ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

Louis show how vibrant the startup ecosystem has become there. On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. Two events this week in St. The companies were all part of Capital Innovators, an accelerator venture fund that has been operating since last fall.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The same is not true for venture capital of course, since the underlying startups VCs invest in aren’t publicly selling their equity. Startup outcomes are a power law distribution rather than a standard distribution. Even if you’re top decile for your vintage year (e.g.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Taking a look at the list above you can get a sense for what tools are needed for creators to create, distribute and monetize their content. This is a big area of opportunity for startups. The creator economy tool categories. The landscape for creator economy tools is evolving rapidly.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment with a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. 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.

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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 have built relationships with a set of service providers specializing in startups, and have pre-negotiated discounted rates with them. For example, consider public relations.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It’s Very Likely That Artificial Intelligence Will Be Worth More In Aggregate Than is Currently Being Invested (Just Unevenly Distributed) In kindergarten my daughter learned to not ‘yuck’ someone’s ‘yum.’ Perhaps scooters and other micro mobility startups of the last decade are an example of this?) SaaS and Cloud perhaps?)

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Is your new startup targeting auctions? … 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. . The other half is commercial gallery sales.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2016

Services such as Moz Local, Localeze, Infogroup, Factual and more distribute lists of small business info to major directories and can help correct the issues in a matter of weeks or months. And you can submit events to event aggregators like Eventful; news to Google News, Bing News and Yahoo News and submit content to local sites like Patch.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2020

You can do this by not only drafting a top-quality and interesting press release but also distributing it through a tool that uses multiple aggregators. Other writers and bloggers can help distribute information. There are plenty of ways on how startup businesses can benefit from a press release. Command Respect.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. 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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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

He has a background in affiliate marketing and development and is a startup enthusiast in general. If your startup’s goal is to sell a product or service but you’re having a hard time with your revenue model, affiliate marketing might be the perfect match to give you that much-needed boost. What is affiliate marketing?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This is as much of a game-changer (due to a new distribution model based on the social graph) as going from offline to the Internet was in the 90s. Startups to watch in this space are Legolas Media , Krux Digital , and BrightTag , among others. Social Media based Discovery Traffic Breaks Out. Are you ready? *A

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

It was and is imprecise science but – at least in the case of venture backed startups – there wasn’t much harm in an option being priced low.

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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. For starters I’d like to tell you what I tell every startup that wants to “build a YouTube business.”

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Consider what followed since November: New foundational models, more efficient ways of training models etc An explosion of open source models, the rise of HuggingFace Breakthrough research across voice, video, text, multi modality, etc Billions of dollars invested in thousands of startups at the application layer of generative AI.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In this post, I wanted to deconstruct the various pieces of the flywheel that drives the Creator Economy, as well as the challenges, and opportunities for startups in this space. Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. Source: A16Z, 1,000 true fans? The new Creators.

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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. The post 5 Tips for Managing a Team of Remote Consultants appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups. 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. So I generally feel right at home in these conversations.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

As I said to an entrepreneur from Hong Kong at a previous roundtable: whether you are building a startup in Silicon Valley or Timbuktu, the methodology of bringing a product or service to market is not that much different. With that, let's look at the two entrepreneurs who pitched today from Costa Rica.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications. Over 1,000 senior professionals have since signed up for the mailer, which goes out on Fridays.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2013

Ragge also predicts that many travel startups in the space are likely to not exist in the next few years. It’s being able to have an extensive network, robust aggregated content and integration with global distribution systems (GDS) that is required to survive in this space,” he explains.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995.

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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). If all you ever do is create YouTube content then I agree – that’s not a viable startup business.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

In other words, you must start bootstrapping an online startup , because the future of the global business world is online. What is a startup? Before we look at ways to bootstrap a startup, let’s consider a comprehensive definition of what a startup is. Ways to bootstrap a startup.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

I recently had the privilege of assembling an all-star group of media executives in Beverly Hills to discuss the challenges they face in distributing, monetizing and delivering their video content. In aggregate, the various revenue streams would continue to support the creation and distribution of high production value content.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. Do you know have they distribute their product? Do you know how they create demand?

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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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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As many of you know, in the past I’ve done a series of posts deconstructing the S-1s of VC-backed internet startups going public. A few years ago this was sort of a novelty… not that many startups were going public and not that many bloggers or mainstream journalists took the time or had familiarity with combing these SEC filings.

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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. RSS aggregator. video distribution platform. Greenstone. www.greenstone.org. www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

PR can do wonders for your startup or small business, but not all strategies have proven to be effective. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. What gets you interested in a startup? (16:35-19:35). The entrepreneur’s story and what brought them to their startup business. 6:00 – 7:30). 16:35-19:35).

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2013

Guest author Gary Whitehill is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Startup Weekend. Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! Many startups simply do not have the money for any kind of traditional compensation plan. Sometimes startups need to hire real paid employees.

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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. RSS aggregator. video distribution platform. Greenstone. www.greenstone.org. www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte.

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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. RSS aggregator. video distribution platform. Greenstone. www.greenstone.org. www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte.

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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. RSS aggregator. video distribution platform. Greenstone. www.greenstone.org. www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 7, 2014

There’s a lot of attention going to startups which circumvent or avoid centralisation of their services, or use what is becoming known as Block Chain technology. In simple terms, startups in which the information is distributed across the network of users, rather than stored in the companies server farms.

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