Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one. I just saw a friend of mine who's a finance person temporarily pause his job and volunteer to be the CFO or investor, whatever investor relations person for a startup was trying to work on a cure so that the founders could have more time to do the science.

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The business side chronicles which startups locked down financing rounds, who are providing them, and what the money is earmarked to do. Content aggregator app developer Timehop is an excellent example of this idea in action. They were linking the app to the viral hashtag #throwbackthursday, which was a natural fit for the brand.

PR 107

PR Startup Social Media Silicon Valley 107

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

And if you can pass that barrier (with, say, dimension widening using universal analytics), it is very hard to find this data inside the company (Finance department?), at a level of aggregation or granularity you need, and send it into your digital analytics tools. The whole thing is so painful. Video Views <-> Subscribers.

Metrics 160

Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 160

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. This unit of progress is remarkable in several ways.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. Consequently, you’ve decided to utilize this passion and expertise to collect and aggregate social media data from some of the popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, CrunchBase, and LinkedIn. Implement the “lean startup” philosophy.

Bootstrapping 85

Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

VC Adventure

APRIL 19, 2020

– Create a Public Health Financing Program to ensure that underserved communities are prepared to respond to COVID-19 and other emerging health threats. – A comparable approach was taken in 2010, when Treasury, USDA, and HHS jointly launched the Healthy Food Financing Initiative to address food deserts in underserved communities.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Yahoo Finance. Software 2.0: How the use of internet is transform. ► 03/25 - 04/01. (1). ► 2006. (7).

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

The next wave of internet will come from companies aggregating these various data sets and leveraging them to provide more value to the user. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Yahoo Finance. but we have reached the inflection point when these silos will get connected. Software 2.0: How the use of internet is transform.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review San Jose Venture Capital 48

VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2025

Save Us Money: Conviction sees an opportunity for AI agents to continuously monitor prices, aggregate demand, negotiate deals, and make purchasing decisions on behalf of consumers, similar to earlier concepts like Honey and Paribus. Embedded Finance: Integrating financial services into non-financial platforms is a growing trend.

Startup 167

Startup Software Review Technical Review Metadata 167