Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

Apple and Facebook are both platforms , in the sense that their software and user networks are utilized by countless software developers to build their own businesses. billion to developers and Apple paid out something like $2B or so. Apple generated nearly $130B in revenue in 2011. June 5, 2012. In 2011 Facebook paid out $1.4

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Of the Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

Groups of angels may syndicate multiple individual amounts, but if your total request exceeds $1 million, you need to focus on the venture capital alternatives. To be fundable, fifth year revenue projections need to be in the $20-$100 million range. Early stage research and development won’t excite angels.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Coinvestors need to figure out ways to prioritize themselves in a VC’s preference stack for syndicating opportunities. – Syndicate Special Purpose Vehicles (“SPVs”) for specific opportunities. engineers, designers, business developers). – Launch a “ venture studio ” or “ foundry ”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

Everyone is a rock star developers, every company is crushing it and when they’re not crushing it they’re killing it. Do fewer business development deals but make the ones you do have more impact. They’re doing how much in SaaS revenue? And do the things that you ARE doing better and with higher quality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2020

Typically, individual investments will be less than $100K, but a group of angels may syndicate multiples. Speculative ideas, research, and early development won’t appeal to them. Since they know that most startups fail, their target return is ten times investment, so be prepared to talk cost vs revenue and product life.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Startups with large, lifecycle VCs included in the seed round syndicate did not reach Series A faster than those who did not. If a lifecycle VC was involved in the seed investor syndicate, the Series A was noticeably larger, at a $5.9M Foster product development and marketing which creates organic (or somewhat organic) user traction.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

4:32] Is that was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated? [5:48] So I'm looking for a lawyer looking for MBA programmer and a graphics developer. And on that call, it was a lawyer, an MBA and a graphics developer and the graphics developer, new programmer got him on the phone.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I first met Nick Halstead in 2009 when he was running a company called Tweetmeme (the predecessor to DataSift) who had invented the Retweet button and actually helped Twitter develop its early API. He explained to me much of the Twitter infrastructure and why Twitter data would become super valuable.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. We see a lot of businesses that can be characterized as social enterprises, ranging from education to rural development businesses. She is also considering developing software to address these issues.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 18, 2012

With resources like virtual assistants and crowd sourcing there is no reason to “go it alone” Determine your top 3 revenue producing activities and YOU focus on them; delegate the rest. Thanks to Kenny Jahng of Big Click Syndicate LLC. Do you track your revenue? Thanks to Monica Shah of Revenue Breakthrough.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage. As seed funds have raised larger and larger funds, more have developed the muscle around issuing term sheets and “leading”. This is not what Nextview is about.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

If we don’t have a prior relationship, we’ll really want to try to develop that because it’s such a relationship play. If they can’t, then we want to know more about the existing investor syndicate, so we’re not the only ones at the table. Traction and revenue? Business model? Previous capital raised?

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Pascal's View

JULY 9, 2017

In contrast, there is limited benefit for being the 2 nd investor or the 10 th investor joining the syndicate of a priced round, so it is common for investors to wait to see “who else is involved”. The CEO/founder often has leeway to influence or negotiate the cap value (especially when the headline cap is softened by a discount).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2019

Search engines like Google are the biggest conduit for discovery on the web; if you can get higher rankings for queries relevant to your target audience, you’ll get more traffic, and therefore generate more revenue. SEO is a long-term strategy that takes time to develop.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

I’m sharing my learnings as a five-year podcast co-host and agency owner who has helped develop podcast strategies for clients. . podcast directories) pick up and syndicate your podcasts for free via RSS feeds. One of the most effective methods is to optimize and syndicate your podcast to podcatchers. Image source ).

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David Teten

JULY 23, 2019

See How VCs structure a syndicate and recruit coinvestors for more on this. Note the pitch should explain what they actually do preferably using the Mad Libs format : “My company, [NAME], is developing [A DEFINED OFFERING], to help [DEFINED AUDIENCE], [SOLVE A PROBLEM], with [SECRET SAUCE].”. – Headquarters city .

