Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 11, 2024

By comparing what the authors call “separate” versus “common” (ie, institutional) ownership, it looks at the ways in which “common owners indirectly, and perhaps unintentionally, exert market power by delegating control rights to other shareholders through the broad implementation of “strong” governance structures across their portfolio firms.”

Government 60

Government Aggregator Portfolio Demand 60

Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. This massive data creation and the potential for new data insights has driven explosive demands for systems that perform at both scale and speed. Transformations, aggregations and joins at massive scale is where BlazingDB wins!

Peru 58

Peru Fractional CTO Artificial Inteligence Database 58

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 9% (1 / 12).

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms are radically improving capital efficiency because customers are now paying for product months in advance and because first demand validation is now virtually free. A number of factors are combining that enable faster product iteration in hardware. 3D printing is reducing the cost of prototyping.

Open Source 102

Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Entrepreneurs need to hit a happy medium with backers, not giving away too much but not making overly aggressive demands. Patent trolls purchase portfolios containing patents and sue companies for infringing them. They also need to decide whether to structure terms as an equity deal or a convertible security deal. Patent Trolls.

Convertible Security 100

Convertible Security IP Technical Review Software Review 100

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This marketplace will help bring price equilibrium to media supply and demand thereby further increasing the marketing budget spent on this medium. The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. A Lightspeed Portfolio company. Social Media based Discovery Traffic Breaks Out.

Internet 114

Internet Media Social Media Advertising 114

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

Once you have hundreds of thousands of users on the supply side and the demand side, then everything works great. Offer portfolios  Many different people like to showcase their work online. Now there are free portfolio tools for almost every type of individual. Find aggregators. Provide value to one side.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Curation Demand Portfolio 101

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 7, 2014

With TV programmes the major story has been Netflix taking market share from cable and satellite TV companies but that has been substituting one bundle for another rather than unbundling, albeit in an on-demand rather than channel format. A bit like our portfolio company Thread.com , but for TV.

Aggregator 92

Aggregator Portfolio Channel Restful 92

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 18, 2018

The Uber network, along with Mr. Smith’s invisible hand, is able to elegantly match supply and demand, without the “schedules” and “shifts” that are the norm in most every other industry. The matching of this excess supply with excess demand is both elegant and fortunate.

Partner 61

Partner Demand Matching Detroit 61

Version One Ventures

JULY 19, 2018

In that handbook, our goal was to aggregate all the amazing content out there. This reminded me that it has been awhile since we’ve touched upon this topic on our blog. In fact, it has been over 4 months since we published the second edition of “ Our guide to marketplaces ”. We purposely kept the tone factual rather than prescriptive.

Disintermediation 110

Disintermediation B2B Differentiation Aggregator 110

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 18, 2015

They identify four strategies (there’s more detail on each in the original post): Identify unique inventory – sellers who don’t otherwise have an online outlet will list on your site (provided it’s easy to do) and you can use their product to drive demand. Etsy is a good example.

Seattle 60

Seattle Affiliate Aggregator Demand 60

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Some VC firms have eschewed taking direct investments from public pension funds, as state laws now sometimes require these pension funds to publicly disclose information about their investments that VCs consider sensitive, confidential info, like fund-level returns or individual companies in the portfolio. Endowments. new buildings, etc).

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Sector: B2B On-Demand. To date, nearly all of the startups riding the mega-trend adoption of on-demand services have been geared towards the consumer. Snapchat and Periscope just scratch the surface of what’s to come as far as aggregate viewing numbers and programmed or live event-based content are concerned.

Search 120

Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Sector: B2B On-Demand. To date, nearly all of the startups riding the mega-trend adoption of on-demand services have been geared towards the consumer. Snapchat and Periscope just scratch the surface of what’s to come as far as aggregate viewing numbers and programmed or live event-based content are concerned.

Search 120

Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD.

Israel 133

Israel Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Some VC firms have eschewed taking direct investments from public pension funds, as state laws now sometimes require these pension funds to publicly disclose information about their investments that VCs consider sensitive, confidential info, like fund-level returns or individual companies in the portfolio. Endowments. new buildings, etc).

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

To bring an additional perspective to the conversation, I invited Lightspeed portfolio companies BloomReach, EdgeSpring, MapR, Nutanix, PernixData and Virtual Instruments who are focused on helping companies store, manage, analyze, and surface next-generation data and content. Video on Demand. A la carte. Advertising supported.

Business Model 159

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 159

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. There is a lot of pent-up demand.

