Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2016

The right channel for marketing and distribution is one of the basic “four Ps” of business (product, promotion, price and placement). Treat distribution partners as part of your team. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 06/01/2016. Recognize that terminating an exclusive arrangement is costly.

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Ironsource – Software Discovery, Distribution and Delivery Platform (Raised $123M). Taboola and Outbrain – Content distribution, discovery and recommendations (Raised approx. Jfrog – Binary Repository Solution and Software Distribution Social Platform (Raised $62M). 150M each).

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VC Cafe

APRIL 13, 2023

The entertainment industry is perhaps the most susceptible to disruption among all industries In recent decades, the emergence of new tools and technologies has made it increasingly easier for users to generate and distribute content, such as blog posts, videos, and simple games, on platforms like Roblox or Minecraft.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2016

It may be small feature extensions, packaging and distribution that can make your solutions attractive and more competitive for new market segments. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 03/16/2016. Identify your built-in biases and define compensating development and marketing strategies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Welcome to Lean Startup Week 2016 TL;DR: Before you dive into the details, here’s a quick look at what you can expect during your week with us: On Oct. If you’re thinking about joining us at the conference for your annual innovation training on Oct. 6 in San Francisco, we’ve got a pass for everyone.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 2, 2017

Largely yes, but the pot of gold might be more modest than some of 2016’s notable transactions suggest (Jet, Cruise, Dollar Shave Club). We had our first taste of this trend playing out early in 2016 when GM acquired self-driving tech startup Cruise for north of $1b. Next Level: Buying Customers/Revenue/Distribution.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

The hype cycle for “Remote Work” and “Distributed Companies” has reached a fever pitch, and everyone has an opinion about it. Here are some lessons I’ve picked up after watching them work with clients distributed across the country, which should be adopted by leaders of a newly remote workforce. They always come prepared.

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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. It cost less than $1k to build, and they released it in 2016. Their growth since their MVP release in 2016? Qualified.io

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Much of this would fly in the face of conventional Silicon Valley lore, but today are usually considered basic norms. Raise here, but deploy elsewhere” is not a crazy strategy in today’s times.

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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. Managing your own distribution is ideal. Martin Cove Brewing Company.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

The B2B video examples below were distributed on LinkedIn or other social channels, as well as YouTube. In 2016, Hootsuite blended entertainment into a product update by parodying Jimmy Kimmel’s popular “Mean Tweets” segment. (So link] [Video] pic.twitter.com/drV5ARcl2a — Hootsuite (@hootsuite) January 29, 2016.

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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.” It took more than two years—and far more homepage designs—before “conversational marketing” made its way into the homepage headline: January 2016. March 2016.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

Too add, by implementing Profit First, within the first two weeks of starting the business, the company took their first distribution check! In the fall of 2016, my wife Carol Lynn and I are going to spend a year being location independent and are going to travel the United States while working on growing our businesses. Our Guests.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

That is to say, I DMed her on Twitter in 2016, impressed by the work she was doing but without a preexisting relationship. Like everyone else, we went distributed overnight in March 2020. “Admirer from outside of the cap table” is how I approached Kieran Snyder , Cofounder of Textio.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2016

A series of high profile business delegations to Israel ensued in 2016. The complexities of Japan’s distribution and regulatory environment are important considerations. We can help with issues like regulation and distribution to reach Japanese consumers”.

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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. I’m looking forward to 2016 on both dimensions.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Peterson Institute for International Economics (2016): “There is a statistically significant positive correlation between female leadership (C-Suite and board) and net margin and gross margin company profitability”, among a global dataset of 22,000 publicly traded companies. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

In India, there are about a dozen mobile payment players in the field including Paytm, Mobikwik, Oxigen, Citrus Pay, Freecharge, M-Pesa, ItzCash, Itzcash, Airtel Money, mRupee and MoneyOnMobile which has serviced over 170 million cumulative unique mobile phone subscribers through over 306,000 retail distribution points across India.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2016

It may seem counterintuitive to ask a 2016 dot-com to bring back mom & pop, Main Street values. Speed and global distribution sometimes make for product ubiquity, so it is all the more critical that you differentiate yourself by putting your customers first and really owning a certain style of old-fashioned service.