Portfolio 60

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

There are many additional variables that the inexperienced marketer may not even think to consider: competition and positioning strategies, budgeting, match types, search and content syndication, and ad copy testing, as well developing the best ad wording and layouts. Tracking and performance reporting. Marty Zwilling.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Summit CPA is now a company with over $5M in annual revenue and our team is fully distributed throughout the United States. Little did I know that the simple and cathartic act of writing would lead me to become not only an author of several more books, but also a nationally syndicated radio host and patient safety speaker and trainer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Thus I recommend that every entrepreneur start blogging in parallel with solution development for the following benefits: Get customer idea feedback before you commit resources. If you post on industry sites, or get syndicated to popular sites, your scores and visibility will go up even more.

Startup 120

Startup Social Media Syndicate Syndication 120

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

I certainly bear no ill will to the various firms that ultimately passed on our fundraise… as a seed stage VC myself now I can appreciate how hard it is evaluating companies at the earliest stages of development. Consumer internet plays in Canada are rare, and finding a VC willing to give you the cash to scale is even more so.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Groups of angels may syndicate multiple individual amounts, but if your total request exceeds $1 million, you need to focus on the venture capital alternatives. To be fundable, fifth year revenue projections need to be in the $20-$100 million range. Early stage research and development won’t excite angels.

Angel Investor 120

Angel Investor Accredited Investor Venture Capital Startup 120

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

produced this analysis of engineering representation within VC firms: Selected VCs with Highest Representation of Developers in Workforce. HOF Capital is currently developing a proprietary sourcing tool to automatically filter for potential deal prospects that fit our criteria. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce. Google Ventures (GV).

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

There are many additional variables that the inexperienced marketer may not even think to consider: competition and positioning strategies, budgeting, match types, search and content syndication, and ad copy testing, as well developing the best ad wording and layouts. Tracking and performance reporting.

Search 225

Search Engineer SEM Widget 225

Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

During the summer of 2010, I developed a workshop, A New ACEF Valuation Workshop for Angels and Entrepreneurs. To provide some reference points, I surveyed thirteen angels groups in North American to determine their recent experience in negotiating the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies. 2011 Angel Group Valuation Survey.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

HubSpot defines content strategy as “the piece of your marketing plan and development that refers to the management of pretty much any tangible media that you create and own — written, visual, downloadable — you get the picture.”. Developing user personas is a great way to do this. Just ask Amazon.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 13, 2012

According to the just-released Halo Report from the Angel Capital Association and the Angel Resource Institute ( ARI ), founded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation , "The median size of angel & angel group syndicate rounds was $700,000" last year, up from $500,000 in 2010. Will you be generating enough revenues to keep growing? •

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Look at the biggest challenges marketers face in any annual survey and you’ll see the same priorities related to developing, nurturing, and converting leads: Marketers are always looking for ways to get people excited about products or services. But isn’t that the role of any marketer? Get it right, however, and it’s a different story.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2017

Here are some ways to save money and reduce financial stress as you develop your startup into a full fledged enterprise: Deciding on an Investment Strategy. SYNDICATES : Syndicates are single-purpose investment funds. Syndicates allow startups to easily access a large amount of capital and to network with other investors.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). their brands are less developed, so most people would struggle to name a show. The show starts with the history of Podcasts and ends with where they may be headed.

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View from Seed

JUNE 30, 2015

Over a third of our investments happen pre-product (so by definition, before PMF), and two-thirds are pre-revenue. For a marketplace or ecommerce business, you need to be doing well north of $5M in annual revenue or GMV to get an A round done. Or maybe your market hasn’t quite developed as quickly as you’d hoped.

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Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication Dilution 120

Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

It encompasses not just a technical infrastructure but also a user experience framework, usually some form of a selling channel, and a defined large-scale developer ecosystem. A software platform is truly a foundation on which entire businesses can be built. Facebook is a platform and companies like Zynga have been built upon it. Not Groupon.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

A big thanks to AustinStartup.com for encouraging and syndicating this original, mobile-focused content - Steve Guengerich. They will give it to someone thinking about new markets, revenue, and customers and how to meet their needs,&# says experienced technology and media executive Bril Flint.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Costolo clearly wants to position Twitter as a complementary part of the media ecosystem (which it is by and large) rather than a competitor, and there remains a chance that Twitter will have other forms of revenue besides ads. Here’s why: Virtually all of Twitter’s revenue comes from advertising.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. The next chunk comes from Facebook’s platform, in essence “taxing” the revenues of app developers like Zynga, which represents 15% of revenue.

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