YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

So Westlaw created Peer Monitor, which aggregates anonymized data on firms’ financial and operational performance, collected from participating clients with their permission — and this turned into a lucrative new business. Westlaw, which provides legal research services for law firms, is another example.

Customer 168

Customer Social Media Retention Canada 168

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

January 11th, 2011 the Chubby Team 34 Comments. Marc Hedlund of Wesabe talked about this in his post-mortem stating: Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Investors Companies.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Given that 2011 is already behind us, I’d like to take a brief time-out from the usual legal and financial wonkery to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year. How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? will transition to a similar system as a result of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) of 2011.)

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

June 5, 2011. Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. Run Rate Revenue: $2.6B (Q1 2011 annualized). Revenue Growth: 2241% YoY (2010 vs 2009), 1357% YOY (Q1 2011 vs Q1 2010). Run Rate Gross Profit: $1.1B (Q1 2011 annualized). Featured merchants (may not have tipped): 56.8K (Q1 2011), 66.3K (2010), 2.7K (2009).

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Declaring success based on measuring Likes in aggregate is like declaring success after getting a lot of Visits to your site. But not, ever, in aggregate.]. For your Facebook brand page at an aggregate level, measure Conversation, Amplification and Applause. Aggregate impact on your Facebook brand page? Too strong?

Metrics 165

Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The global art market is believed to be about $61 billion (2011). … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively.

Small Business 110

Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. View more presentations. Intermediaries.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. Aggregated search engine level analysis. If you want to stress test this,… go back to your 2011 (pre- not provided ) data for paid and organic and see what you can find. Logged-in users were switched to using httpS from http.

Search 156

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 156

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Sometimes, by using one of the multitude of price aggregators, you can have an understanding of where your pricing is at an item level. Stretch your imagination and it is not hard to come up with some super-clever nudges that incorporate aggregate non-PII information that is public. Direct competitor comparisons. But you get the idea.

Conversion 125

Conversion eCommerce Artificial Inteligence Aggregator 125

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. TvTak was voted Best Demo at the Social TV Summit in Los Angeles and Tech Aviv New York in July 2011, and was selected in Technonomy3 in Tel Aviv in April 2011. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution. VivoText - Company Website.

Israel 133

Israel Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

The company launched in 2011 and then was acquired by PetSmart for over $3 billion in 2017 (PetSmart itself owned by PE firm BC Partners), but Chewy is now preparing for life as a standalone public company. Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis.

Leadership 100

Leadership .Net Revenue Aggregator 100

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

You could argue that it takes some time to restart the SaaS flywheel after a slow year, but an acceleration in 2010 should at least translate into a stronger 2011 guidance, which is not really the case (10/11 growth median is 18%, so barely above 2010). ► 2011. (2). sales and marketing. (10). Small and medium businesses. (2).

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Europe 63

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

.” Aside from Koh, the panel of judges for this year included Foong Ming Lee-Ng from MediaCorp , lauded local entrepreneur Elim Chew and founder of fashion retailer 77 th Street , Goh Yiping of online deal aggregator All Deals Asia and Kenny Leck of BooksActually , amongst others.

Singapore 185

Singapore Entrepreneur Asia Aggregator 185

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES 2-YEAR MODEL FOR BUDGET 2011-2012. The Israeli Cabinet approved Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz’s proposal to continue with the biennial state budget model in 2011-2012. The British mobile payments and messaging aggregator will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket US mobile transactions hub.

Israel 68

Israel OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems says: January 11, 2011 at. [.] Company : Wesabe.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

We graded them on a scale of 1-5, posted our grades and comments to a shared Google doc, and had our Teaching Assistant aggregate the grades and feedback to pass on to the teams.). Lee Redden (MSME Robotics, Jun 2011) Research in haptic devices, autonomous systems and surgical robots, BSME (U Nebraska at Lincoln), Family Farms in Nebraska.

Business Model 239

Business Model Nebraska Peru Germany 239

VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2011

IVC Research Center has released the Quarterly Survey of Israeli Private Equity Deals for Q1 2011. Eleven private equity deals in Q1 2011, amounted at $216 million, a 68% decrease from the $668 million in Q1 last year, and a 74% decline from the previous quarter ($826 million). The infrastructure sector followed with 26 percent.

Private Equity 99

Private Equity Israel Equity Mezzanine 99

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The Bank of Israel has also forecast 4% growth in 2010, though 2011 growth is seen slightly lower at 3.8% PMC-Sierra is buying Wintegra for a net purchase price of $213 million and will pay up to an additional $60 million based on growth and performance milestones in 2011. The CBS further expects consumer spending to grow 4.6%

Israel 79

Israel Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

On aggregate, putting a dollar into Israeli high-tech could yield you more than double the returns (if only these things worked on aggregate!). Below are 10 interesting facts from the report: Exits involving Israeli and Israel-related high-tech companies in 2011 totaled $5.23 billion, a 134 percent increase from $2.18

IPO 100

IPO Israel Aggregator Green 100

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

19, 2011: At 19, an enterprising young Georgetown University Chinese language major launched Nightly Noms, a bakery with delivery service catering to hungry students up late working. Elizabeth Sabol-Jones at Inspirist , Jan. Patrick Chukwura at Young Entrepreneurs , Sept. Beh Weng Wei at Tech65.org

Entrepreneur 231

Entrepreneur Cofounder Washington Bangladesh 231

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Below are the headlines for December 2011 (mid month update!). As of April 2011, the site claimed more than 20 million visitors a month, up sharply from the 1.5 For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. MICROSOFT ACQUIRED ISRAELI START UP VIDEOSURF . million it was claiming in 2009. LEADING US COOPERATIVE CHS BUYS ISRAEL’S SOLBAR.

