VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

“Carriers are moving rapidly to IP-based mobile backhaul, and Wintegra’s product offering is uniquely positioned to enable this packet transition and breakthrough the bandwidth bottlenecks faced in mobile networks,&# said Greg Lang, president and chief executive officer of PMC-Sierra. QUALCOMM BUYS MOBILE WEB COMPANY ISKOOT.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

The SaaS growth recovery does not seem to take a "V" shape 2) Sales productivity is ramping up: bottom was hit in the first half of 2009 However, the sales and productivity of the group, measured by the median "Customer Acquisition Cost ratio" or "CAC ratio", seems to be recovering more steeply. ► 2006. (7). VC lifestyle.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

This represents an outstanding 2,298% growth vs. 2006 (this type of growth seems big but you get used to it when reading business plans is you day job). But the key questions of "what to buy" or "which product does really fit my need and budget at the same time" remained unanswered. Happy New Year to you, Cracking-the-code reader!

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Before I started GigaOm (the company) in June 2006, I had never really worked for a startup. In May 2006 when folks from True Ventures gave me the check (with a message on the back saying “go make your dream come true”), I went into a panic mode. I am still not sure, but the trend was clearly my friend. And we evolved.

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Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Mike built a white label product that let large publishers leverage text based ads by building their own marketplace rather than using Ad Words. Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. 1:04:00-1:06).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

13, 2006: This distinguished Nobel Peace Prize recipient pioneered the use of microcredits through the Grameen Bank, which he established in his native Bangladesh in 1983; many for-profit and nonprofit ventures these days utilize the same concept when investing in underprivileged regions. Jessica Jackley Flannery at Big Vision Podcast , Oct.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs ! Seems an obvious fit.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2010

MySupermarket is currently operating in the UK only, as an ecommerce aggregator which creates channel for users to compare and buy FMCG products online from the leading supermarkets in Britian: Tesco, ASDA, Sainsbury’s and Ocado, an online channel on its own right, by letting users fill a virtual trolley or compile a printable shopping list.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

The story of each business is as unique as the products they created. Sean Fanning developed Napster, one of the first aggregated and user-friendly peer-to-peer music file sharing platforms, when he was just a freshman at Boston’s Northeastern University. This article was first posted in Online Business Degree.

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Intellectual Property New York City Pennsylvania Cofounder 127

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 12, 2015

All data in aggregate is crap. From the person, me, who created the 10/90 rule all the way back in May 2006 (#omg), it should not be surprising that the importance of the tool is a bit smaller than that of the Big Brains. " "Focus exclusively on products abc, def, ghi in Florida and products klm in Amsterdam."

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Like SaaS products themselves, we now intend for these laws to be periodically refined through major releases to reflect the changing landscape of the SaaS world. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Bessemer SaaS Law #6.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

No doubt you’re thinking about myriad administrative and organizational needs relating to accounting and finance, staffing, your product and service roadmap for the year and more. Since you have access to intelligent information, the question becomes — how will you aggregate and leverage all this data? With CRM revenues at 39.5

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Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

The consumer web landscape has changed meaningfully since I wrote that in 2006. Lots of people more forward-thinking than me have rightly said that data is a powerful asset and aggregating, mining, and making it useful will be a core element of many businesses currently being built.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

The company, which was founded in 2006 by four Israelis in Silicon Valley, indexes over 250 million videos from various sites such as YouTube, CNN and Facebook and is used by major websites such as CBS and Warner Brothers. ISRAELI MODELITY WINS TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AWARD.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

They buy your product. Then they receive your product. With crowdfunding, the end product doesn’t even exist. Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. Reference an Inexpensive Hedonic Product. Crowdfunding is painful. With standard conversions, people receive value immediately.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

I’m looking both at applications that leverage this trend as well as enabling technologies and picks-and-shovels businesses that enable other application layer products, all of which will form around this theme of invisible interfaces. This includes everything from new forms of non-visual entertainment (e.g. Authenticity to NextView.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

I’m looking both at applications that leverage this trend as well as enabling technologies and picks-and-shovels businesses that enable other application layer products, all of which will form around this theme of invisible interfaces. This includes everything from new forms of non-visual entertainment (e.g. Authenticity to NextView.

Search 120

Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Craze Productions. For mobile backhauling applications, FibroLAN is now offering the Falcon SE product line. These products provide powerful features that allow significant OPEX savings through easy commissioning, simple service provisioning and advanced monitoring tools (including SLA assurance and alarming). . Fibrolan. -

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Originally, the study found podcasting awareness had remained rather flat for several years, dating back to about 2006 when the percentage of those surveyed who said they were familiar with the term podcasting sat at only 22%. In 2006 it was a mere 11%, and in 2012 it hit 29%. That’s a 163% difference if you’re still counting….

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Software eCommerce Audio Hosting 100

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

If your product costs you $15 to make then, in the above scenario, you are shipping a crisp $5 bill along with every Social Media order! What products are people buying? Look at sources, locations, product bundles purchased, keywords and campaigns and all that to learn where/how you can find more Whales. That's the cost.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

My first blog post on the topic of CIA was on 14th Aug 2006! Let's move on to doing productive things. but then ignore them as they are quite useless aggregated at this level. Regular readers of the blog know of my deep love for competitive intelligence analysis. I did recommend not doing that, but go ahead. Probably not.

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Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

Here’s part 1 from 2006. Expand the electric vehicle product line to address all major segments 3. Enable your car to make money for you when you aren’t using it The underlying theme across all 8 of these bullets, except perhaps the last, is that each drives scale of battery production. This is pretty astonishing.

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Nevada Global eCommerce Engineer 66

Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

This lending model was further refined, and peer-to-peer lending companies like Prosper emerged in 2006 and Lending Club emerged in 2007. Other companies like Kickstarter offer rewards or facilitate the pre-purchase of products. Second, crowdfunding will clearly expand the options available to small companies seeking financing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2014

Over the years my email newsletter has become more of a place to filter, aggregate and share other people’s content in snack sized versions. I have so much going on now that I would rather focus my content production when I need to get something out there rather than random articles. See if long-form content works for you.

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Marketing Social Media North America Media 68

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. But six months in, you’re gonna cry when you see someone else put out that same product you’re pitching me right now. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B Only one version of code in production. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. "10 Things Every CEO Needs to Know About Product D.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

The “official” date is June 9 th , 2006 — for those that are curious about such things). Each of those domains would get one point in the aggregated list. Automating the Path to a Better User Experience - The Product Guy , July 5, 2010 I started writing about Quick-UX in 2008. Showscase your products and services.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2018

One study ( 1) published in 2010 aggregated research on the business growth of 11,046 companies and found that planning improved business performance. That’s because these innovative startups are learning new things about their product and customers at a very fast pace and their strategies change more frequently.

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Business Plan Oregon Lean Elevator Pitch 263

Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2015

One study 1 , published in 2010, aggregated research on the business growth of 11,046 companies and found that planning improved business performance. That’s because these innovative startups are learning new things about their product and customers at a very fast pace and their strategies change more frequently.

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Business Plan Oregon Lean Elevator Pitch 60

Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

The next wave of internet will come from companies aggregating these various data sets and leveraging them to provide more value to the user. This will happen shortly (3-year horizon) as biofuels and solar energy production costs become cheaper than fossil fuels. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index.

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