Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

We tend to favor companies that have a “distribution advantage”. This isn’t true for every single one of our portfolio companies, but in at least half, we had a thesis about why this company had some sort of unfair advantage or head-start when it comes to getting their product out into the market.

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Distribution Vertical Viral B2B 66

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 23, 2007

I went to an event by Amazon on their Amazon Web Services in Santa Monica today. The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. Other storage of media: GreenLightJobs - store media / portfolio elements, LoanToolBox - content elements/videos.

Web 150

Web EC2 IP Distribution 150

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

In addition, we were lucky enough to finally find reliable partners, thus adding a few more services to our portfolio – like Locksmith and Childcare. We’re very new to the industry, and while we’re passionate about the product, there have been obstacles every step of the way – production, shipping, distribution, etc.

Las Vegas 88

Las Vegas Entrepreneur Software Review Community 88

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Because people live, shop, and buy in real time, Monetate products enable e-commerce web sites to market in real time. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2011

My Fashion Database ( www.MyFDB.com ) is an online cloud-type service for fashion professionals and enthusiasts to track the credits of everyone working in the fashion industry. Who says technology isn’t fashionable?

Database 157

Database Distribution .Net Analytics 157

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Amazon Web Services. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. is a conversational Marketing Service that drives quality web traffic to your blog/web content by engaging with relevant people when they have relevant Tweet conversation.

Semantic 48

Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In 2000, I was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, where the price for a customer running a redundant version of a basic internet application was approximately $150,000 per month. The cost of running that same application today in Amazon’s cloud costs about $1,500 per month. There are currently 4.5

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 76

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Klout measures influence on topics across the social web to find the people the world listens to; assigns a Klout score to Twitter members. Segment Two: “Deal of the Week”.

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IPO .Net Venture Capital Strategic Investors 236

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

Mobile 110

Mobile IP SMS Networking 110

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Today I took a sales team from a portfolio company to meet with a couple of senior IT executives at a major retail company. Towards the end of the meeting, it started to become quite clear to me the effect that Google and the web has had on IT to date and where it was going.

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EC2 Open Source Cloud Angel Investor 99

Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Now that everyone knows the stakes of a Facebook-like outcome, there’s more money looking to fund and fuel web-scale network-effect businesses. The larger web-scale companies often no longer view startups as a threat — they themselves can absorb large trends and put teams on copying and integrating features.

IPO 76

IPO Private Equity Valuation Acquisition 76

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ). Most indices are cap-weighted - more in line with a concentrated portfolio (i.e. startupcto

Technical Review 50

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! Or a subsequent post about how to build a successful career: Web Analytics Career Guide: From Zero To Hero In Five Steps. Learn how to use this metric to drive those two changes: marketing portfolio – people thinking. It is painful.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 18, 2018

billion merger with 21 st -Century Fox, many experts feel Netflix will need a stronger distribution and acquisition arm in order to compete. SkyBell, a fellow smart video doorbell, looks like it could be the next startup in this trend, thanks to its patent portfolio and strong B2B business. In light of The Walt Disney Company’s $52.4

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Merger Acquisition Stock Valuation 70

Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. the rise of CleanTech, and the next wave of web applications and services, with a hint to the potential of the baby boomers. Cloud Computing. (1). Portfolio. (3). Cracking The Code. Thursday, May 15, 2008.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review San Jose Venture Capital 48

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Videogames Reach for the Cloud.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." Most companies hire a Web Analyst, Sr. Digital Analyst, Web Analysis Guru, Digital Marketing Analyst, so on and so forth. Bonus : Kill Useless Web Metrics: Apply The "Three Layers Of So What" Test.

Analytics 140

Analytics Web Metrics DC 140

Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet. Information Flow— The modern web reverses the paradigm of getting information as information now flows to us. all stayed with the one device you owned.

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CTO Internet Illinois Cofounder 78

Venture Chronicles

MAY 8, 2013

With the work I did on plans and pricing, later enhanced and executed by other teams in the company, we were able to position to the market a consolidated portfolio of services that could be sold to SMB, mid-market, and large enterprise companies all off the same product platform. Right up my alley.

Cloud 65

Cloud Leadership America Analytics 65

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

When she’s not working to create the best experience for each and every user, she spends her time scouring the web for juicy details about the startup world. Carbonmade helps over 100,000 people create online portfolios that require zero HTML skills. Clicky is real time web analytics running on over 350,000 web sites.

Bootstrapping 78

Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Salary 78

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. methodologies - in other words, don't invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On

Bootstrapping 114

Bootstrapping Marketing Angel Investor Silicon Valley 114

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Nothing is going to stop cloud.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

  Ever since, he has been using the phone to take pictures nonstop, send emails and SMS messages, stay connected to Facebook, and surf the web looking for the latest news or directions.   If anything, I see wireless as just a natural extension of any web-based product or service. 

Mobile 60

Mobile SMS Venture Capital Web 60

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd. Flash Networks.

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Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103