YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Transportation partners play an enormous role in the supply chain as they bring products into distribution centers and sometimes directly to customers. He founded and ran his own digital marketing agency, KickStart Search, for 6 years prior to being acquired by Los Angeles-based Wpromote in April of 2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2017

Oprah Winfrey ranked as the 12th most influential women entrepreneur of 2015 by Forbes with “The Life You Want” back in 2014 and her Harpo Films production co-produced the film “Selma” which won an Award. For example, Mikaila Ulmer launched her own business of Lemonade: Bee Sweet Lemonade at only 11 years old in 2015.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

For many entrepreneurs and inventors, mass producing and distributing products simply doesn’t play to their strengths. These involve finding funding and getting up to speed quickly on the highly complex manufacturing and distribution processes. Technical data and training needed for development, manufacturing and distribution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Partners and distribution channels will take you seriously. In many business arenas, brand-name partners and distribution are a prerequisite to scaling the business. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/18/2015. Startups need the agility to test various business models and positioning messages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Product distribution or service delivery. Physical products often require access to existing distribution channels. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/18/2015. Website and smartphone solutions usually require referral partners and value-added resellers.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

ColdFire Brewing , a 10-barrel brewery, came online in December 2015, founded by Dan Hughes and his brother Stephen. These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. Keeping regulations in mind when starting a brewery.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

If the startup team is distributed around the world, your challenge is to meet their process requirements, rather than expect them to meet yours. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/10/2015. Deliver results rather than recommendations. PowerPoint presentations are not business results.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

We All Know That Dollars into Venture Have Gone Up … As a starting point, we know that the dollars into venture have steadily rebounded to pre great-recession levels, with just under $30 billion committed to US technology venture capital in 2015. Without some cash distributions, eventually LPs will become stretched.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2015

Sometimes great new businesses, such as Starbucks, are built on the oldest of base products, but with better customer service, distribution, marketing or a new pricing model, by a smart, determined entrepreneur such as Howard Schultz. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/26/2015. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

For this reason, we’ve partnered with Guild members who have experience across different kinds of customers, business models, and distribution channels. Pierre Valade is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sunrise , a mobile calendar app that was acquired by Microsoft in 2015 for more than $100 million. Back to Top).

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. Distribution and data is where the power lies, it’s no longer in making things. Have a great 2015, Steve. The first thought is pretty obvious.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. Distribution and data is where the power lies, it’s no longer in making things. Have a great 2015, Steve. The first thought is pretty obvious.

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Technical Review Startup Australia Aggregator 48

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video. Israel Corporation is Israel’s largest holding company.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2016

In 2015, bilateral trade reached $ 2.5 Perhaps the most significant catalyst occurred in January, 2015, when Prime Minister Abe became the first Japanese Prime Minister to visit Israel in a decade. Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, visiting Israel in January, 2015. Billion ($1.6

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2016

In the year 2015, global companies spent over $4.2 This in turn led to the creation of online repository sites that enabled the distribution and storage of information by multiple parties. billion on M&A deals alone, making it the busiest M&A year in history.

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Software Review Technical Review Due Diligence Security 100

Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

And as applications have trended towards a more distributed, data-centric, and segmented architecture, keeping them up and running reliably has become more of a challenge. Takipi launched their product in April 2015 and within a year has gained over 120 enterprise and mid-market customers… all by word of mouth.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 3, 2011

Our HCI, Adhesive, and Distribution themes are all great examples of this. And with distribution we’ve benefitted from the application of the concept of social to extremely large existing online markets where innovation had stagnated. Our conversation shifted to 2015. We decided last night to look for a lot more of it.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Research from BCG, Harvard Business Review, First Round Capital, the Kauffman Foundation, and Illuminate Ventures shows that investors in diverse teams get better returns: Paul Graham , cofounder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 2015, Eddy Lu and Daishin Sugano launched GOAT , a marketplace for the exchange of sneakers. Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Scale Horizontally (or “scale out”): Add more nodes to a system, such as adding a new computer to a distributed software application. My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. Think of vertical scaling as building a bigger monolithic machine and horizontal scaling as add more machines to the system.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud). Raise here, but deploy elsewhere” is not a crazy strategy in today’s times.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs. They were accelerated and invested in by Techstars Boulder in 2015. I am a proud investor and advisor.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. If a company wanted to distribute software on a mobile device it need to sell via a “portal” (US term) or a “deck” (UK term) of a mobile carrier. The Mother of All Exclusivity Agreements – the iPhone Wouldn’t Exist .

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As of November 2015, there were 4,144 breweries in the U.S.—more Nonetheless, their 10-barrel brewery came online in December 2015, and they began pouring beer locally and in their tasting room in early 2016. “We How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar?

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Oregon Jordan SBA Cofounder 60

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2017

Oprah Winfrey ranked as the 12th most influential women entrepreneur of 2015 by Forbes with “The Life You Want” back in 2014 and her Harpo Films production co-produced the film “Selma” which won an Award. For example, Mikaila Ulmer launched her own business of Lemonade: Bee Sweet Lemonade at only 11 years old in 2015.

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Developer Technical Review Equity Distribution 68

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Since 2015, clothing brand ASOS has grown revenue by an average of 22% year over year. Identify key characteristics that delineate one audience segment from another, then create and distribute appropriate content. the product pages a given customer has been browsing) to segment and distribute content accordingly.

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eCommerce Marketing Social Media Retention 129

Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. However, to diversify its workforce and economy, in 2015 the country adopted TizaaWorks. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2021

Make sure to update and re-distribute them as needed. In 2015, Yeti’s core audience—fishermen and hunters—had spread the word enough to help them land a big investment. Everybody on your team should have access to this key information, and refer back often. Researching, planning, and deploying what makes you unique.

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View from Seed

JULY 15, 2020

For example, a 2015 vintage fund is adding new portfolio companies in 2015, 2016, and perhaps 2017. Unevenly distributed, but broadly optimistic. As you can tell from my first two points, the effects of Covid have been quite unevenly distributed within a VC portfolio. But that remains to be seen.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. For seven months, they didn’t have a single customer; the company brought in their first dollar of revenue in March 2015. .

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Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 78

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

For example, when we started the firm, we didn’t contemplate a dedicated investment effort at the intersection of computer science and life sciences, but beginning in 2013 we organically started to see more talented entrepreneurs building companies in this area, leading us to raise our first dedicated Bio fund in 2015.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. The $900M of SaaS VC funding in 2015 now represents less than Europe's largest financing round, with Celonis raising $1B in June this year.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2016

With a product no longer focused on short-term rentals, RelayRides changed their name to Turo and raised another $47 million in funding in 2015. After receiving $4 million in seed funding, the company launched their first product in 2015, a handheld app-connected device designed to detect gluten levels in your food titled Nima.

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Naming Startup Marketing Technical Review 48

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We had a chance to invest in a $500K round at a $12M valuation in 2015. We loved the product, but weren’t convinced it would get much distribution quickly. And, we passed on the opportunity to invest every single time as we were too hung up on their dependency on AirBnB for distribution. And yeah, $12M felt kind of high :-).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” Getting there requires patience, internal buy-in, and supporting content.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2020

We interviewed entrepreneur Mr. Peter Agarwal, President/Owner of LED Phantom Distribution, a distributor of high quality LEDs, lighting, and lighting control products. LED Phantom has become a leader in customer service and product distribution of highly efficient green energy lighting products.

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