Israel 99

Israel Nebraska Silicon Valley Miami 99

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

For the third consecutive year , VC Cafe puts the spotlight on the Israeli companies exhibiting in the MWC 2011 event. Interested to meet any of these companies face to face at the WMC 2011? Below are the 56 Israeli companies who will exhibit at the 2011 Mobile World Congress: 3G Vision. Mce Systems. MailVision.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2012

5000 list in aggregate generated some US$299 billion in revenue for the year 2011, creating some 389,000 jobs for the economy. The companies in the Inc. 500 saw a median three-year growth of 1,436 percent, the highest in the list’s 31-year history, which is all the more remarkable considering the tough economic environment.

United States 159

United States Aggregator Social Network Revenue 159

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

So, when a voluntary redundancy came up in 2011, I took it to start my own business as a consultancy putting in management systems – and I’ve never, ever regretted it. Thanks to Russell Lawson, The Ideas Distillery ! I want to make it easier for them to find the help they need and achieve the goals they set for themselves.

Entrepreneur 147

Entrepreneur Technical Review South Korea United States 147

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

In 2011, Fred Wilson cited the 30/10/10 ratio as a “law of web/mobile physics,” generally true regardless of business or industry—that is, 30% of customers will use a service each month, 10% will use it each day, and as many as 10% of daily users will be using it at any given time. Never stop testing and optimizing your onboarding process.

Retention 106

Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We announced Fund I in 2011. They have aggregated talent into similar locations to learn from each other and made it easier for high-profile mentors to meet many companies at once. Companies were getting funded more easily and many more companies were actually being created.

Early Stage 290

Early Stage Venture Capital Los Angeles Coder 290

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

The ways I’m aware of for generating confidence intervals for averages/aggregates of a particular statistic (like, say, “Average monthly revenue per visitor of all visitors who would ever sign up under the pricing plan”) all have to assume something about the population distribution. Michael Selik. Derek Haynes.

Revenue 62

Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Monday, November 14, 2011. My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. ▼ 2011. (7). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid Idea? 2930) , commonly referred to as Crowdfunding. Steve Bennet.

SEC 54

SEC San Jose Angel Investor Accredited Investor 54

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

On aggregate, putting a dollar into Israeli high-tech could yield you more than double the returns (if only these things worked on aggregate!). Below are 10 interesting facts from the report: Exits involving Israeli and Israel-related high-tech companies in 2011 totaled $5.23 billion, a 134 percent increase from $2.18

IPO 68

IPO Israel Aggregator Green 68

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

As the questions came in, I realized that my 2010 list was great for what I had learned as of 2 years ago, but it also was in desperate need of an update to include what I’ve learned more recently, especially as we’ve pivoted from fabulis to Fab in 2011 and then scaled Fab to more than 7.5 So, here goes. But it should never be a surprise.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. ► 2011. (2). We decided to fund Wize.com to answer this question. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

The company has experienced extraordinary growth: in March 2011, it had funded around 20,000 campaigns in 159 countries. Danae Ringelmann, Slava Rubin and Eric Schell co-founded Indiegogo in 2008 to enable anybody with a great idea to make that idea happen.

Securities and Exchange Commission 148

Securities and Exchange Commission IRR Entrepreneur Angel Investor 148

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

2009-2011: Retrenchment. Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle.

IPO 202

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Same thing with the class of 2011, except they’re a different cohort because they share a different common experience in a time period. As the above chart shows, we can compare the average income of the class of 2010 and 2011 over the same relative interval (5 years after graduation) for an apple-to-apples comparison. . Image source.

Conversion 48

Conversion Retention Acquisition Metrics 48

The Equity Kicker

MAY 15, 2012

First I checked their Alexa graph which seemed to confirm my initial impression that progress has slowed following a meteoric rise in 2010 (or more precisely their Traffic Rank dropped Q2-Q3 2011 and has been rising again since, recently regaining the earlier peak). Then I took a look at Quora itself.

Viral 108

Viral Framework Aggregator Retention 108

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Recommendations can be powered by aggregate data, which determines the relevance of a certain item in relation to a given context, or user specific data, that fuels personalized recommendations. Another telling example, is when back in 2011 eBay acquired a 2-year-old recommendation engine startup , Hunch for $80 million.

Conversion 48

Conversion Product Technical Review Widget 48

VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2011

Since their inauguration in February 2011, little has been shared on the VentureGeeks program or its participants – until now. According to their research, over 150,000 sites were hacked in the first half of 2011, including those of the New York Times, Sony and even the CIA.

Israel 99

Israel Incubator Startup Florida 99