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. Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

You Manage What you Measure. One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Or they go in the opposite direction and spend too much time capturing & measuring data that isn’t used to make management decisions. On measurement. In 6 months?

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Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

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. A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. 4) Manage deal flow. Pitchbot.vc

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

One quick but important note - similar to managing any other type of brand - it's not a sustainable strategy to try and cover up terrible products with a good brand. Or put another way, how do you manage your online identity or brand? Representation is a large part of any social network, but some more than others.".

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Elevator Pitch Management Aggregator Curation 144

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. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month.

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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. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month.

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

2) Using advanced web and mobile data networks to track goods, aggregate usage, customer and product information, and strengthen customer intelligence. 4) Having offers, news, and recommendations transmitted primarily through the power of Word of Mouth, augmented by social networking services. 2) Use trials.

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Social Network Networking Aggregator Green 178

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The JEI program was created in 2004 and is managed by the Ministry of Research. These are managed by various wealth management entities ( Conseils en gestion de patrimoine indépendents , or CGPI). GameCreds : Impressive social universe for gamers. (E). Plyce : Feature-rich location-based social network.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2015

Grounded in hardcore data-driven research (you can check out the MIT team’s academic articles here ), it distils social, analytical, computational and managerial sciences into a discipline which helps us understand how collective intelligence and social influence works. Marrying Big Data With Social Networks.

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Social Network Stock Aggregator Networking 100

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Get a shared understanding with your management team of why you are on Facebook. Declaring success based on measuring Likes in aggregate is like declaring success after getting a lot of Visits to your site. But not, ever, in aggregate.]. Aggregate impact on your Facebook brand page? It is very, very important to: 1.

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Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. You can’t get paid for sitting on the sidelines – I always tell people that when recessions start managers in large companies get rewarded for cutting costs. Seems an obvious fit.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Social networks continue to drive conversion of marketers. But more broadly I believe that you’ll see a lot more tools for helping marketers more effectively run, monitor and manage social media campaigns.

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Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

When you’re company is growing >10x year over year, I suppose if management didn’t invest a lot in continued growth their board directors would line them up against the wall. Keep in mind Yipit is an indirect competitor in the daily deals space (essentially a meta aggregator of deals sites), but the analysis is sound IMO.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2012

Good stuff I found this week: Ming.ly – A personal relationship manager that aggregates your contacts from Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter into a searchable merged address book that allows you to update and communicate on social networks without leaving your Gmail inbox.

Aggregator 60

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Didnt get the chance to ask him if managed to visit Berkeley while he was in town and see the 52-7 whupping that the Buffs took at the hands of Cal. Bump.com is a social network based on license plate numbers as the identifier. A check-in aggregation platform. Day 2 was much more interesting. Jeffrey Mullen of Card 2.0

Technical Review 38

Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 38

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

The story of Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg, or at least Hollywood’s version of it, should be familiar to anyone who’s seen The Social Network or spends more than five minutes each week surfing the Internet. And we’re sure Zuckerberg, who still looks and dresses like a college sophomore, is only just getting started. Time Magazine.

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Intellectual Property New York City Pennsylvania Cofounder 127

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Now, for the first time, enterprises are able to integrate and leverage the public social networks where employees, customers and partners congregate. Social networks continue to become a larger part of our lives — Facebook alone has 400 million users who spend close to an hour a day on the site.

Social Network 59

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Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2010

million Series C funding round led by new investor S3 Ventures with participation from existing investors Adams Capital Management and Triangle Peak Partners. Smith, Managing Director of S3 Ventures. LibreDigital announced that it has closed an $8.1 alone,” said Russell P.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

77% of Users Believe Social Login Is A Good Registration Solution… … and should be offered by any website, according to the same aggregated research published by WebHostingBuzz. MailChimp, the B2B subscriber email management service, recorded a 66% drop in failed logins after introducing social login.

