View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. Software developers like to spend time with like-minded developers.

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Angel Investor Boston Seed Stage Syndicate 332

YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2014

Waves suite of tools linclude Invoicing, Accounting, Payroll, Payments and more, plus Personal Finance Software, too. Scott pioneered many of the most utilized concepts in online media including opt-in data collection, email to postal data appending, affiliate marketing, web syndication, internet reality shows and internet pay per view.

Management 167

Management Software Review eCommerce Entrepreneur 167

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Take a look at the founding syndicates of each: Masstor Sytems (5/1979). Quantum Corporation (6/1980). What is striking about these syndicates is that nobody had any meaningful capital, which forced syndication and cooperation. “By January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.”

Venture Capital 70

Venture Capital SBIC Technical Review Silicon Valley 70

Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. You’ve seen this with companies like StackOverflow and Github in software engineering or Behance in visual design. million times.

Community 100

Community Estonia Syndicate Syndication 100

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Depending on which channels you use in your marketing, this might include: Newsletters; Blog posts; Company social media channels; Personal social media accounts ; Influencers; Company and industry podcasts; YouTube; Paid ads (Google and social media); Messaging apps; Syndication platforms. Marketing software. Usage policies.

Campaign 149

Campaign CTO Marketing Social Media 149

VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

In a world without cookies, we’ll see smart alternatives to targeting that avoid cookies altogether: contextual targeting, time-based targeting, and using syndicated and custom audiences, according to the 2021 media trends and predictions by Kantar. The “creator economy” will prosper in 2021.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Audio Forecast Social Media 207

Early Growth Financial Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Gene Marks Gene is the leading expert on small businesses, with an active readership across multiple syndication platforms. Martin Zwilling Martin has 30 years of executive experience in all aspects of building a company: including product management, marketing, and software development. Small Business 1.

Syndicate 50

Syndicate Syndication New York Software Developers 50

YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2020

All you need to do is point the software at the folders and other data you want to index. An attorney by training, Elizabeth has spent many years in the software industry. The key search engine mechanism that, whether remotely or locally, enables instant searching of terabytes is called indexing. Indexing is easy.

Connecticut 246

Connecticut Azure Database Syndicate 246

Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

In NextView’s case that’s seed stage internet and software companies. 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. ” And the honest answer is “not at all.”

Seed Stage 185

Seed Stage Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Review 185

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

I wish every blog used Disqus and I wish every website that syndicated content would create an integrated commenting thread the way that Business Insider does. Only later did I realize that this was part of Dharmesh Shah’s larger blog and that the software was based on the popular “stack overflow&# software.

Silicon Valley 301

Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Software Review 301

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

4:32] Is that was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated? [5:48] Is that, was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated. Even the blogging software is really referred to as just content management, mm-hmm software systems.

Audio 65

Audio SMS Technical Review Advertising 65

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

When he had his prototype solution for DataSift and had secured re-syndication rights (the rights to resell Twitter data – which only 3 companies ever had) I knew I wanted to work with him. Under Rob’s leadership we built out an amazing organization of seasoned enterprise software veterans in the US market.

Founder 309

Founder CTO Hire Silicon Valley Leadership 309

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

In the software an internet space a number of companies obviously had strong public offerings (LinkedIn, Yandex, Pandora, RenRen, et al). 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.

IPO 100

IPO Marketing Silicon Valley Technical Review 100

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

It''s also not the best way to create a helpful syndicate of investors that share the founder''s vision for the company. If it turned out that the best experiences I''ve had as an investor come from knowing someone a long time, I might go to events that are more around a specialty, like software development or design.

Venture Capital 162

Venture Capital Syndicate Syndication Founder 162

ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Choosing the right account-based marketing software can be a messy process. Some ABM software is an add-on to an existing tool. Some companies sell relevant software but not explicitly for ABM. Software can help with each: Identify the right accounts and targets within them. Measure how they respond. Image source ).

Software Review 117

Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2014

This morning we announced that we have closed a financing in OnTheGo Platforms via our FG Angels syndicate. On October 1st, 2013 we announced that we’d be forming an AngelList syndicate called FG Angels and making 50 seed investments through AngelList by the end of 2014. would come from syndicate participants.

Syndicate 133

Syndicate Syndication Government Finance 133

Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

It enables merchants to sell their products anywhere by syndicating goods to multiple marketplaces. Rypple makes HR software that helps companies run better. uTest is the world's largest software testing marketplace; it has created a community of 30,000 professional testers from more than 165 countries around the world.

Azure 74

Azure Venture Capital Software Review Syndicate 74

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage. We also invested in more traditional IT and software categories much like other VC’s, and had not developed more of a market and consumer-driven POV on the future.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Next Annette McClellan presented DaisyClip , a non-surgical contraception device for women that she is in the process of syndicating a $1.8 She is also considering developing software to address these issues. My recommendation to Hardika is to study the FDBI project. million financing round for.

