Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

In the very long term (5-15+ years), sustained increases in average VC industry returns may attract more capital in aggregate into the system just as bad returns may decrease the total capital committed to the asset class.

LP 176

LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Distribution 176

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? (a Expo SF (May.

Programming 143

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I believe in the new world you describe, but I think you forget the role that the distributors play in aggregating content for a self-selecting consumer "type" The easiest place to see this in newspapers, where consumers normally buy a newspaper that shares their political viewpoint. [link] August 24, 2009 2:50 PM Quentin said.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. The mappings never change (unless you build a data migration tool, in which case they change rarely) and so are easy to cache.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Some ecosystems are stable, others malign, and others grow and prosper. Expo SF (May.

Customer 156

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

Think in leaps, but iterate in steps" - I attribute this to Google, and I like it because it helps to highlight the need for both product vision and for Agile methods, and to help teams understand why these goals are not in conflict. "Be I have literally hundreds that I've aggregated and curated. Very hard for me to pick just ten.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Aggregator Curation Agile 69

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Founding Date: 2004. Headquarters: Norwalk, CT & Concord, MA.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

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 This is separate from the dynamics of any underlying cohort itself (more on that below). 2) Impressive cohort growth & stability.

Leadership 100

Leadership .Net Revenue Aggregator 100

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. Aggregate results carefully. Let me briefly summarize the part of the book I find most helpful (leaving a few out, which arent germane to todays topic). Not all crowds are wise.

San Francisco 83

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 83

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. One thing to make clear, StartupRoar is a jump off point.

Intellectual Property 175

Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup Angel Investor 175

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

There is always one exception to the rule. :) It can be of some value to take aggregated data about your visitors (especially those that converted) and put it into your corporate data warehouse where all other data of your company sits. But even if 110% of the signs point to that first make sure you have aggregated all the marginal gains.

Analytics 119

Analytics Web Metrics Channel 119

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2018

In this case the entrepreneurs know something potential employers don’t – that nowhere on their resume does it show resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition, tenacity and having a passion for products. (Asymmetric Information is when one party has more or better information than the other.) Or is it calling ?

Entrepreneur 336

Entrepreneur Business Model Capital Gains Aggregator 336

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Metrics visible at a glance are number of customer interviews in the current week as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses, mentor and instructor engagements.

Oakland 330

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 330

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

We rely on “corporate security,” (call it “resume building”) and spend a few years in which everyday seems incredibly important, yet over time aggregates into a bland resume block that garners respect, but also accounts for time lost. You are the job, you are the recipe. Creating a completely new venture is not easy. I started TalkSession.

Artificial Inteligence 272

Artificial Inteligence Startup Salary Algorithm 272

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

This way GA will show you both keywords while the aggregate for visits will not be skewed – as technically it is just one session. ]. What's the best way to aggregate to understand clearly how to improve? IMPORTANT: This type of behavior is rare so you should not see 0 visits often. My advice would be this: 1.

Analytics 94

Analytics Web Non-Compete Metrics 94

YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2013

In addition to giving our customers the power to generate and aggregate audience response data in real time, Turning Technologies has been able to collect and use customer feedback to hone our product development efforts. Finding the right employees and creating an agile, focused team is essential to business success. They are correct.

Cofounder 230

Cofounder Entrepreneur Ohio Aggregator 230

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. You’ll see three consistent patterns in the thinking expressed below.

Metrics 143

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 143

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. If one looks at the total pool of college vs non-college people, and what each group’s career trajectories look like in the aggregate, I think Google’s position is more justifiable. Steve Blank [.]

Silicon Valley 333

Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development 333

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Keep in mind Yipit is an indirect competitor in the daily deals space (essentially a meta aggregator of deals sites), but the analysis is sound IMO. The folks at Yipit did a detailed analyis of the Boston data and concluded Groupon’s model is deteriorating there.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator. Also a favorite around Palo Alto Software, this is a book that highlights a path for startup success, focusing on agility, tracking the right metrics and KPIs, and adapting to a changing business environment before problems become overwhelming.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Sweat Equity Social Media Business Model 60

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

These solutions, called Minimal Viable Products (MVP’s), are what allow the teams to become extremely agile and responsive. This ability to gather data, build and test MVPs, and then change course is what gives Lean it’s tremendous speed and agility to deliver rapid solutions that are needed and wanted.

