Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2011

This is the final part of a 3-part series on the major changes in the structure of the software & the venture capital industries. We all know the result of the over-funding of the asset class – poor returns in aggregate for the industry. The series started here if you want to read from the start.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. Note that the inner ring shows their global equivalents.). business models. like WeChat.).

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ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2019

That simplifies content creation and link building compared to, say, trying to promote niche B2B software. This article looked at video viewing habits of people globally, from teenagers to seniors. This article collates 22 statistics about mobile payments from 13 sources, covering security, users, market share, and global statistics.

Marketing 125

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2015

For example, BambooHR , a software development company based in Utah, has an anti-workaholic policy. Luck Companies , an aggregate business headquartered just outside of Richmond, Virginia, believes, to quote CEO Charlie Luck, that “all human beings have extraordinary potential to make a positive difference in the world.”

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. aggregates resources from all the VCs. Then, pluck the low-hanging fruit: easy, low-cost, and highly scalable infrastructure. AskAnything.VC

Private Equity 78

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. Note that the inner ring shows their global equivalents.). business models. like WeChat.).

China 218

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 218

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The strategy offered little ROI in the near-term, but the company’s tenacity means that, today, Zuora is the dominant player in a software niche they effectively carved out for themselves, with other companies left to piggyback on their success. This Quora feed dedicated to software-as-a-service pricing strategies.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. Network for Good, Global Giving, Mission Fish (behind ebay’s GivingWorks). Aggregate America’s startups. Provide free pro bono services (law, accounting, software, AmEx, Cooley, Pillsbury, Google).

America 144

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Arduino and other open source hardware platforms are reducing costs in the same way open source software reduced costs for web companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

With hundred of thousands of global practitioners, the supply of ideas and best practices is endless. It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. ReadyTalk, a 15-year-old web conferencing software company, launched an internal startup.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2020

As global economies and supply chains suffer because of hostile international relations in the world, raw materials are seeing high prices. Selling globally and getting access to an international audience will increase the market area considerably. Streamlining processes by using software tools can help in preventing wastages.

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Social Media Aggregator Analytics Global 187

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

So Westlaw created Peer Monitor, which aggregates anonymized data on firms’ financial and operational performance, collected from participating clients with their permission — and this turned into a lucrative new business. SAS software was doing an excellent job of keeping up with customer needs.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms. 4) Manage deal flow.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Or a market perceived to be global can be dominated by a few regions. The global art market is believed to be about $61 billion (2011). million people are employed in the art trade globally, there are 403,000 dealers, galleries and auction houses, and the top five percent of galleries and dealers account for 70% of all sales.

Small Business 110

Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Cell Buddy will be the world’s first Mobile Virtual Global Operator (MVGO). Our subscribers will continue to use their regular provider at home, however while travelling they will seamlessly roam onto the Cell Buddy Global Network. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators.

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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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VC Cafe

APRIL 21, 2022

In its 2021 global consumer report , Snap predicted that 75% of the global population and nearly all smartphone users will be frequent users of AR. AR consumer adoption (Source: Snap global consumer report 2021 ). trillion times in aggregate ( source ). According to the latest survey by AR Insider, 30 percent of U.S.

Mobile 198

Mobile Global Aggregator Bootstrapping 198

Hunter Walker

APRIL 5, 2023

The DMCA allowed for billions of people globally to express themselves online, prompted new business model experiments, and created guardrails for any entrepreneur to stay legal. It’s the evolution of what I hoped — not software eating the world, but software enabling it. And it’s moving very very quickly. Whatcha think?

Artificial Inteligence 63

Artificial Inteligence Framework Aggregator China 63

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Overall, I like this notion of social shipping, since as we become a more global world, and as e-commerce takes off in more geographies, this could be a service not only applicable to Costa Rica, but much more broadly in many nations. Words To Live By.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

With this milestone, Europe has clearly established itself as a key center for software innovation in the world. The aggregate value of the 67 public cloud companies have surpassed $1T in February 2020 to reach $1.4T If we look back 10 years, it is amazing to see how far the SaaS ecosystem has come in a decade.

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Valuation 71

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Pohang Iron and Steel Company, Korea’s fifth largest conglomerate also known as Posco, joined Israel’s Global Enterprise R&D Cooperation Framework. The Global Enterprise R&D Cooperation Framework encourages cooperation in industrial R&D between multi-national companies and Israeli start-ups. billion net profit.

