David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. Coinvestors need to figure out ways to prioritize themselves in a VC’s preference stack for syndicating opportunities. – Launch a “ venture studio ” or “ foundry ”.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Stacked Marketer turned a free newsletter into a six-figure revenue generator by staying actionable, convenient, and entertaining. Zendesk offers tech industry people a concise description of how Zendesk can benefit their company. How market share and revenue have grown. Consistency is equally critical for startups.

Campaign 149

Campaign CTO Marketing Social Media 149

Steve Blank

MARCH 12, 2014

We realized that past K-12 Entrepreneurial classes taught students “the lemonade stand” version of how to start a company: 1) come up with an idea, 2) execute the idea, 3) do the accounting (revenue, costs, etc.). These two startups had problems they could not solve on their own due to lack of resources—time, people, money.

Lean 334

Lean Customer Development Startup Silicon Valley 334

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. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

He is a podcast advertising specialist, and he founded the Tech Podcast Network in 2004. 4:32] Is that was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated? [5:48] 12:02] What are your current feelings about the technology that you’re using? [15:48] More About Todd Cochrane: Blubrry.

Audio 64

Audio SMS Technical Review Advertising 64

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. million users making it considerably larger than some of its peers that have historically received more tech press inches.

Partner 240

Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. They’re doing how much in SaaS revenue? You own how much?” Year in, year out.

Software Review 150

Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2024

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! You could choose our system to move from vendor to trusted advisor, attract only ideal clients, and confidently present your strategies to build monthly recurring revenue. So they've got new competitors and then also new technology. It's time to transform your approach.

SEO 70

SEO Search Generative AI Engineer 70

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

India 116

India Green Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

As a two person team Arlo and AJ built out the whole site and the back-end technology — and built it to scale — at one point they did a A/B test on Zappos and were easily able to handle all the traffic coming to the Zappos test site while being able to show results from the enormous Zappos inventory.

Software Review 134

Software Review Technical Review IP Finance 134

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. LinkedIn’s product had only been live for a couple months, we only had tens of thousands of registered users, and wouldn’t start generating revenue for more than a year after this point.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Pascal's View

JULY 9, 2017

Andrew Krowne and I recently co-wrote an article in Tech Crunch , Why SAFE Notes Are Not Safe for Entrepreneurs. The easiest way to do so is via SAFE notes, due to their simplicity, “available online” documentation, no major covenants established to protect the investors, no governance implications at the board level, etc.

Post-Money Valuation 49

Post-Money Valuation Valuation Cap Table Covenant 49

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. And this kept me by her side for the next ten years as she struggled daily with the negative health consequences due to this grievous mistake. And I was right. Thanks to Jody Grunden, Summit CPA Group ! #12-

Naming 149

Naming CPA Entrepreneur Software Review 149

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. They’ve grown from nothing to >$2B in revenue in 30 months time, making the company among the fastest growing businesses in the histroy of the world. How They Make Money: Groupon keeps a share of the coupon value (typically 40-50%) as its net revenue (1). June 5, 2011.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

The stakes are too high to risk losing business due to weak website design or poor user experience. Try using an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) tool to stay in touch with important thought leaders speaking to your audience. The company once reported that a 100 millisecond increase in site speed resulted in a 1% increase in revenue.

Mobile 48

Mobile Design Technical Review RSS 48

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. Some can supply more when syndicating with other such groups. The advantage to getting the attention of a super angel is that most operate informally and make quick decisions with little due diligence.

Equity 62

Equity Finance Liquidity Event Angel Groups 62

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. Push hard to set up the technical reviews, the due diligence meetings, the reference calls – whatever.

Technical Review 301

Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In 2011, the valuation of pre-revenue, start-up companies is typically in the range of $1.5–$2.5 Working within a network of angel investors also expands the pool of expert resources and helps divide the work of screening companies and investment due diligence. million for pre-revenue companies. million to a high of $3.4

Valuation 146

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We believe instead of setting up your marketing organization for interruption, like it’s basically been set up for the last 50 years, what if we set it up around groups of audiences that we get really close to, we build loyal and trusted relationships with, and we don’t just create one revenue stream. We create four, five.

Cost 37

Cost Marketing Audience Media 37

ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

While it doesn’t publish prices publicly, an interview with the Demandbase CEO in 2017 claimed that the average revenue per customer per month was $20,000. While Demandbase wins reviews for account targeting (“It provides the best [.] Demandbase is generally regarded as the industry leader—with an equivalent price tag. Image source ).

Software Review 117

Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. Whendel.icio.us

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

So, lots of content combined with an engaged audience (contributing and participating in consumption), driving great branding and real world revenue. For example, on other platforms your audience could be 18 yr old technology lovers. You are welcome to add reviews about those products from right there. Because of YouTube.

Analytics 149

Analytics Marketing Audience Channel 149

mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Mobile commerce revenues may still pale in comparison to their ecommerce brothers, but we’re already seeing signs of mobile commerce’s potential. While commercial software houses have the luxury of targeting a specific platform for a revenue-generating commercial app, business developers have to satisfy business requirements.

Mobile 90

Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90