ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

With demand generation. In this article, you’ll learn how to use demand to fuel your sales funnel, build relationships, and grow your business. What is demand generation? Demand generation is the combination of marketing tactics, strategies, and programs to create awareness and drive interest in your products or services.

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View from Seed

MAY 3, 2022

Through our other investments in this category, we at NextView have come to recognize the perhaps counterintuitive insight: the key to recommerce is on the supply side (not the demand side) of these marketplaces. Unlocking inventory of products that could be resold & reused so that they will be resold & reused.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

And even other strong, but perhaps not standout, companies like Active Network and Demand Media completed their own offerings. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

We meet to discuss trends in the industry and to find ways to work together to help with SoCal deal syndication – somethings that happens automatically on Sand Hill Road in NorCal due to proximity. We feature a prominent speaker at every event. Pure Digital to Cisco) but that even the 2nd largest will get much lover valuations.

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Rob Go

MARCH 5, 2012

One area of fundraising that is not that straightforward is how to put together a syndicate of investors for your seed round. Here are a couple things I typically suggest when putting your seed round syndicate together. Understand the difference between and a lead and a follower. Fill in the round with value-added followers.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. Santa Clara University shares their demand dividend structure. .

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Genuine VC

JULY 26, 2010

Micro VCs are notorious for building large and friendly syndicates. While traditional VCs sometimes have a love/hate relationship with their syndicate partners (often depending on how well their mutual portfolio companies are performing), it seems as though in the Micro VC arena all of the players speak and act like best friends.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 6, 2016

Businesses using Shippo in San Francisco, NYC, and Chicago now can offer local customers on-demand delivery via UberRUSH. We still like marketplaces (and recently syndicated our marketplace handbook in deck form ), but we’re also looking toward the AI/ML space. Looking ahead: what we’re excited about.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Explore content syndication opportunities to expand the reach of your blog posts. The Real Deal – Building a revered brand and profitable business requires not only a viable business plan, exceptional product or service, and capital, it also demands a degree of common sense. Expect to encounter ebb and flow.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Like any economic transaction, the pricing of a startup’s seed round ultimately depends on the equation of perceived supply (in this case, the quality of the team, product, and market opportunity) and the demand (how many competitive alternatives there are to any one given funder, including non-consumption).

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View from Seed

AUGUST 12, 2015

I once showed a company to another VC for an investment we were syndicating. The early traction may be interesting, but investors fear that demand is driven by a relatively small niche with idiosyncratic tastes or needs. This investor loved the team and thought the solution they were building was compelling.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 12, 2015

I once showed a company to another VC for an investment we were syndicating. The early traction may be interesting, but investors fear that demand is driven by a relatively small niche with idiosyncratic tastes or needs. This investor loved the team and thought the solution they were building was compelling.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

But you want relevant traffic and an actual purpose for driving those leads — letting them sit around on a list, rarely if ever hearing from you as you build product, is not an effective demand-gen tactic. They create a public record of your company and investor syndicate (in some cases) for sites like Crunchbase.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2017

With self-driving cars, the disabled will no longer struggle to find transportation because they’ll have on-demand drivers. He is a globally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post and the author of two other books, including “ The Immigrant Exodus “, which was named by the Economist as a 2012 Book of the Year.

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

I’ve never written before about those other “potential business opportunities” that our team was exploring along with our prior investment syndicate, Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures, Greg Sands from Costanoa Ventures, and Brad Feld from Foundry. We are changing the way the startup game is played.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In a world of consumer-centric on-demand services, it didn’t seem like it should be this way. We’re joined in the round by RRE, BOSS Syndicates, NextGen, and awesome strategic angels like Niraj Shah (CEO of Wayfair) and Fabrice Grinda. To top it off, there was a dispute about the final cost given the scope of work.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 1, 2016

Given the extreme demand we had from the pre-order campaign, we are expecting this to accelerate once we start shipping, so it made sense to raise more money right now to support growth so the company could focus 100% of it’s energy on customers and product.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

Then they realize that some of these companies will hit a wall, demand a lot of time, and that it's all fun and games until someone gets an eye poked out--or so the saying goes. You're going to want syndication partners on the deals you find and sounding boards on the thesis behind each of your potential investments.