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

billion in 2007, as investors worldwide tightened their belts in the wake of the global financial crisis. real GDP growth for Israel in 2010 in the absence of extraordinary developments, and Fischer has said the economy may grow more than that if the global recovery accelerates. Foreign direct investment in Israel reached $3.8

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 31, 2017

They offer a level of functionality that is globally on par with them for testing, but at a lower price level once you go above the free level offered by Optimizely. You’ll also get access to abandonment recovery, product recommendations, and social proof tools, making this software a great choice for e-commerce businesses.

Software Review 129

Software Review Technical Review Analytics Algorithm 129

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Data companies more focused on later-stage companies include Avention , Bureau Van Dijk , BizQualify, Dow Jones , FactSet , Genesis , S&P Global Market Intelligence , DueDil , Core 2 Group , D&B Hoovers , InsideView , LexisNexis , Pitchbook , Preqin , PrivCo , SourceScrub , Refinitiv , and Unquote. The VC Software Stack?—?the

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

As can be imagined, tackling a global, public health problem through social enterprise is not just a worthy goal, but a lofty one. What started as a basic obstetrics kit, adopted early on by doctors and midwives, has expanded into a global, online marketplace. She and Meg formed Maternova and set out to doing just that.

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View from Seed

MARCH 5, 2019

So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider. Again as I highlighted above, in aggregate Lyft’s users aren’t taking dramatically more rides today then they were 3+ years ago. So what about those cohorts?

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The company needs a serious technologist that can modernize their global fashion supply chain so it can empower a new generation of professional independent designers and artisans, and help the most talented individuals rise to the top.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2011

T here aren’t too many Israeli companies that have reached this scale: Magic Software (NASDAQ: MGIC), a veteran Israeli software company specialized in cloud and on-premise application platform and business integration solutions, has raised $21.2 million ordinary shares at a price of $6.50 per share.&#.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Based on third-party stats, Twitter has around 330 million monthly users globally. Check aggregator sites that feature tweets. Promoting a free trial of your software; Creating a video course and inviting your social media users to take it. But if you want to learn a tried-and-true process that does work, here you go.

Conversion 68

Conversion Social Media Search Campaign 68

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09!

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

Agile VC

MARCH 5, 2019

So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider. Again as I highlighted above, in aggregate Lyft’s users aren’t taking dramatically more rides today then they were 3+ years ago. So what about those cohorts?

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Aggregator .Net Revenue IPO 100

Up and Running

JULY 24, 2019

The software “bots” charged with the task of doing payroll are usually part of a process called robotic process automation (RPA), which sits on the lower end of the intelligent automation spectrum. . There is tremendous added value in the consistency and accuracy of automation. With RPA programs, much of the work is already done.

Small Business 95

Small Business Artificial Inteligence Startup Aggregator 95

Transformify

MARCH 9, 2017

B2B Content curation and B2B content aggregation are very powerful, and if used properly, can tremendously boost the outreach and secure new leads. Some of them like Verne Global also have a separate news section that aggregates industry news from selected trusted sources. HubSpot, IBM, Adobe, Moz, SemRush, etc.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone. There are 3 steps marketers can follow to start connecting specific users’ mobile and desktop behavior: Aggregate audience data. Aggregate Audience Data. According to Dazeinfo research , there were about 1.13 This number increased by 27.1%

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Ceedo Technologies – Founded in 2005, Ceedo AppCenter allows fixed and mobile operators to deliver PC software applications over the web to the subscriber’s desktop, to manage those applications remotely and us the platform to provide additional services direct to the PC. A turnkey solution based on a fully telco-grade platform.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

Jim Semick , co-founder of ProductPlan , which sells web-based software for building visual product roadmaps. a company that aggregates data on treatment outcomes for hospital patients. Peter and his co-founders were committed to making Prezi a global company. You have to think globally from day one. . Peter Arvai.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

They are not only a cool thing to be involved in, but as like pop stardom in the 1980s, the promise of potential riches and global fame are part of the attraction. In any case, all shareholders care about is the aggregate profit and ROI. They expect all content to be available globally on any screen on the day of release.

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Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48