Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&# 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

The content is ready and now post-publishing you’re on to emailing your list, reaching out to influencers, and distributing on your social channels. Sometimes, paid advertising tools and platforms can be a great supplement to these more traditional means of distribution. Outbrain. . . Content.ad. StackAdapt. LinkedIn Ads.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. For the last couple of years, I’ve been investing in startups as a partner at Mucker, while spending a lot of time in the Valley working with potential co-investors and partners.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

million, indicating a somewhat normal distribution. Marketing/Sales/Partners. Sales channels, sales and marketing partners. – No partners identified. ++. Key partners in place. As can be seen the average (mean) pre-money valuation for recent pre-revenue deals is $2.1 million to a high of $3.4

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Craze Digital is one of the world’s biggest Digital Entertainment indie companies, managing a host of online & mobile channels for high-demand Music & Video content, with a strong focus on innovative approach to monetization and distribution. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution. Screenz - Company Website.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

So that we’re speaking the same language I would define “exclusive” as a period in which your company is prohibited from doing business with certain customers or business partners, which is why many incorrectly assume this is necessarily bad. Why Exclusivity Matters to Your Customers or Business Development Partners.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

In 2006, Benchmark started spending time with Gary Swart and the team at oDesk. We were quite enamored with their marketplace for skilled global talent, and were amazed at how the tools in their online workplace allowed customers to hire, manage, and pay for work from distributed teams. Let’s start with Facebook.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

It is also reducing energy consumption since water production and distribution require a lot of energy, so preventing water loss also prevents this waste.&#. Attenti’s two principal investors, Francisco Partners and the Israeli branch of the U.S. Diversified U.S. AOL INC BUYS ISRAEL’S 5MIN MEDIA START UP FOR $65 MLN.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. With this money, they plan to expand its distribution to selected metro areas within the state of Oregon. Ninkasi Brewing began in 2006 on a 15-barrel system and produced 1,650 barrels.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2014

One recent development has been that larger companies are now looking at small innovative companies in a new light — as potential partners in developing new products, processes and services. Vuzit was launched in 2006, but in its first few years, did not bring in sufficient business to sustain itself. A Case in Point.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

He is a venture partner at True Ventures. We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

In 2006, Kristin Groos Richmond and Kirsten Saenz Tobey founded Revolution Foods to help ensure quality food access for all children across the nation. Together, they founded Revolution Foods in 2006. I co-founded Revolution Foods with Kirsten Tobey in 2006 to ensure quality food access for all children across the nation.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. Worse, Robert Adams and his two partners got 20% of the carried interest in the fund, resulting in payouts of $30 million to the partnership.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Build systems and processes that enable your team to create and distribute content seamlessly. Since its 2006 foundation, YETI has built over 90K LinkedIn followers and 125.7K YETI also partners with influencers and other brands, borrowing their audience to boost their brand awareness. Twitter followers. Image source.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. MetaMarkets.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar? Relationships.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. But VC is like congress. I call often.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

One of the ways vendors and partners--whose behind-the-scenes assistance often is crucial to a start-ups success--can get a piece of the action is to exchange services for equity. By 2006, he was still only dabbling in the occasional work-for-equity deal. Graham is careful about whom he chooses to partner with. Select Services.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. Make sure someone is thinking about overarching plans around PR, marketing and sales and spends time crafting the right messages, understanding audiences and figuring out distribution channels.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I lived almost a year in Helsinki, Finland, and over six years in London, UK, where I had various experiences in fast paced market, even to the point of being a Creative Partner in my own company that was buried after several unpaid pitches, just after a half million pounds budget branding and launch campaign.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2010

VSP partnered with Live Person and has been operating since 2006 as AEI Technology. Velocee is a Content Distribution Network (CDN) for mobile which enables carriers to save money by predicting users mobile data usage trend. Touchoo publishing house for quality touch-screen book-apps for toddlers and preschoolers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2019

I wrote my first, I don’t think I wrote my first book until 2006, so you wrote yours about 10 years before that maybe, on a topic that was just getting started, internet marketing. Dan Janal: We do a number of great things were a cheerleader, we’re an accountability partner, and we’re also an editor.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Previous Celeno investors Pitango Venture Capital , Greylock Partners , Miven Venture Partners, and Cisco Systems Inc. Mobile gaming company Oberon Media raised a fifth round of $16 million – some of the funds raised are from previous investors Goldman Sachs, Infinity I-China Fund and Oak Investment Partners.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 11, 2011

Very cool service from HP that allows you to upload PDFs or publications and print them for distribution. (HP Good stuff I found this week: HP MagCloud – publish, print and ship anywhere in the world. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2011

Coupon distribution Creating membership type levels where people can get special treatment or special announcements is a great way to build community. Bonus: Group Text Don’t forget about the wave of group text services that are cropping up as a great way to communicate with your staff, customers, partners and suppliers.

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SMS Marketing Mobile Social Media 78

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2011

This could be a great way for a business group to highlight, distribute and discuss important industry news, research or competitive analysis. Sparks This is the Google+ sharing function that let’s users identify and share stuff related to topics they care about.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 1, 2011

Godin and Amazon are attempting to change the way books are published much like CDBaby changed the way music was published and distributed. Anything You Want is another The Domino Project publication and a fitting one I think.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 6, 2016

Robert Scoble is perhaps the greatest blogger of them all, so when I started blogging in 2006 I read Naked Conversations , his guide to blogging. In summary, posting frequency no longer effects distribution. One of his tips was to post every day. I tried them all, but Netvibes was my favourite.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. I had really positive experiences such as working with Greg Gretsch at Sigma Partners where he championed us to a partners’ meeting where we sort of got crucified. Tempus Fugit.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

As you improve the user experience, information architecture and relevancy of content on your site, it is important to keep an eye not on the rather useless metric of Average Page Views per Visit or Average Time on Site but rather on the distribution of page depth. And it is a sweetie. Assisted Conversions builds on the above mental model.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

People Distribute Content If you’re creating online content, you’ve got to get the word out about it for people to share it far and wide with others. Beyond the creation of content itself, online content distribution begins with key relationships with others in your subject matter arena. It’s not called social media for nothing.

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Diego Basch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I’ve also seen quite a few of such exits; because of the power law distribution of returns, their odds are disproportionately higher than those of becoming a multi-billion dollar company. Pretty much all of them admitted that they would party like it’s 1999 if they could get a few million out of their startups.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 24, 2006

The Equality Conundrum: Where 50-50 equals Zero » April 24, 2006. Last night, Bob Zieserl, Venture Capitalist, and general partner at Stratus Ventures, was the keynote speaker at the Marquette University Business Plan Competition. « Questions for Entrepreneurs | Main. | If it does not work, get out.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Today, Goldstar works directly with 4,000 venue partners to connect them with their huge and growing audience. Started in October of 2006, founders Sean Hammons and Noah Merritt, wanted to provide an affordable and simple solution to real time analytics. Venues list tickets with Goldstar to sell to their members for a discounted price.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

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