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Start with models like Time Decay and Position Based to understand what the conversion portfolio might look like (last two columns above) and create hypotheses about what a better budget allocation might look like. Roll that out to your entire portfolio (or to a subset as a controlled experiment) and measure conversion improvements.

Analytics 125

Analytics Channel Metrics Web 125

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Campaigns, tags, links, meta data (if any that might exist), data relationships, metrics, website url structures etc cause there to be a constant demand to make changes to the underlying structure of your data warehouse every single day. 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

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Nuospace – On demand collaboration software that provides online document management, allows you to edit pages in your browser, and offers tools to engage your colleagues. RightNow – RightNow is an on-demand customer relationship management program that integrates sales, service, marketing, feedback and voice functions.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

“We’re not AdTech investors,&# I’d push back, “we just have a bunch of companies in the portfolio that are working in and around online advertising.&# While this is about 20% of our active portfolio, we’ve never considered AdTech a theme. And for a while that worked pretty well. They are: Scale. Performance.

Disintermediation 82

Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 82

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2014

Sales and marketing today is less about demand creation and conversion and more about organizing buyer behavior – buyers embark on journeys today that have no straight path or funnel. An integrated selling approach looks for ways to filter, aggregate and personalize content to the level of the individual client or prospect.

Social Media 68

Social Media Aggregator Sales Portfolio 68

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

At my firm, ff Venture Capital, we’re trying our part to rethink how the industry works, and also actively looking for opportunities to invest in companies creatively disrupting this sector, e.g., our portfolio companies Addepar and Indiegogo. In aggregate, angels are significant investors.

Management 114

Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Eloqua is bringing this revolution to the B2B marketers by providing on-demand applications and best-practice expertise for B2B marketers to execute, automate and measure effective marketing programs that drive revenue. Cornerstone on Demand is a fast growing Learning and Talent management company based in Los Angeles. Portfolio. (3).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. If you over-fund the industry, aggregate returns fall. And the SPV has the added risk that is has no portfolio diversification or “look-back” feature to provide downside protection.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

“We’re not AdTech investors,” I’d push back, “we just have a bunch of companies in the portfolio that are working in and around online advertising.” While this is about 20% of our active portfolio, we’ve never considered AdTech a theme. ” And for a while that worked pretty well. Performance.

Disintermediation 48

Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 48

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

mobile telephone operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and media agents. MailVision - Recent economy change and the demand from consumers for cheaper roaming rates, force service providers to look for alternative ways to reduce their roaming cost and allowing them to offer more attractive packages for their customers.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2018

One of our portfolio companies called The Pill Club, for example, sends women birth control right to their doors. The scope can also be tough – i.e. does your business need to aggregate massive amounts of data in order to be useful to other people? So it’s a bit of a catch 22.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco California Cost Software 48

Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2018

One of our portfolio companies called The Pill Club, for example, sends women birth control right to their doors. The scope can also be tough – i.e. does your business need to aggregate massive amounts of data in order to be useful to other people? So it’s a bit of a catch 22.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco California Cost Software 48

ConversionXL

JULY 20, 2016

As MassImpressions put it , “Try to avoid stock photos wherever possible…There are countless professional photographers out there, many of whom are absolutely crying out for somewhere to showcase their work in exchange for a credit on the website or a link back to their portfolio. Tons of Popups and Distractions.

Stock 48

Stock Mobile Design Singapore 48

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

The more employers realize that four-year degrees don’t necessarily guarantee the attributes they value most, the more likely they’ll be to demand a system that does. In this way, you could eventually assemble portfolios that reflect a similar breadth of experiences that you get when you pursue a traditional four-year degree.

Non-Compete 78

Non-Compete New York Metadata Programming 78

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Analyzing data in aggregate is a crime. When you look at all that in aggregate you get nothing. Most search portfolios (Search Engine Marketing or Search Engine Optimization) have a unhealthy obsessions with our brand terms. Demand answers fast. Now to evolving from being Reporting Squirrels to being Analysis Ninjas!

Analytics 105

Analytics Web Search Non-Compete 105

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. By the same token, Coats could find no correlation between the hot deals (where investor demand was highest) and the hot outcomes. Xconomy on Demand. Did you miss something? Dont despair….

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Company: Home Portfolio. I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains. Company : Wesabe.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Logia offers Mobile Operators a range of solution for their Apps Stores starting from Content Aggregation, Billing aggregation to full white labeled Apps Store. Logia has the unique combination of being both a content aggregator and a billing aggregator. Mce Systems. MailVision. Saguna Networks.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103