David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. See Why Are Revenue-Based Investors Investing in Women & Diverse Entrepreneurs? Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. Early liquidity. Emily Campbell, Esq.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

Author, entrepreneur, and nationally-syndicated columnist, Rhonda Abrams is widely recognized as one of the nation’s foremost experts on small business and entrepreneurship. Rhonda writes the nation’s most widely-distributed column on small business and entrepreneurship, appearing weekly in USA Today.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

Once objectives are identified and prioritized, your podcasting plan should outline strategies and tactics, which include format, frequency, duration, host/s, point of view, guests, research, syndication, and marketing. podcast directories) pick up and syndicate your podcasts for free via RSS feeds. Podcast distribution.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 12, 2012

Rather, it's the distribution of your press release that generates big value. Importantly, press release distribution has changed dramatically over the past 10-20 years due to, you guessed it -- the internet, which has changed how news and other information is dispersed. What are the main press release distribution services?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Below, 16 entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) share the one PR strategy they think all startups and small businesses should stop using, and why. Traditional distribution services no longer work. Entrepreneurs need to view PR as part of a holistic strategy and leverage it past the initial story.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 3, 2011

When we reflect on the 37 companies we’ve invested in since we raised our first Foundry Group fund in 2007 , we’re delighted with the mix of companies and entrepreneurs we are working with. Our HCI, Adhesive, and Distribution themes are all great examples of this. Our conversation shifted to 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

They had a lock on “distribution&# and were named AOL, Yahoo!, Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption. Twitter in Driving Application Distribution - Twitter has become the new source of driving viral adoption. Excite, Netscape & MSN.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

A similar revolution is occurring on the distribution side, both for users – who are now surrounded by countless screens that make videos more accessible than ever – as well as for content owners who are now syndicating their content in order to reach their audiences and stand out in this highly fragmented market.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

Try using an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) tool to stay in touch with important thought leaders speaking to your audience. Check out some of these: Entrepreneur , Forbes , Virgin – Entrepreneur , Small Business Trends , Feedly , Google Small Business Blog , and. Duct Tape Marketing.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

It was as much in reaction to my getting blank stares from entrepreneurs when I asked that question as it was for me to better understand the problem itself. Dave’s syndicated cable show: The Berkus Report. Here is my list. First: Planning. of going viral that makes all the difference between failure and success.)

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Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

We now only think about “electricity” companies in the narrowest of senses… the small number of businesses (relative to the overall impact of electricity in the economy) that are actually in the business of generating and distributing electrical current. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

And distribution rights to that content are still paramount to building digital video businesses. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. But whether in a browser, or streamed by Netflix, or on pay TV services most video viewing still happens at the head end not the long tail of the content creator curve.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2014

What small business owner hasn’t watched one of these shows and thought to him or herself, “I wish I had a TV show about my business distributed by a media giant to millions of viewers around the world”? You see, a podcast is basically a means of distributing content to an audience. billion people around the world.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

1) Qwikster May Have Different Owner in Longer Term – It was obvious before and it’s explicit now… the future of Netflix is digital distribution. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. But I think there are some two longer term impacts that we will see in the 1-5 year time horizon. Read More ».

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It’s like a dam has broken and now there is a flood of new entrepreneurs, investors, and big companies moving to Texas. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) they are all chasing talent.

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Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

As former operators and product-oriented entrepreneurs, Dave, Lee, and I tend to think of our firm as a startup company and our approach to investing as our product. We’ve often explained to entrepreneurs that the second fund of a venture firm is very much like the series A for an early stage company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2013

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. 2012 became the year that a number of very well-known content producers embraced the podcast format, producing and distributing audio content in a very big way. My personal listening list.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Superheroes! To build all-star teams, entrepreneurs should rank/reward team and not individual performance – crowdspring.co/1k9XDFx. 5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Superheroes! The hard thing about inspiring more women entrepreneurs | Fortune – crowdspring.co/Sl1hSW.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

A group of seasoned Austin technology entrepreneurs and executives are announcing the formation of their new company, Mass Relevance , to help consumer brand use real-time social content to drive engagement on television, the web, and in the mobile world. We asked Mike Maples about his investments in Austin. Mass Relevance is this company.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer. Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We’re going to distribute that on a platform and we’re going to build an audience in some way and we’re going to sell our product or service, which by the way is fine. One of the entrepreneurs that I admire most out there is Brian Clark and what he’s been able to do with CopyBlogger. That’s great.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

How do you deal with a severely uneven distribution of investment success between individuals or groups of partners? Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Should there be a notion of “founder equity” for those individuals who put in the hard work to start a firm and build the brand? Read More ».

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

By connecting Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the rest of the state into a Texas S tartup Megatropolis we can unlock billions of dollars in capital and unleash thousands of diverse entrepreneurs. The time has come for the Texas startup community to band together to change the world once again.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. Chris Dixon, Partner, A16Z, observes , “Success in VC is probably 10% about picking, and 90% about sourcing the right deals and having entrepreneurs choose your firm as a partner”. 2) Market . 11) Exit .

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

million and is established by negotiations between the entrepreneur and the angel investors. Furthermore, angel groups frequently syndicate (co-invest) with neighboring angel organizations in an effort to help fill round of investment for local companies and assist members in diversifying their portfolios with investments in nearby regions.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

In the life cycle of an entrepreneur, shutting the doors on a business isn’t necessarily a gloomy situation. In most states, an LLC or Corporation must settle its debts before any distributions can be made to members. Again, no assets can be distributed until all debts have been settled. Global Syndication Partners.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. There are definitely some lessons in the story for entrepreneurs and angel investors, but before discussing, I thought Id share a bit about the early financing history for iControl.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

It is also reducing energy consumption since water production and distribution require a lot of energy, so preventing water loss also prevents this waste.&#. Procter & Gamble and ConTIPI, which was founded in 2002 and is based in Caesarea, have had a distribution agreement since 2007 based on royalties.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

TL;DR: In a market that has historically idolized huge, splashy financings and exits, an increasing number of entrepreneurs are realizing that everyone else’s definition of success — particularly among certain large VCs — isn’t necessarily aligned with their own. Most individual VCs can only support about 7–10 companies at a time.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. Nearly all of your costs will be headcount, primarily in the engineering department. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

It’s conceptually no different from the early days of Western Union’s original payments business when people “wired” money to one another at each end of a physical distribution network. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. But again the store of value in prepaid minutes was the key.

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

While we’ve often talked about organic Content Marketing, today we have guest blogger and entrepreneur, Garett Gan sharing his views on Content Marketing with paid advertising. The content is ready and now post-publishing you’re on to emailing your list, reaching out to influencers, and distributing on your social channels.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Imagine this: with the push of a button, your show instantly syndicates to iTunes, Stitcher Radio, SoundCloud, and a number of other directories where they can be downloaded by eager listeners around the world. What’s more is that with podcasting you have an established platform to distribute your podcast to the world. image source.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. DataSift is one of only two companies today that has the rights to re-syndicate the way it does. Or the ability of the Center for Disease Control to be able to track pandemic distribution of viruses. What does that mean? Let’s look again at Adly.

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