Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

New crowd funding platforms on the Internet, like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , as well as the Jobs Act of 2012 , are expected by many to ramp up regular people’s ability to fund new opportunities and kill the need for angel groups. billion collected in 2012. If you subscribe to truths one to five, startup investing can be lucrative.

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Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

The firm is solely focused on capital efficient business sectors, most frequently but certainly not always internet-enabled companies. In the sector of internet-enabled services where a majority of the Micro VC investment has transpired, startups can fundamentally do more with less. That’s no secret.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

We wanted to break down the walls of access to music, and technology was a perfect solution. The more immediate disruptive factor is that just by giving brands access to a limited, albeit growing, list of real artists and combining that with our unique technology tools (such as data-crawlers, AI music auto-tagging, etc.),

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

at exit due to dilution. It creates dilution, and investing in these rounds increases your effective post-money. In some cases, great companies massively expand the definition or potential of the market with innovative products, technology leverage, and great execution. in a mid stage round at a $100M post.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Consumer spending is 70% of the economy and will continue to be stretched – We can look all we want at tech innovation, VC funding cycles and hot M&A deals, but ultimately growth and therefore investment must be underpinned by revenue. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 In startup world low GM almost always equals death which is why many Internet retailers have failed or are failing (many operated at 35% gross margins). You technically have more gas left but you never know if some unexpected circumstance causes you to run out of gas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

New crowd funding platforms on the Internet, like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , as well as the Jobs Act of 2012 , are expected by many to ramp up regular people’s ability to fund new opportunities and kill the need for angel groups. billion collected in 2014. If you subscribe to truths one to five, startup investing can be lucrative.

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Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor IRR 120

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I acknowledged this in the article. Increase price.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Before booking a hotel I always check out Trip Advisor and read reviews. It’s hard for angels to assess whether or not to invest because they often have day jobs and can’t commit to the kind of due diligence that most VCs go through. When I want to go to restaurants I check out Zagat and Yelp.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

You might also notice that people using the Firefox browser hardly convert at all when they see variation B: this could mean that there are some technical issues with the front-end code that make the treatments not work on Firefox. So, we’ll ignore it. Pro tip: fixed beats broken.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. But the same technologies that make life difficult for traditional marketers also offer them unprecedented new opportunities.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

with strong tailwinds behind it: a) Christmas 2003 was the year of the digital camera, b) Pets had quietly been moving from something families had to becoming members of the family c) the Internet nuclear winter was just passing, and a fun, colorful, whimsical site that anyone could use turned out to be quite newsworthy.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The newly formed teams then work for the entire weekend, with the help of some experienced mentors from the industry, who volunteer their time to share advice on product, technology, legal, PR and other issues. For example, you may point out that there is a company with similar technology, but different application/market.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Slowly but surely, however, we have a quietly emerging ‘ecosystem’ (as it is often called in tech lingo). So is the Dutch tech startup story sold short? But hedonistic pleasures aside, The Netherlands actually has a great foundation for tech entrepreneurship. Not in my view. A top-notch infrastructure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 23, 2010

If you are a reporter for a major tech or business publication, you are probably used to companies and wannabe influencers attempting to accost you for an elevator pitch or quick conversation. Apparently many participants were insulted by being showered by brands like Pepsi or Sobe that really have nothing to do with tech.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture.

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Dilution Merger Flash Global 187

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. You can learn as much from these cautionary tales as you can from the enduring successes, plus studying a broad sample of firms helps avoid drawing false conclusions due to survivorship bias. Like any other form of diluting your focus… it occasionally works, but usually doesn’t.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.). The things you learn in tough environments.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Dual-class voting structures are receiving a lot of attention these days along with intense publicity related to the Facebook IPO , following in the wake of other recent tech IPOs with a similar structure such as Zynga and LinkedIn.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 3, 2018

Is the internet abuzz with your greatness? A study from BrightLocal shows that an overwhelming 88 percent of consumers trust online reviews as much as a personal recommendation. In fact, 72 percent of consumers find positive reviews encourage an increased trust in a business. The Internet to the rescue! ). Show it off.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

If your brand tries to be too many things at once, the message becomes scattered and the brand grows diluted. Marketing intelligence experts at Datorama recommend tracking your branded impressions, internet search volume, and the performance of branded keywords. You’re going to need some brand health metrics to track. Typography.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In late 2015, many public technology companies saw a significant retrenchment in their share prices primarily as a result of a reduction in valuation multiples. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs. It will also minimize future dilution.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

After reviewing cumulative data, ConversionXL highlighted just how vital speed is to conversions : “57% of visitors will abandon a page that takes 3 seconds or more to load.”. “47% Additional elements like that dilute the central CTA. This is especially key in technical industries. Today, people have become a lot more impatient.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

The value of mutual fund investments in private tech companies was estimated at just north of $7 billion in 2016, or about.05% Before offering some suggestions about how we might improve capital formation, I’d like to review the current state of the IPO market. 05% of total US mutual fund assets.

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