open Source Software Phoenix Startup 104

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

We tried to get started in VC Cafe’s Startup Resources page, sites like SourceForge and the Open Source Software Directory do a good job listing many of them, but this curated list from JISC is definitely a good addition. 3D modelling software. collaborative software. RSS aggregator. video distribution platform.

Open Source 104

Open Source Software Phoenix Startup 104

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

We tried to get started in VC Cafe’s Startup Resources page, sites like SourceForge and the Open Source Software Directory do a good job listing many of them, but this curated list from JISC is definitely a good addition. 3D modelling software. collaborative software. RSS aggregator. video distribution platform.

Open Source 104

Open Source Software Phoenix Startup 104

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Consumers can take turns in placing the order, and Marcial would need to provide the infrastructure to manage the flow of funds, as well as the distribution of merchandise locally. A well designed trust system with reviews and ratings and dispute settlement would be necessary to prevent fraud, the way other exchanges like eBay do.

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Costa Rica America Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

… Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. Let’s look again at our art marketplace example.

Small Business 110

Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications. We are looking for a seasoned engineer with management experience to take ownership of our engineering team. We have a strong preference for candidates with experience working with advertising systems written in C or C++.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

We also know that content performs for your business when you pair it with marketing automation software; you can use content to build up email subscriptions, understand your audience’s interests, and nurture the leads in your sales funnel. A lot of marketers are doing well in terms of authoring and distributing their content.

Marketing 162

Marketing Curation B2C Audience 162

Austin Startup

JUNE 24, 2018

Blockchain Development Tracking For the developers in the group, Cryptomiso is a Github-based stream of information that tells you how frequently pushes have been made to the Github community related to cryptocurrency software. News Aggregation CryptoYum is unique in that the news and media sources are entirely community-curated.

Aggregator 80

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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). You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent.

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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.

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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. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare). Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 6:00 – 7:30).

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Again there’s three fundamental ways to make money in consumer-facing internet businesses: you can sell people stuff in a physical realm (e-commerce), you can indirectly monetize consumer attention (media or ad-based), or you can provide online software & services that consumers pay for (premium services).

IPO 194

IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

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 led to an intro to Frank Chen at A16Z which led to my first project ever for a VC. That’s a fun story in itself and I’ll write about it another time.

Austin 48

Austin Aggregator Portfolio Distribution 48

David Teten

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Finally, companies like Voxy * have shown that educational software can be run on smartphones and used to teach anytime, anywhere. Research suggests that distributed practice is, in fact, the best way to learn. Additionally, several sites aggregate content ( Homeschool.com , etc.),

Jordan 60

Jordan Aggregator Networking 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.

Business Model 77

Business Model Aggregator eCommerce Distribution 77

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States. Of course, with Wisita, you must create the audience for your videos—there’s no inherent distribution network (unlike YouTube). Brightcove analytics aggregated data effectively across those platforms.

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Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

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.

Management 116

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Finally we get to: Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com His premise is that we should be beyond having to buy servers, software, or any other infrastructure. Now up: Craig Ogg Co-Founder Freshly Grated Software former VP of R&D, Stamps.com Have had to make choices about platforms many times.

Internet 150

Internet EC2 Java API 150

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. In these examples I was selling enterprise software where the vocab matched perfectly.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Here at Palo Alto Software, our mission statement is this: “We help people succeed in 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.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 20, 2015

Four times per year, Bianca (our Customer Service Manager) downloads reports from each of these services and aggregates them into one supersize Excel spreadsheet, allowing us to perform fairly sophisticated analyses of the results. hourly distribution data allows us to schedule extra help for the busiest times of each day.

Small Business 48

Small Business Customer Intellectual Property Aggregator 48

View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

The most prolific type of drone company right now are these consultancy-type businesses that range all the way from two guys who are ex-fighter pilots who love to fly drones and get commissioned to do various things with them up to a large-scale aggregation of drone service providers.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Startup Software Review B2B 159

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

… You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. The above graph shows you the dangers of setting targets on aggregated benchmarking analysis. And you also have, perhaps more useful, the industry wide acquisition strategy distribution.

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Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

We have fought valiant battles, paid expensive consultants, purchased a crazy amount of software, and achieved an implementation high that is quickly, followed by a " gosh darn it where is my return on investment from all this?" But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? " low.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

Here’s how Aura.org put it : Visual Attention algorithms, where computer software “calculates” the visibility of the different elements within the image, are often sold as a cheaper alternative. Click maps show you a heat map comprised of aggregated click data. Clicktale is enterprise-level mouse-tracking software.

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Algorithm Analytics Conversion Stock 111

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. The Amazon AWS-led revolution of startup innovation has led to a massive increase in the aggregate number of startups.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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