Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Some people pretend to have answers for everything, and are only looking for followers, rather than partners. Founder and key partners are role models for results. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/20/2016. Positive relationship building is always a plus. Don’t be too busy to get the right things done.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Business owners, CEOs, and CFOs must include three key elements in their 2016 financial plan. Prior to founding EnableSoft in 1995, Richard was a partner and served as Senior Vice President of FiTech PLUSmark, Inc. Invest in disruptive technologies. EnableSoft serves over 500 corporate clients worldwide.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In 2016, Hauser Private Equity completed an investment in Stat Health Management, LLC, an urgent care provider with locations throughout Long Island, NY. With over three decades of experience in private equity investments, acquisitions and mergers, Mark Hauser has developed a keen ability to recognize trends and do his due diligence.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

We couldn’t begin any recap of 2016 without focusing on the bubble we hear so much about. So, what really happened in 2016? As Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint showed, in February 2016, public SaaS companies had fallen 57% from their highs. 2016 for Version One companies. Collectively, our companies raised over $100M in 2016.

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View from Seed

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 also appears to have cashflows going up to its parent PetSmart, which is owned by PE firm BC Partners. in 2016, to 17.5%

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. – while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

Investors are wary of “equal partners,” who may jeopardize a timely decision. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 06/10/2016. Investors look for “street smarts,” or examples that didn’t come from a school book or a corporate process. Not afraid to make a decision. Build your dream team early.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2019

A 2016 meta-analysis confirms this , noting that “leaders’ EI positively relates to subordinates’ job satisfaction.”. Glean insights from clients and business partners. They’ll stay late or work on weekends to make sure important projects are completed. Essentially, the team will rally around an emotionally intelligent boss.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

If nothing else, for its simplicity (back of the napkin) but also for the fund’s commitment to keep updating the metrics since 2016. You can read more about the methodology here and download a high res PDF here. Source: The SaaS Napkin. B2C benchmarks tend to be specific to the type of service or business model.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Back in 2016, I read a book called Sprint by Jake Knapp, founder of Google Ventures. Because we wanted to document every aspect of the process before partnering with new freelance writers. A safe approach is to partner with contractors and freelancers to fulfill new business. You can apply this philosophy to any service.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The eCommerce industry is growing steadily, with a 24% increase in the number of digital transactions from 2016 to 2017. However, the 2016 Peace Deal with the FARC , among other efforts, changed its international reputation, leading to a 300% increase in foreign visitors since 2006. Industry gaps.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2017

Stat that matters : According to a 2016 Vendasta study about online reputation , 61% of consumers are more likely to contact a local business if they have a mobile optimized site. Stat that matters : From the same 2016 Vendasta study: 92% of consumers now read online reviews vs. 88% in 2014. Keep it clean. Or reviews!

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 18, 2019

Europe’s legislators were addressing some of these privacy concerns when they put into effect GDPR in 2016, the primary law regulating how companies protect EU citizens’ personal data. The business model of Google and Facebook (collect as much data as possible about users for highly targeted advertising) is under attack.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2016

Treat distribution partners as part of your team. For example, if a new partner wants to offer new terms or prices, disclose and negotiate with existing partners before it becomes a crisis. These expansions can be lucrative, but may require more complex strategic partner arrangements or even acquisitions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2016

Team engagement has to extend well beyond your internal team of employees and executives, to the extended team of partners, vendors, and investors. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 05/06/2016. The principles of engagement are the same across all these domains, even though the required actions may be different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

Smart entrepreneurs architect a value chain that includes customers, partners and vendors, based on market dynamics. This means regular team training and update sessions, bringing in outside experts, and working with partners and vendors on win-win deals. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 02/26/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

You need business partners, investors and customers. The best professional relationships may also involve friendship, but entrepreneurs need to be able to manage relationships with competitors, partners and customers who have no interest in being friends. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 01/29/2016.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