Silicon Valley 218

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile 218

Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

PernixData introduces a software-defined “Flash Virtualization Platform” that aggregates and virtualizes flash storage distributed across servers into a scale-out data tier for enterprise data centers to provide low cost, deterministic high performance to any out-of-box application.

Software 104

Software Flash Architecture Aggregator 104

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Well it’s not clear that media businesses, in aggregate, are inherently more valuable than e-commerce or premium services companies in aggregate [see Note 1 below regarding categorization]. Why are media businesses so valuable?

IPO 194

IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. 2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Founder DC Washington 150

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

There are different flavors of family investment offices today, some are “single family” offices which invest on behalf of one uber wealthy family and their descendants whereas others are “multi-family” that might aggregate the wealth of a number of rather wealthy but not uber wealthy families. Insurance Companies.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting. The idea seemed to SlideShare to be a natural direction. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment 167

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government. But a lot of it is also just getting the data, aggregating it, being able to take action on it. If that sounds like an oxymoron, well listen up. That's been the second wave of needs. A lot of it is similar. Some of it's communication.

New Jersey 60

New Jersey Government CTO America 60

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Bootstrap mentality keeps the organization focused on being frugal, innovative and agile. Amit Damani, cofounder of Vista Rooms, when not having quintessential talks on anything entrepreneurial, runs one of the fastest growing online aggregator for budget hotels in India.

Bootstrapping 100

Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Sales Cycle 100

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

12 cloud IPOs in the past 2 years: One from Europe SaaS companies are thriving in the public markets, with their aggregated market cap grew 350% since 2011, and 12 cloud companies going public in the past 24 months. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6 and Intacct for $0.85B.

Europe 83

Europe Cloud API Israel 83

Agile VC

JUNE 24, 2013

The average American’s daily commute is just under an hour (round trip), so in aggregate that’s potentially a lot of incremental time when they might be doing email, web surfing, playing games, or communicating with friends. Also if driving wasn’t time-consuming or stressful (e.g.

Internet 153

Internet Caching Aggregator Audio 153

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 10, 2011

Aggregation of marginal gains! 5: Embrace agility, nimbleness & a portfolio strategy. It is critical to develop an internal ability (and fortitude) to be agile and nimble. Get people to take small actions every day and some big ones every month. Go back make more love. Achievable victories, every day. Web Analytics 2.0.

Analytics 121

Analytics Web Agile Campaign 121

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

These solutions, called Minimal Viable Products (MVP’s), are what allow the teams to become extremely agile and responsive. This ability to gather data, build and test MVPs, and then change course is what gives Lean it’s tremendous speed and agility to deliver rapid solutions that are needed and wanted.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile 120

Agile VC

MARCH 5, 2019

So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider. Again as I highlighted above, in aggregate Lyft’s users aren’t taking dramatically more rides today then they were 3+ years ago. So what about those cohorts?

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Aggregator .Net Revenue IPO 100

Occam's Razor

MARCH 8, 2010

Rather than being a blessing that stack becomes a burden because we live in times of bright lovely spring and nothing succeeds like being agile and nimble about what we collect, what we give up, and what we deliberately choose to ignore. This is the other little secret: no KPI works at an aggregated level to by itself give us insights.

Metrics 118

Metrics Web Analytics PPC 118

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: 11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. All data in aggregate is crap. Each sign is essentially an action you can take, expectation you can set up. It is specific, it is, this will not surprise you, impactful. #12:

Analytics 142

Analytics Web Metrics DC 142

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Right now, the only company who’s really innovating is Dwolla, which is starting from the payment layer by aggregating funding sources and will eventually try to position itself as a platform (starting by offering real time cash transfers for free to banks). The product seemingly never evolved to what it could have been.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250