Feld Thoughts

JUNE 23, 2014

Google dominates search. In an effort to experiment with a different approach, we recently led an AngelList syndicated investment in one potential search challenger, a Kansas City based startup called Leap.it who is taking a different approach based on the belief that machine-based algorithms can only get you so far.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Much like networking online today, it’s important to test different techniques to see what works best for you and what resonates well with others. Facilitate networking opportunities. Starting a networking event online or offline about your area of expertise can help better associate your personal brand with your niche.

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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. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The Difference Between Apple & Facebook. June 5, 2012.

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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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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Now that end users spend as much of their personal time with software (in the form of social networks, tablet/smartphone apps, streaming media, etc) as they do with business software they’ve become much more discriminating buyers. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. Filtering your search by pedigree is a good start. Jesse Davis , Entrustet. Eric Bahn , Beat The GMAT.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking. Regarding social networking, Yahoo!

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

a production company that produced Phat TV for Canadian broadcaster CFMT Television, as well as a year-end television special, “Phat TV 97”, that was syndicated nationally in the U.S. It’s gone beyond search. Taking what he learned at HBO, Mascoll formed EME Inc., They’re also using AI in chat. It’s scary but it’s the new world.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

My personal interest in podcasting, however, is how it dovetails beautifully with voice search. 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. to support the show.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

According to the search giant, over 48% of all users started their search for something on a mobile device. This fact is in itself not a reason to be alarmed until you take into consideration Google penalizes sites that are not mobile-friendly in its search results. Need another reason to go responsive? Think about Google.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In the real world, downloading a search engine is a more realistic option to finding data. The Internet isn’t organized, but you can instantly find what you are looking for using an online search engine. A search engine can instantly search terabytes of your documents, emails, online data, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging will improve your site search engine ranking. New and relevant content on a regular basis is a major driver in search engine optimization, as well as the inbound and outbound links that blog comments generate. If you post on industry sites, or get syndicated to popular sites, your scores and visibility will go up even more.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. But beyond that, not much. 2) Raise capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, And we live in public so many people are able just to reach out. And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences. Web Summit. Fortune Brainstorm. I don’t.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Rather than data sets that are samples and customer segmentation that attempts to discern coarse grained distinctions between customer groups, social networks and engagement tools enable companies with a capability that scales down to individual customers and up to every customer and prospective customer a company has.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Seattle, WA, 98104 Syndication Subscribe to this weblogs atom feed or rss feed Search Powered by Movable Type 4.01. The CIO retains the responsibility for howtechnology is actually used within the organization.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. What They Do: Deeply discounted coupons (often 50% off redeemed value) for local merchants.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2017

They often provide guidance and coaching, and may even assist with talent recruitment efforts, network on a startup’s behalf, or render other services to help it grow. SYNDICATES : Syndicates are single-purpose investment funds. By self-financing, you can maintain control of your startup.

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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

I wouldn’t say we’re radically reinventing venture capital and there are many firms we respect who have been innovating recently in connecting a portfolio of startups into a network , taking a different approach to how to staff a VC firm , and even the pace of VC investing. What’s Your Favorite Future? Previous Entries.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The bulk of spending on PC-related computing (desktop computers, software, networking gear, etc) in the ’80s and ’90s was made by businesses large and small. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. What’s Your Favorite Future? Previous Entries. Avatars by Sterling Adventures.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 11, 2014

Just do a search on the topic and youll find little thats helpful. One  people are searching for that one killer lead tactic that will mask all ills or, Two  people fail to realize that successful B2B lead generation is made up of activities that are by nature very hard to quantify and pin down. 8) Smart networking.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Providence Equity invested $100M at a $1B valuation not because of their technology or product, but because the network owners contributed a lot of valuable content… or at least access to it for 2years. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. What’s Your Favorite Future? Previous Entries.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Pretty much everyone has come around to the notion that they need to produce lots of high-quality content if they want to rank highly in search engines. You can also build a social sharing network in places like Triberr. Network, network, network. Paid syndication. photo credit: MatHelium via photopin cc.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

Opportunistic VC investors focus less on developing very specific theses and more on cultivating a deep, rich network around the entire firm. Also really great opportunistic VCs are highly intentional about how they build their sourcing network and brand. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

Also, I’d argue these factors have made the “hockey stick” growth curves even steeper because when company’s “get hot” there are so many more eyeballs and networks to capture and convert. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. What’s Your Favorite Future? Previous Entries.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

But that data is valuable mainly as a way to better target existing forms of advertising (display and search) or to enable advertisers to increase exposure or better target Twitter’s new types of ad units like sponsored tweets and trends. Twitter isn’t really a social network. Hootsuite, CoTweet, etc). Previous Entries.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It possesses a strong corporate base, talented workforce, and a vast network of nationally ranked universities, startup development organizations and innovation-minded companies to support a robust tech ecosystem,” said Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. all Bay Area firms?—? Texas is hitting critical mass as a global startup hub.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), In search of Europe's next tech stars. Feedburner Network. Paperblog network. we bought a $4 measuring spoon with an expected return of 1,000 times in the coming year. Small and medium businesses. (2).

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VC Adventure

JULY 23, 2013

It’s hard to get people interested in a new social networking idea these days (even those who say that privacy is important). Big opportunity is definitely the right lingo (and what you’re searching for…). Good for you for moving on to something else.[redacted]

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 27, 2010

In another example, Groupon has harnessed big scale by hiring a 3,000 person worldwide network of employees to provide hyper-local targeting, sales, and personal attention to drive its daily app promotions. Even on PCs, social sites …shatter the unity of the Web with content behind a password, invisible to search engines.&#.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. who derive a meaningful chunk of their revenue from operating ad networks. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

Active Network – 2.4x 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. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Zynga – 8x+ trailing revenue.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The parts of digital marketing we can track— email marketing , paid social, content syndication—are the tip of the iceberg. Lower load time by reducing image file sizes, using caching, and using a Content Delivery Network (CDN). Word-of-mouth interactions (e.g., text messages, DMs, video calls, etc.) Events (e.g., Singularity.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

When I recently wrote about how excited I was about investing in “ The Digital Living Room ,&# Hulu was only mentioned in the context of how Clicker.com was a much better metaphor for content discovery and search. This has become a reality with banner ads, search ads, contextual ads and Facebook ads. But not Hulu ads.

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 28, 2011

I predict that within this decade we will see a wholesale movement toward in memory architectures for network storage and disk drives will predominately serve archival and backup needs. These images and videos are then propagated through the many social networks that we participate in. 3) Big Data.

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