India 116

India Green Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

I helped introduce the company to various angels and lead the effort to form a syndicate for their fund-raising round. The purpose of this post isn’t to debate the pros and cons of software patents. If you’re interested in that discussion, my advisor and mentor, Brad Feld has written extensively about software patents on his blog.

Software Review 134

Software Review Technical Review IP Finance 134

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. Upfront costs: The hardware and software you need to start a podcast. We dive deeper into each topic below.

Syndicate 85

Syndicate Syndication Hosting Audio 85

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak Software Corporation. 3) ITA Relationship: Much has been made of the fact that Kayak along with OTAs (online travel agents) license data from ITA Software which is now part of Google. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Founding Date: 2004. Headquarters: Norwalk, CT & Concord, MA.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 19, 2020

Software has been eating venture funds by simplifying syndicates, managing SPVs, and even traditional fund management. The state of venture is changing and AngelList has been at the forefront of this movement for awhile.

Syndicate 88

Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Portfolio 88

View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

If they can’t, then we want to know more about the existing investor syndicate, so we’re not the only ones at the table. Typically, the gross margins aren’t there compared to software, so revenue isn’t quite as important in the early stages of getting to market. But the costs are definitely there.

Term Sheet 120

Term Sheet Equity Startup Seed Stage 120

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I have seen this criticism at various places where this recap is syndicated on a weekly basis, as well as in certain random forums on the internet. As for acquiring customers, so far he has used Internet marketing, and they have just started a partnership with a large reseller of restaurant management software, which is great.

Silicon Valley 114

Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Early Stage 114

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2021

Duct Tape Marketing is a brand partner – We are often called upon to produce sponsored content, syndicated and cobranded eBooks, training, channel marketing programs, and consulting – for brands such as HP, Dell, UPS, FedEx Office, Sage Software, and Microsoft.

Marketing 82

Marketing Syndicate Syndication New York 82

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. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

CTO Hire 73

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review 73

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2014

enterprise software license sales) that is no longer trendy. We are syndication agnostic and are happy to continue to finance strong, later stage companies in our portfolio with or without new co-investors. In our world, none of this matters that much to us. We aren’t momentum investors.

Later Stage 142

Later Stage Syndicate Syndication Portfolio 142

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2014

If the deal is from out of your geography and/or out of your focus area or a deal is being referred by a well-know investor who normally co-invests with similar syndicates – at least ask yourself, “Why am I so lucky to be getting this call.” We did a seed deal this week that would surprise you.

Cofounder 337

Cofounder Syndicate Syndication Angel Investor 337

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2018

To record and edit your podcasts, Vaynerchuk suggests going with Audacity software, or GarageBand if your computer is an Apple. So we decided to strip the audio from those and syndicate them into a podcast”. On his list you’ll find two different microphones, an audio interface, and a short mic stand. How has this helped?

Demand 71

Demand Audio Syndicate Syndication 71

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms. Private Equity Software and Services Directory. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. 4) Manage deal flow. Advise Technologies focuses on regulatory reporting.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 10, 2010

I want to reduce the barriers to taking action, so things like tech, design, seo and syndication are handled for me, so I can go to work doing what I do best – creating content and formulating strategies. software specifications. However I don’t want to take on the role of managing this team. . market research.

Business Model 75

Business Model Affiliate Philippines Syndicate 75

Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

Look across virtually any industry and you’ll see great examples where traditional spaces are being disrupted by software, access to data, and massive online communities. Image via CrunchBase. Today, the boom of information (i.e. The team are alumni of Y Combinator S12 as well as Batch 5 of 500 Startups in 2012. Why we’re excited.

Venture Capital 160

Venture Capital Vertical Curation SEC 160

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

They just assumed it was the way software companies worked. Unfortunately, threats work a lot better at incentivizing people to CYA than getting them to write quality software. When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. Sound good? It didnt work.

Software Review 164

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A number of CTOs of software companies in the middleware space have alsodescribed the customer contact as their main activity. Seattle, WA, 98104 Syndication Subscribe to this weblogs atom feed or rss feed Search Powered by Movable Type 4.01.

CTO 40

CTO CTO Hire Syndicate Syndication 40

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 1, 2016

My partner Ryan’s son Quinn (who is 12) was in the office so we sat him down in front of the Glowforge, gave him an iPad with the Glowforge software on it, and he went to town making stuff in our conference room. As part of our overall strategy, we have long described ourselves as syndication agnostic.

Finance 70

Finance Balance Sheet Syndicate Syndication 70

Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

Oracle and IBM have made some acquisitions of SaaS businesses though many of their deals are more old school enterprise software businesses that have matured. So no matter how you look at it, the universe of buyers has been fairly small and the really active buyers come down to just 4-5 companies. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Acquisition Silicon Valley B2B Seed Stage 162