Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M I also joke with Reid Hoffman that this was back in the days before he was “Reid” Reid’s an incredible entrepreneur, startup investor, and human being. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. May 26, 2011.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

During a presentation at Startup School at Stanford University earlier today, the prolific investor discussed the state of startup funding with a packed auditorium of students and entrepreneurs. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

During a presentation at Startup School at Stanford University earlier today, the prolific investor discussed the state of startup funding with a packed auditorium of students and entrepreneurs. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It has many stylistic errors — and a few substantive ones, too — that I would now change having learned more, but I realized that it still provides useful insights for entrepreneurs and startup participants outside of the Greylock network, particularly across three areas of interest: how entrepreneurs should approach the pitch process.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. Every young entrepreneur knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups within the first 5 years is higher than 50 percent. Inexperienced team.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

True, many boards are dysfunctional, but when you build a great startup board, it will be a powerful tool that can help the CEO make the company successful. This essay, which is based on Part 1 of a two-part episode of the Greymatter Podcast, will cover the fundamentals of building great startup boards.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Key Talents of Successful Startup Founders – [link]. Billion Valuation, Multiple VCs Say – [link]. Never Make Counter-Offers – [link]. – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. Every young entrepreneur knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups within the first 5 years is as high as 50 percent. Inexperienced team.

Intellectual Property 274

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

I work with a lot of startups. It goes like this, “If your next round investor can see how fast you’re scaling then you can raise money based on your user traction and your valuation can hit the sky. “It has been a while that we’ve been trying to get the viral coefficient up but we haven’t seen progress.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. What are they, how do they differ and what can startup do to take advantage of them? The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Mashable | The Social Media Guide Viral Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video About Mashable Company About Us Advertise Submit News Contact Us Announcements Resources Guidebooks Lists How To Trending Twitter List Directory Mashable Awards Subscriptions Partners W3 EDGE Rackspace Concentric Sky Dynect DNS Intridea Welcome to Mashable!

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

A startup can benefit in various ways from having a strategic investor involved in their company, but there are plenty of drawbacks too, both commonly known and more subtle. One of our prior investments was an e-commerce company that grew primarily through organic search.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Startups such as Shopkick offered real time deals when users were in stores and Shopsavvy and similar mobile price comparison tools from Amazon and Google empowered consumers to find the best deals. The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 8, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Steve Blank On Why Most Startups Fail, And It’s Got Nothing To Do With Technology – buff.ly/1IhCLrF. – buff.ly/1EY9ktL.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Something has clearly changed within the last 5-6 years in terms of the speed with which monster startups are created in the software and internet space. Multi-billion dollar valuations for late stage startups like Dropbox, et al. Are Google-Scale Outcomes More Frequent?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today’s Normalization.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Season 4 week 9 of Sharktank was another fun episode, showing the importance of failing fast, being prepared for your pitch and how selecting an investor is about more than just optimizing valuation. When asked why the company is worth a $1M post money valuation, he said, “What it comes down to is passion.” Drive Suits.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

Last week, we explored the topic of startup boards of directors. The primary goal of this conversation was to explain how and why a great startup board can be a powerful tool to help the CEO make the company successful. You can listen to the podcast here, or search for Greymatter Podcast in your podcatcher.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Chris Dixon , September 12, 2010 My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. Why You Should Write. Your service: the game.

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Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

This means that the incumbants still arent moving fast enough, and well-funded startups can run laps around the traditional vendors. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. In search of Europe's next tech stars. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Investments.

Software Review 48

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

The most innovative B2C companies are lead generation machines, leveraging search engine optimization (SEO), viral marketing, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), email marketing, and other technically-advanced methods. There have been many promising SaaS startups that stepped on the gas too early and were wiped out as a result.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He’s been a developer/hacker for over 15 years, and he sold his first startup, VinSolutions for $150 million. We do a lot of soul searching around how do we built this product, when nobody knows it exist. When they have a problem, the first thing they do is they go to Google and they search for it. How do you reach them?

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