View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

The same metaphor is true for modern, “legacy” businesses — most businesses that exist today have co-evolved against one another in a careful dance of suppliers, distributors, competitors, and partners. Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce? Enter the Kudzu.

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Founder Technical Review Cofounder Non-Compete 120

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

And then there were the conference organizers themselves - Boyan Josic and his executive partners - Martin Tibbits and Joe Walker. Book a plane ticket or two to see a prospective partner, and maybe while doing so buy a new laptop or tablet to better communicate the proposed strategic synergies. Small decisions, little things.

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Tennessee CTO Hire Chicago Aggregator 75

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

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. Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). Founding Date: 2004. 2010 Net Income: $8 million.

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

There are two major channels: physical channels and virtual (web/mobile) channels. Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. This team spoke with 10 more customers and potential channel partners. The Nine Teams Present.

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Channel Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Business Model 233

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc. BlinkTraffic will empower mobile users in developing markets (Jakarta, Sao Paolo, Delhi, etc.) to get hard-earned information. Selection, Mixer and Speed Dating.

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Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 304

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Monetate Mobile adds mobile-native navigation, search, GPS store location, cart access and more, to any site, overnight. The ideal candidate has experience with eCommerce systems, emerging mobile and social technologies, as well as RoR.

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Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As David Sacks from All in put it: On aggregate, a lot of funding was also deployed to startups in the application layer – investing in founders leveraging generative AI to either solve narrow tasks, or bring automation to tasks to reduce costs, increase accuracy, speed etc.

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Generative AI ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 78

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

We collect the complete narrative of what they discovered talking to customers as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses and mentor and instructor engagements. We track each team’s progress as they test their business model hypotheses. You can see the entire presentation here. Digital Health.

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Incubator Intellectual Property Startup Lean 316

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

View More in Mobile ›. Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner. View More in Health IT ›.

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San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

For the first time, it partnered with AngelList to help create an open application process. Not bad considering that founding partner Dave McClure has been adamant about supporting non-US startups and recently acquired the Mexican.VC accelerator and brought on two venture partners to help oversee its India investments.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2019

As a two-sided marketplace, Migo also helps partners and cities better understand multi-modal transit usage and demand patterns by delivering aggregate data down to a neighborhood level. We knew when we started Migo that there would be an explosion of ride partners and that’s proving true. Mobility is only one piece of this.

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Startup Seattle Aggregator Denver 49

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. This approach allows users to embrace the “Mesh ecosystem” – an interconnected web linking suppliers, partners and distributors of Mesh products and services.

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Social Network Networking Aggregator Green 178

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Bloch was previously a partner in Jerusalem Venture Partners and an active member of the board in the Israeli startup Wix. Started in October 2006, Mysupermarket currently has a team of 35 people and is looking to expand further, both geographically and on the product front, by adding a mobile offering soon.

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Venture Capital Aggregator eCommerce Partner 98

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Along with Greycroft Partners we were the first investors in Maker Studios 3 years ago when the company had no revenue and limited infrastructure. If you’re thinking about building an online video network today you need to think about: Producing your own content (not just aggregating). But the best MCNs are so much more.

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Networking Media Distribution Video 366

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. With the iPhone, Apple finally broke the hegemony that the telecom carriers had over mobile applications and that has stifled innovation for too many years.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

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. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. The folks at Yipit did a detailed analyis of the Boston data and concluded Groupon’s model is deteriorating there.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). Internet consumption is obviously growing massively on mobile devices. But we’re only in the first inning of mobile advertising. We continue to evaluate this space and look for investments.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 22, 2010

In the post I described the entrepreneurship education event I helped put on with Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners – then at Sequoia Capital) and Mark Siegel (Menlo Ventures). After some back and forth, a handful of folks decided to mobilize another ADPrentice event for the undergraduates living in the house.

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Massachusetts Aggregator Boston Venture Capital 99

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. Provide employees with the information and processes necessary to know their customers, understand their needs, and effectively build relationships between the company, its customer base, and distribution partners.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Currently in R&D mode and working with select partners. SourceFox -started by Aviv Revach, who organizes the Mobile Monday Meetup in Tel Aviv and previously co-founded Mominis. The aggregated product data can be easily queried, and thus compared, matched and filtered with unprecedented ease and power.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 28, 2013

Here are some ideas: Aggregating all the similar product names into a “comparison” unit with pricing and availability from top merchants. Giving me links to 3rd party research about these products on content partner sites like CNet, Engadget, etc. What could they be doing? ” As Seth and Amy, might say, “ Really?

