VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

The aggregated product data can be easily queried, and thus compared, matched and filtered with unprecedented ease and power. Self reported: Stealth-mode peronal finance security startup powered by the collective vigilance and wisdom of crowds.

Stealth 74

Stealth Cofounder Matching Artificial Inteligence 74

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) They have aggregated talent into similar locations to learn from each other and made it easier for high-profile mentors to meet many companies at once. They have raised company profiles and made follow-on financings easier.

Early Stage 290

Early Stage Venture Capital Los Angeles Coder 290

Genuine VC

JULY 10, 2012

Active partner involvement level of lead partner post-financing – Venture firms approach involvement after a seed round wildly differently. Board seat requirements – Partner involvement post seed financing can, but doesn’t always, require codification with a board seat. larger check writers have a greater tendency to lead rounds).

Syndicate 207

Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Portfolio 207

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. We could for example, find warning signs in popular literature about e.g. finance suggesting rapid maturation in bond trading. Warning sign? At best. ~ Is 20 years enough?

Silicon Valley 235

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 235

Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

So, you want to get not only functionality that matches your needs, but also the best available on-market technical solution and technology stack. It is natural that for this powerful concept of Company-as-a-Service the best technical match is the concept of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Calendar Integration.

Management 52

Management Technical Review API Software Review 52

Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2010

In early 2009, the founders of Sparefoot (then called Homstie.com) had a vision of allowing people with extra storage space in their homes to make a match with people who wanted to store things. In less than one year, SpareFoot has aggregated the largest real time inventory of self storage units on the web.

Los Angeles 72

Los Angeles Aggregator Early Stage Partner 72

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Kevin Rose at TechCrunch , April 20, 2009: Digg founder Kevin Rose almost sold his wildly popular aggregator to Google in 2008, and subsequently turned his resources toward creating a much stronger independent business instead. Blake Mycoskie at TreeHugger , Sept.

Entrepreneur 231

Entrepreneur Cofounder Washington Bangladesh 231

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

Most companies would agree that they would prefer to focus marketing efforts on acquiring investors who have explicitly expressed an interest in being involved in crowdfunding and in specific verticals, both as a user on a platform matching them with opportunities, and directly with issuers.

Accredited Investor 48

Accredited Investor Non-Compete Vertical Acquisition 48

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.) Short answer: no.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. In these examples I was selling enterprise software where the vocab matched perfectly. This unit of progress is remarkable in several ways.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

By interconnecting the design, procurement, and construction process into a single software platform, we provide customers with an “aggregated source of truth” for their projects delivering a unified offering to them that streamlines the entire process.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Founder Saudi Arabia Cofounder 110

Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 30, 2020

Boosting the World of Finance. The finance industry is spearheading the AI revolution. For instance, IBM’s Watson Candidate assistant can match job applicants with specific positions they will excel at. From banking to marketing, artificial intelligence is impacting industries all across the board.

Artificial Inteligence 59

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Retention Aggregator 59

Occam's Razor

APRIL 4, 2011

and then work with Finance to identify economic value, and then you have to configure it in the tool and then apply advanced segments, and then figure out how things are doing. "All data in aggregate is crap." It is hard to say: I am recommending that we shift this cluster of brand keywords to broad match.

Web 127

Web Las Vegas Analytics Metrics 127

Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2010

Shopping and Auctions and Rakuten, an online shopping site Aggregator which generates 25% of its total sales via mobile. · Now, match that against a set of data which is the transit map. The dominant players in this category are Yahoo! 32% of Japanese mobile users use their mobile to make purchases online. participate in auctions.

Mobile 72

Mobile Japan Metadata Chicago 72

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

They founded Onward, a platform that matches displaced workers--usually, hourly workers--to industries that are hiring rapidly right now. Life essential services, job matching training resources. When the pandemic hit, Irma and Jake turned their attention to another problem. That became Onward. But so terribly disconnected.

Fresno 60

Fresno Community Technology California 60

David Teten

JUNE 13, 2012

The first woman you date who is a better match than the best woman you met during the calibration phase is, therefore, the person you should marry. By statistical probability, she is as good a match as you’re going to get.”. As a result, I was able to adopt an effective process-driven approach to finding my spouse.

New York 138

New York Private Equity Aggregator Matching 138

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Another frequent online experimentation strategy is to use matched-market tests to figure out diminishing return curves for the online-offline media-mix in our marketing plans. One of my solutions is to send an email out to Finance, Logistics, Customer Support, a wide diversity of employees. Because: All data in aggregate is crap.

Analytics 101

Analytics Programming Global Campaign 101

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. Finances were just one part of the story. One of them is clearly significant outside financing, which we’d explicitly chosen to do without.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Occam's Razor

APRIL 6, 2009

They think broad matching on their key terms will take care of the tail. The reality is the best broad matches will pick up 500 or a 1000 queries, the tail has hundreds of thousands. * Example, here, Apparel, Beauty & Personal Care, Sports & Fitness, Finance etc etc.

Search 103

Search PPC Matching Analytics 103

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. While non bank business financing is currently miniscule by comparison, the numbers from kickstarter.com tell us something is brewing. Our mobile is our new cinema and the content needs to match the context today.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Investment banks simply do not match supply and demand. Electronic order matching systems that match all supply and demand for securities to determine a fair market price have been used in our financial markets since the early 1980s (approaching 40 years). This data set looks at 8,610 IPOS over 39 years from 1980-2019.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Finding money online (principally online lending) has not seen the same level of explosive growth in the US, although in Europe and India there has been real growth in microlending (including “pay day loans”) from companies ranging from Wonga to SKS Finance. Real time web usage outpaces business models.

Internet 114

Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 114