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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.

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Putting Twitter’s IPO in Perspective

Agile VC

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).

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Heat Maps: What Are They Good For (Besides Looking Cool)?

ConversionXL

Even if you do look at it to see if it supports your suspicions, don’t put too much stock in it. 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. Are they trustworthy? Click Maps.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

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. 20 years ago, much of public equity investing was done by mutual funds run by a few smart folks picking stocks.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Monitoring and reporting solutions include BaseVenture , Burgiss , Davigold , DocDep , eFront FrontInvest , Framework , Investors Economic Assurance’s CapAssure , Netage Dynamo PE , Q-Biz Solutions , Qualtrics , SS&C GlobeOp , an d Vantage Software. Private Equity Software and Services Directory. The VC Software Stack?—?the

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

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. So from day one, my knowledge about how to do a startup was zero.

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