The figure represents just 20% of 2016’s annual exit total ($B). Dan Shamgar , Partner at law firm Meitar Liquornik Geva Leshem Tal, is that prices are just too high for acquirers: “We should take into account the noticeable growth in the volume of investments and the availability of capital for growth stages.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

In 2021, EAL helped corporate partners keep 5,056 mt of products out of landfills. During the pandemic and beyond, we have seen carriers face significant driver shortages that affect our ability to have only one or two preferred partners to bring donations into our fulfillment centers.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 23, 2016

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

days on average in 2016 which is an increase from 19.3 Instead of visiting colleges, collecting resumes and arranging interviews, the consumer good giant made the jobs known via social media and then partnered with an A.I. This took place in 68 counties in 15 languages with 250,000 applicants from July 2016 to June 2017.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Most impressively, there seems to be a thriving startup of every flavor, with many more joining the list of Pillar Startups on the Guide in 2016 compared to 2015. The post The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech: 2016 Update appeared first on NextView Ventures. More exciting, industry-leading companies.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

She has been named Chicago Business Journal Woman of Influence (2016), the National Association of Women Business Owners’ Woman Business Owner of the Year award (2015), the Small Business Administration’s Small Business Person of the Year award (2014), and Enterprising Women’s Enterprising Woman of the Year award (2013).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Secondly, you must constantly communicate suggested changes to your team, implement necessary pivots, and realign all the elements of your business, including partners, investors, and vendors. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/06/2016. No change means falling behind.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2016

Teamwork inside the company and interacting with customers and partners outside the company are mandatory activities. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 03/11/2016. Today’s business world generates too much data and changes too rapidly for any single individual to be effective alone.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 8, 2016

When are accessing social media content on their phone and there are billions of smartphone users worldwide, it is understandable that 90 percent of companies are planning to increase their mobile app investment in 2016. Businesses must have a well-planned strategy in place before building an effective mobile app.

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

NSO – Offensive cyber espionage tools for governments (Raised $130M) – 60% of the company is owned by PE fund Francisco Partners. Playbuzz – Content creation and publisher tools (Raised $31M). Infinidat – Information storage solutions for large enterprises (Raised $230M).

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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. David Teten is a past Advisor to Real Ventures. *We

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 8, 2018

Businesses spent nearly $94 billion on corporate training in 2017—a 33% increase over 2016. Those figures are supported by similar findings from a 2016 Brandon Hall Group Benchmarking Study , which surveyed training spending for equivalent tiers: $13 million (10,000+ employees), $3.7 Or is it just a waste? Source: Google Trends.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2017

This doesn’t include the various lists of ‘hot startups to watch’ (where normally there’s a correlation between the startup and the recommending VC’s portfolio), but more general trends from VCs, sector specific predictions from other organizations, and 2016 annual industry reports. 2017 VC Predictions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This unpaid work component is sized in dollars, added to any funds contributed, to represent the total contribution of a founding partner and converted to an equity ownership percentage in a new startup. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 03/04/2016. Equity crowdfunding.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

With KOYA, you can easily treat your co-worker to a class at their favorite yoga studio in New York or surprise your partner with a personal message at the park where you first met. In late summer of 2016 I was deep into the biggest crisis of my life. In the fall of 2016 I had an unexpected job loss. Photo Credit: Kevin Gyolai.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

It certainly helps if you partner with a highly regarded video production company, as Slack did in 2014. 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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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

And after my surgery in 2016, I dived right into starting my own business and got a job with a photography company based in BC Women’s Hospital where I went on to photograph over 1,000 babies for over two years! Most people want security for their life partners in an emergency. I felt trapped by my condition and I hit rock bottom.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. But it still takes time. Last year I began playing with an app called Draft that was in its infancy.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

In 2016, women were the recipients of 4.94 Additionally, women actually lost ground over the past year in terms of actual dollar amount awarded by VCs to women-founded startup; in 2016, women were the recipients of “a smaller piece of the pie than in every year this past decade, with the exception of 2008 and 2012,” according to Fortune.

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