SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Tell me a bit about your background.

Management 150

Management Product Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 150

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. The Entrepreneur’s Guide is an easy read. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups. I think theyve succeeded.

Customer Development 166

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 166

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Traction is a biweekly podcast where founders share the creative or unusual things they did during the seed stage to make early progress. Founders from LinkedIn , DraftKings , General Assembly , The Muse , Behance , InsightSquared , and more have appeared on the show. How did both these companies come into being at the same time?

Framework 120

Framework Cofounder Seed Stage B2C 120

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Signal is a fundraising tool for founders run by NFX Guild, which identifies the most relevant VCs for you. . 1) Market fund. 3) Originate investments.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. We will open our network of successful entrepreneurs and investors to offer invaluable experiences to you. Many of our mentors are entrepreneurs who have built, from scratch, a successful business. Some founders stay at hostels. That’s the competition.

Asia 207

Asia Singapore Cofounder Incubator 207

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures, posted a brilliant analysis on why VCs have to look for billion dollar companies (“unicorns”) to deliver acceptable returns, and how rare it is to invest in one: “The odds are somewhere between catching a foul ball at an MLB game and being struck by lightning in one’s lifetime.”. B2B marketplaces.

Vertical 153

Vertical B2B B2C Venture Capital 153

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Through case studies, exercises, and discussions, Eric Ries will guide entrepreneurs of all stripes through the key areas that determine success for startups: product, engineering, QA, marketing, and business strategy. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The past year was a wild ride for startups and founders, giving a whole new meaning to the ”rollercoaster” aspect of being an entrepreneur. Patrick Collison , self-made billionaire founder of Stripe. Bill Gates , founder of Microsoft. What should we keep and what should we change? Team, product, market. What matters most?

Founder 187

Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2014

We asked 10 entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) to share how they are spending the end of the year. Too many founders try to do huge advertising bursts at the end of the year in a lazy attempt to hit sales numbers. Everyone needs to reset themselves, especially founders. Young Entrepreneur Council'

Founder 124

Founder B2C Cofounder B2B 124

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 1) Manage the firm .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

Editor’s note: The NextView team periodically holds internal “shootarounds,” where we discuss a startup topic or trend and try to make sense of it for everyone involved: entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers. TIM: I would say in between 4 and 5, but specifically in a B2B software. We’ve decided to share these publicly.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Startup Software Review B2B 159

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

MailChimp, the B2B subscriber email management service, recorded a 66% drop in failed logins after introducing social login. On the other hand, Easytobook , a B2C company, had 1.5 It seems that B2C companies might benefit far more from social login than B2Bbut even that seems to depend on a company’s expectations.

Social Network 130

Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 130

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. TRANSCRIPT. That if you turn out to be right, you have something very interesting.

Cofounder 69

Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. TRANSCRIPT. That if you turn out to be right, you have something very interesting.

Cofounder 69

Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Noreen Sablotsky is the founder and CEO of Imalac , a revolutionary company in the breastfeeding world. eld of marketing and sales for Ciba- Geigy Pharmaceuticals before co-founding Noven Pharmaceuticals in 1986. Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners? Network, network, network.

Founder 91

Founder Miami Cofounder 91

Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

Here are some of the most interesting facts about female founders as well as startups. Rebekah Radice is an accomplished entrepreneur with a marketing experience of over 20 years. She had over 15 years doing product management and corporate management before she became an entrepreneur. Background Image: Unsplash/Rawpixel.

Entrepreneur 76

Entrepreneur Social Media B2B Cofounder 76

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

It’s a question every VC asks themselves and the entrepreneurs they invest in. For this reason, we’re excited to announce that we have closed on NextView’s $50M third fund, with a mission to champion founders who are redesigning the Everyday Economy. . What will the future hold? Improvement is linear and incremental.

Seed Stage 273

Seed Stage Portfolio Cofounder B2B 273

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

I’ve been in the B2B link-building game for almost five years, and the true value of link building isn’t quick fixes. B2B copywriting almost always requires more skill and time compared to B2C. Being featured on sites like Search Engine Journal (SEJ), Moz, Entrepreneur, and HubSpot is solid social proof.

B2B 142

B2B Social Media Email Campaign 142

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

William Hsu is the co-founder and managing partner of MuckerLab. By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. The prevailing consensus at the time was that B2B marketplaces were too hard (e.g. Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion How-To''s'

B2C 136

B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that theyve borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc.,

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Before: After: And thenI ran into a Mixergy interview where 37signals founder, Jason Fried, talks about their free plan (6:00 into the interview): “… The majority of the revenues for our products come from people who sign up for the paid versions upfront.

Software Review 78

Software Review Software Revenue Cofounder 78

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- After the birth of my daughter. However, as most entrepreneurs will experience, when equity and pay come into play, relationships tend to warp. The differences between B2C and B2B within the same brands were staggering!

Entrepreneur 115

Entrepreneur Czech Republic Retention B2C 115

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. of venture capital deals.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small. – Eric Ries In April of 2009 my partner and I had an idea for a web app, a B2C platform that we are selling as SaaS [software-as-a-service]. And thanks to these entrepreneurs for sharing their story.

San Francisco 144

San Francisco Customer Wiki Lean 144

Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

Networking 48

Networking Fractional CTO CTO Hire B2C 48

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. But while many people have written about the topic, few have actually codified the process to help entrepreneurs succeed in the endeavor. Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share. You can read his thoughts on startup marketing at www.cezary.co.

Naming 84

Naming Startup Social Media RSS 84

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110