The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

” Page obliged and in July 2012, he advised his teams to scale back and focus on core products like Android. And yet when they started startups, they decided to build recipe sites, or aggregators for local events.” Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft.

Startup 130

Startup SCRUM Cofounder Aggregator 130

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Typically it’s when Cambridge Associates releases their benchmark data on the VC asset class ( here’s a 2010 example article from TechCrunch ) or an organization like the Kauffman Foundation publishes a white paper ( a 2012 example article from Business Insider here ).

LP 176

LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Distribution 176

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. These days I find myself doing less.

Software Review 150

Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

July 12, 2012. Another thing that became increasingly useful was to have thousands of custom stats aggregated over thousands of servers graphed. Apr 8 2012 14:33:59 POST. Apr 8 2012 14:34:00 GET. Apr 8 2012 14:34:00 GET. Apr 8 2012 14:34:01 POST. Rajivs blog. RSS Archive. Rajiv Eranki. App-specific metrics.

Software Review 94

Software Review Database SQL Aggregator 94

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

By the end of 2012, there were 85 million iOS and 160 million Android devices in China. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc.

China 220

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 220

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators.

Israel 133

Israel Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? In the mean time, best wishes for a safe, happy and healthy 2012. What is the risk-benefit calculus for developing and protecting proprietary technologies vs. buying or licensing them (“ build vs. buy ”)?

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Posted on 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.

Revenue 62

Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

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. “To rank among the 2012 Inc. The companies in the Inc. Companies in the Inc. 5000 – let alone, the Inc. editor Eric Schurenberg. 500 will appear in the September issue of Inc. ’s.

United States 159

United States Aggregator Social Network Revenue 159

Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

Average revenue per customer has steadily increased from $223/yr in 2012 to $334/yr in 2018. Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis. spent by new customers in 2015, that same group (in aggregate) bought $1.65 2) Impressive cohort growth & stability.

Leadership 100

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 100

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.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Posted on May 31, 2012. Statistically speaking, you’re probably reading it either through a feedreader or on an aggregator like Hacker News. May 31, 2012 at 8:21 am. #. May 31, 2012 at 9:45 am. #. May 31, 2012 at 10:52 am. #. May 31, 2012 at 11:46 am. #. May 31, 2012 at 12:10 pm. #. by Patrick.

Email 54

Email Software Review Software Campaign 54

Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Breadcrumbs was conceived in June 2012 at Startup Weekend in San Diego as a self-tracking mobile application. Other tabs: Recent News (aggregate of business’ social media), Events (one-time events), and Menu (a business menu/offerings). Breadcrumbs Beginnings. Sean compares the early version to the Mint.com for time-management.

San Diego 58

San Diego Startup Social Media Technical Review 58

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

26 September 2012. 26 September 2012 at 10:10 am. #. 26 September 2012 at 10:35 am. #. 27 September 2012 at 1:55 am. #. 26 September 2012 at 11:10 am. #. ” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.)

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 1, 2012

In its quarterly filing yesterday Facebook disclosed that it spent $24m on ‘talent focused acquisitions’ in the first half of 2012. between them, making the aggregate exit value of these acqui-hires 4.2x, which tells us that if the investors on average had a 24% stake they would have broken even on these deals.

San Francisco 110

San Francisco Hiring Liquidation Preference Aggregator 110

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

February 9, 2012 7:40 PM. February 11, 2012 11:00 PM. April 12, 2012 11:10 AM. April 12, 2012 3:16 PM. April 12, 2012 4:48 PM. My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. April 12, 2012 6:15 PM. April 13, 2012 10:08 AM.

SEC 54

SEC San Jose Angel Investor Accredited Investor 54

Pascal's View

DECEMBER 17, 2012

My concern, based on my direct experience negotiating half a dozen acquisitions sine 2008 (three in 2012), both inside and outside of technology, is that the negotiating environment for such ‘ acquisition-ready ’ companies is fraught with challenge from the seller’s perspective. Challenge yourself to do better as a seller!

Acquisition 38

Acquisition Merger Covenant Liquidity Event 38

The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

And now, without further ado, here are the startups that make up the newest class of 500 Startups Fall 2012 accelerator class: BabyList: a baby registry that works like Pinterest enabling you to put anything online into your registry. Chewse: marketplace for groups to easily order great food. Iconfinder: site for icons.

Founder 136

Founder Brazil Latvia India 136

Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2012

The finalists have been announced for the SXSW Accelerator 2012. Umbel Austin, TX umbel.com Umbel empowers publishers, advertisers and agencies with a deep understanding of audience engagement by leveraging vast amounts of aggregated, real-time social data. Here are the local companies you will be seeing up on stage!

