Venture Chronicles

MAY 5, 2010

In other words, PG&E has slack capacity at night and they see recharging EVs as something that can take up that slack and generate revenue for them without additional capital expenditures to expand generation capacity.

Technical Review 36

Technical Review California San Francisco Silicon Valley 36

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Austin has been one the fastest growing cities in the country for the past 20 years that I’ve been here, but it feels like COVID-19 and California wildfires broke the floodgates already under pressure from high taxes and expensive real estate in landlocked coastal cities.

Austin 110

Austin Texas Cofounder Los Angeles 110

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, also known as “The Bean” to loyal customers, is a Los Angeles based, family-run coffee and tea company that’s owned and operated by International Coffee & Tea, LLC. Party Pieces grew rapidly and the Middletons moved their operations to three converted farm buildings outside of London.

Southern California 162

Southern California Las Vegas Honolulu Massachusetts 162

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Office and Operations. But with the help of Grahams company, which specializes in creating tech systems for start-ups, Jumpstart grew to more than $50 million in revenue--enough to make it an attractive acquisition for media conglomerate Hachette Filipacchi. Arizona Bay has also blended equity payments with revenue-sharing deals.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

Beginning as a small red cart in Eugene, Oregon, today Red Wagon Creamery has a downtown storefront, local retail distribution, and online ordering. From the beginning and all along the way, careful planning has guided the business from revenues of $35,000 in 2011, to $400,000 in 2014, and estimates of $700,000 for 2015.

Oregon 60

Oregon Prospectus Southern California California 60

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

To make sure that doesn't happen - and help startups avoid costly lawsuits (another instance where the only people who get rich are the lawyers) I asked Anton Rosandic , a California-based attorney and an entrepreneur himself, for some free advice. Next, clarify what say the investor has in the business operations.

Exit Strategy 118

Exit Strategy Matching California Salary 118

Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Form a legal entity to operate the business (we’ll use a Delaware corporation as an example for Newco). The next category is more promising for those who aspire to the corporate legal equivalent of the Homebrew Computer Club : Common Operating Documents. Strategic partnership or distribution agreements.

Intellectual Property 139

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Delaware Stock 139

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The subscription box industry is growing rapidly thanks to a steady revenue model and tapping into people’s love for surprises. Operations. Financial summary : Project your revenue for the first few years. Companies that become a big subset of your revenue are likely strategic alliances, though, which is a later section.

Business Plan 63

Business Plan Curation Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 63

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Yet we used the product development model not only to manage product development, but as a road map for finding customers and to time our marketing launch and sales revenue plan. After that there’s a discussion of how the product will reach the customer and the potential distribution channel.

Silicon Valley 272

Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 272

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Revenue is driven by children’s parties, which cost $600-$4,000 for a two hour party for 15 kids, which apparently is the market price for kids parties in LA. The space can host 6-9 parties per weekend, and they generated $350,000 in revenue last year. By all accounts, the Coop is quite successful.

Covenant 162

Covenant Warrant Southern California Los Angeles 162

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.)

Silicon Valley 187

Silicon Valley United States RSS Customer Development 187

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The very best analysts are comfortable operating with ambiguity and incompleteness, while all others chase perfection in implementation / processing / reports. Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. We have to really get good at this.

Metrics 143

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 143

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They found ways to support longterm care facilities, homeless shelters, and other locations serving those most at risk, all while schools, their main source of revenue, were closed. So here we are today designing, producing, distributing close to three million meals per week across 400 cities. Rev Foods rapidly scaled up.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Security Founder Entrepreneur 60

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Transcript Automated transcription services provided by: Dan Bowen: My name is Dan Bowen, and I’m up in the wine country in Healdsburg, California north of San Francisco, and the company name is SyncBloc, S-Y-N-C-B-L-O-C. or an MSN or an AOL in terms of portal distribution. Jason: SyncBloc. Well I know what Sync is, but Bloc.

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

"It was delusional for a guy operating in a walk-in closet, but I was like, 'You live once, you might as well swing for the fences.'" So, that was the first moment that we said, "This looks like it could be a thing in California." We weren't fully thinking about California or the country at that point. It was a friend.

California 60

California Silicon Valley Framework China 60

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 28, 2005

I was in California 3 weeks ago when Jeff Nolan told me he was leaving SAP Venture s and moving to a new group within SAP desgined to "Kill Oracle." So I am sad to see one of my VC buddies go back to the operational side, but I look forward to working with him closely as he helps SAP evolve its stategy and maintain its leadership.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Architecture California Web 60

www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue. Operations. Distribution. California. California. Circulation/Audience Development. Art/Creative/Design.

Social Media 40

Social Media Rhode Island Media South Dakota 40

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

You might notice what’s not on that list above: revenue, investors. No revenue isn’t always a problem for venture-style businesses; no investors + no revenue = challenges for most founders without tremendous self-funding. However, we also discovered key challenges we could not overcome with the capital and window of our team.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

I was in California at that point, where there were a handful of women, which to me was already really inspirational. I was working on putting together dinners with potential female operators who were interested in becoming venture capitalists. It felt like it was the right time and the right place to start putting a voice to that.

Founder 68

Founder Lean Venture Capital Cofounder 68

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

", and the page is exactly the same for me in California or someone in London? They also make it clear they only serve California, rather than telling you after you click the Submit button! ADT believes that its operators are best equipped to oversell me. Don't you love happy customers and big revenues?

Web 165

Web Design Marketing Security 165

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Revenue model: % of total ad or data buy purchased through platform.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Los Angeles Oakland Asia 217

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

At the time of its launch, the name “cisco” was also confusingly similar to SYSCO, the $20B food distribution company. The Southern California Tody car dealership in is forced to waste its mantra on explaining how to properly pronounce its name (“Not Toady… its Todey (toddy)”). infoChachkie. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

Naming 40

Naming Technical Review Product Product Name 40

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

You can see a list of every city where they operate and make directed donations on their site.)Thanks And as we looked at that and had discussions and examined what that meant, it really meant distributing the sense of ownership, just pushing it out and opening it up and trying to enable anyone else to do this as well.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Founder Community Software Review 68

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. The art of activating idle assets to bring in new revenue is occurring for both the service provider and the service creator. Especially when the brand normally operate in an invisible category like washing powder.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, And you can now negotiate for fees for cable and satellite operators to carry your channels. AOL and the like. And you have a franchise.

Vertical 150

Vertical Video South America Los Angeles 150

online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Ndemics revenue totals in the "high millions," he added, declining to be specific. Opinion: The Reverse-Joads of California. Personal Technology.

Software Review 45

Software Review Technical Review Advertising Naming 45