Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

Yet agriculture is a massive global industry and one that is increasingly reliant on data for a range of needs – improving production, benchmarking across farms, even regulatory and financial reporting. When you think of web-enabled startups, farms don’t instantly spring to mind. feedstocks).

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Silicon Valley Cofounder Seed Stage Syndicate 223

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Buzz Is Great, But Substance Matters Most In the end, if a startup’s product sucks, it doesn’t matter if it has four users or 4 million when it launches. Start blogging, talk about the problems that you’re facing and how your product is the solution. Now to get the product out to people! Have an account?

Pakistan 94

Pakistan Social Media Startup Stealth 94

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Once you master step one… graduate to the next level, aim for the large possible global audience that is relevant for your products/services/mission. Take your existing help videos from your support site or trainings or the CD you bundle with your product, and put them on YouTube. Just do TV on YouTube! See above example.]. #2.

Analytics 149

Analytics Marketing Audience Channel 149

Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

The good folks at IA Ventures have a primer slide deck publicly available , as big data is the core element of their investment thesis, and they divide the world into companies that sell data, those that compute & sell data, and data driven products. But for consumer web companies, I think the short answer is not really.

Business Model 113

Business Model Silicon Valley Advertising B2B 113

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

Back in 2010 we were observing more and more new B2B startups emulating the product and customer acquisition strategies of existing consumer web companies which my partners & I have long been familiar with. A good example of that is our theme around the consumerization of business software.

Seed Stage 124

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

But unfortunately there’s no magic formula… not getting X million users if you’re a consumer facing startup, or Y customers if you’re B2B SaaS startup, or Z revenue, or whatever. So if there’s no absolute truth or concrete milestones to this question of Series A, what can entrepreneurs do to further their goals?

Seed Stage 113

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Acquisition 113

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

It has transformed marketing into how do we find people and persuade them that our product or services is worth doing? In other words, creating a customer that comes to their own conclusion that your product or service is worth their time or their money and that being the purpose of a business. That’s great. Robert Rose: No.

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Cost Marketing Audience Media 36