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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. It cost less than $1k to build, and they released it in 2016. Their growth since their MVP release in 2016? Qualified.io

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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. Needless to say, it’s a fun time to be a software developer. But, as with every revolution, new problems emerge.

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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. To diversify its economy and provide more jobs for the youth, in 2014 the country adopted the 2016-2020 Country Strategy Paper. With a population of 11.4

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

We see this trend increasing in 2016 with innovative platforms from organizations such as Seedrs in the UK and socially aware Chuffed, based in Australia. Investing in a more secure option of data sharing and a document repository will be an important line item for 2016 budgets. 2016 Presidential Election winner.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Charging gifts by credit card or mailing a check before the end of the year nails down a charitable contribution deduction for 2016. For those age 65 and older, 2016 is the last year for a 7.5 Take your required minimum distribution (RMD). If you have a medical FSA or dependent care FSA at work, use up your 2016 contributions.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

Pete Newell, Joe Felter and I met over coffee in 2016 to discuss our common goal – how to get students in research universities who would never consider working on national security problems engaged in keeping the country safe and secure. Here’s what we’ve done to get started. And why I did it. ————-.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

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? Managing your own distribution is ideal. I’m not a big second-guesser.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JUNE 13, 2017

Turnover of CEOs is already high, about 14.9 % a year as of 2016*. PwC 2016 CEO Success Study. Does Any CEO Have the Luxury to Ignore Digital Transformation and Innovation? Gregg Fraley and Karen Kirby, copyright 2017. Innovation + Business + Technology = Digital Leadership. And, introduces disruptive approaches to customer value.

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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. We’ll have to see what next year’s data reveals, but what’s certainly become clear over the past year is that the cloud world is a very different one from the one we mapped back in 2016.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We loved the product, but weren’t convinced it would get much distribution quickly. We met Sonder’s founder Francis Davidson many times between 2014 and 2016. And, we passed on the opportunity to invest every single time as we were too hung up on their dependency on AirBnB for distribution. Carta (prev. Sonder (prev.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

A method of solving time-consuming computing tasks by utilizing multiple computers usually united into a parallel computing system is commonly referred to as grid computing or distributed computing. In 2007, the BOINC framework became the home of World Community Grid , a distributed computing project created by the IBM Corporation.

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Brandanew

MAY 2, 2016

Content Marketing and brand storytelling have been around from thousands of years and as a Startup or small business, it’s not just a good to have, but necessary in the 2016 world. Top 50 Content Marketing Resources You Need In 2016. Top digital marketing trends for 2016 and beyond. What is Content Marketing? Grab these!

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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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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

I’ve been helping clients with digital marketing (mostly Facebook ads) since early 2016, but this year was able to quit my job to do that full-time. We’re very new to the industry, and while we’re passionate about the product, there have been obstacles every step of the way – production, shipping, distribution, etc.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing. Normal distributions do not exist; standard deviations are meaningless. Following the inevitable ups and downs of the VC investment cycle, and what founders can do when it all turns cold. Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Here are a few trends that you can watch out for in fin tech for the year 2016. It is estimated that $12 billion was distributed through loans by marketplace lenders in the US. 2016 is definitely going to be the year of fintech and only time can tell who will be the biggest winner this year.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

came together in Kenya around March 2016, hired the first Pawame employees shortly thereafter, and we sold our first solar home system, to the mother of one of our early employees, in July 2016. As much attention as it gets, I don’t think we have really grasped the full ramifications of distributed solar energy generation.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

In our 2016 State of Conversion Optimization Report , which many people in growth roles completed as well, we found that… Only 32% of small companies (less than 500 employees) say they have a documented, structured optimization process. Archive and distribute the learnings. Why You Should Distribute. Run the experiment.

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