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Currently in R&D mode and working with select partners. SourceFox - started by Aviv Revach, who organizes the Mobile Monday Meetup in Tel Aviv and previously co-founded Mominis. The aggregated product data can be easily queried, and thus compared, matched and filtered with unprecedented ease and power.

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Stealth Cofounder Matching Artificial Inteligence 74

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. 5mm in Series A – Investors: GRP (Mark Suster)(lead), Greycroft Partners (Dana Settle), and Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills) – Read more: TechCrunch , SoCalTech. Rumored to be appox.

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Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened. Mobile payments are the trillion dollar industry that everybody’s been waiting for but has never materialized. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. June 12, 2012.

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www.usv.com

MAY 29, 2012

Finally, networks can also be networks of data, such as what DuckDuckGo (search), Indeed (jobs) and Flurry (mobile apps) are doing that then provide aggregate data-level benefits to users from that data network aggregation. The value of these businesses tends to be composed of the very networks they have created.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

If the sales cycle that you are engaged with is shorter, and the prospect is self-educated, you have to have an extremely clear point of differentiation that is in-your-face obvious (and can be seen on a mobile phone). The back button the browser or opening a new tab on my mobile is just too easy.

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Sales Cycle Forecast Charlotte Lead Generation 67

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Speakers and partners of Samsung, AT&T, Verizon, and other world-leading companies came up with the services and products which will support the new technology and are to be released in 2019. The majority of consumers thinks that it’s just a better and faster version of mobile Internet like it was with 4G LTE. What is 5G?

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Technical Review Software Review South Korea Bandwidth 77

Up and Running

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Google Drive: Lots of our partners use Google Drive, and we’re on here too. They push all of your contact and location information to the major data aggregators. Weebly’s platform creates mobile-enabled websites that are as easy to create as a Powerpoint doc. Box is also on the Inc. list of favorite tools. Marketing tools.

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Small Business Aggregator Search Security 60

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

A partner from the law firm (sponsor, covers the drinks and food) tosses out some softball questions to the panelists, the audience chimes in with Q&A and finally, culminates with the meet and greet where the panelists are flooded with business cards and pitches on the next great thing, which is often very similar to the last great thing.

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Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2013

Employ a combination of free and paid tools such as Google Alerts, Google Reader, HootSuite and SproutSocial to filter, aggregate, follow and monitor your online presence and establish a routine of processing, acting on and sharing this information on a daily basis. Month 12 – Develop Mobile Friendliness.

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Social Media Mobile SMS Social Network 78

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 1) Manage the firm

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

I am talking sweet mobile apps, resource-rich websites, wonderful journalists and bloggers, cool new hardware, and tips on everything from avoiding jetlag to finding the tastiest street food a block from your hotel. Getting there is where it starts and ends – it should be as easy to do the booking as it is to execute the actual trip.

Small Business 81

Small Business Startup Social Media Aggregator 81

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

And even if your startup is unlikely to IPO someday, an aggregate increase in the number of public tech companies (coupled with large cash piles for big established ones) should make the M&A climate more favorable in coming years. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Author howerl. Read More ».

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IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

August – Mobile marketing. Okay, so now you’ve got your themes plotted out and you’ve got a plan for creating, filtering and aggregating all manner and form of content into your delivery system. February – Offline marketing. March – Content marketing. April – Inbound selling. May – Outbound marketing. June – Marketing automation.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 25, 2010

The rest of you will just have to go to one of these events to try to find human life partners: Monday, January 25th 6:00PM The Future of Music: with Lyor Cohen, CEO Rec. You are now free to marry the soon to be released Apple Tablet in California, New York, Arkansas, Ohio, Maine and Vermont. Violators will be prosecuted. No, just kidding.I

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

A group of seasoned Austin technology entrepreneurs and executives are announcing the formation of their new company, Mass Relevance , to help consumer brand use real-time social content to drive engagement on television, the web, and in the mobile world. Of course there is, you’re just not getting at it.

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Curation Austin Cofounder Ruby 118

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

However, the shift to mobile sparked a need for similar tools that could be accessed by anyone easily and in real-time.” This round was led by the prestigious global funds of Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital.

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Venture Capital Bootstrapping Valuation Social Media 178