Social Network 130

Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 130

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2015

With recruiters and hiring managers in businesses of all sizes turning to the web to gain insight into potential candidates and one in every five employers using social networks to screen job seekers, it is clear why being MIA online is deemed anachronistic, hidebound and even suspect. In Came the Social Media Assistance Tools.

Social Media 28

Social Media Social Network Web Aggregator 28

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Of course, I’m a total social login fan, but at least offering your users a choice between filling out a registration form and signing up using their social account IDs seems like straightforward business sense. The same goes for businesses operating primarily in countries where social networks are blocked, such as China or Cuba.

Social Network 73

Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 73

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2013

A growing number of people have also turned to RSS aggregator tools like Flipboard and Pulse that can spoon feed more visually appealing content based on chosen topics. With a little work you can turn NetVibes into a a full blown listening station for most of your social networking. If You Liked This Post. :

RSS 64

RSS Aggregator Social Media Curation 64

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data. Sellers can lower transaction fees by aggregating purchases into fewer transactions, while also providing buyers with an attractive alternative payment method. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

From the results fo the aggregate behaviours, real time videos and heatmaps you can mend any deficiencies and make it easier for visitors to your site to become buyers. #4 . #3 Dan on 01.12.10 at 5:32 pm To optimise conversions you should employ a web analytics provider such as clicktale to show you how your customers enagage eith your site.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2013

eBay aggregated buyers and sellers of stuff, mostly stuff in the attic and garage, and took a fee on the sale. Order management – Some small businesses don’t have the IT infrastructure to handle order management systems required to play at a high level. eBay was one of the first to crack the marketplace code online.

Channel 61

Channel Small Business Distribution B2C 61

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

Technical Review 78

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Recently, hes been engaged in a customer validation exercise around a new concept for a political action-oriented social network. 2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency.

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San Francisco Founder DC Washington 150

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). return on investment after 3.5

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2011

It hopes to be more than a user generated content site, by aggregating movies, games, recreational and educational activities from sources that were deemed safe for kids, operating on a Freemium model – offering free access to basic content and charging for premium media access.

Social Network 99

Social Network Networking Web Audio 99

Rob Go

JANUARY 29, 2012

Network fragmentation. Facebook’s success is largely based on its ability to aggregate the biggest audience on the internet and understand and monetize that audience. Social networks should be incredibly robust because of network effects. Here are the major vulnerabilities that I see: 1.

Advertising 59

Advertising Mobile Aggregator Distribution 59

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2013

I’ve long taught this “live by the calendar” approach as I think it helps business owners, who wear many hats, get above the overwhelm by taking it topic by topic and manageable bit by bit in an attempt to forge something that looks like continuous progress. Month 9 – Address Social Integration.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I'm married to Mike Freehling , M&A and financial management consultant. Same goes for online business networking. There need to be more ways to aggregate meaningful conversations on specific topics, and that's exactly what you are doing with your socalCTO and your [link]. Kudos, I'm in!

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

Working with this dataset can be valuable in terms of understanding the underlying structure of Google Analytics data and experimenting with a number of advanced statistical and data mining techniques that can’t be applied when the data is in aggregate form (which is the norm with standard Google Analytics.). Conclusion.

Analytics 94

Analytics Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review 94

Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Listening platforms capture in near real time relevant discrete post level items in social networks, social media, and mixed media (e.g. These post level items are aggregated into a dashboard view and measurements of sentiment, trending, and relative status are calculated.

Social Media 60

Social Media Media Viral Channel 60

BeyondVC

MARCH 10, 2004

As I have said a number of times, I am a big believer that companies should start looking at how to use new technology and standards like blogs, wikis, and RSS/Atom from a product perspective and not solely for news publishing and aggregation. What do I mean by that?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Zapproved – Create and send proposals, manage the approval process and reach agreements without any hassle. Invoice Journal – Free invoicing program.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, from gay social network to design, we made the decision within 10 days to focus exclusively on our new One Thing, and we set a rule that not one person on the team could still do the old thing.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108