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Genuine VC

JULY 30, 2012

Like any economic transaction, the pricing of a startup’s seed round ultimately depends on the equation of perceived supply (the quality of the team, product, & market) and demand (how many competitive alternatives there are to any one given funder, including non-consumption).

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Demand generation helps you influence buyers where they’re having those conversations and in those unattributable spaces. The parts of digital marketing we can track— email marketing , paid social, content syndication—are the tip of the iceberg. To build awareness and demand, build your personal brand to build your corporate brand.

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Brandanew

JULY 29, 2016

You’ve got sites like The Muse dedicated to it, which gets syndicated to Forbes & Mashable. To Counteract the Future Explosion in the Demand of Content. Holding onto the most capable employees. Workplace disasters. A quick Google search will reveal that this kind of content is indeed popular! See what these writers did?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Satisfying LP demands and streamlining the valuation process are primary drivers in those clients’ adoption of Ipreo’s portfolio monitoring and valuation solutions, iLEVEL, iVAL, and Qval. . Kushim , Totem , and VisibleVC focus on serving this need among VCs. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

To me, the big distinction lies in your ability to successfully scale and get free from the daily demands of the business. His weekly business owner e-letter is read by 100,000 business owners around the world and his syndicated business articles on Inc and the Huffington Post garner over 150,000 readers every year.

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

Another area where I''m not sure I stand is with some of the more formal referral and syndication programs that are emerging now. AngelList (which I remain a big fan) also recently launched a syndicate program. In this program, an angel can ask the entrepreneur for an allocation of the round and then syndicate through AngelList.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2013

Podcasting is making a comeback thanks to a growing consumer demand for content. Back then, podcasting was new, iTunes had just burst onto the scene and an army of podcasters embraced this new RSS driven way to syndicate content. John Jantsch talks about podcasting. photo credit: Bill Selak via photopin cc.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 21, 2010

Interestingly enough, I thought more people started taking part in the conversation who weren’t on Hot Potato because they now knew their thoughts were being syndicated to an app where more people were talking about the event. Think about what your product and market will demand of you.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

They were grateful for the extra money as their launch was overwhelmingly successful and they had to rapidly hire staff to support customer demand. If you’re doing well you’ll have demand. In my third seed deal we co-invested with a seed fund and then syndicated the rest to strategic angels. I like the way he thinks.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). The pipeline of companies in registration has continued to grow. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 12, 2019

When demand grew, he built a company with a view to just continue supporting climbers he employed and their families. She rocks books to the bestseller list, best business podcast and is one of the most demanded speaker for business events. I look up to Yvon Chouinard – the founder of Patagonia. It sold out in 37 minutes.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

I once showed a company to an investor for an investment we were syndicating. This investor loved the team and thought the solution they were building was compelling. Ultimately, this firm passed because they couldn’t get comfortable with the “market size” given that they were a big fund and only targeted $1B+ opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

OPEC (the organization of petroleum exporting countries) is a cartel that was set up in the 1960′s and represents the interests of the 12 biggest oil producing countries in the world with the goal of increasing prices of oil, a good supplied in limited quantities to a world that had insatiable demand for the product.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

Such market power allows bankers to shapes the profile of those companies worthy of going public to favor the natural demand from their largest clients: short-term trading focused hedge funds and large institutional investors that demand highly liquid public securities.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Several users lauded 6sense’s ability to support true demand generation —collaboration between marketing and sales: We’ve struggled to align sales and marketing to focus our efforts on the same companies and with 6sense, we’re all in agreement of which accounts are ready to be prospected. For some, that poses a risk.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. For our content creation, we use tools such as Canva (graphic design) and GoToStage (webinars platform) to create and share content for prospects to find.”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2013

Content Marketing for Brand Engagement and Demand Generation written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is David Capece – Enjoy! 2) Demand generation. Improve brand perception. Become a thought leader.

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