Austin 80

Austin Aggregator Startup Advertising 80

Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Breadcrumbs was conceived in June 2012 at Startup Weekend in San Diego as a self-tracking mobile application. Other tabs: Recent News (aggregate of business’ social media), Events (one-time events), and Menu (a business menu/offerings). Breadcrumbs Beginnings. Sean compares the early version to the Mint.com for time-management.

San Diego 40

San Diego Startup Social Media Technical Review 40

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2013

But here’s a service that may help: Documents.Me ( www.documents.me ) is a mobile app that aggregates all those important business documents from private, public and email clouds. has been in beta testing since late 2012 after being introduced at DEMO. “Up Documents.Me

Mobile 147

Mobile Cloud Aggregator Security 147

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2013

Aggregators. We’ve seen the rise of aggregators like Goodreads , Booklikes , Shelfari , and Red Room , who play the role of gatekeepers by allowing anyone to rate books, post reviews, and then collect the panoply of opinions in one place. But their process is hit and miss. There are thousands more would-be authors than bloggers.

Cuba 168

Cuba Aggregator Iran Social Media 168

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. The majority of the largest known prime numbers are Mersenne primes.

Search 179

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

billion smartphone users in 2012. There are 3 steps marketers can follow to start connecting specific users’ mobile and desktop behavior: Aggregate audience data. Aggregate Audience Data. billion smartphone users in 2012. According to Dazeinfo research , there were about 1.13 This number increased by 27.1% in 2013 to 1.43

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 9/21/2012. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk. Diversify your total investment across several startups.

Portfolio 228

Portfolio Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC 228

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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. 2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

IPO 202

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

25, 2012: Beh Weng Wei won the grand prize at the 2011 Young Entrepreneur Awards for his Frambie pitch, which eliminates some of the stress associated with custom picture framing and should be launching in Singapore on June 1, 2012. 9, 2012: Thanks to Emily May’s Hollaback! Beh Weng Wei at Tech65.org

Entrepreneur 231

Entrepreneur Cofounder Washington Bangladesh 231

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. We do twice-yearly reviews of all Fab team members. But it should never be a surprise. Even executives need reviews. Here are the criteria I review Fab’s executives on:?? Fab Culture.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Le Web Paris 2012 has come to an end. Similar to Belgian startup Wondergraphs , the idea is to help make sense of structured data – primarily in a professional context – by visualizing it and letting users aggregate, compare, slice, correlate, share, extract (insert more verbs here) figures of any kind.

SMS 119

SMS Europe France Aggregator 119

Genuine VC

JULY 22, 2012

invested in startups during the second quarter of 2012 (the highest in a decade!) But again, the aggregate numbers are being driven by just a few of the largest macrobrew firms. It must be the best of times for the industry with $8.1B along “… with seed-round venture capital hit[ing] an all-time high ” [According to CB Insights ].

Venture Capital 164

Venture Capital Aggregator Portfolio Search 164

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. From the day I started till very recently (aka December 31, 2012), I can literally count the days when I have slept solid eight hours.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2013

In 2012, the Nike Fuelband put self-monitoring devices on the radar of the mainstream consumer and the field is getting bigger. There is clear room in this space for innovation, aggregation, and higher efficiency. The efficacy of these devices is still evolving. Move Towards Collaborative and Voluntary Healthcare Data Sharing.

Artificial Inteligence 140

Artificial Inteligence Aggregator Cofounder Algorithm 140

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!). The financial needs of Israeli technology companies coupled with the shortage of investor capital indicate that more Israeli companies can be expected to go the M&A route in 2012.

IPO 100

IPO Israel Aggregator Green 100

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

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. In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime.

Intellectual Property 127

Intellectual Property New York City Pennsylvania Cofounder 127

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In aggregate, the various revenue streams would continue to support the creation and distribution of high production value content. Interestingly enough, a key theme resonant throughout the evening was the eventual consolidation of the industry.

Business Model 159

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 159

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

Earlier this year, one of my posts about my experience working on remote +1200 hours in 2012 got featured in Wired, BuzzFeed, Jezebel, and HackerNews. 1 mom that still is trying to understand what is a “news aggregator”. In other words, this meant a huge traffic increase. 11 minutes server downtime. 21,062 unique visitors.

Email 132

Email Audience API Aggregator 132

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). ► 2012. (1). Newer Post.

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28