YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

billion people living on Earth, we technically have enough food – it is just not equally distributed (which by no means is an easy problem to solve). The United Nations predicts that by 2050 our planet will be populated by 9 billion people, which makes food supply a fundamental issue. Today, with about 7.2

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Bangladesh Silicon Valley Global India 133

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

The vast majority of business owners and entrepreneurs aren’t business experts. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make in their business plans is stating that they don’t have any competition. Distribution. For product companies, a distribution plan is an important part of the complete business plan.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

By opening fewer stores you decrease costs in renting real estate, distributing products to your stores, and hiring employees for every location in every area you’re operating in. Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion How-To''s' Online stores can serve more customers globally with lower costs, less effort, and fewer employees 24/7.

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Affiliate Revenue Internet Marketing 134

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Many thanks to David Rose , Ilana Grossman , Justin Stanwix , and the whole Gust team for making the Gust Blog such a valuable platform and resource for entrepreneurs and angel investors. How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? To what extent might proprietary IP rights be undermined by antitrust laws ?

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Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

That’s why lists like Ycombinator’s Requests for Startups (RFS) help entrepreneurs thinking about starting a company (or picking a problem) and can be a good barometer for founders on what’s interesting to investors right now.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. With 100% commitment to the digital world – Craze is using the latest technologies and constantly developing new methods (some patent pending) for selling and distributing music and videos.

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Israel Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

I’m rarely surprised when a young entrepreneur or small business owner hasn’t fully identified how their new business will make money. But I’m always surprised when that entrepreneur or small business owner has a tough time describing the potential customers for their new business’s products and services.

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Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Entrepreneur Ryan Hoover transformed an email list experiment into a venture-funded startup community with tens of thousands of active members. It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

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. This is great for something like a huge DHT or a distributed work queue. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

I have counseled innumerable entrepreneurs to change their focus to revenue, and many companies who refuse this advice get themselves into trouble by running out of iterations. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. A nalysis – One of the luxuries of being a VC is that we have a larger data set than most entrepreneurs of performance. This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

VC Adventure

MAY 10, 2020

After its enactment but before it was implemented, there were questions about the SBA’s “affiliation rules” which can disqualify companies if the aggregated number of employees at affiliate companies is greater than 500. The program sparked confusion from the start.

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SBA Affiliate Los Angeles Cap Table 77

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

As most contractors are entrepreneurs, these tips will help you with the launch of your asphalt repair business. You can distribute asphalt aggregates and dirt evenly using the square-nosed shovels in areas where large machinery cannot operate. This tool is availed before the placement of additional asphalt aggregate on the top.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. Startup after Iron Planet?

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. Sure, we can make an occasional appearance, but less is more. To tell my story.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. ” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.) entrepreneurs. 26 September 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Our publisher distribution network reaches in the tens of millions of unique users and is comprised of “head end&# stars as well as many “mid tier&# and “long tail&# publishers. For starters – the team is exactly what I look for when I’m looking to fund entrepreneurs.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Advisor Garage – A social network that connects entrepreneurs who need advice with advisors on just about any business-related topic. CEOWorld.biz – Global networking for managers, entrepreneurs, and senior execs. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. Or “I’m a new entrepreneur, why would I offer advice on how to run a startup?&#. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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Startup eCommerce Audience Community 373

Rob Go

MARCH 16, 2014

I’ve been thinking a lot about the outcome distributions in different circumstances. Whats the probability that the aggregate outcome of various attempts is successful overall? I find that most people are not tuned to this sort of outcome distribution. The dimensions that I think about are: 1.

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Distribution Venture Capital Deal Flow Aggregator 66

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. Distribution and data is where the power lies, it’s no longer in making things. Australia might possibly be one of the worst offenders.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Aggregator 48

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. Distribution and data is where the power lies, it’s no longer in making things. Australia might possibly be one of the worst offenders.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Aggregator 48

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

By now if you follow me on Twitter you probably know that I do near daily “Snapstorms” or a collection of short videos (usually < 5 mins in total) with entrepreneur advice on Snapchat. If I blog on a stand-alone platform I have to work to get distribution. Here’s a recent one I did on Fund Raising in tough markets.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. Chris Dixon, Partner, A16Z, observes , “Success in VC is probably 10% about picking, and 90% about sourcing the right deals and having entrepreneurs choose your firm as a partner”. 2) Market . 11) Exit .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Do you know have they distribute their product? Entrepreneur – “We tell potential customers about all our features.”

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Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 210

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. The distribution of returns from the different U.S. When you aggregate all of the data, these angel investors (across the U.S.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

At Top Tier, we have been continuously refining our database and analytics engine, and we use it and other software mentioned in this article to make better decisions, spot trends, and stay in front of targeted venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.

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Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Venture is a field with a power-law distribution of outcomes. Building a venture capital firm isn’t about continuing to scale talent aggregation over time like most businesses, rather it’s about having a consistent right amount of talent and scaling AUM over time. What does this mean for entrepreneurs?

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Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Specifically, the “narrow network” typically aggregates those providers that are willing to accept lower prices for their services (theoretically you could have a “premium” narrow network, but they are typically used to create more affordable plans).

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Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

VC Adventure

APRIL 19, 2020

– We need distribution mechanisms beyond the SBA (which is overwhelmed). Consider for the smallest businesses using PayPal, Square or others for the distribution of funds (some of this started happening last week, which is good). The program targets women, low-income, veteran, and minority entrepreneurs. interest rate.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Investment stopped, and entrepreneurs focused on other categories. With marketplaces, the entrepreneur has to worry not just about building supply and demand but that they also happen to exist simultaneously. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory. Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion How-To''s'

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B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. The distribution of returns from the different U.S. When you aggregate all of the data, these angel investors (across the U.S.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

A group of seasoned Austin technology entrepreneurs and executives are announcing the formation of their new company, Mass Relevance , to help consumer brand use real-time social content to drive engagement on television, the web, and in the mobile world. We asked Mike Maples about his investments in Austin. Mass Relevance is this company.&#.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2013

Evernote makes a great software product and distributes it through a free to upgrade approach. Products and services can be packaged and distributed through a multitude of channels and delivered in physical form, digital form and as one time purchases or ongoing subscriptions. This is probably the most common approach. Clarity.fm

Business Model 78

Business Model Aggregator eCommerce Distribution 78

Start Up Blog

MAY 7, 2014

In simple terms, startups in which the information is distributed across the network of users, rather than stored in the companies server farms. That method being, centralised data aggregation and distribution. The shift to distributed data. I’m talking about brands like Google and Facebook. It is growing rapidly.

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Distribution Aggregator Engineer Search 67

Austin Startup

JUNE 24, 2018

Token Creation & Distribution If you have an idea for a company that can benefit from an ICO, CoinLaunch should be your next stop. News Aggregation CryptoYum is unique in that the news and media sources are entirely community-curated. CoinLaunch ?—?Token a necessity ! CryptoYum ?—?News

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